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Ted Bundy Audiobook Summary

Presented for the first time in audio format, the chilling transcript of Stephen G Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth’s interviews with notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, as seen on the hit Netflix documentary series Conversation with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes–based on their New York Times bestselling book.

Handsome and educated, Ted Bundy killed scores of women during the 1970s, eventually confessing to thirty murders committed over seven states between 1974 and 1978. In 1979, much to the surprise of the nation, Bundy made the bold decision to represent himself in the Chi Omega murder case, thinking that his intelligence and enigmatic charm could best the prosecution. He was convicted, however, and was incarcerated on death row in Florida State Prison. After he exhausted all appeals, Bundy spoke to detectives, confessing to other homicides he committed across several states. He had already spoken frankly about himself, his victims, and his crimes to famed journalists Stephen G. Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth.

Thirty years later, thanks to the combination of an unlikely killer, a sensational murder trial (featuring Bundy acting as his own attorney), and a series of Death Row interviews that represented the dynamics of any extraordinary psychological profile, this prolific serial killer continues to intrigue and haunt the American popular imagination. Yet as Netflix’s sensational show reveals, an old case is never as preserved as it may seem.

Presented in audio format for the first time, Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer provides shocking insights into the killer’s 11th-hour confessions before his death in a Florida electric chair in January 1989. Drawn from more than 150 hours of exclusive tape-recorded interviews with Bundy in 1980 by Michaud and Aynesworth–in which the veteran journalist used a psychological tactic to get Bundy talking in the third person-this audiobook, voiced by a cast of narrators, is a harrowing portrait of a serial killer’s final reckoning and the two journalists trying to understand the psychology behind the darkness.

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Narrator Graham Halstead
Length 9 hours 37 minutes
Author Stephen G. Michaud
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Publisher HarperAudio
Release date June 04, 2019
ISBN 9780062969163

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The publisher of the Ted Bundy is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is General, Murder, True Crime

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The publisher of the Ted Bundy is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062969163.

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Dannii

April 29, 2020

This is the chilling account of Ted Bundy, notorious serial killer, in his own words. Over 150 hours of interviews were conducted to provide the reader with an insight to the mind of a unapologetic and unfeeling killer.This does not detail his many crimes nor is it set out in an entirely chronological order. Bundy does not allow the 'conversations' conducted with him to continue in an ordered or linear fashion and often gets side-tracked by his own monologues. He fails to provide many of the answers expected of him but reveals select stories or theories at whim.This never feels disjointed but it does not tell a complete story, for someone unfamiliar with who this individual is and the crimes that he had committed. To hear him assess the situations he was responsible for with a distanced perspective and a sometimes-nonchalance, chilled me to the core and disturbed me far more than I was prepared for.

Juli

January 16, 2020

I watched the Netflix documentary (Confessions of a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes) and it made me curious about the transcribed conversations in this book. I knew this would be a rough read....but I also knew my curiousity would not be sated until I had this book in my hands. While killing 30 women (including a 12 year old girl) already proves that Bundy was a cold-blooded killer and crazy.....reading through these rambling, delusional, ridiculous conversations with the serial killer just proves it even further. The man was narcissistic, violent, and completely out of his mind. Michaud and Aynesworth could only get Bundy to talk about the murders by telling him he could speak of the killer in the 3rd person -- letting him pretend some other person did the killing and Bundy had some magical ability to peer into this unknown persons actions, motivations and thoughts. (Reminds me of that bullshit book by OJ Simpson -- If I Did It -- where he recounted exact details from the crime but used 3rd person....like someone else did it. *eyeroll*) The man never admitted what he did, never expressed any remorse, or took any responsibility. Instead, he made strange excuses about pornography, a second personality and things that forced the violent acts. Chilling. Creepy. Disturbing. I read portions of this book and then re-watched the documentary. The documentary includes audio from the tapes and video of Bundy.....pairing that with the book.....wow. Just a powerful display of violence and depravity. Kudos to these men who spent time with Bundy, pretended to believe his BS, and got him to talk.....it really does give an insight into how his mind worked, how he thought nobody could see past his lies and deceptions (he lied to the authors multiple times during interviews) and how in the end the only thing he felt sorry about was his inevitable end in the electric chair. I'm glad I read this book as I did learn a lot about a killer's mindset....but, in the end, I'm not sure it was information I truly wanted. Or needed. Ugh. I seriously need to watch some Disney+ and read a cute middle grade book or two....maybe three....to get this out of my head. I just feel drained and a bit creeped out.... So many lives cut short. So many innocent young girls...their short lives ending in absolute terror. What a piece of shit example of humanity. I have my doubts about the justice of the death penalty most of the time. But, if anyone really deserved capital punishment, Bundy's death in the electric chair in 1989 was as close to justice as the victims were ever going to get. I think I'm going to avoid books on true crime and serial killers for awhile. As Nietzsche said, "If you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.'' I need some sunshine. Enough dark.

