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- Theodore Robert Bundy, more commonly known as "Ted", was one of the most prolific serial killers in the USA. He confessed to 36 murders, but nobody really knows how many had been committed or when he began his legacy of horror; the true total could be higher.
Ted was born to Eleanor Louise Cowell (Louise Bundy) and a father that had taken off when Eleanor discovered she was pregnant. In 1946, faced with limited options, she gave birth to him in an "unwed mother" facility and began a hopeless charade: as Ted grew up, she told him that her parents were his parents and that she was his sister. It wasn't until 1974 when he realized that his mother had lied to him for so many years. He grew to be a handsome, educated and intelligent man who appeared to be well-adjusted and affable. Bundy even volunteered for a crisis telephone hot-line (where he met famed author Ann Rule who was also a volunteer) and had a steady relationship with Diane Edwards (a.k.a. Stephanie Brooks), a girlfriend that would fuel his maniacal rage after she left him.
Ted was studying psychology at the University of Washington on January 31, 1974 when an attractive female student suddenly disappeared. Over the coming months and years, more disappearances followed. Ted's victims were generally young attractive women with dark hair parted in the middle. His modus operandi was to approach his potential victim feigning injury (for example, by wearing an arm-sling or a cast) ask them to help him carry his books or packages. He led them to a secluded area and when they were alone he would knock them on the head with a crowbar, stuff their bodies into his car, strangle them while they were unconscious and then rape the dead bodies (necrophilia). He would then leave the naked body in a wooded area, mostly Taylor Mountain in Washington State, where many of his victims were found.
Along with countless other suspects he was questioned by the police but he initially came out clean because he just didn't seem to 'fit the mold' of a maniacal serial killer. Bundy then went to law school at Salt Lake City, Utah where he murdered a police chief's daughter on October 21, 1974. Another murder followed, and another young woman went missing in Bountiful, Utah. In January 12, 1975, killings eerily similar to the Utah murders began popping up in Colorado. On August 16, 1975 he was arrested for being in possession of burglary tools by Salt Lake City police. When his bronze Volkwagen beetle was searched they found handcuffs, stockings and a home-made mask. Bundy was identified from a police lineup by a woman who had narrowly escaped his clutches in November 1974. In January 1977 he was extradited to Colorado to be tried for murder. In June 1977 he fled the Pitkin County Jail by jumping out of an open window. He was captured 8 days later.
He managed to escape again from the Garfield County Jail by sawing a hole in the ceiling of his cell on December 30, 1977. This time he traveled all the way to Tallahassee, Florida where he lived under pseudonyms including Christopher Hagen and Kenneth Misner. On January 15, 1978 he invaded the Chi Omega sorority on the Florida State University campus where he bludgeoned four girls and killed two. After he fled the Chi Omega sorority, he broke into the house of another woman and beat her severely before her worried roommates next door phoned the police. The young woman survived the attack. She would be his last living victim. On February 9, 1978 he kidnapped 12 year old Kimberly Leach, raped her and sliced her throat. Her body was found eight weeks later in a state park.
On February 15, 1978 he was arrested by Pensacola police when they did a check on his license plates and realized his car was stolen. Teeth impressions were made to compare to bite wounds found on one of the Chi Omega victims and the impressions matched the teeth marks on the victim. Bundy conducted his own defense with the help of several attorneys but, of course, it was all for naught; he was found guilty and sentenced to death by electrocution in 1979. A decade later, when death was finally looking down on him, he began confessing to a staggering amount of murders, 36 in total, but some investigators believe that the real total could be higher. He was executed on January 24, 1989 at the Florida State Prison in Starke, Florida. Many spectators cheered and celebrated his death with champagne. - Actor
- Writer
Allan McClelland was born on 31 December 1917 in Dunmurry, Ireland [now Northern Ireland], UK. He was an actor and writer, known for The Avengers (1961), The Looking Glass War (1970) and Maigret (1959). He was married to Charlotte F. Cox. He died on 24 January 1989 in Fulham, London, England, UK.- Wayne Ward was born on 4 July 1922 in East Liverpool, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for The Music Man (1962). He died on 24 January 1989 in Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
- Actor
- Writer
Siegfried Wischnewski was born on 15 April 1922 in Saborowen, East Prussia, Germany [now Zaborowo, Warminsko-Mazurskie, Poland]. He was an actor and writer, known for Tim Frazer (1963), Three Penny Opera (1963) and Die Nibelungen, Teil 1 - Siegfried (1966). He was married to Trude Suzanne Ritter. He died on 24 January 1989 in Königswinter, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.- Born in 1908, Suzet Maïs was active as an actress in the theater, in the movies and later on television from the late 1920s to 1966, the year of her last appearance in the TV series, 'Mésentente Cordiale'.
On the boards, she can boast a rich career with roles in plays by Molière, Tristan Bernard, Jean Giraudoux, Armand Salacrou, Oscar Wilde, Christopher Fry, Clare Booth, etc.
On the big screen , she participated in fewer important works, although she did work for directors such as Pierre Chenal, André Cayatte, Christian-Jaque or Claude Autant-Lara. In fact, whether or not the film she was in was memorable is not the point since the memorable thing in it, among others of the same temperament, was her. Not on account of her beauty. She was appealing: with a fine silhouette, a smooth and harmonious face and full, sensual lips reminiscent of Ginette Leclerc, she was more than just presentable. No, what really set her apart was her talent for playing the mean ladies, whether scheming or simply haughty, Preferably socialites. Her character might be charming but in this case her partner(s) had better beware the rattlesnake lurking in her. A haughty, icy gaze and all of a sudden she pounced on her prey and bit.
Remember how she treated poor André Berley in « Le Martyre de l'obèse », poor Blanchette Brunoy in « Claudine à l'école », poor Pierre Larquey (her father) in « Le Père Goriot », poor Micheline Presle in « Boule de Suif ».
Suzet Maïs was a real pest on the screen, but the kind of pest we love to hate. - Director
- Writer
- Producer
Michael Scott was born on 24 June 1905 in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland. He was a director and writer, known for The Silent Order (1951) and Late Night Theatre (1972). He died on 24 January 1989 in Sandycove, Dublin, Ireland.- Camera and Electrical Department
- Cinematographer
Leonid Izakson was born on 15 February 1914 in Aleksandrovsk, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire [now Zaporozhye, Zaporozhye oblast, Ukraine]. Leonid was a cinematographer, known for The People's Avengers (1943), Leningrad v borbe (1942) and Velikaya pobeda pod Leningradom (1944). Leonid died on 24 January 1989 in Bat Yam, Israel.- Anna Danilovich was born on 30 August 1908. She was an actress, known for Much Ado About Nothing (1956), Doktor filosofii (1976) and Kuryer Kremlya (1967). She died on 24 January 1989 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR.
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Drummond Drury was born on 23 December 1912 in Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England, UK. He was a cinematographer, known for My Brother Jonathan (1948), No Escape (1936) and The Shop at Sly Corner (1947). He died on 24 January 1989 in New York, USA.