In 1980 Carol M. Bundy connected up with serial killer Doug Clark,
participated in one murder as accomplice and committed another murder on her
own. Two murders do not make a series, but there can be no doubt the Carol
Bundy was a serial killer by type.
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~ Carol Bundy Quotations
[Carol M. Bundy] told the police that she murdered Jack and
cut of his head because he was ‘an asshole who deserved to die.’” [Carol Anne
Davis, Women Who Kill: Profiles of Female Serial Killers, 2001, Allison &
Busby Ltd., London, p. 174]
“Even now, Carol was intent on finding herself a new man,
openly propositioning one of the police officers. She talked in detail about
her sex life and said that killing was fun, when she was accompanied back to
her apartment by police officers to gather further evidence she asked if they
would have sex with her, explaining that it might be years before she had
access to a man again. They declined.” [Carol Anne
Davis, Women Who Kill: Profiles of Female Serial Killers, 2001, Allison &
Busby Ltd., London, p. 174]
“Remember, I look innocent. Impression is worth as much as
facts.” [(from letter to Doug), Carol Anne Davis, Women Who Kill: Profiles of
Female Serial Killers, 2001, Allison & Busby Ltd., London, p. 175]
“Meanwhile Carol sent the judge a Christmas card and a note
that said it was a pity they couldn’t meet for coffee some time. … After
sentencing “Still intent on placating men, she sent him [the sentencing judge]
a thank you cartoon that she’d drawn and added that she was a decent woman and
that’s why she’d ultimately gone to the police.”[Carol Anne Davis, Women Who
Kill: Profiles of Female Serial Killers, 2001, Allison & Busby Ltd.,
London, p. 176]
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Wikipedia: Carol M. Bundy (August 26, 1942 – December 9,
2003) was an American serial killer. Bundy and Doug Clark became known as
"The Sunset Strip Killers" after being convicted of a series of
murders in Los Angeles during the late spring and early summer of 1980. The
victims were young prostitutes or runaways.
~ Biography ~
Bundy had a troubled childhood. Her mother died when she was
young and her father abused her. Then, when her father remarried, he put her in
various foster homes. When Bundy was 17 years old, she married a 56-year-old
man. By the time she met Clark at the age of 37, she had just escaped a third
marriage to an abusive man, by whom she had two young sons. She had begun an
affair with her apartment block manager, part-time country singer John Murray.
She had even attempted to bribe Murray's wife into leaving him, but she wasn't
pleased and told Murray to evict Bundy from the block. This did not end the
infatuation and she continued to show up regularly to venues where Murray was
singing. One of these was a bar called Little Nashville. It was at this bar
that she first met Clark in 1980. Clark soon moved in with Bundy and they found
out that they had similar dark sexual fantasies.
~ Murders ~
Clark started bringing prostitutes back to their apartment
to have sex with both of them. Then, Clark began to take an interest in an
11-year-old girl who was a neighbor. Bundy helped lure the girl into sexual
games and posing for sexual photographs. The pedophilia wasn't enough for them,
however, and Clark started to talk about how much he would like to kill a girl
during sex and persuaded Carol to go out and buy two automatic pistols for him
to use. Reportedly, Clark was striving to fulfill his fantasy of killing a
woman during sex and feeling her vaginal contractions during the death spasms.
The killing began during June 1980. Clark came home one
night and told Bundy about two teenagers, Gina Narano and Cynthia Chandler, he
had picked up on the Sunset Strip that day and subsequently murdered. He had
ordered them to perform fellatio on him and then shot them both in the head
before taking them to a garage and raping their dead bodies. He had then dumped
their bodies near the Ventura Freeway where they were found the next day. Bundy
was uneasy upon hearing this news and phoned the police, admitting to having
some knowledge of the murders, but she refused to provide any clues as to
Clark's identity. Clark told Bundy that, if either of them were apprehended, he
would take the blame in the hope that Bundy would be allowed to go free.
Twelve days after the initial murders, Clark killed again,
and this time Bundy didn't call the police. The victims were two prostitutes,
Karen Jones and Exxie Wilson. Like before, Clark lured them into the car, shot
them, and dumped their bodies in plain sight. The difference this time was that
he took a trophy: Exxie Wilson's head. He took the head back home and stored it
in the fridge. Bundy, upon seeing it, put make-up on it before Clark used it
again for another "bout of necrophilia." Two days later, the duo put
the freshly cleaned head in a box and dumped it in an alleyway. Three days
later, another body was found in the woods in the San Fernando Valley. The
victim was a runaway named Marnette Comer, who appeared to have been killed
three weeks earlier, making her Clark's first known victim.
Clark waited a month before striking again. Meanwhile, Bundy
was still infatuated with John Murray. She would go see him sing and after a
few drinks, her conversation would turn to things she and Clark were doing.
Murray was alarmed and implied that he might tell the police. In order to avoid
this from happening, in August 1980, Bundy lured Murray into his van after a
show to have sex. Once they were inside, she shot him and decapitated him. She
left various clues behind, however, such as the fact that the two of them were
seen together in the bar, and she had left shell casings in the van. Bundy
couldn't take the pressure and two days later she confessed to her co-workers
that she had killed Murray. They called the police and she began to give them a
full and to-the-point confession about her and Clark's crimes.
~ Trial and Conviction ~
Clark was immediately arrested and the guns were found
hidden at his work. Bundy was charged with two murders: Murray and the unknown
victim whose killing she confessed to having been present at. Clark was charged
with six murders. At his trial, he acted as his own defense and tried to blame
Bundy for everything, portraying himself as an innocent dupe. The jury did not
believe him and he was sentenced to the death in 1983. He remains on
California's death row. Bundy, on the other hand, made a plea bargain and in
return for her testimony only received a life sentence. Bundy died on December
9, 2003 in prison at the age of 61 from heart failure.
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CHRONOLOGY
Aug. 26, 1942 – Carol born.
Late May 1980 – Marnette Comer – murdered by Doug Clark.
Mid-June 1980 – Gina (Gena) Narano – murdered by Doug
Mid-June 1980 – Cynthia Chandler – murdered by Doug
June 23, 1980 – Karen Jones – murdered by Doug
June 23, 1980 – Exxie Wilson– murdered by Doug
Jun. 20, 1980 – “Cathy”murdered by the pair (Clark &
Bundy).
Aug. 3, 1980 – John Murray murdered by Bundy alone
Aug. 11, 1980 – Carol arrested.
Dec. 9, 2003 – Carol M. Bundy dies.
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