Ted Bundy

Ted Bundy had his first romantic relationship with a classmate in the University of Washington in 1967. However, it was short lived and she broke the relationship within a year. This experience haunted him for a long time.

In 1969, he met Elizabeth Kloepfer, a secretary at the University of Washington. She was deeply committed to him despite his objection towards the institution of marriage.

Ted Bundy dated Carole Ann Boone, a colleague while working at the Washington State Department of Emergency Services, and they got married in 1979 while Bundy’s trial was going on. Though conjugal visits were not allowed in the Florida prison, inmates were known to bribe guards to allow them intimate time alone with their female visitors. As a result, in October 1982, they had a daughter named Tina. However, the couple divorced in 1986.

Ted Bundy was born Theodore Robert Cowell on 24 November 1946 at Vermont, United States of America. His mother’s name was Elanor Louise Cowell and his father’s identity remains unknown. Ted Bundy was brought up by his maternal grandparents Samuel Cowell and Elanor Cowell as their own child to avoid the social stigma of their daughter Louise being a young single parent.

In 1951, when his mother married Johnny Culpepper Bundy, a military cook, he was adopted by Johnny Bundy and simultaneously his surname changed from Cowell to Bundy. The couple had four other children of their own.

Ted Bundy completed his high schooling in 1965 from Woodrow Wilson High School and spent the following year in the University of Puget Sound.

In 1966, he got transferred to the University of Washington in order to learn Chinese. However, he dropped out of college in 1968. Sometime after, he enrolled in the Temple University, Philadelphia for a single semester. Later in 1970 he re-enrolled in the university and got honors in psychology.

In 1974 Ted Bundy had enrolled in the University of Utah to study Law.

After dropping out of college in 1968, Ted Bundy went on to take up several odd. During this time he was also a volunteer for the Nelson Rockefeller’s presidential campaign at Seattle.

In 1971, Ted Bundy was employed at a Suicide Hotline Crisis Centre in Seattle. Here he worked alongside Ann Rule, a well known crime writer.

Ted Bundy’s first known murder attempts began in January 1974 when he assaulted and attempted to kill an 18 year old girl in her sleep. A few weeks later, he broke into the house of another woman who was beat in the head and carried away. She was later found with no head. Within six months, eight more women in Washington had been killed by him.

During this time, Ted Bundy was working at the Washington State Department of Emergency Services and was dating his colleague Carole Ann Boone. In June that year there have been two cases of kidnappings. However, this time he did it during the day among public.

There is some debate about when he started his murderous spree but it is generally accepted that he began his murderous rampage around 1974. On January 4, 1974, he sexually assaulted and attempted to kill an 18-year-old girl but she survived.