“Burn Bundy” and “Toast Ted” read the T-shirts. On January 24, 1989, just as the sun rose over the north Florida plains, around 2,000 spectators gathered in the field across from Florida State Prison. A toy bunny is hung in effigy by Jerry Jackson of Atlanta Ga., wearing a Ronald Reagan mask, as a crowd celebrates the execution of Ted Bundy at sunrise in Starke, Fla. The night before his execution, Bundy placed two good-bye phone calls to his mother and was served the last meal of steak, eggs, hash browns and toast, which he reportedly did not touch. Louise Bundy, the mother of convicted murderer Ted Bundy, wipes away a tear in her dining room in Tacoma, Wash., as she tells her son, “You will always be my precious son.” (THE NEWS TRIBUNE VIA AP / RUSS CARMACK) Little did Bundy expect, the investigators were having none of it. With Florida State Prison in the background, spokesman Bob Macmasters fields questions from the media as Ted Bundy’s execution nears. Although Bundy confessed to the murders he was the prime suspect in, he withheld many details, hoping to parlay the incomplete information into yet another stay of execution. With all appeal avenues exhausted and no further motivation to deny his guilt, Ted Bundy agreed to an interview with Detective Bob Keppel two days before his execution.
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