17 Jul Ted Bundy’s Lawyer Reveals The Chilling Moment He Knew His Client Was Pure Evil

There are few people who have ever walked on this Earth who are considered to be “pure evil”, but if you were to list them all, Ted Bundy’s name would be situated very close to the top.

For more than four decades, details of Bundy’s crimes have sickened and intrigued America. After all, what could possibly possess such a talented, handsome young man to end the lives of more than 30 women in such a depraved and demented manner?

To the American people, Ted Bundy made no sense as a mass murderer. He was charming, intelligent and good-looking, he was the type of guy that you’d be proud to introduce to your parents, or the type of guy you could imagine yourself voting for during a presidential election. There was nothing to suggest that behind the clean-cut façade was a man capable of some of the most disturbing acts ever committed.

But, that was the key to his reign of terror. He lured women to their brutal deaths with his physical attractiveness and fooled the authorities by masquerading as an ambitious law school student.

For example, in 1974, several close acquaintances of Bundy’s recognized him as the man that the police were searching for in connection to multiple murders in the states of Washington and Oregon. His ex-girlfriend, his former university professor, a former colleague and an employee at the Department of Economic Security all pointed the cops in Bundy’s direction, but they discredited him almost immediately believing that the “all American” law student with no previous criminal offenses could be responsible for such crimes.

Another person who found Bundy’s behavior difficult to understand was Bundy’s defense attorney, John Henry Browne, who claims he knew Bundy was “evil” from the very first moment he met him.

Now 71-years-old – coincidentally, the same age Bundy would be today if he hadn’t have been sentenced to death in 1989 at the age of 42 – Browne is finally opening up about his most notorious client whom he spent 10 years defending.

In the latest episode of the crime documentary In Defence Of…, Browne goes into explicit detail about his former client, whom he first became involved with when Bundy was living free on bail in Seattle, pending his trial for a kidnapping in Utah.

“When I first met Ted, my strategy was to minimize the public’s belief that he was ‘The Ted’,” Browne explains. “Ted knew he was being followed, there was no subtly to what the task force were doing when Ted was in Seattle.”

“Ted actually enjoyed the attention he was getting from the media. The police, they were following him everywhere and that became almost comical because Ted would make fun of them, he’d make cookies for the cops, he’d knock on their windows, he’d make coffee and take it to the surveillance vehicles. Ted would take on masks, false mustaches and wigs and everything to fool them.”

Whilst it may have been all fun and games for Bundy, for Browne and the surrounding community, there was nothing amusing about the situation. With regard to one particular incident, Browne recalls:

“He went researching at the University of Washington Law Library and completely freaked out the whole law school. I got a letter from the Dean of the Law School saying, ‘I think it’d be better if Mr. Bundy used the King County Law Library and not come to the Law School, as you know we have many women students here.’ I certainly don’t blame the Dean, or the women students for being upset about it.”

Watch Ted Bundy’s final interview, recorded just hours before he was executed for his horrific crimes…

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Whilst his time as Bundy’s attorney may have been exhausting for Browne, it was also an incredibly rare opportunity for someone to get close to the killer. Over the years many psychologists have attempted to evaluate Bundy’s behavior, but none of them were able to get as close to him as Browne.

“Ted was the only person in my 40 years of being a lawyer that I would say that he was absolutely born evil,” Browne told Fox News in a separate interview. “I didn’t want to believe people were born evil, but I came to the conclusion that Ted was… He had this energy about him that was clearly deceptive, very sociopathic.”

Despite the series of severe charges against his client, Browne was able to secure a plea deal for Bundy. However, the killer chose not to accept it. “Nobody would ever believe you could get a plea bargain for Ted Bundy, but I did with one other lawyer,” recalls Browne.

When Bundy refused to accept the plea deal, it became clear to Browne that his client had a “death wish” and intended to be found guilty in a state that carried the death penalty, potentially explaining Bundy’s two separate jailbreaks in 1977 and 1978.

“He asked me in Colorado where a person would actually go to get the death penalty and I said, immediately, Florida or Texas,” remembers Browne. “And then he escapes [prison] a second time and goes to Florida.”

“He gets caught [in Florida] by a 300-pound older police officer when Ted was in the best physical shape of his life,” says Browne, concluding that Bundy was determined to die.

Throughout their 10 year relationship, Browne recalls only one moment when Bundy revealed any remorse for his actions – although, given his penchant for manipulating people, it is not clear if this performance was genuine.

“He said to me, ‘John, I want to be a good person, but I’m just not.’ He actually fell to the floor cell and had tears in his eyes when he said that… It was the first time I ever saw him truly emotional. He was acknowledging that he was basically an evil person who has done awful things and he wished he wasn’t that anymore… He snapped out of that after three hours and went back to the façade of Ted.”

Whilst Browne will never forget these moments, there is one particular incident that haunts him on a daily basis. “The comment, the one I still get chills about, is when he told me, ‘The reason you’ve been my lawyer for so long is because we’re so much alike’.”

“What bothered me is he would think that we were a lot alike… that we were friends. Because I’ve never considered myself a friend of his,” Browne adds.

Bundy was sentenced to death by electric chair on January 24, 1989. Whilst on death row, he confessed to 30 murders. However, those who knew Bundy believe that his kill count was much higher, some even believe it’s possible he killed in excess of 100 women.

His case chilled America, so much so that his story is soon to be shown on the big screen with High School Musical‘s Zac Efron playing the famed serial killer.

But whilst it may have left America, and the world, feeling spooked, there are few people that are more affected by his case than Browne.

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