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Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes

★ 7.7 35K votes 2019–2019 1 seasons · 4 episodes Ended Netflix
True crimeReal cases, told as documentary or drama.This show: 10/10DocuseriesNonfiction storytelling across episodes.This show: 10/10DisturbingContent that lingers uncomfortably after the credits.This show: 8/10UnsettlingA creeping sense of unease and wrongness that gets under your skin.This show: 7/10Dark toneShadowy mood and subject matter, a shade short of outright bleak.This show: 7/10
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Joe Berlinger
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"A killer's own voice, decades later"

This documentary series revisits the case of Ted Bundy through hours of never-before-heard audiotapes recorded during his death row interviews in the 1980s. Mixing archival news footage, courtroom video, and Bundy's own chillingly articulate voice, it traces how he evaded capture and manipulated everyone around him for years. The pace is deliberate and journalistic rather than sensational, letting unsettling first-person testimony do the work. It feels less like true-crime spectacle and more like a slow, queasy character study, carried almost entirely by the disturbing gap between Bundy's charm and what he actually did.

Watch it for

the unsettling audio of Bundy narrating his own crimes in his own words.

Maybe skip if

you find true-crime retellings of real murder cases exploitative or hard to sit through.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

Season 12019
7.85K43h 55m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
1Handsome Devil7.5
1K53 min
2One of Us7.7
1K57 min
3Not My Turn to Watch Him8.0
1K51 min
4Burn Bundy Burn8.1
1K74 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Stephen Michaud Self - Journalist
Robert Keppel Self - Detective, King County, Washington
Kathleen McChesney Self - Detective, King County, Washington
Ward Lucas Self - Television & Radio Reporter
Hugh Aynesworth Self - Journalist
Marlin Lee Vortman Self - Friend
Bruce Lubeck Self - Defense Attorney, Salt Lake County
Carol DaRonch Self - Utah Resident
Charles Leidner Self - Defense Attorney, Colorado
Ken Katsaris Self - Sheriff, Leon County, Florida

Crew

Joe Berlinger

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