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 . Ted Bundy . 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 . Facing murder charges in Colorado , he engineered two dramatic escapes and committed further assaults , including three murders , before his ultimate recapture in Florida in 1978 .