Deborah Harry, the lead singer of the 1970s new wave band Blondie, has maintained many times over the last three decades that she once had a close encounter with Ted Bundy, narrowly escaping abduction (and presumably worse) at the hands of that notorious serial killer in the streets of New York in the early 1970s. Here\u2019s how the story was related by her early on, in a 1989 newspaper account:<\/p>\n
The way Deborah Harry recounts the story is absolutely frightening. The rock singer, best known for her work in the post-disco, New-wave band Blondie, was just trying to hail a cab. It nearly ended in disaster.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was trying to get a cab on the lower east side of the Village in New York, and it was kind of late,\u201d Harry said. \u201cThis was back in the early \u201970s. I wasn\u2019t even in a band then \u2026 I was trying to get across town to an after-hours club \u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cA little white car pulls up, and the guy offers me a ride. So I just continued to try to flag a cab down. But he was very persistent, and he asked where I was going. It was only a couple of blocks away, and he said, \u2018Well I\u2019ll give you a ride.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cI got in the car, and it was summertime and the windows were all rolled up except about an inch and a half at the top. So I was sitting there and he wasn\u2019t really talking to me. Automatically, I sort of reached to roll down the window and I realized there was no door handle, no window crank, no nothing. The inside of the car was totally stripped out.<\/p>\n
\u201d \u2026 I got very nervous. I reached my arm out through the little crack and stretched down and opened the car from the outside. As soon as he saw that, he tried to turn the corner really fast, and I spun out of the car and landed in the middle of the street.\u201d<\/p>\n
The driver, Harry concluded more than 15 years later, was serial killer Ted Bundy, who was executed last January [1989] in Florida\u2019s electric chair.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was right after his execution that I read about him,\u201d she said. \u201cI hadn\u2019t thought about that incident in years. The whole description of how he operated and what he looked like and the kind of car he drove and the time frame he was doing that in that area of the country fit exactly. I said, \u2018My God, it was him.’\u201d<\/p>\n
Harry said it frightens her more now than ever.<\/p>\n
\u201cVery scary,\u201d she said. \u201cTruthfully, I hadn\u2019t thought of the incident in 15 years. I\u2019m one of the lucky ones.\u201d<\/p>\n
Between the incident and the time she fully digested what had happened, Harry had come and gone as a music superstar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
However, Debbie Harry\u2019s recollections (related many years after the fact) don\u2019t fit the details of what is known about Ted Bundy\u2019s life and criminal activities. For example, her 1989 account opened as follows:<\/p>\n
\u201cI was trying to get a cab on the lower east side of the Village in New York, and it was kind of late,\u201d Harry said. \u201cThis was back in the early \u201970s. I wasn\u2019t even in a band then \u2026 I was trying to get across town to an after-hours club \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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