"Surviving Bundy with Nancy Grace" (2021 Fox documentary)

 

I've recorded the documentary "Surviving Bundy With Nancy Grace", which aired on Fox in October, and I’ve uploaded it to my Internet Archive channel:

https://archive.org/details/surviving-bundy-with-nancy-grace

Fellow researcher Julia Larina told me about it.

The documentary features interviews with Karen Sparks, Karen Chandler and Cheryl Thomas, who offer their perspective on surviving a murder attempt and their injuries.

Karen Sparks, for instance, who had head injuries after Bundy left her for dead, talks about her aphasia (a condition which affected her speech and understanding, her ability to read and talk), and how she needed to relearn the alphabet, basically. Aphasia's severity depends largely on the extent of the brain damage, and people affected by it relearn and practice language skills or learn to use other ways to communicate.

The documentary is interesting, but reporter Nancy Grace (formerly a prosecutor in a local district attorney's office in Atlanta, Georgia) makes a lot of ostentatious remarks and asks leading questions eliciting obvious answers, and stresses constantly how awful and chilling the nature of Bundy’s murders was. Her method is not at all subtle. She wrings pathos from the interviews with the three surviving victims.

I read a bit about Grace on the Internet, and I learned that she's a self-styled “victims’ rights activist” and pioneer in the art of outrage whose special skill is exploiting the public’s fascination with upper-middle-class murders. I also learned that Weldon Wayne Carr (an Atlanta Florist owner) had his conviction overturned primarily because of her unethical behavior as a prosecutor in Carr's trial...

In this documentary, I’d have preferred to just hear the three women share their experiences in their own words.

Hearing them talk about their experiences after escaping death, I thought that in their place, at some point I’d have gone to Florida State Prison and I’d have insisted on meeting Bundy face-to-face and ask him why he harmed me. I’d have said to him: “You didn’t know me, we hadn’t met, and yet you hurt me massively and at least I want to know why”.

The documentary also flaunts the highly questionable (if not downright discredited) theory that Bundy is alleged to have killed more than 100 people. And the reporter is also heard saying that Bundy may have been responsible for the Perry-Davis double homicide in New Jersey, despite there being very feeble evidence linking Bundy to those crimes.