“All-American boy on trial,” the front page of The New York Times declared in December, 1978. “Some say that Ted Bundy is the most prolific mass murderer in American history; Bundy claims he is the tragic victim of a tangling web of circumstances.”

The New York Times noted his blue eyes and dashing figure, “looking rather Kennedyesque dressed in a beige turtleneck and dark blue blazer… free of any extravagant motion that could lead one to think a swaggering - even dangerous - personality existed beneath that casual, cool exterior.”

But that is exactly what existed within Bundy, one of America’s most notorious serial killers responsible for the murders of at least 30, but potentially 100, people before his final arrest in 1978 and death by electric chair in 1989.