Bundy Residences, in full.

I listed the addresses in order of how they were on the ‘Ted Bundy Multiagency Investigative Team Report 1992’; for obvious reasons I left the Palo Alto address out, as there wasn’t anything to it (despite how much I looked into it).

  • McMahon Hall, University of Washington. During his first year at the University of Washington in 1966 he lived on the 4th floor in the South Tower in McMahon Hall. He reportedly kept a key for the building after officially moving out and would return there on occasions to take naps.
  • 658 North Skyline, Tacoma, Washington. In 1953 the growing Bundy family left their first home on South Sheridan Ave and moved into this house.
  • Unknown Address, Palo Alto, California. Dates unknown.
  • 5015 16th Street, Seattle, Washington. All the information in the ‘TB Multiagency Report 1992’ says Bundy lived here at some point in 1967. This was the same year he attended Stanford University in Palo Alto from June to August.
  • 873 North 16th Street, Seattle, Washington, 1968. I couldn’t find much information about Bundy’s time at this address although according to the Multiagency Report he was traveling all over the Pacific Northwest at the time so maybe he lived here just briefly at one point. There doesn’t see to be a building at this address anymore (on Google Maps its a vacant lot).
  • 3214 North 20th Street, Tacoma, Washington. This is the Bundy family’s third and final home. After selling their second house on North Skyline Drive in 1968, they moved to this house in the North End of Tacoma.
  • 4039 South Warner, Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania. Ted lived here with his Aunt Julia (Cowell) while he attended Temple University (the general consensus is that he moved to Philadelphia at some point in December 1968). His time in the ‘City of Brotherly Love’ didn’t last long: in May of 1969 he dropped out of school after finishing a single semester and moved back to Tacoma.
  • 1252 15th Ave, Marin County, California, 1970. I found no information about Ted at this address anywhere (although I’m fairly positive it’s in San Francisco). According to the Multiagency Report he was in Seattle for the entirety of 1970 when he was supposedly there (I posted the screen shot below). Strangely enough the same address only in Seattle, Washington is listed as the residence provided when Ted was given a ticket by Highway Patrolman for hitchhiking on August 8, 1970 in Marin County, WA.
  • 4143 12th Northeast, Seattle, Washington. Ted lived at the Rogers Rooming House from September 1969 to September 2, 1975 (when he moved to Salt Lake City for law school). His room was on the second floor.
  • 5015 16th Northeast, Seattle,WA. Dates unknown. A similar address is listed above just with Northeast added to it (both addresses are real). I couldn’t find any other details about Bundy residing here.
  • 5208 18th Northeast, Seattle, Washington. This was one of Liz Kloepfer’s apartments. She lived on the first floor on the right side of the house. It was built in 1912 and contains eight bedrooms.
  • 1252 15th Ave, Seattle, Washington. On August 8, 1970 Bundy was given a ticket by a Highway Patrolman for hitchhiking southbound on Highway 101 in Marin County, Washington. He told the officer that his address was 1252 15th Ave in Seattle, WA despite never living there (he resided at the Rogers Rooming House at the time).
  • 3510 West Elmore, Seattle, Washington, sometime in late 1973. Per the ‘Ted Bundy and File 1004 documents from Seattle PD’ document, this is Ted’s friend Marlin S. Vortman’s residence.
  • 565 1st Ave #2, Salt Lake City, Utah. Bundy lived here from September 2, 1974 to September of 1975 (he moved from Seattle for law school). At the time it was a boarding house and Ted rented room two. His former living space is on the second floor directly above the porch. To the right of the house is a fire escape which he used to come and go in the middle of the night as he pleased. On the left side there is an entrance to a basement, and according to one resident Bundy would occasionally go down into this basement late at night (however at the time they didn’t think it was weird because he was the property manager).
  • 413 ‘B’ Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. According to the ‘Ted Bundy Multiagency Investigative Team Report 1992’ Ted lived in this house on B Street for a brief period in 1976 but he didn’t reside there very long: on March 1st, 1976 he was found guilty of kidnapping Carol DaRonch and was immediately remanded in custody.
  • 364 Douglas Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Bundy moved into an apartment on the top floor on September 26th, 1975. He claims he made the choice to move into this house because it was within walking distance to where he was attending law school (at the University of Utah). At the time he also worked on campus as a security guard.
  • 409 West College Avenue, Tallahassee, Florida. Bundy rented a room on the second floor beginning on January 7th, 1978 after he escaped prison for the second time. He signed the lease under the name Chris Hagen. Ted left Tallahassee on February 12th, and was arrested for the final time three days later. At some point after 2016 the building was demolished and turned into a parking lot for the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house.*

* Some places where Bundy lived in his earlier days were left out of the report. I added the following:

  • 1514 South Alder Street, Tacoma, WA. When Louise took three year old Ted and left Philadelphia for Tacoma in 1950 they lived at this address with her Uncle Jack Cowell, a professor of music at a private college that Ted greatly respected and admired. Cowell was well-educated, financially secure, and very well-respected in the community: all traits that Bundy wanted to possess.
  • 1620 South Sheridan Avenue, Tacoma, WA. In May of 1951, Johnnie and Louise Bundy moved into this four bedroom house after they got married; it was the family’s first home. It was at this point that little ‘Teddy Nelson’ officially became known as ‘Ted Bundy.’ While they were living here Louise gave birth to Ted’s little sister, Linda.
  • 7202 Ridge Avenue/499 Domino Lane, Philadelphia, PA, The Cowell family’s first home. Ted and Louise lived here with his Mother, Aunt, and Grandparents, Samuel and Eleanor Cowell until he was three. Its in the Roxborough neighborhood of Philadelphia. At the time the address was 7202 Ridge Avenue (it’s now 499 Domino Lane). The house was torn down at some point during the late 1960’s and the strip mall that is there today was built in 1970.
  • 4617 Pulaski Avenue, Philadelphia PA. Samuel and Eleanor Cowell moved here after they sold their house in Roxborough, PA. It’s strongly speculated that Ted often visited this house on a number of occasions while he was staying at his Aunt Julia’s house in Lafayette Hill in 1969 while attending Temple University. Eleanor Cowell died at the age of 76 in April of 1971; she was a diabetic and suffered a stroke in the mid-1950’s. Additionally throughout her life she underwent electroconvulsive therapy for depression. She rarely left her house thanks to a bad case of agoraphobia, especially during her final years of life. Samuel passed away in December of 1983 at the age of 85.
A list of Ted’s residences according to the ‘Ted Bundy Multiagency Investigative Team Report 1992.’ Its not entirely accurate.
An older picture of McMahon Hall, courtesy of the University of Washington.
A picture of McMahon Hall in the daytime, April 2022.
A picture of McMahon Hall at dusk, April 2022.
A relic from McMahon Hall, April 2022.
A sign for the outside of McMahon Hall, April 2022.
A stone outside McMahon Hall, April 2022.
Teds whereabouts in 1966 when he lived at McMahon Hall at the University of Washington according to the ‘Ted Bundy Multiagency Investigative Team Report 1992.’
An older picture of Bundy’s second childhood home at 658 North Skyline Drive in Tacoma, WA.
The inside of Bundy’s childhood home on N. Skyline Drive after it was remodeled.
Bundy’s childhood home on N. Skyline Drive, April 2022.
5015 16th Street Seattle, WA, April 2022.
5015 16th Street Seattle, WA, April 2022.
Bundy’s whereabouts in 1967 according to the ‘Ted Bundy Multiagency Investigative Team Report 1992’ in 1967 when the report said he lived at 5015 16th Street Seattle, WA.
873 North 16th Street in Seattle, where the ‘Ted Bundy Multiagency Investigative Team Report 1992’ says Ted resided in 1968.
Bundy’s whereabouts in 1968 according to the ‘Ted Bundy Multiagency Investigative Team Report 1992.’
3214 North 20th Street, Tacoma, Washington, April 2022. This is the Bundy family’s third home.
3214 North 20th, Tacoma, Washington, April 2022.
4039 South Warner, Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania in the daytime, May 2022.
4039 South Warner at night, May 2022.
The ‘Ted Bundy Multiagency Investigative Team Report 1992’ in 1969 when Ted lived in PA.
1252 15th Ave, San Francisco (in Marin County), California; the TB Multiagency Report estimates Ted lived here sometime in 1970.
The front of the Rogers Rooming House, April 2022.
The front of the Rogers Rooming House, April 2022.
The back of the Rogers Rooming House, April 2022.
5015 16th Northeast, Seattle, WA.The dates and circumstances of Bundy residing here are unknown.
Liz’s apartment at 5208 18th Ave NE Seattle, WA 98105, November 2022.
1252 15th Ave in Seattle, photo courtesy of Google Maps.
Bundy’s whereabouts on August 20, 1970 when he got caught hitchhiking and told the officer he lived 1252 15th Ave in Seattle, WA.
3510 West Elmore, Seattle, Washington. Marlin Vortman’s residence.
565 1st Ave #2 SLC Utah, November 2022.
413 ‘B’ Street SLC Utah in the summer.
413 ‘B’ Street SLC Utah, November 2022.
364 Douglas Street, Salt Lake City, November 2022
‘The Oak’ is located at 409 West College Avenue in Tallahassee, Florida, photo taken in 1978.
“The Oak.”
“The Oak” as it looks today (it was demolished).
Ted’s Uncle Jack Cowell’s house at 1514 South Alder Street in Tacoma, WA. Louise and Ted lived here briefly when they moved to Washington state in 1951.
The ‘Ted Bundy Multiagency Investigative Team Report 1992’ for 1951 when Louise moved ‘little Teddy’ to Washington state.
Bundy family first home with the property cleaned up.
The Bundy family’s first home, April 2022. During an interview with author Stephen G. Michaud, Ted talked about his time living on Sheridan Street: “Our house was on Sheridan Street in Tacoma. It was the second house from the corner, on the west side of the street. We moved there, I would guess, in about 1951. My boyhood on Sheridan Street was not an unpleasant one. I remember those days, of roaming with my friends. The adventure, the exploration. Those were the days of frog hunting and marble playing.”
The front of 7202 Ridge Avenue.
7202 Ridge Avenue.
The back of 7202 Ridge Avenue.
The backyard of 7202 Ridge Avenue.
7202 Ridge Avenue as it looks today: as 499 Domino Lane, May 2022.
7202 Ridge Avenue as it looks today: as 499 Domino Lane, May 2022.
4617 Pulaski Avenue in the daytime, May 2022.
The Cowell family’s second home, May 2022.
The Cowell family’s second home, May 2022.
The Cowell family’s second home, May 2022.

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