Lady Killer The name Ted Bundy instantly brings to mind the cunning and charming killer who is believed to have responsible for the murders of almost 100 people from the early 1960s to late 1970s. Nearly his entire life is a gold mine of the information for the morbidly curious; from his childhood and early life, to his last moments in the electric chair, Theodore Robert Bundy led a depraved, yet illustrious life. Because of the his strange and pulpy life it is no wonder that he is one of, if not the most, infamous serial murderers in history. Theodore Robert Cowell was born one cold Vermont night in the November 1946 as the illegitimate child of E. Louise Cowell and an unknown father. Even his birth was shrouded in scandal as his mother, instead of facing the stigmatization of having a child out of wedlock, opted to claim Ted as her adopted brother and moved back in with her parents. For the first years of his life Ted was exposed to much domestic violence at the hands of his grandfather who was known to “kick dogs and swing cats by the tail.”(outlaws mobsters and crooks) While …show more content…
At only three years of age he once slipping knives under the covers of his fifteen year old aunt Julia’s covers, who claimed that when caught “he just stood there and smiled.”(outlaws mobsters and crooks) Fortunately for Bundy his time at his grandparent’s only lasted four years, as a great aunt of his helped his mother to relocate them to his uncle Jack’s home in Tacoma, Washington. Shortly after the move Louise married a local cook by the name of John Bundy. John then adopted the young Ted giving him the monicker that would one day become infamous. In Tacoma, Ted learned that the woman he thought was his sister was in fact his mother and was a victim of routine bullying because he was a “bastard.”(Gale Biography in Context.)