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Back Alleyways in Washington State.

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Today while in Seattle I noticed one sort of common trait some of the places that Ted was linked to in Washington state: many of them had pathways behind them. Lynda Ann Healy’s house. Donna Mansons dorm building. The Rogers Rooming House… His childhood home in Tacoma… I mean, Georgann Hawkins abduction literally took place IN a back alley…

Bundy’s childhood home located at 658 North Skyline Drive in Tacoma painted baby blue.
Bundy’s childhood home located at 658 North Skyline Drive in Tacoma; I always loved this picture, it reminds me of a watercolor painting.
The back of Bundy’s house, photo taken in May 2025.
Another shot of the back of Bundy’s house, photo taken in May 2025.
The Rogers Rooming House, located at 4143 12th Ave NE in Seattle. Picture taken in April 2022.
The side of the Rogers Rooming House, picture taken in March 2026.
The pathway on the side of the Rogers Rooming House, picture taken in March 2026.
The back of the Rogers Rooming House, photo taken in March 2026.
Another shot of the back of the Rogers Rooming House, photo taken in May 2025.
Another shot of the back of the Rogers Rooming House, photo taken in May 2025.
Lynda Ann Healy’s house in 1974 after she disappeared.
The pathway next to Lynda Ann Healy’s house, picture taken in 1974 shortly after she vanished.
Lynda Ann Healy’s house, picture taken in March 2026.
The steps leading up to Lynda Ann Healy’s house, picture taken in May 2025.
The pathway on the side of Lynda Ann Healy’s house, picture taken in May 2025.
The pathway next to Lynda Ann Healy’s house, picture taken in May 2025.
The pathway behind Lynda Ann Healy’s house, picture taken in March 2026.
The roadway in the back of Lynda Ann Healy’s house, picture taken in May 2025. I was able to \easily drive my car through it.
The back of Lynda Ann Healy’s house, picture taken in March 2026.
A well-worn pathway next to Lynda Ann Healy’s former residence, picture taken in March 2026.
Donna Gail Manson’s dorm building at Evergreen State College, photo taken in March 2026.
The pathway behind Donna Manson’s dorm building at Evergreen State College, photo taken in March 2026.
Another shot of the pathway behind Donna Manson’s dorm building at Evergreen State College, photo taken in March 2026.
The pathway behind Donna Manson’s dorm building at Evergreen State College, photo taken in March 2026.
The Kappa Alpha Theta sorority at the University of Washington, where Georgann Hawkins was residing at the time of her abduction.
A B&W photo of Georgann Hawkins dorm room taken in 1974.
A black and white picture of the alley where Georgann Hawkins was abducted from taken in 1974 shortly after it took place.
A B&W photo of the path behind Georgann Hawkins dorm room taken in 1974.
The alleyway where Georgann Hawkins was abducted from, picture taken in April 2022.
The alleyway where Georgann Hawkins was abducted from, picture taken in April 2022.

Pictures from the Oxygen Special, ‘Love, Ted Bundy.’

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Louise and Johnnie Bundy with one of their children.
The five Bundy children.
Edna as a child with her family.
The Cowell family from many years ago, Louise and Jack are labled.
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Edna with her brother and father.
A school age Edna.
Some members of the Bundy/Cowell family.
The Cowell family.
Ted’s Uncle Jack.
Jack Cowell sitting at a piano.
Another picture of Jack Cowell sitting at a piano.
Edna and Don.
Another shot of Edna and Don.
A third shot of Edna and Don.
Edna and her brother.
Edna and Don.
Edna and Don.
Edna and her husband.
Edna and her family.
Edna and her daughter, Anna.
Edna Cowell-Martin and her family.
Edna and Anna.
Edna and her family.
A young Anna.
Anna.
A screenshot of Edna during the Oxygen special, ‘Love, Ted Bundy.’
Louise Bundy in an interview after Ted’s arrest.
Another screengrab of Louise Bundy in an interview after Ted’s arrest.
Investigators on Taylor Mountain.
Another picture of search teams on Taylor Mountain.
Bob Keppel at Taylor Mountain.
Captain Nick Mackie.
A press conference regarding the ‘Ted’ murders.

Jon Franklin Carson.

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Jon Franklin Carson was born on August 5, 1944 to Walter and Margot Marie Magdalena (nee Strosahl) Carson in Carroll, Iowa. After relocating with his family to Washington state as an infant, at the time of his death he was about to enter his junior year at Lincoln High School in Seattle, and he was a member of Mount Olive Lutheran Church in Seattle and the Explorer Scout Post 111. Jon drowned on July 18, 1960 at the age of fifteen after he had gotten fatigued after trying to ‘swim underwater from one end of a private pool to another then back;’ he is buried at the Evergreen-Washelli Memorial Park in Seattle.

Jon Carson from the 1960 Lincoln High School yearbook.
The Carson family in the 1950 census.
Jon Carson’s death certificate.
An article about the drowning death of Carole Ann Boone’s brother published in The Kitsap Sun on July 19, 1960.
An article about the drowning death of Carole Ann Boone’s brother published in The Tri-City Herald on July 19, 1960.
An article about the drowning death of Carole Ann Boone’s brother published in The Seattle Daily Times on July 20, 1960.
The final resting place of Jon F. Carson.
Walter H. Carson’s birth certificate.
Where the Carson family lived at the time of Jon’s death, located at 11003 Palatine Avenue North in Seattle, WA.
Walter H. Carson’s WWII draft card.
Walter and Margot Carson’s affidavit for a marriage licence.
Carole Ann Boone’s mother, on the far right.
Carole Ann Boone’s mother, Margot.

Ted Bundy Crime Scene Locations as they Appear Today, My Personal Pictures.

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Up until about five years ago I lived paycheck to paycheck, and after getting two really good jobs I banked quite a bit of money and decided to start traveling. In April 2022 I went to Seattle and since then have been to Florida, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, Colorado, Cobleskill (in NY, for a suspected Bundy victim) and Portland (on that trip I also went back to Seattle). I’ve been retracing the steps of Ted Bundy and taking pictures along the way.

