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11/24/46-Is born as Theodore Robert Cowell in a home for unwed mothers in Burlington, Vermont.
5/19/51-Bundy's mother, Louise, marries Johnnie Bundy and her son takes his step-father's last name.
Spring, 1965-Graduates from Woodrow Wilson High School in Tacoma, Washington.
Fall, 1965-Enrolls at the University of Puget Sound and attends the school until the Spring of 1966.
Fall, 1966-Enrolls at the University of Washington where he courts Stephanie Brooks, who closely resembles his future victims. Attends University of Washington until Spring of 1969.
Fall, 1968-Brooks breaks off relationship with Bundy.
Early 1969-Visits his birthtown of Burlington, Vermont, and learns for certain that his mother is Louise and that he is illegitimate.
Fall, 1969-Re-enters University of Washington and meets Liz Kendall, who would be his girlfriend throughout the span of most of the murders.
Spring, 1973-Graduates form the University of Washington.
1/5/74-Attacks Joni Lenz in her Seattle apartment. Lenz survives.
2/1/74-Abducts Lynda Ann Healy from her basement bedroom in Seattle.
3/12/74-Abducts Donna Manson from the campus of Evergreen College.
4/17/74-Abducts Susan Rancourt from the Central Washignton St. campus.
5/6/74-Abducts Kathy Parks from the campus at Oregon St.
6/1/74-Abducts Brenda Ball from Burien, Washington.
6/11/74-Abducts Georgeann Hawkins from an alley near her University of Washington fraternity house.
6/17/74-Brenda Baker's body is found in Millersylvania St. Park. It is unknown when she was abducted.
7/14/74-In seperate incidents, Janice Ott and Denise Naslund are abducted from Lake Sammammish St. Park.
9/2/74-A Jane Doe is abducted from Boise, Idaho.
Fall, 1974-Enters the University of Utah Law School.
9/7/74-Portions of the bodies of Ott, Naslund, and Hawkins are recovered two miles from lake Sammammish St. Park.
10/2/74-Abducts Nancy Wilcox.
10/18/74-Abducts Melissa Smith from Midvale, Utah.
10/27/74-Smith's body is found in Summitt Park near Salt Lake City, Utah.
10/31/74-Abducts Laura Aimee from Lehi, Utah.
11/8/74-Botches the abduction attempt of Carol DeRonch but abducts Debby Kent later that day from her school parking lot in Bountiful, Utah.
Thanksgiving, 1974-Aimee's body is found.
1/12/75-Abducts Caryn Campbell from a hotel in Aspen, Colorado.
2/18/75-Campbell's body is found near the motel she disappeared from.
3/3/75-The skulls of Healy, Ball, Parks, and Rancourt are found near Taylor Mountain in Washington.
3/15/75-Abducts Julie Cunningham from Vail, Colorado.
4/6/75-Abducts Melanie Cooley from her school in Nederland, Colorado.
4/23/75-Cooley is found dead twenty miles from Nederland.
5/6/75-Abducts Lynette Culver from her school playground in Pocatello, Idaho.
6/28/75-Abducts Susan Curtis from the campus of BYU while attending a youth conference.
7/1/75-Abducts Shelley Robertson from Golden, Colorado.
7/4/75-Abducts Nancy Baird from Layton, Utah.
8/16/75-Is arrested for possession of burglary tools during a traffic stop in Salt Lake City. The incident eventually results in an arrest in the DeRonch attack.
February 1976-Abducts Debbie Smith in Utah. 3/1/76-Is found guilty of aggravated kidnapping in the DeRonch attack.
4/1/76-Smith's body is found at Salt Lake International Airport.
6/30/76-Is sentenced to one-to-fifteen years in prison.
6/7/77-Escapes from the Pitkin County Law Library in Colorado while preparing for his upcoming trial in the Campbell murder.
6/13/77-Is apprehended in Aspen, Colorado.
12/30/77-Escapes from Garfield County Jail in Colorado and flees to Tallahassee, Florida.
1/14/78-Attacks several women at the Chi Omega sorority house in Tallahassee, killing Lisa Levy and Magaret Bowman. Also attacks Cheryl Thomas in her house nearby, seriously injuring her.
2/9/78-Abducts Kimberly Ann Leach from her school in Lake City, Florida.
2/15/78-Arrested while driving a stolen VW in Pensacola, Florida.
4/12/79-Leach's body is found in Suwanee St. Park in Florida.
7/27/78-Indicted for the murders of Levy and Bowman.
7/31/78-Indicted for the Leach murder.
7/7/79-Leach and Bowman murder trial begins.
7/23/79-Found guilty of the murders of Levy and Bowman.
7/31/79-Sentenced to death for the murders of Levy and Bowman.
1/7/80-Trial begins for the Leach murder.
2/6/80-Found guilty of Leach murder.
2/9/80-Sentenced to death for Leach murder.
7/2/86-Obtains a stay of execution only fifteen minutes before he is scheduled to die.
11/18/86-Obtains a stay of execution only seven hours before he is scheduled to die.
11/17/89-Final death warrant is issued.
1/24/89-Executed in the electric chair at 7:16 AM.