After denying his crimes for more than a decade, Ted Bundy finally admitted to killing at least 30 people in several states shortly before his execution, though the true number may have been higher. Authorities are skeptical.
The reason Ted Bundy scared people was that he was a very attractive person. He used his Hollywood looks and charisma to lure his victims out of the way. He then raped, killed, and defiled them. He wrote some of the man’s creepiest quotes, whose defense team called him “the true definition of heartless evil.”
You’ve probably seen Ted Bundy’s movies, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile on Netflix. The film focuses on a notorious serial killer from the perspective of ex-girlfriend Liz Kloepfer, following the early days of his relationship with Bundy (played by Zac Efron) to his murder conviction. All this time, the real Bundy maintained his innocence and refused to confess to the crime. But when he’s on death row, it’s a different story.
During hundreds of hours of interviews with journalists and government agencies, Bundy slowly began to expose himself…and finally confessed shortly before his execution.
From his initial arrest to his sentencing, Bundy never admitted wrongdoing. Despite mounting evidence against him, he maintained his innocence and was confident that his name would be cleared. I didn’t formally confess my heinous crimes until a few days ago.
So Bundy didn’t fully admit to the murders until his death…but he dealt with them subtly beforehand. In prison interviews with journalists Stephen Michaud and Hugh Ainsworth, Bundy started talking about his actions in the third person. He speculated what caused the “individual” to do such horrific things, and eventually began to explain his crimes.
Table of Contents
Ted Bundy Quotes About Society
1. “We serial killers are your sons. We are your husbands. We are everywhere. And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow.”
2. “I don’t want to die. I’m not going to kid you. I deserve the most extreme punishment society has…I think society deserves to be protected from me and others like me.”
3. “I don’t think anybody doubts whether I’ve done some bad things. The question is: what, of course, and how…and most importantly, why?”
4. “Society wants to believe it can identify evil people or bad or harmful people, but it’s not practical. There are no stereotypes.”
5. “You feel the last bit of breath leaving their body. You’re looking into their eyes. A person in that situation is God!”
6. “You reach that jumping-off point where you begin to wonder if actually doing it will give you something beyond just reading about it or looking at it.”
7. “I haven’t blocked out the past. I wouldn’t trade the person I am, or what I’ve done, or the people I’ve known, for anything. So I do think about it. And at times it’s a rather mellow trip to lay back and remember.”
8. “The ultimate possession was, in fact, the taking of the life. And then…the physical possession of the remains.”
Ted Bundy Quotes About Crime
9. “What’s one less person on the face of the Earth, anyway?”
10. “You wanna make a circus? You got a circus. I’ll rain on your parade, Jack. You’ll see a thunderstorm. This will not be the little drama you’ve arranged.”
11. “Guilt. It’s this mechanism we use to control people. It’s an illusion. It’s a kind of social control mechanism and it’s very unhealthy. It does terrible things to the body.”
12. “I don’t feel guilty for anything. I feel sorry for people who feel guilt.”
13. “Jim and Fred, I’d like you to give my love to my family and friends.”
14. “We all go a little mad sometimes.”
Ted Bundy Quotes About Guilt
15. “I’m the most cold-hearted son of a bitch you’ll ever meet.”
16. “I didn’t know what made people want to be friends. I didn’t know what made people attractive to one another. I didn’t know what underlay social interactions. ”
17. “I think I stand as much of a chance of dying in front of a firing squad or in a gas chamber as you do of being killed on a plane flight home. Let’s hope you don’t.”
18. “We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere. And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow.”
19. “I’m the most cold-hearted son-of-a-bitch you’ll ever meet.”
20. “You feel the last bit of breath leaving their body. You’re looking into their eyes. A person in that situation is God!”
21. “I’m Jesus Christ. Whether you want to accept it or not, I don’t care.”
22. “If you’re going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy.”
23. “The only thing they can get me for is running a funeral parlor without a license.”
24. “A clown can get away with murder.”
