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Even the Worst Criminals Can Go UndetectedThree young women are discovered in a Cleveland home after being held prisoner for 10 years, and the nation wonders why nobody noticed anything amiss.
An Austria man creates an underground dungeon, where he holds his own daughter captive (and fathers seven children by her), and his wife claims she had no knowledge of the horrific situation.
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Ted Bundy was the all American guy; he was handsome, highly intelligent, admired by everyone, and seemingly headed for a successful career in law or politics. He was the kind of guy parents hope their daughter will bring home one day. And he was the kind of guy who would eventually claim he had raped and canada goose black friday sale murdered at least 30 women.
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Even if she had questioned his basement workshop activities, there is no way, as a normal human being, she would have thought the unthinkable. How could she possibly have raised a question in her own mind such as, “I wonder if he has dug a prison down there, and he’s keeping our daughter Elizabeth in it, and fathering children with her?”
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Bundy was able to avoid suspicion because of his patent normalcy. Although eventually, his girlfriend recognized a pattern of his absences and local murders (and reports that a man named “Ted” had been seen with victims), prior to having those dots to connect, she had no reason to think Bundy’s periodic evenings away were signs he was out murdering one woman after another.