Rachel (TheShadesofOrange)

May 04, 2022

4.0 StarsThis was such a uniquely intimate perspective on this infamous serial killer. It's incredible how the interviewers were able to get him to share so much information without actually making a legal confession.It was incredibly disturbing to hear his twisted narrative as he explained and just

Erin

June 01, 2020

Told in his own words, through interviews with the writers, the self-proclaimed “most cold-blooded son of a bitch you’ll ever meet”, Ted Bundy reveals his inner most thoughts and outlines his crimes, as he sits on Death Row. “Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer” by Stephen G. Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth is just as twisted and dark as you’d expect. Bundy is arrogant, charming and disturbed, claiming his innocence and refusing to talk about his crimes in the first person (in fact, the only way the authors can get him to talk about the crimes at all is to discuss them in the third person, encouraging Bundy to describe the murders from “the murderer’s” perspective). Throughout the novel, Bundy contradicts himself several times, claiming to abhor the attention of the public and the media, yet desperately impatient for the book to be published. “Ted Bundy” is written almost entirely as a script, with Bundy telling his story and the writers occasionally throwing in a snippet or two. It is evident that Bundy loves talking about himself, even though he won’t speak in detail about the murders (hence he admit to being guilty, which he insists throughout the novel is wrongly placed on him) . He talks just enough to leave me utterly desperate for the details he is omitting. This novel is not at all gory, as the details of the crimes are often barely discussed (since Bundy denies guilt) , and, since it is written by authors, there is not a lot of legal production, so it makes a great novel for those who love the psychological mind but hate the lengthy legal jargon or bloody descriptions of the crimes. I applaud Michaud and Aynesworth for their “good cop, bad cop” interview style and their honest portrayal of one of the world’s most notorious serial killers. Anyone who has a desperate need to see how the criminal mind works will have to look a little deeper into this novel, as Bundy talks in circles, but the dark and disturbing sociopathology is there if you look hard enough, and it’s both interesting and thought provoking.

Juanita

September 18, 2011

I enjoyed gazing into the mind of this maniac. It was a page turner from the very start. The one thing that I began to loathe was the fact that Bundy was lying about a lot of things. Only speaking in the third person, he promised to tell the authors of the book how and why he committed the Chi Omega murders but never did. He pretended that he only killed the girls because he didn’t want to get caught and that he beat and dismembered them only because he’d get enraged ahead of time. It was clear, from the murders, that he was a sadistic man. I bought the book thinking that I’d see what his motives were, perhaps in a subconscious attempt to prove that he was inhuman, that he was so far from being human that he was an anomaly. What I found, surprisingly, was that he was, indeed, human; that he had real feelings and even emotions though he often tried throughout the book to pretend that he didn’t. That was the scariest thing about the entire book: he was a man who decided that it would bring him joy to hurt others, and chose to act upon that. Yes, he was disturbed somehow, but really, the only things that made him different from others were his choices. It was worth the read because I gained a greater understanding of the human psyche and helps in my studies of such. It’ll be worth reading for you too!