25. “I struck him to the floor with a heavy chair when he, with one cry for help ending in a groan of anguish, ceased to breathe.”
26. “One side of me says, I’d like to talk to her, date her. The other side of me says, I wonder what her head would look like on a stick?”
27. “I remember there was actually a sexual thrill . . . you hear that little pop and pull their heads off and hold their heads up by the hair. Whipping their heads off, their body sitting there. That’d get me off.”
28. “Yes, I went back and strangled her again, and finally killed her at that time.”
29. “I actually think I may be possessed with demons; I was dropped on my head as a kid.”
30. “She isn’t missing. She’s at the farm right now.”
Ted Bundy Quotes About Punishment
31. “Society wants to believe it can identify evil people, or bad or harmful people, but it’s not practical. There are no stereotypes.”
32. “Try to touch the past. Try to deal with the past. It’s not real. It’s just a dream.”
33. “I don’t feel guilty for anything. I feel sorry for people who feel guilt.”
34. “What’s one less person on the face of the Earth, anyways?”
35. “I am the most cold-hearted son of a bitch you will ever meet.”
36. “True, he may be a good cop, feeds his dog Alpo, and he doesn’t eat his young alive, but my empathy for him ends there. – Ted Bundy in Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule.”
37. “Society wants to believe it can identify evil people or bad or harmful people, but it’s not practical. There are no stereotypes.”
38. “I haven’t blocked out the past. I wouldn’t trade the person I am, or what I’ve done, or the people I’ve known, for anything. So I do think about it. And at times it’s a rather mellow trip to lay back and remember.”
39. “We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere. And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow.”
40. “What’s one less person on the face of the Earth, anyway?”
41. “I don’t think anybody doubts whether I’ve done some bad things. The question is what, of course, and how…and most importantly, why?”
42. “Guilt. It’s this mechanism we use to control people. It’s an illusion. It’s a kind of social control mechanism and it’s very unhealthy. It does terrible things to the body.”
43. “What’s one less person on the face of the earth, anyway?”
44. “I’m the most cold-hearted son of a bitch you’ll ever meet.”
45. “Guilt. It’s this mechanism we use to control people. It’s an illusion. It’s a kind of social control mechanism and it’s very unhealthy. It does terrible things to our body.”
46. “Murder is not just a crime of lust or violence. It becomes possession.”
47. “I don’t think anybody doubts whether I’ve done some bad things. The question is: what, of course, and how…and most importantly, why?”
48. “People say, ‘Ted Bundy didn’t show any emotion, there must be something in there.’ I showed emotion. You know what people said? ‘See, he really can get violent and angry.’”
Ted Bundy Quotes About Childhood
49. “When you feel the last bit of breath leaving their body, you’re looking into their eyes. A person in that situation is god!”
50. “Murder is not just a crime of lust or violence. It becomes possession. They are part of you…[the victim] becomes a part of you and you [two] are forever one…and the grounds where you kill them or leave them become sacred to you, and you will always be drawn back to them.”
51. “I understand now a lot of stuff about myself that I didn’t understand then. It makes me realize what was going on. The senselessness of it appalls me, although I’m sure not so much as those who were so close to it.”
52. “Society wants to believe it can identify evil people or bad or harmful people, but it’s not practical. There are no stereotypes.”
53. “I’ve lived in prison for a long time now, and I’ve met a lot of men who were motivated to commit violence just like me. And without exception, every one of them…was deeply involved in pornography.”
54. “I deserve, certainly, the most extreme punishment society has….I think society deserves to be protected from me and others like me.”
55. “No man is truly innocent. I mean we all have transgressed some way in our lives, and as I say, I’ve been impolite, and there are things I regret having done in my life, but nothing like the things, I think, that you’re referring to.”
Finally, on January 24, 1989, Ted Bundy passed away. During his lifetime, he was charged with dozens of murders, aggravated kidnappings, and robberies. He also made two attempts to escape imprisonment, but when he did, he committed more assaults and murders. So share the quotes you liked the most and do have a visit again for more such quotes.
