On this day, Jan. 24, in 1989, confessed serial killer Ted Bundy was executed in the electric chair, and about 200 people gathered outside the Florida State Prison cheered when they heard the news.
“I’d like you to give my love to my family and friends,” were Bundy’s last words.
His execution came nearly 15 years after he began murdering women across the country, including two Florida State University students who were bludgeoned as they slept in their beds in a sorority house. Also among his atrocities: abducting and mutilating a 12-year-old girl and dumping her body in an animal pen.
As the clock ticked toward his execution, the handsome Bundy confessed to about 30 more murders.
Attorney Polly Nelson, a member of his last defense team, said. “Ted was the very definition of heartless evil.”
— Scott McCabe
