I won’t be watching the Bundy Tapes on Netflix.
Instead I will be reading and thinking about Ted Bundy’s victims. I wonder where their movies are. I wonder why their names aren’t raised.
I wonder why we don’t hear about Lynda Ann Healy, a 21 year old psychology major about to graduate that semester. Lynda worked with handicapped children and got up early every day to report on the skiing conditions for local radio.
I wonder why we don’t hear about Debra Kent, a 17 year old aspiring social worker who was known for always having change to feed parking meters for strangers.
I wonder why we don’t hear about Susan Curtis. Susan was only 15 years old and was riding her bike to church that day. She was a star on her high school track team.
In a world filled with kind, beautiful people, I wonder why we all know Ted Bundy’s name. I wonder if that isn’t giving him and people like him exactly what he wanted. And frankly I’m sick of hearing people talk about him.
I’d like to talk about 12 year olds Lynette Culver and Kimberly Leach, neither of whom turned 13 because Ted Bundy stole their innocence and their lives from them. Kimberly had just been elected first runner up “Valentine Queen” by her peers and never got to wear that pretty new dress. Do you think her parents still have that dress, hanging in the back of a closet? I bet they do. I bet her dad sits with it in his darkest moments. You ever thought about him when you hear the name Ted Bundy?
Let’s talk about 19 year old Susan Rancourt, who had a 4.0 GPA. 17 year old Laura Aime. 18 year old Georgeann Hawkins. 23 year old Janice Ott. 26 year old Nancy Wilcox. 23 year old Caryn Campbell. 17 year old Melissa Smith. 19 year old Donna Manson, who was an excellent flute player and by all accounts a bit of a goth. 20 year old Kathy Parks. 22 year old Brenda Ball. 20 year old Lisa Levy. 21 year old Margaret Bowman. 25 year old Denise Oliverson, who had just gotten into a spat with her new husband and had gone for a walk to clear her mind. Denise weighed 105 pounds. She was bound, gagged, raped, mutilated and thrown from a fast moving car. Have you ever considered what HIS life has been like since that day? How many hours of his life do you think have been spent on the floor, clutching the ring he had given her, apologizing into thin air?
These stories are real. These people are REAL.
I get that Ted Bundy was handsome and his eyes were very blue but please. Please stop glamorizing him like this. He ended and ruined lives. Nothing about him is cool or worthy of emulation. Ted Bundy raped, tortured, mutilated and strangled over 30 females, including 12 year old girls. None of his victims weighed more than 115 pounds.
Ted Bundy was a pathetic man.
Emulate Lynda. Emulate Debra. Raise their names and their voices to those around you. Honor them. They were very real people with promising lives and futures stretched ahead of them, stolen.
Please don’t elevate or whitewash this kind of rampant violence against women. I assure you the world is harsh enough for us without a new generation thinking Ted Bundy is a cool, fascinating guy.
Thanks.
Trauma and violence has claimed the lives and souls, both physically, and hindered so many others emotionally, so that victims can mever live their lives, or non disabled lives ever again.
Where are our stories. Where are the stories of the dead. Where are the stories of those like me, raped and used and spat out. The children battered and the manipulated and terrorized by those claiming to love them.
No, people continue to glorify and lift up the misogynistic, the racist, the violence.
People ignore the wounds and the lives. These women should have lived. Should have lived glorious lives.
But their chance, their friendships and smiles, their hopes and dreams, every victory and every moment dancing in their kitchen singing to their radio.
The look in their eyes at their beloved. The chance to cherish those moments where they made even the smallest difference in this cold world.
Stolen in a few minutes of unbelievable, slow, and agonizing pain.
Get your fucking acts together America. Every country should get their act together about this, but unless Im wrong, I’ve yet to see another coutry make documentaries about their killers.
These sorts of movies and news reports have been proven to result in higher amounts of killers, as people start to idolize these acts for the glory and fame they and their name gets from these acts
Im tired of this.
TAKE KILLLERS NAMES OUT OF CRIME REPORTS AND SHOWS.
Guess what? Lowering crime rates is that simple as putting “criminal 1/suspect A”.
BITCHES
