Infamous serial killer Ted Bundy served as the basis for Netflix’s new film, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile. The movie is an adaptation of a memoir by the murderer's former real-life girlfriend Elizabeth Kendall, and concludes shortly before Bundy’s 1989 execution. But it doesn’t tell viewers the story of the killer's death in Florida’s electric chair.
Bundy, who's played by Zac Efron in the film, murdered more than 30 women and girls in a brutal crime spree that spanned from Washington to Florida and included two escapes from police custody. After his final apprehension, Bundy was convicted of his Florida murders in two separate trials, and received three death sentences. After exhausting his appeals and confessing to his crimes, Bundy was executed on January 24th, 1989 for the rape and murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach.
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