Editing Ted Bundy (section)

=== Confirmed ===
The night before his execution, Bundy confessed to 30 homicides, but the true total remains unknown and Bundy occasionally made cryptic comments to encourage speculation.{{sfn|Nelson|1994|p=257}} He told Aynesworth in 1980 that for every murder "publicized," there "could be one that was not."{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=199}} When FBI agents proposed a total tally of 36, Bundy responded, "Add one digit to that, and you'll have it."{{sfn|Rule|2000|p=335}} Years later he told Nelson that the common estimate of 35 was accurate,{{sfn|Nelson|1994|p=257}} but Keppel wrote that "[Ted] and I both knew [the total] was much higher."{{sfn|Keppel|2005|pp=399–400}} In an interview, Keppel stated his belief that Bundy had killed "at least 50, and maybe 75."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftuqYh_SvPI|title=Ted Bundy Lynnette Culver/ 1989 Hardcopy|website=[[YouTube]]|date=June 28, 2020 |access-date=August 9, 2022|archive-date=May 23, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523005828/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftuqYh_SvPI|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[John Henry Browne]], a lawyer for Bundy, would later claim "that the first person he killed was a young boy when they were playing some kind of sex game in the woods. And so he must have been only 12, 13, 14."<ref>{{cite web|first=John|last=Thrasher|url=https://www.oxygen.com/ted-bundy-in-defense-of/crime-time/ted-bundy-admitted-to-his-lawyer-that-he-killed-a-12-year-old-boy|title=Ted Bundy Admitted To His Lawyer That He Killed A Young Boy In The Woods|website=[[Oxygen (TV channel)|Oxygen]]|date=July 16, 2018|access-date=August 9, 2022|archive-date=August 13, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220813121704/https://www.oxygen.com/ted-bundy-in-defense-of/crime-time/ted-bundy-admitted-to-his-lawyer-that-he-killed-a-12-year-old-boy|url-status=live}}</ref> Browne also said that "Ted told me in that interview that he killed over 100 people."<ref>{{cite news|first=C.R.|last=Douglas|title=Ted Bundy's lawyer: Bundy killed more than 100 women – and a man |url=http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-05-23/news/kcpq-bundys-lawyer-he-killed-over-100-women—and-a-man-20120523_1_ted-bundy-serial-killers-murder|newspaper=[[Orlando Sentinel]] |date=May 23, 2012|access-date=November 11, 2013|page=Q3|url-status=dead|archive-url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20131110140852/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-05-23/news/kcpq-bundys-lawyer-he-killed-over-100-women—and-a-man-20120523_1_ted-bundy-serial-killers-murder |archive-date=November 10, 2013}}</ref> "I told Ted Bundy that we now have the evidence to charge him with both cases," [[Leon County, Florida|Leon County]] Sheriff Kenneth Katsaris recalled, referring to the Chi Omega murders and the slaying of Leach. "He looked at me and said, 'When you find the person that committed these crimes that you think I committed, that person is going to be wanted for murders of women in the three digits in six states.'"<ref>{{cite web|first=Jill|last=Sederstrom|url=https://www.oxygen.com/martinis-murder/debra-kent-victim-ted-bundy-admitted-taking-back-to-his-home|title=Who Was The Victim That Ted Bundy Admitted Taking Back To His Home?|website=[[Oxygen (TV channel)|Oxygen]]|date=August 19, 2019|access-date=August 9, 2022|archive-date=August 15, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815071331/https://www.oxygen.com/martinis-murder/debra-kent-victim-ted-bundy-admitted-taking-back-to-his-home|url-status=live}}</ref> "I don't think even he knew ... how many he killed, or why he killed them," said Reverend Fred Lawrence, the Methodist clergyman who administered Bundy's [[last rites]]. "That was my impression, my strong impression."{{sfn|Von Drehle|1995|p=363}}

On the evening before his execution, Bundy reviewed his victim tally with Hagmaier on a state-by-state basis for a total of 30 homicides:{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=339}}
* in Washington, 11 (including Parks, abducted in Oregon but killed in Washington; and including 3 unidentified)
* in Utah, 8 (3 unidentified)
* in Colorado, 3
* in Florida, 3
* in Oregon, 2 (both unidentified)
* in Idaho, 2 (1 unidentified)
* in California, 1 (unidentified)