Ingstje

May 01, 2019

Conversations with a Killer is not a straightforward reply to all the questions we might want to ask Ted Bundy but it certainly is a good start if you’re curious about his personality. The interview gives an insight how he started and what sort of a person he is. I thought it would go into the crimes in great detail too but that is not the case, there are no big revelations in this novel in that way but I did manage to build some sort of a picture of him in my head and how he looks at himself and the world.So who is Ted Bundy? After reading this book I have come to the conclusion that he comes across as someone who’s highly intelligent (much more than I had expected from someone who gives in to his impulses so easily), his attitude is quite confident and at times even cocky. He said he had low self-esteem multiple times and he explained that this lack of self-worth coupled with environment’s impulses (he means porn) made him what he is. He’s an expert in avoiding telling something he doesn’t want to, he’s a manipulator and even in his time with the authors I saw him trying to get his way, making false promises, leading them on. He didn’t sound like the devil incarnate when you hear him talk but when he said he didn’t feel remorse, he had nothing to feel sorry for, it pulled me right back to the crimes he committed and into thinking what sort of a monster he really was, a real wolf in sheep’s clothes. And to think he does everything to stay alive yet didn’t value the lives of the innocent people he pursued at all himself!Even if you have to take everything this notorious killer says with more than a pinch of salt, it’s still intriguing. I’m sure he said a lot of BS but there are also other things that ring true and make sense. I’m telling you again, he was anything but stupid. I still can’t grasp how he could kill again and again and again (how many times, nobody knows really, Wikipedia tells me he never admitted a specific number) but it was fascinating to hear him talk, be it in a 3rd person voice about ‘the serial killer’. It did create some distance so I probably would have liked it better if he had just told us in his own POV but it wasn’t really hard to transfer his observations and thoughts onto himself either, everyone knows it was really about him.Confessions of a Killer was a very interesting read and a unique insight in the mind of a killer. It’s a lot of things that it’s not: it’s not a confession, it’s not about the details of his crimes, but if you want to read about the person that is, or I should say was Ted Bundy, then it is certainly worth reading. I’ve certainly enjoyed this short time inside this devil’s mind.

Rebecca

April 21, 2019

If you think "ah, I've watched the series on Netflix so I won't bother with the book" then you are missing out.The book goes so much further than the series does and it's fascinating. Given the subject at hand and the way Ted Bundy speaks and phrases things, it's a difficult read but so interesting and chilling. How Stephen G. Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth managed to take control of the situation and the patience they must have had was incredible. The subtle wording they use is so interesting, I found myself re-reading sentences a few times just to really get the gist of it. The book itself is arranged in chronological order of when the interviews took place which I really liked and the version I recieved from Netgalley included the foreword written by Robert Keppel which is as interesting as the rest of the book. He writes of the changes made to the forces largely in part to these cases which is a nice reminder that something was at least learnt amid the horror of Ted Bundy.

Michael

May 28, 2022

What an interesting book.I am always reading about psychopaths and serial killers as research for my own novels. This was very different actually hearing Bundy discuss his stare of mind and some details of his killings.Worth the read and don't give up on it. Bundy rambles sometimes and it feels like gibberish, but then he'll say something that is so insightful into his mind. Very interesting.

Janel

April 30, 2019

One of the things I always seek out when I read crime fiction is the chilling insight into a killer’s mind. But those killers are fictional, make-believe, and that creates a “safety barrier.” This book is nonfiction, a real killer, a serial killer, and this book gives us “barrier-free” access to his mind. And compared to all the fiction I read, this is truly terrifying. To read how Bundy speaks about his crimes, his twisted, warped views, chilled me to my core. I conclude that there is nothing more disturbing than a serial killer talking about himself in third person. Prior to reading this book, I watched the Netflix documentary and I was worried I wouldn’t get much out of this book, that it’d be a repetition of information. But, let me tell you, reading this book was far more chilling than watching it. I thought the chill would come from hearing Bundy speak in the documentary, but when you read this book, your mind is processing what you’re reading, the shock, the horror, you may even reread certain bits because you’re convinced you read it wrong, because it’s so twisted it can’t be true! Most of this book is set out in interview format, it’s raw, it’s real, and most importantly [for me], it doesn’t have the sensationalist aspect the Netflix documentary did.Due to the way this book is formatted, you see the word “uh” used an awful lot, see below for an example. “TB: It wouldn’t. . . uh, change materially.”This makes perfect sense, and it’s how Bundy spoke, so I totally get it, but it did stop the fluidity of the read at times, especially when it was included several times in one paragraph. Yes, it signified times when Bundy was likely thinking about how to say what he wanted to say, or biding time for whatever reason, but sometimes it created a stilted effect.Overall, this is a book that does what the blurb states, so you can be confident that if you choose to read this book, you will get exactly what you are asking for – an insight into the mind of a serial killer, in his own words. The depth of your knowledge into Bundy is irrelevant, this book is accessible to all, while there are many books/studies about Bundy and his crimes, can any account be as powerfully told as the one the killer tells himself? If true crime is your forte, you could say this one is mandatory reading!Side note: I vote ‘no’ to putting serial killers on the cover of books, I had to keep this book facedown whenever I wasn’t reading it, because walking past it and seeing this disturbing cover, Bundy’s ‘half-in-the-dark’ face staring at me was creepy as hell! At least, I can say the content on the pages is as disturbing as the cover! This book, Bundy’s words, really unsettled something in me, but credit to the authors for thinking of a way to get Bundy to speak about his crimes.*My thanks to the publisher (Mirror Books) for providing me with a copy of this book*

