Ted Bundy

“Guilt. It’s this mechanism we use to control people. It’s an illusion. It’s a kind of social control mechanism and it’s very unhealthy. It does terrible things to the body.”  -Ted Bundy

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You can even tell he’s lying

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Charles Manson on Ted Bundy: “Bundy’s a poopbutt” 

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Ted and girlfriend Liz in Utah, c. 1975. Ted’s first KNOWN murder was in 1974.

“This is kind of hard to even think about, but if you could put aside the fact that Ted Bundy was a terrible, murderous man, he was [also] a bad boyfriend. [...] Some of the things were just plain, flat out codependence on my part. [...] I hope that women don't do what I did, which was just settle for being treated not 100 percent truthfully”

             -Liz Kloepfer (AKA Liz Kendall), Ted’s longtime girlfriend

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Ted Bundy with girlfriend Liz Kloepfer and her daughter Molly on vacation in Ogden, Utah, c. 1970

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Ted’s girlfriend, Liz’s daughter, Molly, who viewed Ted as a father figure, playing with Ted’s hair, c. 1975

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Ted Bundy’s Victims

Ted Bundy said, when accused of murdering 36 young women and girls, “Add one digit to that, and you’ll have it”. Was he bluffing, or was he serious? And if he was serious, did he mean 37, 136, or even 360? When he was told that he was in trouble in five states, he suggested that there were six states that would be interested in him. He was put to death for three murders, Margaret Bowman, 21, Lisa Levy, 20, and Kim Leach, 12.

Top row, left to right: Lynda Ann Healy, Donna Manson, Susan Rancourt, Roberta Parks, Brenda Ball.

Second row, left to right: Georgeann Hawkins, Janice Ott, Denise Naslund, Nancy Wilcox, Melissa Smith. 

Third row, left to right: Laura Aime, Debby Kent, Caryn Campbell, Julie Cunningham, Denise Oliverson.

Last row, left to right: Lynette Culver, Susan Curtis, Margaret Bowman, Lisa Levy, Kimberly Leach.

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Ted’s Religious Confusion

Ted was raised as a Methodist, but dabbled in agnosticism, Mormonism, thanks to his Mormon girlfriend, Church of the Latter Day Saints, and Hinduism, on Death Row. 

He became a vegetarian, and Death Row didn't allow vegetarianism unless there was a religious reason for it, so Ted converted to Hinduism so he could be served the (probably better quality) vegetarian meals. He did practice yoga, but the Hindu phase was probably nothing more than getting the vegetarian meals.

He would write about religion and God to Ann Rule in his many prisons and jail cells, but nobody will ever know how serious he was about faith. 

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Society wants to believe it can identify evil people or bad or harmful people, but it’s not practical. There are no stereotypes.

Ted Bundy

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Ted Bundy at age seven

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Ted's Girl

Ted was always seen as the innocent, preppy, Golden Boy. Of the thousands of tips the cops got for "Teds", Ted Bundy's name was only given four times. Once by Ann Rule, crime writer and Ted's friend/coworker. Once by someone else. And twice by Ted's longtime, loyal girlfriend Liz Kloepfer, at the pressuring of her best friend Lynn. It took her a long time to stop feeling so guilty, once he was caught and constantly had the law on his back, and a long time to actually beleive Ted did it.