Editing Ted Bundy (section)

=== First murders ===
There is no consensus as to when or where Bundy began killing women. He told different stories to different people and refused to divulge the specifics of his earliest crimes, even as he confessed in graphic detail to dozens of later murders in the days preceding his execution.{{sfn|Keppel|2005|p=400}} Bundy told Nelson that he attempted his first [[kidnapping]] in [[Ocean City, New Jersey]], in 1969, but did not kill anyone until some time in 1971 in Seattle.{{sfn|Nelson|1994|pp=282–284}} He told psychologist Art Norman that he killed two women in [[Atlantic City, New Jersey|Atlantic City]] while visiting family in Philadelphia in 1969.<ref name="DailyNews" />{{sfn|Sullivan|2009|p=57}} Bundy hinted to homicide detective [[Robert D. Keppel]] that he committed a murder in Seattle in 1972{{sfn|Keppel|2005|p=387}} and another murder in 1973 that involved a [[hitchhiking|hitchhiker]] near [[Tumwater, Washington|Tumwater]], but he refused to elaborate.{{sfn|Keppel|2005|p=396}} Rule and Keppel both believed that he might have started killing as a teenager.{{sfn|Rule|2000|p=526}}{{sfn|Keppel|2005|pp=399–400}} Bundy's earliest documented homicides were committed in 1974, when he was 27. By his own admission, he had by then mastered the necessary skills – in the era before [[DNA profiling]] – to leave minimal incriminating [[forensic evidence]] at crime scenes.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1989|p=87}}