Where Bundy’s very first home once stood in the Roxborough neighborhood of Philadelphia, where he lived with his mother, aunt, and maternal grandparents until he was three years old; it was formerly located at ‘7202 Ridge Avenue’ and is now ‘499 Domino Lane.’ Picture taken in May 2023.
The Cowell family’s second home. A diabetic (and agoraphobic), Eleanor Cowell had suffered a stroke in the mid-1950’s and underwent electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for depression. She passed away at the age of 76 in April 1971, and in December 1983 Samuel passed away at the age of 85.
Ted’s Uncle Jack Cowell’s house, located at 1514 South Alder Street in Tacoma, WA. Louise and Ted lived here briefly when they moved to Washington state in 1951. Picture taken in April 2022.
The Bundy family’s first home, April 2022. During an interview with author Stephen G. Michaud, Ted talked about his time living here: ‘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 Bundy family’s second home, located at 658 North Skyline Drive in Tacoma; Ted spent a good portion of his adolescent years living here. Picture taken in April 2022.
The former house of eight-year-old Ann Marie Burr, located at 3009 North 14th Street in Tacoma, WA. The oldest of five, on the morning she went missing on August 31, 1961 her mother, Beverly, woke up early and noticed that Ann wasn’t in her room, and after walking downstairs, she noticed that the front door was slightly open along with the living room window. There’s so many rumors about Bundy and Ann Marie Burr: my favorite is that his Uncle Jack was her piano teacher, and where she did take lessons, he wasn’t her instructor. Also, it’s said that Ted was her neighbor as well as the Burrs’ paperboy… and where he did deliver newspapers as a youngster, he was not hers, and where they didn’t live super far away from one another they were hardly neighbors (I made the 3.3 mile walk from the Ann’s house to Ted’s during my first trip to Seattle). Picture taken in April 2022.
The front of Ann Marie Burrs house, picture taken in April 2022. I thought the trees were beautiful.
The third and final home of Johnnie and Louise Bundy, located at 3214 North 20th Street in Tacoma. The family moved here in 1968 after selling their second house on North Skyline Drive and lived there until the late 2000’s. In May 2007, Johnny died at the age of 86 and two years later, Louise sold the property for $305,301. In December 2012, Mrs. Bundy passed away at the age of 88. Picture taken in April 2022.
This is the front of Silas High School, formerly Woodrow Wilson High School, where Ted graduated from in 1965. Picture taken in April 2022.
Ted Bundy’s alma mater: Dr. Dolores Silas High School, located at 1202 North Orchard Street in Tacoma. From its founding in 1958 until July 2021 it was called Woodrow Wilson High School. Picture taken in April 2022.
Dr. Dolores Silas High School, in Tacoma, WA. Pictures taken in April 2022.
The music building at Silas High School in Tacoma, WA. Picture taken in April 2022.
The entrance to the University of Puget Sound, a school that Ted attended twice: right after he graduated from high school (then dropped out) then again for his (first attempt) at law school (he once again dropped out). Picture taken in April 2022.
The University of Puget Sound, picture taken in April 2022.
Another shot of the entrance to the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA. Picture taken in April 2022.
While getting a cup of tea at the University of Puget Sounds coffee shop, one of the baristas reminded me that Louise Bundy used to work at the school, and that she had a brick on campus near the water fountain. Picture taken in April 2022.
A broader shot of Johnnie and Louise’s brick on the campus of the University of Puget Sound, picture taken in April 2022.
McMahon Hall located at the University of Washington. In 1966 during Ted’s first year at the school he lived on the 4th floor of the dormitories South Tower, and reportedly kept a key after ‘officially’ moving out and would return there on occasions to take naps. Picture taken in April 2022.
The apartment building where flight attendants Lisa Wick and Lonnie Trumbull lived when they were attacked in the early morning hours of June 23, 1966, located 2415 8th Ave North in the Queen Anne district of Seattle. Ted is still considered a suspect in their attacks (Wick survived but Trumbull sadly did not). Picture taken in April 2024.
Another shot of ‘The Sherri Lee Apartments,’ picture taken in April 2024.
The back portion of ‘The Sherri Lee Apartments,’ picture taken in April 2024.
The Seattle Yacht Club, where Ted worked as a busboy until he was fired for stealing food. Its strongly thought he began his employment there in September 1967, but how long he was there for seems to be a bit of a gray area: Mrs. Ferris said he was there for roughly six weeks, but Ann Rule wrote in ‘The Stranger Beside Me’ that he worked there for six months. Additionally, Dr. Robert Dielenberg’s true crime masterpiece ‘A Visual Timeline’ said he parked cars at the club and left in January 1968.
The Seattle Yacht Club, located at 1807 E Hamlin Street in the Montlake neighborhood of Seattle. Picture taken in April 2022.
A sign at the entrance of The Seattle Yacht Club, picture taken in April 2022.
A memorial outside The Seattle Yacht Club, picture taken in April 2022.
5015 16th Street Seattle, WA, Picture taken in April 2024. According to the ‘1992 FBI TB Multiagency Report,’ Ted lived here sometime in 1967. Picture taken in April 2024.
One of Bundy’s residences, located at 5015 16th Northeast Avenue in Seattle. The dates and circumstances of Ted living here are unknown, however according to the ‘1992 TB Multiagency Report 1992,’ he lived here at various intervals between 1966 and 1967 (which is before his relationship with Liz and roughly around the time he started seeing Diane Edwards). I will say, I’m not sure if this address is a mistake, as it is incredibly similar to 5015 16th Street, but who knows. Picture taken in April 2024.
The (former) Olympic Hotel in Seattle, where Ted worked in March 1968. This is where he met his friend Sybil Ferris, who was employed here as a pastry chef. The establishment, now called The Fairmont Olympic Hotel, was built in 1924 on the original site of the University of Washington and was originally part of a larger development plan that included the Metropolitan Theatre. He was fired for stealing from lockers. Picture taken in April 2022.
The sign outside the entrance for The Fairmont Olympic Hotel, picture taken in April 2022.
The Fairmont Olympic Hotel, picture taken in April 2022.
The entrance to The Fairmont Olympic Hotel, picture taken in April 2022.
The fountain in the plaza outside The Fairmont Olympic Hotel, picture taken in April 2022.
Some plaques on the side of the entrance of The Fairmont Olympic Hotel, picture taken in April 2022.
The Fairmont Olympic Hotel, picture taken in April 2022.
The Safeway that Bundy worked at as a stock boy in the Queen Ann neighborhood of Seattle from April 12, 1968 to July 26, 1968. According to his friend Sybil Ferris: ‘I helped him get a job at Safeway for a short while and he just quit, not even going back to work to tell them he was leaving.’ Picture taken in April 2022.
The inside of the Seattle Safeway where Ted Bundy worked, picture taken in April 2022.
This is Ted’s Aunt Julia’s house, and he stayed here while attending Temple University in Philadelphia during the late 1960’s, located at 4039 South Warner Road in Lafayette Hill (in the outskirts of Philadelphia). Picture taken in May 2022.
The University of Washington campus in Tacoma, picture taken in April 2022.
The entrance of the University of Washington in the heart of Seattle. Picture taken in April 2022.
What the former SandPiper looked like in April 2022.
During his time at The University of Washington Ted was a psychology major, and the main building on campus for psych majors is Guthrie Hall. Picture taken in April 2022.
The back of Guthrie Hall, picture taken in April 2022.
A sign for Guthrie Hall, picture taken in April 2022.
The University of Washington School of Medicine, where Liz Kloepfer worked when she was in a relationship with Ted Bundy. Picture taken in April 2022.
When employed at The University of Washington, Liz Kloepfer worked for the Medical School on campus. Picture taken in April 2022.
The University of Washington School of Medicine, which opened in 1946 and was founded as part of a larger School of Health Sciences. It quickly gained recognition and received full accreditation from the AMA and AAMC in 1949 and by 1970, it had become a national leader in biomedical research grants. Picture taken in April 2022.
Another shot of the University of Washington School of Medicine, picture taken in April 2022.
