Short Biography: Ted Bundy

Ted Bundy was born at the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers which is now known as the Lund Family Center in Burlington, Vermont on November 24th 1946 to Eleanor Louise Cowell. His father's identity was never fully determined but his birth certificate says his dad is was a salesman and an Air Force veteran named Lloyd Marshall, but Elizabeth later claimed that she was seduced by a sailor who she says she thinks his name was Jack Worthington. Years later they would come to discover that there was no named that in the Navy or Merchant Marine archives. For Ted's first three years of life he lived with his mom's grandparents in Philadelphia Samuel and Eleanor Cowell who raised him as their son so the mom would not be judged for having a …show more content…
His mother ended up changing her name and abruptly moving to Philadelphia with Ted at the urging of her friends and family. When they got there Ted remembers roaming his neighborhood looking through windows at naked women, and looking for detective videos especially ones with rape and people mutilating women. Everyone tried to include Bundy in school but he never really liked friendships and did not understand why anybody would wanna get that close to someone else. In school he was well liked by his classmates and was described as a medium fish in a large pond by his peers at the time. Bundy was never really into sport other than snow skiing which he used stolen ski equipment and forged lift tickets so he could ski during the winter months, Bundy was knowingly arrested twice on suspicion of burglary and auto theft but it was expunged from his record after he turned 18 as customary in Washington like most …show more content…
In 1967 he became romantically involved with a UW student who is identified in the books written about bundy in many different pseudonyms, but most commonly referred to as Stephanie Brooks. In early 1968 Bundy dropped out for no apparent reason and started working minimum wage jobs all around UW but ended up volunteering his time at one of Nelson Rockefeller's presidential campaign office in Seattle and in August attended the 1968 Republican National Convention as one of Rockefeller’s delegates. Brooks then broke up with Bundy and moved back to her family in California. This is considered the pivoting time in Bundy’s life and when all hell broke loose. Bundy would shortly thereafter the break up move back to Washington to find out his true parentage and meet his next girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer who was a secretary at the UW school of medicine, their relationship will continue way past his incarceration. Now focused and goal oriented Bundy re-enrolled at UW wanting to major in psychology which he then became an honor student and well regarded by all of his professors. With this new degree Bundy took a job at a suicide hotline crisis center in seattle where he would meet and work with Anne Rule a former officer with the Seattle Police department. When he was working with anybody such