Looking at photos of Ted Bundy now, it’s hard to understand what unsuspecting people saw in the 1970s.
According to many, he was a handsome and charming man.
It’s the eternal story of serial killer Bundy, who was executed 37 years ago, and when his story is told on screen, he has historically been played by some really good-looking men, including Mark Harmon, Cary Elwes, Billy Campbell, James Marsters, Adam Long, Zac Efron, and Chad Michael Murray — all ways to illustrate that he’s a man who had no problem letting women down because of his looks.
“Bundy represents our most primal, deepest, darkest fear, which is that we don’t know who’s next to us,” Joe Berlinger, director of the aptly titled Extremely Bad, Shockingly Evil and Vile, starring Efron, and executive producer of Netflix’s The Ted Bundy Tapes, tells E! News of 2019.
“We like to think that serial killers are easy to identify and that once you see one, you know, ‘Okay, that guy must be a serial killer,'” Berlinger continued. But “people really liked him.”
And they liked him until the day he died in the electric chair in Raeford Prison at the age of 42, after confessing to murdering 30 women.