The parking lot where Dante’s once stood, April 2022.
The former ‘O’Banion’s Tavern,’ where Bundy frequented during his time living in Seattle located at 5220 Roosevelt Way NE. As of April 2025,it is the home of the Laughs Comedy Club. In an interview with the King County Sheriff’s Department Elizabeth Kloepfer, told investigators that Bundy and his neighbor, John Neeler went to O’Banion’s Tavern a few times each month, along with Dante’s Tavern and The Pipeline Tavern. It’s also only a few steps away from where Dante’s Tavern once stood. Picture taken on April 2022.
Harborview Medical Center, where TB interned from June 1972 to September 1972. He had a lot of jobs and never seemed to stick around for very long. Picture taken in April 2022.
Harborview Medical Center, picture taken in April 2022.
The Pike Place Market, located in Seattle, Washington. The open market was created on August 17, 1907 in response to public outcry over high food costs, and is one of the oldest continuously operating public farmers’ markets in the US. Picture taken in April 2022.
Another shot of The Pike Place Market, Picture taken in April 2022.
Another shot of the Pike Place Market, picture taken in April 2022.
I love this shot, picture taken in April 2022.
Another part of The Pike Place Market, picture taken in April 2022.
Another part of The Pike Place Market, taken in April 2022.
The front of the Rogers’ Rooming House, located at 4143 12th Northeast Avenue in Seattle, Washington. Bundy lived here from September 1969 to September 2, 1974. Picture taken in April 2022.
The residence housed multiple tenants (along with the owners, Ernst and Freda Rogers) that shared the same facilities. Ted lived in a room on the second floor for four years until he left for his second attempt at law school on September 2, 1974. Picture taken in April 2022.
This is the apartment where Liz Kloepfer lived in when her and Bundy began dating, located at 5208 18th Avenue NE in Seattle. She lived here with her daughter, Molly in an apartment on the first floor, on the right side of the building. Although Bundy was known to stay here a lot he still formally lived at the Rogers’ Rooming House. Picture taken in April 2022.
According to the ‘1992 TB Multiagency Report 1992,’ Ted lived here briefly with Marlin Vortman and his wife sometime in late 1973, located at 3510 West Elmore Street in Seattle. Photo taken in April 2024.
A shot of where Sotria Kritsonis claims she was abducted from, picture taken in April 2022.
A shot of where Sotria Kritsonis claims she was abducted from, picture taken in April 2022.
A shot of where Sotria Kritsonis claims she was abducted from, picture taken in April 2022.
The final resting place of Katherine Merry Devine, picture taken in April 2024.
Kathy Devine’s diary, courtesy of Charlene Devine-Gonzales. Picture taken in April 2024.
A picture of a page taken from Kathy Devine’s diary, courtesy of Charlene Devine-Gonzales. Picture taken in April 2024.
Where the apartment of Karen Sparks once stood, who Bundy attacked and left for dead in her basement apartment on January 4, 1974. Picture taken in April 2022.
This is the house where Ted Bundy attacked and abducted his first known murder victim, Lynda Ann Healy located at 5517 12th Avenue NE in Seattle, Washington. Picture taken in April 2024.
A path located on the side of the house (and in the back) that Lynda Ann Healy was renting at the time of her murder. Picture taken in April 2024.
A picture of Lynda Ann Healy’s former house taken in April 2022. On the evening of January 31, 1974, Healy and her roommates were drinking at Dante’s Tavern, but because she needed to be at her job the following morning at 5:30 to read the ski report they didn’t stay out late and returned home around 10 PM (their friend Pete also had to catch a bus back to his place).
A picture of the side of Lynda Healy’s former house, taken in April 2022.
Donna Manson’s former dormitory located on the campus of The Evergreen State Collegein Olympia, WA. Picture taken in April 2022.
A path near Manson’s dormitory, picture taken in April 2022.
A path in the back of the dorm buildings that Donna may have taken the night of her murder, picture taken in April 2022.
Some interesting trees in front of the Daniel J. Evans Library on the campus of The Evergreen Sate College. Picture taken in April 2022.
The Library on the campus of The Evergreen State College, picture taken in April 2022.
A picture taken at the entrance of Central Washington University from April 2022. Susan Rancourt was abducted from campus on April 17, 1974.
Before Bundy came across Sue Rancourt he approached two other young women, Jane Curtis and Katherine Clara D’Olivo. Earlier in the evening both women said they were approached by a man with his arm in a sling onthe schools campus.
Another picture of the Susan Rancourt Memorial Garden located on the campus of Central Washington University. Picture taken in April 2022.
Another picture of the Susan Rancourt Memorial Garden located on the campus of Central Washington University. Picture taken in April 2022.
Another picture of the Susan Rancourt Memorial Garden located on the campus of Central Washington University. Picture taken in April 2022.
Barto Hall, where Rancourt was living at the time of her murder. Picture taken in April 2022.
Before her murder Sue Rancourt was attending a meeting about being a residential advisor the following school year, picture taken in April 2022.
A safety phone on the campus of Central Washington University. Picture taken in April 2022.
Millersylvania State Park as it looked in April 2022. This is where the remains of Brenda Joy Baker were discovered in May 1974. Most likely Brenda was killed by a man named William Cosden Jr., but because no DNA was ever taken at the crime scene we will most likely never know for sure who took her life.
One of the signs for the entrance of Millersylvania State Park as it looked in April 2022.
The sign for the entrance of Millersylvania State Park as it looked in April 2022.
The former Flame Tavern as it looked in April 2022. On May 31, 1974 Brenda Ball vanished without a trace after seeing a band play here, and was last seen in the company of a handsome man with his arm in a sling.
The former Flame Tavern as it looked in April 2022.
The former Flame Tavern as it looked in April 2022.
The former Flame Tavern as it looked in April 2022.
The alley where Bundy first encountered Georgann Hawkins, picture taken in April 2022.
The alleyway where Ted first encountered Hawkins, picture taken in April 2024.
The parking lot where Bundy abducted Georgann Hawkins on June 11, 1974 from outside the Phi Sigma Sigma sorority house on the University of Washington campus. Picture taken in April 2024.
Another shot of the parking lot where Bundy first encountered Georgann Hawkins, taken in April 2024.
A sign at the entrance of Lake Samammish State Park in Issaquah, WA. Picture taken in April 2022.
The entrance of Lake Sammamish, picture taken in April 2022.
Lake Sammamish, picture taken in April 2022.
A beach at Lake Sammamish for Tibbetts Beach. Picture taken in April 2022.
A beach at Lake Sammamish for Tibbetts Beach. Picture taken in April 2022.
A sign at Lake Sammamish for Tibbetts Beach. Picture taken in April 2022.
A sign for some King Country Government buildings, picture taken in April 2022.
The King County Sheriff’s office, located at 516 3rd Ave in Seattle… To be honest, I went here right before I was due to come home, and as I was walking around taking my pictures I saw a young man smoking crack in one of the buildings alcove. In that moment, I was ready to come home, and I had enough of my vacation. Like so many other things I experienced that week, if was definitely a first. Picture taken in April 2022.
Another shot of the King County Sheriff’s Department, picture taken in April 2022.
The King County Sheriff’s Department, picture taken in April 2022.
The side of the King County Sheriff’s Department, picture taken in April 2022.
A door to the King County Sheriff’s Department, picture taken in April 2022.
Another door at the King County Sheriff’s Department, picture taken in April 2022.
A photo I took of the Issaquah Dump Site in April 2024.
A photo I took of the Issaquah Dump Site in April 2024.
A photo I took of the Issaquah Dump Site in April 2024.
A photo I took of the Issaquah Dump Site in April 2024.
A photo I took of the Issaquah Dump Site in April 2024.
A photo I took of the Issaquah Dump Site in April 2024.
A photo I took of the Issaquah Dump Site in April 2024.
A photo I took of the Issaquah Dump Site in April 2024.
This is the former boarding house where Bundy rented a room in during his second attempt at law school in SLC, located at 565 1st Avenue; he lived here from September 2, 1974 to September 1975. Picture taken in November 2022.
