Victims
Bundy confessed to 30 homicides, but the true total remains unknown. Published estimates have run as high as 100 or more, and Bundy sometimes made cryptic comments to encourage that speculation. He told Hugh Aynesworth in 1980 that for every murder that had been "publicized", there "could be one that was not." When FBI agents proposed a total tally of 36, Bundy responded, "Add one digit to that, and you'll have it." Years later he told attorney Polly Nelson that the common estimate of 35 was accurate, but Robert Keppel later wrote that " and I both knew was much higher." "I don't think even he knew ... how many he killed, or why he killed them," said Rev. Fred Lawrence, the Methodist clergyman who administered Bundy's last rites. "That was my impression, my strong impression."
On the evening before his execution, Bundy reviewed his confessed victim tally with Bill Hagmaier on a state-by-state basis:
- Eleven in Washington (including Parks, abducted in Oregon but killed in Washington), three of them unidentified
- Eight in Utah (three unidentified)
- Three in Colorado
- Three in Florida
- Two in Oregon (both unidentified)
- Two in Idaho (one unidentified)
- One in California (unidentified)
The following is a chronological summary of the 20 identified victims and five identified survivors:
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Famous quotes containing the word victims:
“Alas! regardless of their doom
The little victims play;”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)
“Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd manner, and are the victims at all times of the nearest object. There is even no philosopher who is a philosopher at all times. Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession, that is, with every truth a certain falsehood.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I don’t see black people as victims even though we are exploited. Victims are flat, one- dimensional characters, someone rolled over by a steamroller so you have a cardboard person. We are far more resilient and more rounded than that. I will go on showing there’s more to us than our being victimized. Victims are dead.”
—Kristin Hunter (b. 1931)