“The ultimate possession was, in fact, the taking of the life. And then … the physical possession of the remains.”

—  Ted Bundy

Quoted in Michaud, Stephen; Aynesworth, Hugh (1989) Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer New York: Signet. pg. 124–26

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