Serial Killer stories

Ted Bundy

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Possible trigger warnings:

- Mentions of r@pe

- assault

His childhood:

Ted Bundy was born in Vermont, across the country from the Pacific Northwest communities he would one day terrorize.

His mother was Eleanor Louise Cowell and his father unknown. His grandparents, ashamed of their daughter's out-of-wedlock pregnancy, raised him as their own child. For nearly all of his childhood, he believed his mother to be his sister.

His grandfather would regularly beat both Ted and his mother, causing her to run away with her son to live with her cousins in Tacoma, Washington, when Bundy was five years old. There, Eleanor met and married hospital cook Johnnie Bundy, who formally adopted the young Ted Bundy and gave him his last name.

Bundy disliked his step-father and would later describe him to a girlfriend disparagingly, saying he wasn't very bright and didn't make much money.

Little else is known for sure about the remainder of Bundy's childhood, as he gave conflicting accounts of his early years to different biographers. In general, he described an ordinary life punctuated by dark fantasies that affected him powerfully — though the degree to which he acted on them remains unclear.

The reports of others are similarly confused. Though Bundy described himself as a loner who would stalk the seedy streets at night to spy on women, many who remember Bundy from high school describe him as reasonably well-known and well-liked.

Ted Bundy graduated from high school in 1965, then enrolled in the nearby University of Puget Sound. He spent just one year there before transferring to the University of Washington to study Chinese.

He dropped out briefly in 1968 but quickly re-enrolled as a psychology major. During his time out of school, he visited the East Coast, where he likely first learned that the woman he believed to be his sister was actually his mother.

Then, back at UW, Bundy started dating Elizabeth Kloepfer, a divorcée from Utah who worked as a secretary at the School of Medicine on campus. Later, Kloepfer was among the first to report Bundy to police as a suspect in the Pacific Northwest murders.

Also among the four people who gave police Bundy's name was former Seattle police officer Ann Rule, who met Bundy at around this same time while they were both working at Seattle's suicide hotline crisis center.

Rule would later write one of the definitive biographies of Ted Bundy, The strangler beside me.

In 1973, Bundy was accepted into the University of Puget Sound Law School, but after a few months, he stopped attending classes.

Then, in January of 1974, the disappearances began.

Ted Bundy's first known attack was not an actual murder, but instead an assault on 18-year-old Karen Sparks, a student and dancer at the University of Washington.

Bundy broke into her apartment and bludgeoned her unconscious with a metal rod from her bed frame before sexually assaulting her with the same object. His assault left her in a 10-day coma and with permanent disabilities.

Ted Bundy's next victim and his first confirmed murder was Lynda Ann Healy, another UW student.

A month after his assault on Karen Sparks, Bundy broke into Healy's apartment in the early morning, knocked her unconscious, then clothed her body and carried her out to his car. She was never seen again, but part of her skull was discovered years later at one of the locations where Bundy dumped his bodies.