![]() ![]() Theodore Robert BundyĪlthough the family dynamics were stable, Ted was to grow up in an environment of untruths and uncertainty. He willingly complied, even though it would usually mean missing out on outings with his friends. As he grew up, Ted was often pressed into babysitting service. Children followed two boys and two girls. While Johnny kept on working as a cook, Louise turned her hand to secretarial work. The family bought a home near Narrows Bridge. After a whirlwind of Methodist social functions, Louise and Johnny were marred on May 19, 1951. But Louise sensed that he was kind and dependable. He was a cook and came across as a shy, reserved kind of guy. She joined the Methodist Church and soon crossed paths with a young man by the name of Johnny Culpepper Bundy. Eleanor was now going by the name of Louise. Meanwhile his mother was making a friendship of her own. ![]() Ted was heart-broken to be taken away from his grandfather, with whom he had developed a special bond.Īlthough no-one ever replaced his grandfather in his affection, Ted some became close friends with his two cousins, Jane and Alan Scott. When he was four, Ted’s mother, who he was told was his older sister, took him 3,000 miles away to Tacoma, Washington to live with family members. His father was a sailor who never hung around to meet his newborn son. Theodore Robert Bundy was born to 22-year old Eleanor Louise Cowell on November 24th, 1946. In examining Bundy’s story, we may get closer to answering the question as to why he chose the way he did. I’d have loved to have had you practice in front of me. It is a total waste of humanity that I have experienced in this court. Cowart summed up the feeling of so many that knew and were affected by Bundy. Upon sentencing Bundy to die, Judge Edward O. His performance in his own defense showed what great promise that career held. He was, in fact, on track for a brilliant career on the other side of the law – as a prosecuting attorney. In his past there were no signs of the deviant behavior that would manifest itself in an insatiable blood lust. Today, decades after his execution in the electric chair, he is held up by many as a macabre celebrity, the poster boy for mass murder. He has gone down as the most infamous serial killer in US history. Bundy’s brilliant mind made him a master predator, with his abductions being as well planned as a military action. He made a mockery of law enforcement, running rings around their attempts to catch the world’s first ‘serial’ killer. He was a charismatic killer whose Jekyll and Hyde personas were so vastly different that he fooled his closest associates for years, many of them still not believing that their “Ted” could commit the atrocious crimes that were piling up alongside his name even as the evidence became overwhelming. Yet, this same college wunderkind snuffed out the lives of scores of beautiful young women. ![]()
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