This little blue house located at 658 North Skyline Drive in Tacoma is where Ted Bundy spent the better part of his childhood years living with his mother, stepfather and four half-siblings. Before they lived here the Bundy family resided at 1620 South Sheridan Avenue also in Tacoma. The Bundy’s moved into their new residence in 1953 when Ted was about six to accommodate their growing family: his mother (Louise) and stepfather Johnny had 4 other children together. Ted himself said that Johnny loved and raised him as his own and he didn’t treat him any differently because he wasn’t blood.

Because both of his parents worked and his Mothers attention was largely focused on his younger half-siblings, Ted had a lot of freedom to wander the streets and get into trouble. He was a bit of a loner who never had many friends, and seemed to prefer to keep to himself most of the time. Bundy admitted in multiple interviews with detectives and journalists that during this time he was a peeping Tom that enjoyed sneaking out late at night and prowling around his neighborhood looking for women undressing. It was at this time that Bundy claims he started drinking so perhaps it was liquid courage that helped fuel his perverse desires so early on in his life. In addition to peeking at women undressing through their windows, he also enjoyed roaming around his Tacoma neighborhood searching through people’s garbage for discarded hardcore pornographic magazines. He was also on the lookout for things to steal and would take pretty much anything that wasn’t nailed down..

Shortly before his execution, Bundy told a psychiatrist about some of the autoerotic activities he engaged in when he was only 13 years old: according to Bundy, he liked to go into the woods at the back of his house, take off his clothes and then run around. Hahaha just a random thought but I wonder if anyone ever saw him. The world may never know…

David Truong purchased the old Bundy house in 2017; he originally planned on purchasing it to “flip it” and sell it for a profit. It wasn’t until after the papers were signed and the house officially became his that he learned of its strange history. While the house was being remodeled the contractors reported so many strange events that pastors were called to bless it.

Although Bundy’s first confirmed murder did not happen until 1974 with the tragic death of Lynda Ann Healy, he is still considered to be a suspect in the 1961 disappearance of eight year old Ann Marie Burr. Little Ann Marie lived at 3009 North 14th Street in Tacoma roughly five miles away from Teds North Skyline Drive home. It is worth pointing out that the Bundy’s first home was also close to the Burrs house as well. Fourteen year old Ted was The Burr Family’s paperboy at the time of the abduction, and to help strengthen the argument police found a footprint outside of Ann Marie’s window that fit the profile of a teenager. During his later teenage years Bundy attended Woodrow Wilson High School (now called Silas High School) roughly a mile and a half away from their home. Bundy lived at this North Skyline residence until 1966 when he moved to McMahon Hall at the University of Washington. However, there is some local folklore and gossip around the University of Puget Sound regarding where Bundy lived at his time there: I asked the manager of the campus coffee shop if she could give me any good Bundy tidbits and she reported that he “lived at Schiff Hall during his time at their law school.” Unfortunately, after excitedly running over there and taking a dozen and a half pictures it turned out to be campus legend, as my research tells me that Bundy still lived with his parents during his time at the University. I’m posting those pictures anyway, so deal with it. In 1968 Johnny and Louise sold this house on North Skyline Drive and moved a little over three miles away to 3214 North 20th Street in Tacoma.