The house where Nancy Wilcox lived when she was abducted and killed by Bundy. It’s located at 2409 Arnette Drive in Salt Lake City, is 1,482 square feet in size and was built in 1957. I took this picture in November 2022.
A picture of where the orchard once stood located across the street from Nancy Wilcox; I took this picture in November 2022.
A picture of Big Cottonwood Canyon taken in November 2022. This is where Rhonda Stapley claims Ted took her after abducting her in October 1974.
A picture of a couple signs from Big Cottonwood Canyon taken in November 2022.
Where The Pepperoni Pizza restaurant once stood, where Melissa Smith died with a friend before she was last seen. Picture taken in November 2022.
The intersection close to where the remains of Melissa Smith were found, picture taken in November 2022.
On October 18th, 1974, Bundy abducted Melissa Anne Smith from outside of a pizzeria in Midvale, and her nude remains were discovered twenty-three miles away by deer hunters nine days later, on this hillside in Summit Park. The seventeen-year-old had a man’s blue nylon sock tied around her neck raped, beaten, and then strangled. She was found face down in some scrub oak. Picture taken in November 2022.
The home of Melissa Smith, located at 527 Fern Drive in Midvale, Utah. Picture taken in November 2022.
William S. Robinson Park in American Fork, which is one of the places Laura Aime was possibly last seen alive. Picture taken in November 2022.
Where Laura Ann Aime was possibly last seen, this is where ‘The Knotty Pine’ was once located in Lehi, UT. Picture taken in November 2022.
This white SUV is where Bundy dumped the remains of Laura Ann Aime, and is located off Utah State Route 92 in American Fork (per the OddStops website). Pictures taken in November 2022.
A beautiful shot in front of The Fashion Place Mall in Murray, where Carol DaRonch was abducted from. Photo taken in November 2022.
A shot of front sign for The Fashion Place Mall in Murray. It’s where Bundy attempted to abduct 18 year old Carol DaRonch from on November 8th, 1974. At the time the store was home to Sears, now it is a Dillards Department Store. Photo taken November 2022.
The ‘police substation’ that Bundy took Carol DaRonch to when he pretended to be a police officer in an attempt to abduct and most likely kill her. Picture taken in November 2022.
The door to the entrance of the ‘police substation.’ Photo taken in November 2022.
Where my rental car sits is where Carol DaRonch fled Bundy’s car. It’s on the western side of McMillan Elementary School, close to the intersection between South Fashion Boulevard and 5900 South. Photo taken in November 2022.
McMillan Elementary School, located close to the intersection between South Fashion Boulevard and 5900 South. Photo taken in November 2022.
Viewmont High School in Bountiful, UT. Picture taken in November 2022.
Viewmont High School, located at 120 West 1000 North in Bountiful, UT. Photo taken in November 2022.
Viewmont High School, in Bountiful, UT. Picture taken in November 2022.
The doors for the auditorium at Viewmont High School, where Debra Kent was abducted from. Picture taken in November 2022.
The parking lot in Viewmont High School that Bundy abducted Deb Kent from. Picture taken in November 2022.
Where Deb Kent was abducted from, picture taken in November 2022.
A broader shot of the entrance to Fairview Canyon, where Deb Kent’s remains were found. It’s about an hour and a half outside of Salt Lake City. Photo taken in November 2022.
This is close to where Bundy buried the remains of 17-year-old Debra Jean Kent, near a dirt road in Fairview Canyon around 105 miles away from Viewmont High School. During one of his final confessions, he said he left her near a steep dirt road that ‘wound up to the left’ and buried her about three feet deep and then covered her with heavy rocks. Photo taken in November 2022.
The entrance to where the remains of Deb Kent were found
A shot of the entrance to Fairview Canyon, where Deb Kent’s remains were found. Photo taken in November 2022.
A sign for the Wildwood Hotel (formerly Inn) located in Aspen. I’m shocked at how squished together everything is, I imagined this beautiful, sprawling hotel… but it was all so close together. 2/10, would not recommend.
The Wildwood Hotel (formerly Inn), where twenty-three-year-old Michigan nurse Caryn Campbell was staying with her fiancé when she disappeared on January 12, 1975; her body was found on February 17, 1975, 3.1 miles away on the side of Owl Creek in the outskirts of Aspen. Picture taken in March 2025.
This is the GPS coordination’s where Caryn Campbells remains were discovered on Owl Creek Road in Aspen. Picture taken in March 2025.
Bundy moved into an apartment on the right side of the top floor of this residence located at 364 Douglas Street in SLC on September 26, 1975. He claims that he moved here because it was within walking distance of the University of Utah. Picture taken in November 2022.
A picture of where Caryn Campbells remains were found on Owl Creek Road, picture taken in March 2025.
On January 12, 1975 Bundy bought gas in Glenwood Springs and Bundy abducted 23-year-old Caryn Campbell from the Wildwood Lodge in Snowmass, Colorado. Picture taken in March 2025.
Bundy’s Douglas Street apartment, located at 413 ‘B’ Street in SLC, Utah. He moved here some time before March 22, 1976, during his trial for the kidnapping of Carol DaRonch, and was also under heavy police surveillance. He didn’t live here for very long: on March 1, 1976, he was found guilty of kidnapping Carol DaRonch and was immediately taken intp custody. Picture taken in November 2022.
A photo I took of the entrance to the Taylor Mountain Dump Site in April 2024. On March 3, 1975 the remains of Lynda Ann Healy, Susan Rancourt, Roberta Parks, and Brenda Carol Ball were discovered by two forestry students at Green River Community College.
A photo I took of the Taylor Mountain Dump Site in April 2024.
A photo I took of the Taylor Mountain Dump Site in April 2024.
A photo I took of the Taylor Mountain Dump Site in April 2024.
A photo I took of the road from the Taylor Mountain Dump Site in April 2024.
On March 15, 1975 Bundy came across 26-year-old ski instructor Julie Cunningham near this covered bridge by Gore Creek Drive in Vail, Colorado. Picture taken in March 2025.
An area close to the parking garage where Julie Cunningham was abducted from. Picture taken in March 2025.
The parking lot where Bundy abducted Julie Cunningham from, picture taken in March 2025.
The parking lot where Bundy abducted Julie Cunningham that is located at 395 South Frontage Road in Vail, Colorado. At the time of the murder, it was a regular ground-level parking lot however in more recent times it is home to a multi-story car park. Picture taken in March 2025.
The underground parking lot where Bundy abducted Julie Cunningham from in Vail, Colorado. Picture taken in March 2025.
The entrance to the Apollo Park Apartments, where Julie Cunningham was living at the time of her murder. Picture taken in March 2025.
The Apollo Park Apartments, where Julie Cunningham was living at the time of her murder. Picture taken in March 2025.
The back of Cunningham’s apartment complex in Vail, picture taken in March 2025.
1619 LaVita Street in Grand Junction, Colorado, where Denise Oliverson lived at the time of her murder. Picture taken in March 2025.
This is the South 5th Street Bridge in Grand Junction, where Bundy abducted Denise Lynn Oliverson from on April 6, 1975.
A (blurry) shot of the South 5th Street Bridge where Denise Oliversons’ bike was found the day after she disappeared. Picture taken in March 2025.
The South 5th Street Bridge, in Grand Junction. Denise Oliverson vanished after leaving her nearby house on April 6th, 1975, and the next day, a railway worker found her yellow bike and sandals underneath this overpass. Photo taken in March 2025.
A shot of the alley next to the South 5th Street Bridge in Grand Junction, picture taken in March 2025.
The entrance of Brigham Young University, where Ted Bundy abducted Susan Curtis in June 1975. Originally from Bountiful, the fifteen-year-old was attending the Bountiful Orchard Youth Conference at the school when she disappeared. She had ridden her bicycle fifty miles to Provo to attend the conference and was last seen on June 27, 1975, the first day of the conference. After a formal banquet that evening, Susan left her friends and made the quarter mile walk to her room to brush her teeth. No trace of Curtis has ever been recovered. Picture taken in November 2022.
Brigham Young University, where Ted Bundy abducted Susan Curtis from in Provo, Utah On June 27th, 1975, Curtis attended the Bountiful Orchard Youth Conference at the Wilkinson Student Center. Picture taken in November 2022.
