Ted Bundy spent nearly a decade on Florida's death row before his 1989 execution, and this film builds its account around the recorded interviews he gave from behind bars. Investigators, reporters, and psychologists who dealt with Bundy directly appear on camera, and the tapes themselves let viewers hear him describe his crimes and his own thinking in his own voice, often in the detached, analytical tone that unsettled the people who interrogated him. The film traces the case from the string of murders across several states through his trial, his escapes from custody, and the years of appeals that kept him alive long after conviction. Archival news footage and courtroom material fill in the timeline around the interview recordings. Rather than a straightforward crime recap, the focus stays on what the tapes reveal, or fail to reveal, about how Bundy understood himself, and on the frustration of the investigators who spent years trying to get a straight answer out of him before the sentence was finally carried out.