Serial Killer Ted Bundy Is The Focus Of Netflix’s Next Big True Crime Documentary Series
Ted Bundy is one of the world's worst serial killers.
The global lust for murder-related content continues unabated into 2019, with Netflix today announcing a new documentary series focusing on one of America’s most prolific serial killers, Ted Bundy.
Titled Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, the new four-part series will drop on the streaming platform January 24th, an appropriately sinister date as it will be 30 years to the day since his execution by electric chair in Florida in 1989.
The rise of true-crime documentaries, re-enactions and biopics over the past few years has reached nearly all elements of the entertainment industry from podcasts to TV and even big Hollywood movies. It’s interesting that up until now Bundy hasn’t scored his own gritty crime doco because as far as murder goes, Bundy is up there as one of its biggest fans. The dude did SO MANY murders, you guys. An absolute fiend for murder. Couldn’t get enough of it, to be honest.
Known for his targeting of young women and the use of his good looks and charm, Bundy murdered over 35 people between the years of 1974 and 1978 across seven states in the US. The longer story of Bundy’s life and imprisonment is legitimately nuts and includes a prison break where he got lost in a forest for two days and a bewildering post-incarceration fame that saw him ultimately marrying a fan. Like, a fan of his. A Serial Killer Groupie.
My take? Not that hot…
Netflix describes the new show as bringing “the infamously twisted mind of serial killer Ted Bundy into the light for the very first time. The chilling series will invade our psyche with exclusive interviews that come from the ‘Jack the Ripper of the United States,’ himself.”
The news of the Netflix doco comes hot off the back of new pics from an upcoming dramatised biopic on Bundy starring muscular snack Zac Efron. Titled Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile the stacked flick also includes John Malkovitch, Jim Parsons and Lily Collins hits Sundance Festival next year.