The Wilkenson Student Center on Brigham Young’s campus, where Susan Curtis was last seen alive. Picture taken in November 2022.
I had great plans of hiking Berthoud Pass, where the remains of Shelley Kay Robertson were found on August 23, 1975, but my rental car kept getting stuck so this was as far as I was able to go. On July 1, 1975, the twenty-three-year-old failed to come into work at her family’s printing business in Colden, and she was last seen earlier that same day and was in ‘the company of an unknown man.’ Picture taken in March 2025.
A picture of a sign announcing my arrival in Pitkin County, taken in March 2025.
The ‘Ted Bundy Murder Cellar,’ which is a urban legend of sorts where locals claim he brought victims to (there is no evidence that proves this). Picture taken in November 2022.
The inside of the TB Murder cellar. Even though it was two o’clock in the afternoon when I visited this location this was as far as I would venture in. My momma didn’t raise no fool, taken in November 2022.
This house was the focus of a Ghost Adventuress episode about Ted, and is located near Viewmont High School in Bountiful where Deb Kent was abducted from. Zak Baggins claims that Bundy brought her back her to torture her, but there’s no evidence to back this up (in fact, there’s proof that a family lived there at the time). The (fuzzy) picture was taken in November 2022.
A current picture of where Bundy got arrested for the first time, taken in November 2022.
A horrible quality picture of Bundy’s first arrest site (as I am no master photographer), taken in November 2022.
The entrance to the Utah State Corrections Facility, picture taken in November 2022. I was actually wrong that Ted was housed here before he was transferred to Colorado to stand trial: he actually was in Utah State Prison, and in July 2022 (just a few mere months before I went there) it was replaced by the Utah State Correctional Facility.
The Pitkin County Courthouse, where Bundy escaped for the first time on June 7, 1977.
A close up shot of the side of the building Bundy escaped from, picture taken in March 2025.
A (terrible) shot of the window Bundy would have jumped out of when he escaped from the Pitkin County courthouse on June 7, 1977. Picture taken in March 2025.
A plaque on the Pitkin County Courthouse that it is in the ‘National Registry of Historic Places.’ Picture taken in March 2025.
An inscripted stone on the Pitkin County Courthouse. Picture from March 2025.
This is (roughly) the grassy area that Bundy would have landed on when he jumped out the second story window of the Pitkin County Courthouse in Aspen on  June 7th, 1977. Picture taken in March 2025.
A picture I took in March 2025 of a statue of a generic Civil War soldier that’s located in front of the Pitkin County Courthouse in Aspen. The monument, which is dedicated ‘to the soldiers of 1861-1865’ and is intended as a symbol of national healing, does not representing either the Union or Confederacy and was erected on Memorial Day in 1899 and is dedicated to all of the soldiers that fought in the Civil War.
The Pitkin County Clerk and Recorder building located at 530 East Main Street next to the Pitkin County Courthouse in Aspen, Colorado. Picture from March 2025.
The Aspen Police Department, located two buildings down from the Pitkin County Courthouse. Picture taken in March 2025.
The house that Bundy stole a Cadillac from in the early hours of June 13, 1977, located at 805 Bonita Drive in Aspen. Picture taken in March 2025.
This is the only picture I was able to get that was close to where (I think) Fritz Kaeser’s cabin is located… I rented a piece of junk Ford Focus with bald tires and got stuck on a back road searching for it. I have no problem admitting I underestimated my husbands warnings of how bad Aspen winters can be, as I’m from Buffalo and have no problems driving in the snow… but what I have never encountered before is snow AND mountains. Where I hate admitting defeat, I knew I would have to take the L on this one. I didn’t have cell phone signal on top of it all and I was STUCK stuck, but thankfully the girls house I got stuck in front of helped me get out thanks to kitty litter and a board). It all worked out.
The entrance to the Glenwood Springs government building, picture taken in March 2025.
A picture of the Garfield County Jail, taken in March 2025.
Another shot of the Garfield County Sheriff’s Department, picture taken in March 2025.
A picture of the Garfield County Jail, taken in March 2025.
The keystone on the Garfield County Court Building, picture taken in March 2025.
The Chi Omega sorority house, located at 661 West Jefferson Street in Tallahassee. On January 15, 1978
Bundy entered the dormatory armed only with a piece of firewood, and killed twenty-one-year-old Margaret Bowman and twenty-year-old Lisa Levy; he also brutally harmed Karen Chandler and Kathy Kleiner, but thankfully both women survived. Picture taken in May 2023.
Another shot of the Chi Omega sorority house.
Where Sherrod’s night Club once stood, located next door to the Chi Omega sorority house at 675 West Jefferson Street in Tallahassee. Photo taken in May 2023.
The road sign for Dunwoody Street and Pensacola Street, photo taken in May 2023.
This is where Ted brutally attacked (and most likely left for dead) twenty-one-year-old dancing student Cheryl Thomas, in her residence located in one side of a duplex located at 431 Dunwoody Street in Tallahassee. Photo taken in May 2023.
The area near Dunwoody Street where Cheryl Thomas was living at the time she was attacked by Ted Bundy. Photo taken in May 2023.
The sporting goods store where Ted Bundy purchased a hunting knife on February 8, 1978, located at 8764 Normandy Boulevard in Jacksonville. Picture taken in May 2023.
This is where the mall parking lot was once located on Blanding Boulevard where on February 8th, 1978 Bundy attempted to abduct-fourteen-year-old Leslie Parmenter. The daughter of Jacksonville PD’s Chief of Detectives, Parmenter was confronted by Ted (who had introduced himself as Richard Burton from the Fire Department) after leaving Jeb Stuart Junior High School, but said he backed down when her older brother showed up. Back in 1978 it was home to a Kmart, and today it houses an Amazon Hub. Photo taken in May 2023.
This is the school where Bundy abducted twelve-year-old Kimberly Dianne Leach located at 372 West Duval Street in Lake City, Florida. Photo taken in May 2023.
On the morning of February 9th, 1978, Kim left her gym class in the auditorium and walked over to her homeroom when she realized that she had lost her purse. After going back and getting it, Leach started back to the auditorium but never got there. Picture taken in Mat 2023.
The house where Bundy stole an orange VW ‘Super Bug’ from its owner Rick Garzaniti. On February 12, 1978 Garzaniti and his wife parked their 1972 Volkswagen outside this residence located at 515 East Georgia Street in Tallahassee and went inside to pick up their toddler from the babysitter. He admitted to leaving the keys in the vehicle, as they weren’t sticking around for very long. Picture taken in May 2023.
The location of Ted Bundy’s final arrest, picture taken in May 2023. This is where he was arrested by Officer David Lee at roughly 1 AM on February 15, 1978, located at West Cross Street in Pensacola.
A broad shot of an area of the farm where Kim Leach’s body was recovered, photo taken in May 2023.
Another area of the farm where Kim Leach’s body was recovered, photo taken in May 2023.
An area of the farm where Kim Leach’s body was recovered, photo taken in May 2023.
An area of the farm where Kim Leach’s body was recovered, photo taken in May 2023.
Another shot of an area of the farm where Kim Leach’s body was recovered, photo taken in May 2023.
An area of the farm where Kim Leach’s body was recovered, photo taken in May 2023.
An area of the farm where Kim Leach’s body was recovered, photo taken in May 2023.
An area of the farm where Kim Leach’s body was recovered, photo taken in May 2023.
A road named ‘Kimberly’ that is located close to the cemetery where Kim Leach is buried. Photo taken in May 2023.
The entrance to the cemetery where Kim Leach is buried in Memorial Cemetery in Lake City. Picture taken in May 2023.
The gravesites of Kim Leach and her brother, Michael. Photo taken in May 2023.
The entrance to the Leon County Detention Center, picture taken in May 2023.
The Leon County Courthouse, where Bundy stood trial in 1980 for the Chi Omega/Cheryl Thomas attacks. Picture taken in May 2023.
The courtyard in front of the Leon County Courthouse, picture taken in May 2023.
The entrance to the Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building, located at1351 NW 12th Street in Miami. Picture taken in May 2023.

