January 24, — at am, the morning after this interview, Ted Bundy was executed. Attached via the link below is chapter 8 from a booklet titled Porn-Again Christian by Mark Driscol that has an edited transcript of the interview in the video above. Ted Bundy Edited Interview Transcript. All trademarks and copyrights remain the property of their owners. Deseret News homepage. Filed under:. Reddit Pocket Email Linkedin. She said Bundy was warm and sensitive with callers, and "we saved lives together.
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Thanks for signing up! Check your inbox for a welcome email. You can only speculate. Bundy: I'm absolutely certain [it] would not have involved this kind of violence that I have committed. Dobson: One of the most important questions as you come down to perhaps your final hours: Are you thinking about all those victims out there and their families who are so wounded?
Bundy: Absolutely. I can only hope that those who I have harmed and those who I have caused so much grief--even if they don't believe my expression of sorrow and remorse--will believe what I'm saying now, that there is loose in their towns, in their communities, people like me today whose dangerous impulses are being fueled day in and day out by violence in the media in its various forms, particularly sexualized violence.
And what scares me--and let's come into the present now because what I'm talking about happened twenty, thirty years ago, that is, in my formative stages. And what scares and appalls me, Dr. Dobson, is when I see what's on cable TV, some of the movies, some of the violence in the movies that come into homes today was stuff that they wouldn't show in x-rated adult theaters thirty years ago. Bundy: The stuff is--I'm telling you from personal experience--the most graphic violence on the screen.
Particularly as it gets into the home to the children who may be unattended or unaware that they may be a Ted Bundy who has that vulnerability to that kind of behavior, by that kind of movie and that kind of violence. Dobson: Can you help me understand this desensitization process that took place? What was going on in your mind? Bundy: Each time I harmed someone, each time I killed someone, there would be an enormous amount of horror, guilt, remorse afterward.
But then that impulse to do it again would come back even stronger. The unique thing about how this worked, Dr. Dobson, is that I still felt, in my regular life, the full range of guilt and remorse about other things. Regret and It was like a crack. And everything that fell into that crack just disappeared. Does that make sense? Dobson: It does. One of the final murders that you committed, of course, was apparently little Kimberly Leach, twelve years of age.
I think the public outcry is greater there because an innocent child was taken from a playground. What did you feel after that? Were there the normal emotions three days later? Where were you, Ted?
Bundy: I would like to convey to you what that experience is like, but I can't. I won't be able to talk about that And I can't restore really much to them, if anything, and I won't pretend to. I don't even expect them to forgive me, and I'm not asking for it.
That kind of forgiveness is of God. And if they have it, they have it, and if they don't, well, maybe they'll find it someday. Bundy: That's a very good question, and I'll answer it very honestly. I don't want to die. I deserve, certainly, the most extreme punishment society has, and I think society deserves to be protected from me and from others like me. That's the irony. What I'm talking about is going beyond retribution because there is no way in the world that killing me is going to restore those beautiful children to their parents and correct and soothe the pain.
There are those loose in their towns and communities, like me, whose dangerous impulses are being fueled, day in and day out, by violence in the media in its various forms — particularly sexualized violence.
Those of us who have been so influenced by violence in the media, particularly pornographic violence, are not some kind of inherent monsters. We are your sons and husbands. We grew up in regular families. Pornography can reach in and snatch a kid out of any house today. It snatched me out of my home 20 or 30 years ago. As diligent as my parents were, and they were diligent in protecting their children, and as good a Christian home as we had, there is no protection against the kinds of influences that are loose in a society that tolerates….
JCD: Outside these walls, there are several hundred reporters that wanted to talk to you, and you asked me to come because you had something you wanted to say. You feel that hardcore pornography, and the door to it, softcore pornography, is doing untold damage to other people and causing other women to be abused and killed the way you did.
Without exception, every one of them was deeply involved in pornography — deeply consumed by the addiction. The F. Ted: I know it would have been far better, not just for me, but for a lot of other people — victims and families. They will never be normal. Is there remorse? During the past few days, myself and a number of investigators have been talking about unsolved cases — murders I was involved in. It has been reopened and I have felt the pain and the horror of that.
Ted: That is the most graphic violence on screen, especially when children are unattended or unaware that they could be a Ted Bundy; that they could have a predisposition to that kind of behavior. I think the public outcry is greater there because an innocent child was taken from a playground.
What did you feel after that? Were they the normal emotions after that? I deserve, certainly, the most extreme punishment society has. And I think society deserves to be protected from me and from others like me.
What I hope will come to our discussion is that I think society deserves to be protected from itself. There is no way in the world that killing me is going to restore those beautiful children to their parents and correct and soothe the pain. But there are lots of other kids playing in streets around the country today who are going to be dead tomorrow, and the next day,.
JCD: There is tremendous cynicism about you on the outside, I suppose, for good reason. Do you draw strength from that as you approach these final hours? Ted: I do. It gets kind of lonely, yet I have to remind myself that every one of us will go through this someday in one way or another.
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