One of the more infamous stories about Debbie Harry is her story about getting picked up by, and then escaping, a guy she firmly believed to be Ted Bundy. When she spoke with Rolling Stone, they said they were just grateful that she was able to get out of that situation. She said. “You’re one of the few people who’s actually said that. … Nobody says, ‘I’m glad you made it.’ I’m glad, too. Thank you.”
When she told the story in 1989 (via Snopes), she said that she was trying to get across town, when a guy in a white car pulled over and offered her a ride. She got in, tried to roll down the windows, and realized there was no door handle and, in fact, not much of anything else in the stripped, bare-bones, and escape-proof car. Fortunately for her, the window was already cracked just enough that she could get her arm out to open the window from the outside, and she fled.
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The timeline of Bundy’s life doesn’t put him in the area at the time, and many think it’s been debunked. But brushing aside her experience would be callous, to say the least: Harry said she had recurring nightmares afterward and eventually turned to the artist Robert Williams, who put those fears on a canvas and helped her deal with the dreams. The question remains, though: If it wasn’t Bundy, who was picking up women off the New York City streets, in a car that was clearly outfitted to be inescapable?
