From Ted Bundy to Andrew Cunanan to Dennis Rader, the sordid tales of unsuspicious killers serve as warnings that danger often lurks beneath the most seemingly harmless facades.Fortunately for the vast majority of us, the crimes of these killers are usually just entertainment and we never actually think well fall victim to people like this but unfortunately, somebody inevitably does.The silver lining here is that not everyone whos been preyed upon by these serial killers dies at their hands. Many of these couldve-been victims have gotten away with a bit of luck and intuition. These are their stories:A Close Encounter With Ted Bundy On CampusBettmann/Contributor/Getty ImagesTed Bundy routinely relied on his charm to disarm young women and lure them to his car where hed bludgeon and abduct them.Pam Prine had just begun another semester at Utahs Brigham Young University (BYU). According to The Spectrum, she was early for class when she noticed a handsome fellow avoiding the rain under the Wilkinson Centers patio covering.As I got closer, he said, Hi, do you go to school here? I told him yes. Ive seen such good people here, he said. Im from out of town and I need to go to downtown Provo to speak, he said, eyeing my umbrella. Could you walk me to my car so I dont get my suit stained in this rain?'Prine obliged the charming stranger as her faith in the Church of Latter-Day Saints may have taught her to. Since she had a few minutes before class and had an umbrella on hand she could think of no reason not to help. She was also wearing a raincoat with a wrap-around belt.We walked through three different sections of the parking lot, each taking us farther away from the Wilkinson Center and from my class, so I asked, Wheres your car? He said that it was just a little bit further. We walked a few more steps when all of a sudden I felt him grab the belt on the back of my coat.Wikimedia CommonsBrigham Young Universitys Ernest L. Wilkinson Student Center in Provo, Utah where Ted Bundy nearly managed to abduct and kill student Pam Prine.She jerked away and ran back a few steps before turning to reconsider and look at him. The stranger asked her why she ran away, and that he wasnt going to hurt her.Come back and get your umbrella, he said. Prine told him he could keep it and ran off.She later felt shed made a fool of herself, and didnt report the strange encounter to campus security. I remember that he was very nice and extremely handsome, she said. I kept thinking and dwelling on the fact that I probably had overreacted and left this out-of-towner with a poor image of the church and its university.By the time Ted Bundy was caught and imprisoned, Prine had moved to Arizona. She didnt know what he looked like until she saw a program on TV about the killer.I thought it was strange that it said that he was in Provo and had killed a girl there. I thought of my experience with the handsome man in the nice suit. As I watched the rest of the movie, they showed a picture of Ted Bundy, I looked at that face and saw those eyes, and I knew it was him who I ran away at BYU.An ABC News segment on another woman who managed to get away from Ted Bundy.I was numb and felt like I had melted away right there into my gray carpet. I started crying and as I cried, I kept saying over and over, That was him! That was him! As they showed all the pictures of the girls he murdered, I looked just like them Tall, thin, long hair parted in the middle.I couldnt sleep that night. When I woke up to my radio alarm, the first thing I heard was that Ted Bundy had just been executed. It was January 24, 1989.Blondies Debbie Harry Said She Escaped The Clutches Of Ted Bundy, TooWikimedia CommonsBlondie front-woman Debbie Harry confessed in a 2010 interview that she believed shed once hitchhiked in Ted Bundys car. He nearly managed to abduct her, but the singer successfully escaped.By the time Blondies Debbie Harry had a chance encounter with Ted Bundy, the notorious serial killer had already murdered, maimed, and dismembered numerous women. Bundy even engaged in necrophilia before he was executed on the electric chair in January 1989.According to The Telegraph, the front-woman revealed her unanticipated experience with the killer in a 2010 interview. Ted Bundy admitted to his lawyer that he first tried to kidnap a woman in 1969. He also implied that he killed his first victim three years later, though his earliest known victims died in 1974. This is exactly around the same time Harry was confronted by him.Debbie Harry talks with RuPaul about her encounter with Ted Bundy.It was in the early 70s and I was trying to get across town at two or three oclock in the morning, she said. This little car kept coming around and offering me a ride. I kept saying no but finally, I took the ride because I couldnt grab a cab. I got in the car and the windows were [all] rolled up, except for a tiny crack. This driver had an incredibly bad smell to him. I looked down and there were no door handles. The inside of the car was stripped. The hairs on the back of my neck just stood up.I wiggled my arm out of the window and pulled the door handle from the outside. I dont know how I did it, but I got out. He tried to stop me by spinning the car but it sort of helped me fling myself out. Afterwards I saw him on the news. Ted Bundy.Wikimedia CommonsThe Blondie singer said Ted Bundy smelled strange and that the back of his car was entirely stripped. She later recognized him on the news as the shifty man who offered her a ride.The prolific serial killer raped and murdered 12-year-old Kimberly Leach before he was finally recaptured and securely imprisoned. He escaped from custody twice, however, killing two sleeping students of the Florida State University Chi Omega sorority house the second time he fled.In the end, Bundys trial became a media sensation with countless young women, including Carol Ann Boone who would marry him while on death row, claiming he was innocent.Despite his charm and ability to navigate the courtroom, he was executed in Florida by electric chair in 1989.The post These 7 People Came Face-To-Face With The Worlds Worst Serial Killers And Lived To Tell The Tale appeared first on All That's Interesting.