Ted, Liz, and Molly.

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I was able to find a few pictures of Ted, Liz, and Molly these past few days and I wanted to share them here. Ted and Liz had a tumultuous relationship that began in September 1969 and eventually fizzled out after his kidnapping conviction in 1976. Both Liz and Molly are alive as of December 2024 and they reside in Seattle, Washington.

A young Elizabeth.
A young Elizabeth Kendall.
Liz at her college graduation from the University of Utah, taken in 1968.
Liz standing in front of her fireplace in her University District apartment.
A picture of Liz taken at he POE, at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Liz at work.
A young Liz.
Liz.
Liz and a young Molly.
Another shot of Liz and Molly taken outside in the sunshine.
Liz and Molly.
A picture of Liz and Molly taken at the Pacific Science enter in Seattle, 1970.
Liz and Molly at Molly’s baptism. Ted was late because the night before he abducted Brenda Ball.
Ted and Molly watching the ‘veg-o-matic man’ at the Washington State Fair in Puyallup, 1970.
Ted and Molly fishing for rainbow trout in Flaming Gorge, UT in 1970.
Molly playing with the hose with Ted in the background; picture taken in July 1970 in Green Lake, Seattle.
Molly and Ted walking out of his parents cabin in Green Lake, Seattle; picture taken in July 1970.
Ted and Molly baking cookies at Green Lake in Seattle, 1970.
Ted swinging Molly around in Flaming Gorge, UT; picture taken in 1970. The Flaming Gorge is a popular recreation area that spans Utah and Wyoming that features a reservoir, dam, and scenic landscape.
Ted and Molly driving a boat.
I couldn’t find another copy of this, I don’t know why Molly’s face is covered up and the other childs isn’t.
Ted and Molly on a carousel at the Seattle Center, 1970.
Ted spraying water on Molly and the neighborhood children.
Ted. Photo courtesy of ‘Ted Bundy: I was Trying to Think Like an Elk.’
Ted playing with Molly. Photo courtesy of ‘Ted Bundy: I was Trying to Think Like an Elk.’
Ted. Photo courtesy of ‘Ted Bundy: I was Trying to Think Like an Elk.’
Ted, Molly,and Liz. Photo courtesy of ‘Ted Bundy: I was Trying to Think Like an Elk.’

