Draft:Rhonda Stapley

Rhonda Stapley (born August 21, 1953, Richfield, Utah) is an unconfirmed Ted Bundy survivor.

Born in Utah, Stapley spent part of her childhood in Utah, Idaho and Washington states. In 1974, as a fourth-year pharmacy student at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City she claimed to have been attacked by serial killer Ted Bundy, who had begun a killing spree in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Utah at the same period of time.

Stapley said she was at a bus stop on Friday, October 11, when a stranger pulled up in front of her in a tan WV and offered her a ride home. As looked at this cute guy that smiling to her, she agreed to go with him. Instead of being taken home, she was kidnapped and brutally attacked in Cottonwood Canyon by the driver whose name would later become nationally known as Ted Bundy.

Describing the details of the attack in her book, Stapley described how frightened and terrorized she was after the attack and how, like many rape victims, she did not want to talk about it for many years due to not wanting to be part of the social ostracization that rape brings. Stapley was criticized for the "unbelievable unreality" of the attack and the lack of evidence. As the controversy raged, virtually no professional expert on the Ted Bundy murders could come to a definitive verdict on whether the claim was true or false. And now the Ted Bundy community is divided into two on whether to believe Stapley.