Some family members expressed suspicions that Bundy might have been fathered by Louise's own father, Samuel Cowell, but no material evidence has ever been cited to support this. Louise claimed she had been seduced by a war veteran named Jack Worthington, who abandoned her soon after she become pregnant with Ted. By some accounts, his birth certificate assigns paternity to a salesman and Air Force veteran named Lloyd Marshall, though according to others the father is listed as unknown. His father's identity has never been confirmed. Ted Bundy was born Theodore Robert Cowell on November 24, 1946, to Eleanor Louise Cowell (1924–2012 known as Louise) at the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers in Burlington, Vermont. "Ted," she wrote, "was the very definition of heartless evil". Attorney Polly Nelson, a member of his last defense team, agreed. He was executed at Florida State Prison in Raiford on January 24, 1989.īiographer Ann Rule described him as "a sadistic sociopath who took pleasure from another human's pain and the control he had over his victims, to the point of death, and even after." He once described himself as "the most cold-hearted son of a bitch you'll ever meet". For the Florida homicides, he received three death sentences in two trials. Facing murder charges in Colorado, he engineered two dramatic escapes and committed further assaults in Florida, including three murders, before his ultimate recapture in 1978. He then became a suspect in a progressively longer list of unsolved homicides in several states. In 1975, Bundy was arrested and jailed in Utah for aggravated kidnapping and attempted criminal assault. On a few occasions, he broke into dwellings at night and bludgeoned his victims as they slept.
He decapitated at least 12 victims and kept some of the severed heads as mementos in his apartment. He sometimes revisited his victims, grooming and performing sexual acts with the decomposing corpses until putrefaction and destruction by wild animals made any further interactions impossible. He would typically approach his victims in public places, feigning injury or disability, or impersonating an authority figure, before knocking them unconscious and taking them to secondary locations to rape and strangle them.
īundy was regarded as handsome and charismatic, traits that he exploited to win the trust of victims and society. His true victim total is unknown, and could be much higher. After more than a decade of denials, he confessed to 30 homicides, committed in seven states between 19. Theodore Robert Bundy ( born Cowell November 24, 1946 – January 24, 1989) was an American serial killer who kidnapped, raped, and murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s and possibly earlier.
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