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Was Debbie Harry Almost Abducted by Ted Bundy?

dbharryI know this is an old news story, specifically from December 2010, but it started circulating on the internet again this week and I find it so interesting. So, here it is, incase you’ve missed it all these years.

Debbie Harry is rock royalty, whether she’s had a big hit in the last few years or not. Harry is a founder and lead singer of the band, Blondie, which has been the recipient of two Grammy Award nominations and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. Since the band was formed in 1976, Blondie has sold over 4,000,000 albums in America alone and charted four #1 singles with hits like “Heart of Glass,” “One Way or Another,” “Dreaming,” “Call Me,” “The Tide is High,” and “Rapture.” The band’s last album was released last year, and the lead singer has released a string of solo albums herself, with her 1981 gold certified disc, KooKoo, being the most successful. Yes, it’s no doubt that Debbie Harry is the definition of successful. That’s why it’s so frightening to think she could have been murdered before her career even began.

In a series of news reports with The Telegraph in UK, Debbie Harry has stated that she encountered legendary serial killer Ted Bundy in the early 70s, “long before she was in a band.” Harry was in New York one evening and leaving for an after-hours club when she began to hail a cab. During her numerous attempts, she says that a white car kept pulling up to her and offering her a ride. She kept dismissing him, but he was persistent and kept circling her. Eventually she relented and got in the car with a man she didn’t know. Almost immediately after entering the car she noticed all the windows were rolled up, which was odd since it was the summer time. So, she reached for the window roller to open the window and was shocked to find it had been removed. She says, “There was no door handle, no window crank, no nothing. The inside of the car was totally stripped out.”

tdbundyThinking quickly, The Blondie lead singer fit her fingers through a small crack at the top of the window and was able to yank it down. When the driver realized she was trying to escape, he took a corner extremely fast in an attempt to use the momentum to knock her back into the car. It worked adversely, and Debbie was able to roll out of the window and into the middle of the street. Luckily, the driver sped off and that was the last she ever saw of him…until Ted Bundy was executed in January 1989. As all the details of his murders began to hit the public, Harry began to notice the way the serial killer operated matched the way the driver acted in New York 15 years earlier. When she looked up his picture, she was shocked, and able to identity him as her potential abductor. She said at the time of the reveal, “It’s frightening now more than ever. Very scary. I’m one of the lucky ones.”

Still, there are many people who believe Debbie Harry is either making the entire story up or has falsely identified the man who tried to abduct her. First, skeptics point out that Bundy’s car was not stripped, it was modified to fit more “precious cargo” inside; in that the passenger’s seat was moved to the back seat to accommodate more room for the passenger. Secondly, skeptics point out that Bundy couldn’t have been in New York at the time of Debbie’s story because he was in Seattle. Now, to be fair, between 1974 and 1978, Bundy was linked to or was convicted of the killings of at least 30 women in California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, New Jersey, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. Obviously, he liked to travel… I can’t see why the Blondie singer would make it up so many years later.

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Michael DeFellipo

(Senior Editor)

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    • Yes, I included the snopes as one of my sources. If you read to the bottom of the post I finish it by saying everyone is skeptical, site SNopes’ two reasons, but say it is still possible since we’ll never know for sure.

  1. One of the problems of the snopes article is that Bundy was in the NE twice during the time period and it makes an assumption: That Bundy didn’t kill till he was 29 for the first time.
    But John Douglas has discussed repeatedly that Bundy started with the idea of hurting women earlier and we cannot be certain of who his first actual kill was and when.
    Bundy has been overused by police departments to close cases when he was not able to have been present. In my own region, he was blamed for years for a series of murders but he could not have done them. Why? He was in prison at the time, which made the police investigation seem silly at best.
    BUT, he was on the East Coast and could have been there. Regardless, the thought that Debbie Harry could have been killed is very valid. It really doesn’t matter if it was Bundy…it was some one.

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