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Childhood, Serial Killer: Ted Bundy

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Theodore "Ted" Bundy began life as his mother 's clandestine shame. Eleanor Cowell was twenty-two years old and single when she had her first son Theodore, which outraged her deeply spiritual and devout parents. She gave birth to Ted Bundy at a home for single mothers in Vermont and then later brought her son to reside with her parents in Philadelphia ("More Than Horror, Serial Killer, biography, books, dvd," n.d.). To cover the fact that he was a bastard, Bundy was raised as the assumed son of his grandparents and was told that his mother was his sister. Eleanor relocated with Ted to Tacoma, Washington, a couple of years later. During the year 1951, she said her vows to Johnnie Bundy and the couple had numerous children together. Bundy presented
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