The Double Life of Ted Bundy

For four years — from 1974 to 1978 — a man worked political campaigns, volunteered at a suicide prevention hotline, and wrote pamphlets on how women could protect themselves from sexual assault. He was finishing law school. He was charming and organized and well-connected. And he was killing people.

This episode traces the full arc of the Ted Bundy case: from the rain-soaked Pacific Northwest campuses where women began disappearing in 1974, to the mountain resort in Snowmass Village, Colorado where a nurse vanished from a ski lodge hallway, to the Florida State University campus where the worst night came — and finally to a Utah press conference held in April 2026, where a sheriff stood at a podium and confirmed what a family had waited fifty-one years to hear. Along the way, we look at the kidnapping Carol DaRonch survived and what she saw in Bundy's eyes, the two astonishing jailbreaks that allowed him to continue killing, the landmark bite-mark evidence that convicted him, and the question his case forced American law enforcement to permanently reckon with: what happens when no one is sharing information?