2. • He grew up with his grandparents Samuel and Eleanor
Cowell believing they were his parents and that his
mother was his sister. While living with them at age 3, he
shows an interest in knives.
• In 1950 Ted moved with his real mom to Tacona,
Washington to live with her cousins.
• A year later his mom meets John Bundy at an adults
single night. They marry later that year and formally
adopt Ted.
• After they marry they have four children, and are a
Christian family.
3. • Throughout high school, Bundy was a shy kid that rarely
had friends and dated a little, mostly keeping to himself.
• However, a darker side started to show. He liked to roam
around town at night peaking through windows after
drinking a lot.
• He was also known to steal things, including tickets and
equipment for snow skiing.
4. • Bundy spent his first year of college at the University of
Puget Sound.
• His second year he transferred to the University of
Washington to study Chinese.
• While in college he was no longer shy and impressed his
professors, excelling in classes.
5. • In 1967 he falls in love with a classmate named
Stephanie Brooks. She was a pretty, and rich young
woman from California.
• Soon he drops out of college and takes on several
minimum wage jobs.
6. • After Bundy drops out, Stephanie breaks up with him and
moves back to her home in California, devastating him.
Bundy then travels to Colorado, Arkansas, and
Philadelphia until he enrolls in a semester at Temple
University.
• Investigators believe it was around this time Bundy finds
his birth certificate and discovers the truth about his
mom.
7. • In the fall of 1969 Bundy moves and enrolls back to
University of Washington.
• While there he meets Elizabeth Kloepfer, who worked as
a secretary at the school. She was a divorcee with a
young daughter. During there relationship he was with
other women and still contacted his ex in letters.
8. • In 1971 he takes a job at Seattle’s Suicide Hotline crisis
center, where he meets Ann Rule, who would later write a
book on him called The Stranger Beside Me. While there
he gave advice to many on domestic violence and
suicide thoughts.
9. • After graduating in 1972, he is hired to help with a
reelection campaign. After reelection he is hired as an
assistant for Chairman of the Washington State
Republican Party.
• He even became head of Seattle’s Crime Prevention
Advisory Committee, which means he helped at Rape
Crisis Centers….
10. • On a trip to California, he meets up with his ex
Stephanie, who was impressed with his career. He
restarts a relationship with her and also stays in a
relationship with Elizabeth, both not knowing about the
other.
• Stephanie and Bundy even have talks of marriage, until
one day he breaks all contact with her.
11. • Bundy marries a previous coworker named Carol Boone,
who claims to have had a child with him named Rosa.
This is doubtful because he was in prison while they were
in a relationship and private visits aren’t allowed when
prisoners are on death row. While in court he asks her to
marry him, and she says yes. In a Florida state law, when
someone proclaims marriage in front of a judge it
supposedly counts.
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13. • By April 1974 Bundy drops out of UPS Law School he
was in for a year. This is where the killings are believed
to have started. He claims that his first attempted
kidnapping was in 1969 and to have killed in 1971. His
story has varied from person to person and we will never
know when he truly started or how many victims he really
has.
• His victims tend to be college girls with long dark hair
parted down the middle, like Stephanie’s.
• The first murder we know of for sure is Lynda Ann Healy
in 1974.
14. • Female college students around were rapidly
dissapearing. On March 12, 1974 Donna Manson a 19
year old student was on her way to a jazz concert but
never arrived. On April 17 Susan Rancourt disappeared
on her way to a movie.
• Two students later come forward and reveal they
encountered a suspicious man with an arm sling asking
for help with some books to his car on the night Rancourt
disappeared. On May 6 Roberta Parks went to go meet
friends for coffee but never arrived. All of the girls went to
a college near Seattle, where Bundy lived.
15. • Later in July Bundy goes to a Seattle State Park, where 5
female witnesses claim he asked for their help in
unloading a sailboat from his car. Four refuse, while one
went to help and fled once she noticed there wasn’t a
sailboat.
• Janice Ott however, fell for the story according to other
witnesses. A little after that Denise Naslund went to the
restroom and also was taken. Bundy later reveals to an
interviewer that he kept Ott alive, and forced one to
watch as the other was murdered. On September 6 their
remains were found on a service road a couple miles
away from the park. At the site they also found Georgann
Hawkins remains.
16. • Many times, Bundy would use the victims kindness by
tricking them into going with him to his car, pretending to
be injured.
• Now Bundy has went back to law school in Utah and
moves to Salt Lake City. While there he killed at least 10
women.
17. • Bundy was pulled over by a patrol officer for a routine
traffic stop. In his car he had a crowbar, ski mask, and
handcuffs. Detective Jerry Thompson notices that a
similar description of car and name from a 1974
kidnapping. Soon he is on 24 hour surveillance with
police and interview Elizabeth. He has a trial on February
23, 1976.
18. • During the trial he is found guilty of kidnapping and
assault. He is sentenced to one to fifteen years in Utah
State Prison. Later that month he is charged with a
murder in Colorado, Caryn Campbell.
19. • On June 7 Bundy goes to the courthouse library during a
recess he escapes through a window, only spraining an
ankle. He then hikes and hides up on Aspen Mountain.
While there he steals food, clothing, and a rifle from a
cabin. Eventually he ends up stealing a car from a golf
course but gets pulled over once again.
20. • After going back to jail, Bundy comes up with another
escape plan. While the other prisoners showered, he
would saw a hole in his cell’s ceiling from a hacksaw
blade he received from a visitor. After dropping around 30
pounds, he was able to squeeze through the space
above.
21. • In 1978 he arrives in Florida, where he commits his last
crimes. He first breaks into a sorority house, attacking
four and killing two.
• Later that night he breaks into an apartment and injures a
woman very badly. The neighbors call her house
concerned, which saves her life.
• A couple weeks later he commits his last murder.
Kimberly Leach, a 12 year old girl left school to pick up
her purse and never returned to class.
22. • About a week later, Bundy is pulled over once again for a
stolen vehicle. He tries to run away from the officer, but
ends up arrested.
• His first trial in Florida he is easily convicted and is given
the death sentence for the killing of the sorority girls.
Another trial took place 6 months later for the murder of
Kimberly Leach. During this trial he asks Carol Boone to
marry him.
• In 1980 he is sentenced once again to another death
penalty. In 1989 this death sentence is finally carried out.
23. • On January 24, 1989, Bundy was finally put to his death.
Outside of the prison, there were crowds who cheered
after he was executed. He admitted to at least 36 killings,
but is most likely much higher.
