SERIAL killer Ted Bundy's biographer has revealed how he got the notorious fiend to finally confess to a murder spree which left at least 30 women dead.

Stephen Michaud, 71, spent six months "bonding" with the murderous monster while interviewing him for the book in 1976.

He eventually cajoled Bundy into revealing details of his butchery while playing mind games with the charismatic killer.

The revelations come ahead of Netflix's new film 'Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile' which will be released next week starring Zac Efron as Bundy.

"Theodore Robert Bundy was a serial killer, kidnapper, rapist, burglar, and necrophile from Vermont," Michaud told The Mirror.

"What emerged from reports was a confused, enigmatic, good-looking, articulate, law student who came from a loving Methodist family.

"He'd been accused of attacking and murdering girls, tearing them apart, burying them only to dig them up and abuse them again.'

"He was a wild animal. So it was hard to connect those two Teds in my head. But both of those characters lived inside him."

He was a wild animal

Bundy – who was executed in 1989 – is considered one of the most deplorable serial killers in the history of America.

He was responsible for murdering dozens of young women over a four-year period in the 1970s before being caught.

The deviant decapitated at least 12 of his victims and kept some of their heads as morbid mementos of his vile acts.

Writer Michaud has now told of his "intense" meetings with Bundy – which helped lead to the killer's downfall.

However, he said at their first face-to-face, Bundy was "breezy" and smiled saying: "Hi, good to meet you, I’m Ted Bundy."

The pair then spent months exchanging stories, but Bundy was always keen to avoid talking about his hideous crimes.

When did Ted Bundy start his sickening killing spree?

The date he started killing is subject to some debate though most agree it was 1974, around the time several women went missing in Seattle and Nearby Oregon.

Locals started telling stories of how the women were being lured into cars by a young, dark-haired man named "Ted" who faked injuries.

Soon after Bundy moved to Utah to attend law school in 1974, people started disappearing from there too.

He was known to revisit some of his crime scenes to sexually violate the corpses of his victims.

Bundy decapitated at least 12 of his victims and kept some of their heads as mementos of his vile acts.

In 1975, the maniac was arrested for kidnapping Carol DaRonch, one of the few who survived his attacks, and sentenced to up to 15 years behind bars.

Two years later, while acting as his own lawyer after being indicted over the death of a Colorado woman, Bundy jumped out of the jailhouse library window and disappeared.

He was caught eight days later but in December the same year, 1977, he climbed out of a hole in the ceiling of his cell and fled to Florida.

In January 1978, he broke into the Chi Omega sorority at Florida State University, killing two women and bludgeoning three others.

He was convicted of those crimes in July 1979 after bite marks on one of the bodies were found to be his.

His final victim was a 12-year-old girl in Florida.

Michaud said: "Since Bundy had studied psychology and had done a few years of law school, I asked him to speak about the crimes he was accused of in the third person, to act as an expert.

"He stared at me for a minute before saying, ‘Well, all I could do is speculate.’

"He grabbed the recorder and curled up with it on the table. He started talking and he spoke for six months."

During these chats he started giving away clues and saying things only the real serial killer would have known – often relaying gory details.

"The only giveaway was how excited he became in his eyes," the writer revealed.

"It was so obvious he was talking about himself and on rare occasions he’d slip into the first person because he was so into it."

Bundy only officially confessed to dozens of murders in interviews just before he was sent to the electric chair in Florida State Prison.

Some think he lied about some of his crimes to confound the police’s efforts to find the bodies of his victims.

Though he confessed to 30 killings, some true crime aficionados think he may have committed as many as 100 murders.

Hundreds of people – including 20 off-duty police officers – sang, danced and set off fireworks across the street from the prison as the execution was carried out.

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