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On February 23, 1983 in Naperville, Illinois, 10 year old Jeanine Nicarico went missing. She was at home because she was ill with the flu. She was kidnapped from her home that night. She had been raped and beaten to death. The only clue that was left at her home was a boot print on the front door.

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A $10,000 dollar reward was put out to anyone who turns in the suspect. The reward caught the attention of Rolando Cruz, a twenty year old gang member, who created a fabricated story in hopes of collecting the reward. In the process, Alejandro Hernandez was implicated. On March 8, 1984, on the basis of Cruz'z statements and other statements of witnesses, Hernandez and Cruz were arrested. They  were charged with the murder of Jeanine Nicarico, residential burglary, home invasion, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated indecent liberties, deviate sexual assault, and rape.

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3                     In their trial in 1985, they were sentenced to death. Hernandez and Cruz retried and again convicted, largely because much of the evidence proving that a man named Dungan committed the crime, was excluded from consideration. In the third trial, the lieutenant’s testimony created a damaging link in the claim that Cruz had made admissions and was a critical factor in the trial court judge acquitting Cruz at the close of the prosecution evidence on November 3, 1995. Cruz was released immediately and was issued a full pardon based on his innocence. Hernandez was released a month after Cruz.

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3                     In their trial in 1985, they were sentenced to death. Hernandez and Cruz retried and again convicted, largely because much of the evidence proving that a man named Dungan committed the crime, was excluded from consideration. In the third trial, the lieutenant’s testimony created a damaging link in the claim that Cruz had made admissions and was a critical factor in the trial court judge acquitting Cruz at the close of the prosecution evidence on November 3, 1995. Cruz was released immediately and was issued a full pardon based on his innocence. Hernandez was released a month after Cruz.

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DNA tests eventually established that Dungan had committed the rape and murder. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to death in 2009.  In March 2011, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed legislation abolishing the Illinois death penalty and commuted the death sentence of Dugan. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

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Once they got to his 1968 tan Volkswagen Beetle, he would strike them over the head with a crowbar or pipe. After hitting his victims, he would immobilize them with handcuffs and force them into the vehicle.

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1                  Bundy preyed on young and attractive college women, first near his home in Washington, then moving east to Utah, Colorado, and finally in Florida. Bundy lured these women in by wearing his arm in a sling or his leg in a fake cast and walking on crutches. He would then use his charm and faked disability to convince his victims to help him carry books or unload objects from his car. He was also known to impersonate authority figures, such as police officers and firefighters, to gain victims’ trust before he attacked.  

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1                  Bundy preyed on young and attractive college women, first near his home in Washington, then moving east to Utah, Colorado, and finally in Florida. Bundy lured these women in by wearing his arm in a sling or his leg in a fake cast and walking on crutches. He would then use his charm and faked disability to convince his victims to help him carry books or unload objects from his car. He was also known to impersonate authority figures, such as police officers and firefighters, to gain victims’ trust before he attacked.  

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Ted Bundy

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Bundy had removed the passenger seat and often stored it in the backseat or trunk, leaving an empty space on the floor for his victim to lie out of sight as he drove away. Bundy was able to rape and murder scores of women this way. He typically strangled or bludgeoned his victims as well as mutilating them after death. He then prolonged the events by returning to visit the corpses at their dump sites or even taking them home in order to gain further sexual gratification. In some cases, he even shockingly displayed their decapitated heads in his apartment and slept with their corpses until putrefaction made it unbearable

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As body counts rose and witness descriptions spread, several people contacted authorities to report Bundy as a potentially matching suspect. However, police consistently ruled him out based on his seemingly upstanding character and clean-cut appearance. He was able to avoid detection even longer by learning how to leave virtually no evidence that could be traced by the still rudimentary forensics techniques of the 1970s.

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Bundy was finally arrested for the first time on August 16, 1975, in Utah after fleeing from a patrol car. A search of the vehicle yielded masks, handcuffs, rope, and other nefarious items, but nothing definitively linking him to the crimes. He was released but remained under constant surveillance, until he was arrested again for the kidnapping and assault of one of his victims several months later. Bundy escaped custody a year later after being transferred from Utah to Colorado for another trial but was recaptured within a week.

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6                     He then managed to escape a second time on December 30, 1977, at which point he was able to reach Florida and resume his killing spree. He raped or murdered at least six more victims, five of them Florida State University students, before he was apprehended again for a traffic violation on February 15, 1978. On one of the victims they found bite marks that they said was a definitive match to Bundy. He was finally sentenced to death and died in the electric chair on January 24, 1989. At the time of his execution, Bundy had confessed to 30 murders, though the actual number of his victims remains unknown.

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6                     He then managed to escape a second time on December 30, 1977, at which point he was able to reach Florida and resume his killing spree. He raped or murdered at least six more victims, five of them Florida State University students, before he was apprehended again for a traffic violation on February 15, 1978. On one of the victims they found bite marks that they said was a definitive match to Bundy. He was finally sentenced to death and died in the electric chair on January 24, 1989. At the time of his execution, Bundy had confessed to 30 murders, though the actual number of his victims remains unknown.

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Ted Bundy on his way to be executed