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Why the fascination with serial killer Ted Bundy boosts interest in unsolved cases and inspired a movie debuting on Netflix

If there’s one thing Sgt. Shane Alexander would wish, it’s that people would learn the name Debi Kent, rather than fixate on the man who killed her.

“The thing that bothers me the most is everybody remembers his name, but nobody really remembers the victims,” said Alexander, a detective in the Bountiful Police Department.

His name was Ted Bundy, considered one of the most notorious serial killers in American history. Before he was executed in Florida’s electric chair on Jan. 24, 1989, Bundy admitted to 30 homicides — and he may have committed many more.