“Carol was terribly abused by her father as a child,” Farr says. She later confessed the killing to co-workers, leading to her and Clark’s arrests. The fact that a man could have that much influence on a woman to participate in such bloody, horrible crimes is disturbing.”īundy even committed at least one murder on her own, shooting and beheading an ex-boyfriend in his van. “Most people felt that Carol was just this meek. those committed by those you never would have thought capable,” says “ The Sunset Murders” author Louise Farr. She was eventually persuaded to kill with her boyfriend. Clark had probably killed others previously, and he admitted his dark pastime to Bundy after offing Narano and Chandler. Unsurprisingly, the actors were more attractive than the real killers - Douglas Clark, then 32, a boiler operator, and Carol Bundy, then 37, an overweight, divorced nurse.Ĭlark and Bundy met at a bar in 1980 and began dating. Her head later turned up in a box left in an alley.Įd Westwick and Erika Christensen played the murderous couple on the show. Then a decapitated hooker was discovered beside a dumpster.
Soon, another dead woman was discovered behind a steakhouse. The murders began piling up in June 1980, when the half-naked bodies of two runaways - 15-year-old Gina Narano and her half-sister Cynthia Chandler, 16 - were found in some bushes. It was based on the real story of two of Los Angeles’ most notorious murderers - the Sunset Strip Killers, so-called because they picked up victims along the famous boulevard. ABC may have just killed “Wicked City,” but the story that inspired it still shocks to this day.
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