Ted running around outside. Photo courtesy of ‘Ted Bundy: I was Trying to Think Like an Elk.’

Photo courtesy of ‘Ted Bundy: I was Trying to Think Like an Elk.’
Ted and Molly playing by the water. Photo courtesy of ‘Ted Bundy: I was Trying to Think Like an Elk.’
Ted. Photo courtesy of ‘Ted Bundy: I was Trying to Think Like an Elk.’
Ted and Molly playing outside.
Ted teaching Molly how to ride his bike, picture taken in Green Lake in 1970.
Ted teaching Molly how to ride a bike.
Another picture of Ted teaching Molly how to ride a bike.
Ted and Molly at Christmastime in Ogden in 1970.
Another shot of Ted and Molly in Ogden at Christmastime in 1970.
Ted and Molly celebrating Christmas at Green Lake in 1970.
A picture from Molly’s fifth birthday. Ted made the banner. Taken at Green Lake in Seattle, 1971.
Christmas Day in Utah, 1974.
Christmas Day in Utah, 1974.
Ted and Molly around Christmas in 1974. Picture taken at the Hardware Ranch in Utah.
Ted and Molly in their ‘hippie clothes; picture taken in Seattle’s University District in 1975.
Ted swinging Molly around in the University DIstrict in 1975.
Molly putting barrettes in Teds hair during a visit to Seattle. Taken in June 1975 at Liz’s apartment in the University District.
Ted and Molly outside of Liz’s residence in the Universtiy disctict in Seattle, 1975.
Ted and Liz on the lake, about to go waterskiiing, picture taken at Flaming Gorge, UT in 1970. Flaming Gorge is a 91-mile-long reservoir created by damming the Green River in 1958, and is known for its sapphire blue water and is a top destination for boating, fishing, and other water activities.
Ted, Liz, and Molly visiting family in Ogden, UT. Picture taken in 1970.
Ted and Liz at Hood Canal in Washington. Picture taken in 1973.
Ted carrying Liz on his back.
Liz hugging Ted from the back. Does that sweater look familiar? It was the one he wore during his first escape in 1977.
A picture of Ted and Liz; her father is on the other side of her.
Liz and Ted sunbathing.
Ted and Liz.
Ted and Liz in front of a fireplace, picture taken in Ogden, UT in December 1974.
Ted and Liz in Flaming Gorge, Utah in 1975.
Liz, Ted, and Molly on a vacation visiting Liz’s family in Ogden, taken in 1970.
The trio on horses outside of the Liz’s childhood home in Ogden, UT.
Ted tickling Molly, picture taken in December 1974.
Ted and Liz on a trip to the zoo with Molly.
Ted, Liz, and Molly.
Ted and Liz sharing a kiss.
Ted and his little brother Richie on a camping trip.
Ted sitting in front of Liz’s fireplace.
Ted jumping for joy and his first camping trip with Liz; picture taken in 1970 at what would later turn out to be his Issaquah dump site.
Ted playing with his hair.
Ted waking up from a nap at Green Lake in Seattle, 1971.
Ted in 1972.
Ted at Hood Canal, WA in 1973.
A young Ted wearing a suit.
Ted waterskiing.
Ted holding a dog.
A picture of Ted taken in 1972.
Ted taking a nap on Liz’s childhood bed at Christmastime in Utah, 1974.
Ted playing Frisbee on the beach.
An action shot of Ted playing Frisbee on the beach.
Ted in Wyoming on his way to Flaming Gorge, UT.
Molly with her biological dad.
A young Molly.
A picture of Molly from high school.
Molly.
Liz Kloepfer.
Liz featured in a news special about Bundy.
Liz after her relationship with Bundy, taken in the 1980’s.
Liz.
Liz.
Liz Kloepfer.
Liz Kloepfer after her relationship with Bundy.
Elizabeth Kloepfer.
Elizabeth Kloepfer.
Liz and Molly in a promotion photo for Amazon’s, ‘Falling for a Killer.’

Edna Cowell-Martin, pictures from her new book, ‘Dark Tide: Growing up with Ted Bundy.’

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I just got the book in the mail, I will most likely do a review after I finish it (or at the very least, will go through and bullet point things I found interesting or new).

John ‘Jack’ Cowell and Eleanor Gellert in uniform.
A young Ted (right) with Edna’s brother (left) and her mother (middle).
A young Ted Bundy.
The Cowell family in a promotional picture for a local Washington newspaper.
A young Bundy family.
A picture of the Bundy family around Christmas time, Ted is holding baby Richie.
A young Bundy family.
The Bundy children in December 1960.
Edna and her brother on a boat.
From left to right: Edna (on the horse in the back), John, Ted, Jack, Edna’s friend, Margie (on horse) , Eleanor; Louise and Johnnie are on the far right with two of their younger kids.
Edna Cowell in the 1970’s.
The seafood processing ship where Edna worked after she graduated from college, in Dutch Hollow, Alaska.
Edna and Don.
Edna and her husband, Don.
Edna’s husband Don (r) and his best friend Clark Palmer (l).
Edna’s 1967 Cadillac DeVille convertible.
Don and Anna.
Don, Edna, and Anna.
Edna and one of her lifelong friends, Jeanie at the Grand Canyon.
Edna, Anna, and Don Martin.
Edna and Anna.
Anna Martin and her Uncle John.
Jack Cowell conducting a choir rehearsal in his home studio in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Edna and her husband Don.
From left to right: Louise, Edna, Johnnie, and Anna.
Edna (right) said that her old roommate Margie (middle) was once slow dancing with Ted during a romantic evening and his ‘mask slipped.’
A more recent picture of Edna Cowell-Martin, when she was on Piers Morgan in July 2024.
A letter Ted wrote to his grandfather Sam dated February 6, 1969. Courtesy of Edna Cowell.
Louise Bundy wrote a short note to her dad on the back of Teds letter from 1959.
A letter from Jack Cowell to his daughter telling her that Ted had been arrested.
A transcribed letter from Ted to his aunt and uncle dated October 28, 1975.
The original copy of a portion of the May 31, 1986 letter from Edna Cowell to Ted. Photo courtesy of The Daily Mail.
In part one of a transcribed letter from May 31, 1986, Edna expressed to Ted how she was remorseful over how she missed her cousin’s murderous rage, admitting that she ‘saw only one side of you.’
Part two of Edna’s transcribed letter from May 31, 1986.
An original copy of Edna’s follow up letter written on June 10, 1986, after Ted ignored her first attempt.
The transcribed letter Cowell sent Bundy on June 10, 1986. In it, she once again pleaded with him to give closure to his victims’ families.
Part two of the transcribed letter Cowell sent Bundy on June 10, 1986.
An original copy of Ted’s letter to Edna on August 1, 1986, where he berated her for believing ‘innuendo, gossip, and accusations’ about his crimes and urged her to ignore the evidence against him.
Part one of the transcription of Bundy’s letter to Edna written on August 1, 1986.
The second page of a transcribed letter from Ted to Edna dated August 1, 1986.
An original copy of a letter sent by Bundy to Edna on November 13, 1986, where he told her he had ‘no guilt, remorse, or regret over anything I’ve done.’
An excerpt from Bundy’s November 13, 1986 letter to Edna, where her tried to offer her some insight on his daily routine while on death row in Florida.
The transcription of Bundy detailed his day-to-day routine, including being woken up at 5:30 AM for ‘cold scrambled eggs’ and filling his time by exercising in his cell.
The cover of Edna’s book.
The text from the last Christmas card Ted sent Edna.

Ted, Carole, and Rosa.

