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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 145. Chapters: Ted Bundy, Bruce Lee, Robert W. McChesney, Tom Lantos, David A. Johnston, Michael McGinn, Gordon P. Saville, Henry M. Jackson, Christine Gregoire, Jeff Ragsdale, Pappy Boyington, PZ Myers, Frank Herbert, Madelyn Dunham, Frances Farmer, Chuck Close, R. Palmer Beasley, Don Coryell, Donald Bren, Warren Moon, Guillermo Gonzalez (astronomer), Tim Hudak, Dale Chihuly, Daniel Lorenz Johnson, Megan Terry, Gary Kildall, Albert Scott Crossfield, Tony Angell, Jay Inslee, Bruce P. Crandall, Harold Hotelling, Heather Brooke, William Foege, Anna Faris, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Gordon Hirabayashi, Kenny G, Norman D. Dicks, Fouad Ajami, Jean Wells (artist), Archie Van Winkle. Excerpt: Theodore Robert "Ted" Bundy (born Theodore Robert Cowell; November 24, 1946 - January 24, 1989) was an American serial killer, rapist, kidnapper, and necrophile who assaulted and murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s and possibly earlier. After more than a decade of denials, he confessed shortly before his execution to 30 homicides committed in seven states between 1974 and 1978; the true total remains unknown, and could be much higher. Bundy was regarded as handsome and charismatic by his young female victims, traits he exploited in winning their trust. He typically approached them in public places, feigning an injury or disability, or impersonating an authority figure, before overpowering and assaulting them at a more secluded location. He sometimes revisited his secondary crime scenes for hours at a time, grooming and performing sexual acts with the decomposing corpses until putrefaction and destruction by wild animals made further interaction impossible. He decapitated at least 12 victims and kept some of the severed heads in his apartment for a period of time as mementos. On a few occasions he simply broke into dwellings in the dead of night and bludgeoned victims as they slept. Initially incarcerated in Utah in 1975 for aggravated kidnapping and attempted criminal assault, Bundy became a suspect in a progressively longer list of unsolved homicides in multiple states. Facing murder charges in Colorado, he engineered two dramatic escapes and committed multiple additional assaults, including three murders, before his ultimate recapture in Florida in 1978. He received three death sentences in two separate trials for the Florida homicides. Ted Bundy died in the electric chair at Raiford Prison in Starke, Florida, on January 24, 1989. Biographer Ann Rule described him as "a sadistic sociopath who took pleasure from another human's pain and the control he had over his victims, to the point of death, and even after." He once called himself ..".the m
