Ted Bundy Biography

Ted Bundy was born Theodore Robert Cowell on November 24, 1946, at Vermont, United States of America. His mother’s name was Elanor Louise Cowell and his father’s identity remains unknown. Ted Bundy was brought up by his maternal grandparents Samuel Cowell and Elanor Cowell as their own child to avoid the social stigma of their daughter Louise being a young single parent.

Ted Bundy completed his high schooling in 1965, from Woodrow Wilson High School and spent the following year in the University of Puget Sound.

In 1966, he got transferred to the University of Washington in order to learn Chinese. However, he dropped out of college in 1968. Sometime after, he enrolled in the Temple University, Philadelphia for a single semester. Later in 1970, he re-enrolled in the university and got honors in psychology.

In 1974, Ted Bundy had enrolled in the University of Utah to study Law.

Ted Bundy’s first known murder attempts began in January 1974, when he assaulted and attempted to kill an 18 year old girl in her sleep. A few weeks later, he broke into the house of another woman who was beat in the head and carried away. She was later found with no head. Within six months, eight more women in Washington had been killed by him.

In the fall of 1974, Ted Bundy moved to Utah and enrolled at the University of Utah to study Law. He then began his murders by October 1974, when he kidnapped and killed three girls of which one was the daughter of a police officer. The next month, he kidnapped a girl by tricking her to believe he was a policeman. However, the girl escaped. The same day he committed another murder and the body of the girl was never found. By the beginning of 1975, Ted Bundy had killed five more women—four from Colorado and one from Utah.

Ted Bundy was then sentenced to fifteen years of jail on March 1, 1976, for kidnapping. But he escaped from prison twice in 1977, even before he could be charged for the several murders committed by him.

After escaping from jail the second time, Ted Bundy was on the loose for several months. In early 1978, he went to Florida where he continued his killings by murdering two women and injuring three others. His last murder was of a twelve-year-old girl before he was arrested on February 15, 1978.

During the trial he confessed to committing 30 homicides. But the true number is still unclear. In July 1979, he was convicted for the two Chi Omega murders and was sentenced to death. He was sentenced to death and was executed by electric chair on January 24, 1989.

Ted Bundy dated Carole Ann Boone, a colleague while working at the Washington State Department of Emergency Services, and they got married in 1979, while Bundy’s trial was going on. Though conjugal visits were not allowed in the Florida prison, inmates were known to bribe guards to allow them intimate time alone with their female visitors. As a result, in October 1982, they had a daughter named Tina. However, the couple divorced in 1986.

Ted Bundy was sentenced to death by the electric chair and he was executed on January 24, 1989.