Netflix’s Conversations with a Killer willfully participates in Ted Bundy’s 3-ring circus
The new true crime documentary series demonstrates that even after his death, Ted Bundy runs his own show.
A high number of serial killers are malignant narcissists — often the kind who suffer from delusions of grandeur. One of the implications of Netflix’s new true crime documentary series, Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, is that its subject — one of America’s most well-known serial killers — perpetually manipulated the media and his many interviewers into feeding his glorified narrative of himself. Ironically, that’s also what Conversations with a Killerseems to be doing now.
The documentary, which was released Thursday, is a dramatization of the 2000 book Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer by investigative reporters Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth. It’s drawn...