Ted Bundy committed crimes.
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East ( IMTFE ) , also known as the Tokyo Trials or the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal , was convened on April 29 , 1946 , to try the leaders of the Empire of Japan for three categories of crimes . Theodore Robert Bundy ( born Theodore Robert Cowell ; November 24 , 1946 -- January 24 , 1989 ) was an American serial killer , kidnapper , rapist , burglar , and necrophile who assaulted and murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s , and possibly earlier . He sometimes revisited his secondary crime scenes for hours at a time , grooming and performing sexual acts with the decomposing corpses until putrefaction and destruction by wild animals made further interaction impossible . Initially incarcerated in Utah in 1975 for aggravated kidnapping and attempted criminal assault , Bundy became a suspect in a progressively longer list of unsolved homicides in multiple states .