Siren

July 22, 2014

I saw one review that someone left that said they still didn't understand why he killed people after reading this book. I understand this person doesn't have the mind of a criminal, but to me it is so clear. It was about possession. He even said it, to him it was about possession, so he felt like he owned the girls after he killed them. It excited him to be able to kill so many people, get away with it, and become a celebrity of sorts in the process. Every time he would try to get his life together and stop killing, it didn't last for long, as the desire to control and posses took hold of him again. Killing people was so exciting, he didn't want to stop. Of course, he also had no form of a conscience, which made things that much easier for him. The fantasies he had that preceded murdering someone he described were always better than the actual murder itself, which left him unsatisfied and only wanting to do if again and to "get it right" next time. The murders became more sexually sadistic as time went on. In this book he tells his life story and it gives us some insights into his personality.

Amber

March 12, 2021

I think that this book provided a great insight into bundy's mind, if that were even possible. The fact that he kind of went into details of his crimes but he had to do it in the third person was interesting, like he couldn't accept that he could have done that. That part was intriguing. Bundy is very smart about the way that he details the crimes he gives like little hints but then he doesn't give anything detailed enough that he could give anything away. He does not tell the whole story but he theorizes and even goes into detail about how he phone pranked one of the DA's wives. He goes into the moments where he theorizes and even gives something away and then he tries to back step his thoughts. I really enjoyed this book and the insight that was given. I still think that his number is really higher than what they originally thought because he does say that they cant prove a crime without a body.

Philomena Callan

May 05, 2019

I feel as if I’ve read this at the right time. I haven’t watched the Ted Bundy series on Netflix and now there’s a movie in the cinema about him. Personally I prefer to read rather than watch. Wow what a story. Anything I imagined about Ted was thrown out the window when I read this. This gives a very good insight into what kind of man he was. I thought he was clever and charming which I didn’t expect.Personally I found this to be a fascinating yet chilling read. This has made me even more interested in reading or even watching more about Ted Bundy. I’ve got to say I rarely read true stories as I like to escape from real life. However I was curious about Ted Bundy and I’m really glad I read this. Well done to the authors on a well written story.

Lexi

May 06, 2022

Ted Bundy is, in my opinion, one of the most fascinating serial killers on record. There’s just something about his case that has its hooks in me deep. Somehow, no matter how much information I consume about Ted Bundy, there’s always one little morsel that lights my brain up, whether that be a detail I didn’t know before or even just a different perspective on the case. And with this book we, as the reader, got Ted’s actual perspective on the murders and got to hear his thoughts and feelings on what took place in his own words. Of course, the whole time he played it off like it wasn’t him doing these things (which added another level of craziness to the text) but it was intriguing nonetheless.If you want some extra creep factor, there’s a Netflix documentary similar in title where you get to LITERALLY hear Ted having this conversations with the detectives. 😳 (As no surprise, I’ve already watched it, lolol!) Otherwise - if you’re a fan of true crime, give this one a try!

Jessica

August 31, 2021

This review and more can be found at A Reader's Diary!So as many of you know, I'm a Justice Science student and an avid True Crime reader.I enjoy reading about people like Charles Manson, Richard Ramirez, Dennis Rader, Jeffery Dahmer... But Ted Bundy pissed me off more than any of them. In Conversations with a Killer (The Death Row Interviews) Bundy had the opportunity to talk through a hypothetical person who may be committing crimes similar to the ones Bundy is associated with, which Bundy claims he had no part of A N Y of the kidnappings, rapes, or murders of the 13 women. The entirety of this book is the recorded interviews of Bundy describing this hypothetical person, and he does not let you forget that he is not talking about himself, he is talking in hypotheticals. You may be thinking, "Why would this make you so angry, Jessica?" Well, it's because young Ted Bundy was a Justice Science and Psychology student, just like myself. The entire time he's describing this hypothetical person, he's using basic textbook psychology terms and using the actually definitions to fit this person. HOWEVER no person would fit those terms absolutely perfectly. Bundy knew what he was doing, he knew what he was describing, and he was purposefully describing terms that would not have fit his M.O. and was leaving out the ones that would! He created a person who was so similar to himself that he did not realize we still knew who and what he was talking about. So yes, Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer (The Death Row Interviews) was something that I longed to read for many years. Obviously, I am infuriated at the content of the interview but I understand how important this interview was to bringing some kind of answers to the families. While Ted thought he was being clever, we knew there was some truth to all of his answers.Read at your own risk.

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