Blue Eyed Serial Killer: Ted Bundy’s Real Story

Blue-Eyed Serial Killer: Ted Bundy’s Real StoryWavy brown hair, big charming smile and overall nice guy demeanor, those who knew Ted Bundy thought it was impossible for him to hurt a fly. But behind this façade hid a depraved, sadistic and terrifying killer. “Our son is the best son in the world!” With a shaky voice, Eleanor Cowell proclaimed those words when she was interviewed about her son Ted, in the 80s. Twenty-two and unmarried, she gave birth to a baby boy at the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers in Burlington, Vermont on November 24th,1946. Days later she went home, leaving the boy in the facility. But her father, Samuel picked up the infant shortly after and took him home.Both Samuel and his wife, Eleanor were devout Methodists and were ashamed of having their daughter impregnated out of wedlock. To hide the shame, they officially adopted, Theodore Robert Cowell and The boy grew up believing his grandparents were his parents and his true mother, as his sister. At three years old, Theodore moved to Tacoma, Washington with his real mother,. It was here she met Johnny Bundy – a cook. The two fell in love and married, having four children together. Johnny formally adopted Theodore, and since then, the little boy was known as Ted Bundy.Support the show

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