Ted Bundy may be one of the most cold-hearted serial killers that terrorized Americans, especially women, during the 1970s. And even if that happened a long time ago, he became a timeless icon for crime fans.
Here's some facts about the terrifying, yet charismatic serial killer.
Bundy is not his real surname
Bundy was born Theodore Robert Cowell to Eleanor Louise Cowell in Burlington, Vermont. His birth certificate has an Air Force veteran named Lloyd Marshall registered as his father, but nothing proves that. Later in life, his mother claimed that the father is an old money war veteran named Jack Worthington, but also, there's nothing to back that claim.
The "Bundy" surname was given to him by Johnny Culpepper Bundy, a hospital cook who married Louise in 1951 and adopted Ted as his son.
He discovered that his sister is actually his mother!
Bundy's mother gave birth to him outside marriage, and to avoid the stigma that accompanied that, his maternal grandparents, Samuel and Eleanor Cowell raised him as their son. And everyone from family, friends, and even young Ted himself were told that the grandparents were his parents and that his mother Louise was his older sister.
How he discovered the truth is really unknown. He told a girlfriend that a cousin showed him a copy of his birth certificate after calling him a "bastard". And told biographers Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth that he found the certificate himself.
But however he found out, it sure was a terrifying thing and you can't help but feel sorry for him.
He Killed women who looked like an ex of his
During his junior year at the University of Washington, Dundy got romantically involved with a classmate named Diane Edwards (identified most commonly "Stephanie Brooks" in his biographies). Brooks represented the ideal woman for Bundy who described her as “a beautiful dresser, beautiful girl. Very personable. Nice car, great parents." Their relationship lasted for two years before Brooks leaves because of what she described as Bundy's "immaturity and lack of ambition."
Even though Bundy got his revenge by rekindling his relationship with her, after he became more successful, and then dumping her, Brooks became the template he chose his targets based on..
Most of his known victims were white brunettes with long straight hair, parted in the middle, of middle-class backgrounds, aged of 15 and 25 and college students.
He killed more than 30 women
Bundy confirmed that he killed 30 females aged between 15 and 25, but it's suspected that the real number is up to 100 victims.
But even if it's just 30, it still a good body count though.
He liked banging dead chicks
Beside murdering them, Ted Bundy was into fucking his victims corpses. In 1980, he told authors Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth that he
would often revisit the sites to have sex with their corpses until
they were too decomposed or had been eaten by animals. He once applied makeup to a broad's lifeless face, and he
repeatedly washed another's hair.
"If you've got time," he told FBI agent Bill Hagmaier, "they can be anything you want them to be."
He photographed corpses and took mementos
After he was finished with them, Bundy photographed many of his victims’ corpses and and kept at least one group of the severed heads of the total 12 women he decapitated.
"When you work hard to do something right, you don't want to forget it," He said.
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