How Many People Did Ted Bundy Kill?

It is uncertain how many people Ted Bundy killed. He confessed to 30 murders, though the number is thought to be much higher. Some have speculated that he killed as many as 100 women. Bundy was ultimately convicted of three homicides.

Bundy claimed to have committed his first murder as a young teenager, though that was never proven. His documented crimes started in February 1974, when he began sexually assaulting and killing young women in Washington. Lynda Ann Healy, a 21-year-old student, was his first confirmed victim. Over the next several years, he also committed murders in Utah, Colorado, and Idaho. In December 1977 Bundy was awaiting trial for murder when he escaped from a jail in Colorado. The following month he attacked four women at the Chi Omega sorority house on the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee. Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman died from their injuries. He later abducted and killed 12-year-old Kimberly Leach. In February 1978 Bundy was captured. The following year he was convicted of murdering both Levy and Bowman. In 1980 he was found guilty of killing Leach. Bundy received the death penalty, and in 1989 he was executed by electric chair.

In the ensuing decades, advanced DNA testing linked Bundy to other murders. Notably, in 2026 he was connected to the 1974 murders of Laura Ann Aime and Melissa Ann Smith in Utah.