Some authorities knew about it and others had no idea. Holmes (1998, p. 10) states: "When Don Patehen, supervisor of the Tallahassee Police Department's Homicide and Assault Unit, interviewed Bundy about the 36 unsolved murder victim cases, Ted calmly told the veteran policeman he could add one. digit to number. He also explained where he hid most of the bodies and sometimes returned to the decomposing corpses and acted out sexual fantasies about the corpses. Authorities tried to find some of the bodies where Bundy said they were buried, but nothing was ever found. On January 24, 1989, Ted Bundy died in the electric chair..