Two things struck me in what we learned from Hagmaier’s interview. First, the vicious sexual assault and murder of the beautiful young women who were Bundy’s victims of choice were not the most important or satisfying elements of the crimes for him. What he described as really getting him off was the thrill of the hunt and capture, and then, like Dennis Rader, the sublime power of life and death over another human being. He related that when he abducted two women, Janice Ott and Denise Naslund, from Lake Sammamish in Washington State, he kept them alive as long as he felt he safely could and
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