| Director | Matthew Bright |
|---|---|
| Genre | biographical film, horror film |
| Runtime | 95 min |
| Country | United States |
| Budget | $1.2 million |
| Box office | $68,716 |
In 1974, Theodore "Ted" Robert Bundy is a student at the Seattle University School of Law who has a long-term girlfriend, Lee, and works part-time at a crisis center nearing campus. Unbeknown to his family and friends, however, Ted is a sadistic sociopath who engages in stalking, voyeurism, and petty theft. Ted builds up the courage to commit his first lust murder, killing one of his hotline callers and violating her corpse. He then habitually breaks into the homes of his young, female victims, or lures them to his car by faking disabilities or by impersonating a police officer. Ted then incapacitates and abducts his victims, drives them to a strategic location where escape is impossible, and rapes and murders them. Ted eludes the authorities because he has extensive knowledge of law enforcement and legal tactics from school, including his ability to avoid fitting offender profiles. Law enforcement authorities, however, have Ted's facial composites and have learned his nickname from witnesses.
In 1975, at Murray, Utah, Ted catches 18-year-old Tina Gabler, however, she escapes from his moving car and is rescued by another driver. Two months later, based on Tina's description of his car, a Utah Highway Patrol officer stops and arrests Ted. In Ted's trunk, the state police find his rape kit. Tina testifies against Ted at his trial, where he is convicted of kidnapping. Authorities are alerted about Ted; they investigate his further and soon determine he is the serial killer they are looking for. Ted tells Lee charges are being brought against him for multiple murders, but says investigators lack hard evidence and that he will never be convicted. At this point, Lee realizes Ted is guilty and ends their relationship.
In 1977, Ted represents himself at his trial and is granted access to the Pitkin County Courthouse's law library. He promptly escapes by jumping from an upper-story window. Six days later, after attempting auto theft at Aspen Mountain, Ted is arrested and returned to prison. Months later, Ted again escapes and becomes one of the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. The following year, Ted settles in Tallahassee, Florida, and continues his murder spree. He assaults four women in Florida State University's Chi Omega sorority house and kills two of them. Over a month later, Ted rapes and murders 12-year-old Suzanne Bruster. Ted is arrested soon afterward and beaten by a Pensacola police officer.
Ted is tried at Dade County Circuit Court and is sentenced to death in the electric chair at Florida State Prison. Over the next 10 years, Ted makes several appeals that hinder his death penalty from being processed and to have his sentence commuted, but loses every single one. On the day of his execution in 1989, prison guards abuse and drag the reviled Bundy from his cell into the death chamber. He is executed in front of his victims' families; the executioner is revealed to be a young woman. As Lee watches news coverage of the execution with her husband, she wonders: "Who was Ted Bundy"?