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I came across quite a few pictures of Ted and his family these past few days and I wanted to share them here. Carole Ann Boone passed away in a retirement home in Seattle in 2018, and where I do know some details about Rose/Rosa’s adult life I will not disclose anything out of respect for her privacy. I was hesitant about including her face in some of these but I found them all quite easily on the public domain.

Ted holding Rosa as a baby. I’ve seen her referred to as both Rose and Rosa.
A happy family: Ted, Carole Ann, and Rosa.
Ted, Jaime Boone, Carole Ann, and Rosa.
Ted, Carole Ann, and Rosa.
Ted, Carole Ann, and Rosa.
Ted, Carole Ann, and Rosa. Sometimes her face is blurred out, and other times it isn’t.
Ted, Carole Ann, and Rosa.
Ted and Rosa. Imagine the only time you ever saw your father was under the watchful eye of a prison guard.
Ted and Rosa.
Just ates. He looks so ghastly in this picture.
Ted, Carole Ann, and Rosa.
Ted and his daughter.
Carole Ann and Ted.
Carole Ann and Ted.
Ted and Carole Ann.
Ted with some other FSU inmates. Photo courtesy of Supernaught.
Ted in prison. Photo courtesy of the FB group ‘TB’s Crowbar Magazine.’
Another shot of Ted in prison. Photo courtesy of the FB group ‘TB’s Crowbar Magazine.’
A picture of Carole Ann Boone taken shortly before her death.

Ted Bundy, Childhood Photos.

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Ted Bundy was born out of wedlock on November 24, 1946 to Eleanor ‘Louise’ Cowell. His paternal lineage is unknown but his Grandfather was ruled out as a contender thanks to a DNA test. Ted was born at The Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers in Burlington, Vermont (also referred to as ‘Lizzie’s Home for Naughty Ladies’). Louise initially left her little boy behind but his Grandparents forced her to bring him home, and because their daughter was young and unmarried Samuel and Eleanor planned to raise the child as their own. For the first five years of his life Ted lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In 1950 Louise moved little Teddy across the United States to Tacoma, Washington, where she gave him the last name of Nelson and moved in with her Uncle Jack Cowell, a music professor at the nearby University of Puget Sound. In May of 1951 Louise married an army cook named Johnnie Bundy. The couple met at a church function and married shortly after. The couple went on to have 4 children together and Johnnie formally adopted Ted in 1951.

While Louise has said Ted’s father was a ‘sailor,’ true crime writer Ann Rule claimed that on the serial killer’s birth certificate an Air Force veteran named Lloyd Marshall was listed as his father. However, in the book ‘The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy,’ journalists Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth claim that a war veteran named Jack Worthington was his father. The truth of Ted’s fathers identity will most likely never be known.

When Ted was 21 years old he took a trip to the east coast, where he visited Burlington and obtained a copy of his birth certificate. It was then that he realized for certain he was an illegitimate child, a fact he didn’t take well. According to loved ones he was extremely bitter about the circumstances surrounding his birth and his parental lineage. He also resented Louise for keeping it a secret from him.

A copy of Teds birth certificate.
Ted Bundy’s amended birth certificate. Note that this birth certificate was issued in 1951 after Louise married Johnny Bundy. The original document will remain sealed until 2045.
Bundy as a small child.
Bundy on a sled posing with a snowman.
Little Teddy and Louise Bundy at the Jersey Shore.
Little Teddy and his Grandfather at the Jersey Shore.
Ted and his Grandfather.
Little Ted.
A young Ted posing at a Christmas tree.
Bundy (far right) with some friends.
Bundy with 2/4 of his step-siblings.
Tucker Carlson or Ted Bundy? You decide.
Bundy in elementary school.
Ted and Johnnie Bundy.
Ted in a group shot from elementary school, he is in the back row, third from the left. Photo courtesy of Tiffany Jean.
Another shot of Ted at boy scout camp.
Another shot of Ted at camp.
Ted shooting a rifle at camp.
Bundy on a rowboat.
An adolescent Ted.
Ted with his half brothers and sisters.
Ted and his brothers and sisters (he’s holding a baby Richie).
A blurry shot of the Bundy siblings in B&W.
The Bundy family, in color.
Bundy’s senior picture.
A new Bundy family picture courtesy of Edna Cowell-Martin.
In May of 1951 Johnnie and Louise Bundy moved into this house at 1620 South Sheridan Avenue in Tacoma. It was the family’s first home and when they moved in Ted was only four years old. Before they moved in Louise and Ted lived at his great Uncle Jacks house at 1514 South Alder Street.
I took this picture of the Bundy family’s second home on North Skyline in April 2022. It reminds me of a watercolor painting.
This is the third and final house the Bundy family lived in, located at 3214 North 20th Street in Tacoma, WA; the family moved into the house in 1968. Johnny and Louise stayed here until the late 2000’s.

Bundy Siblings.

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Ted Bundy attended Woodrow Wilson High School when growing up at 658 North Skyline Drive in Tacoma, WA. Some of his younger brothers and sisters however, went to Stadium High School when the family moved across town to the North End of Tacoma in 1968. I was hesitant to post about the Bundy siblings at first but all of this information I found in the public domain (mostly classmates.com).

The distance between the Bundy family’s second and third homes.
The Bundy family’s first home located at 1620 South Sheridan Avenue in Tacoma, Washington.
The Bundy family’s second home, where Ted spent a big part of his childhood; located at 658 North Skyline Drive in Tacoma, Washington.
The Bundy family’s third home located at 3214 North 20th Street in Tacoma, Washington.
The distance between the Stadium High School and Ted’s alma mater, Woodrow Wilson High School (now Silas High School).
A picture of a young Bundy family, that’s Ted’s sister Louise is holding. Photo courtesy of Edna Cowell-Martin.
The Bundy family, Ted, Glenn, and his two sisters. Photo courtesy of Edna Cowell-Martin.
The Bundy family, Ted is holding baby Richie. Photo courtesy of Edna Cowell-Martin.
The a blurry shot of Bundy family… all these pictures are sans Mr. Bundy. He’s most likely the photographer.
Bundy family, in color.
Ted and his brothers and sisters. Photo courtesy of Edna Cowell-Martin.
Bundy family, in B&W.
Ted’s senior picture in the 1965 Woodrow Wilson High School  yearbook.
A candid shot of Ted in the 1965 Woodrow Wilson High School  yearbook.
Ted’s brother Glenn’s sophomore picture from the 1971 Stadium High School yearbook.
Ted’s brother Glenn’s senior picture from the 1973 Stadium High School yearbook.
A picture of Linda Bundy from the 1970 Woodrow Wilson High School yearbook.
A group picture including Linda Bundy from the 1970 Woodrow Wilson High School yearbook.
A picture of Linda Bundy from the 1971 Woodrow Wilson High School yearbook.
Linda Bundy
Sandra Bundy’s sophomore picture from the 1973 Stadium High School yearbook.
Sandra Bundy in a group photo for the Girls Glee Club in the the 1973 Stadium High School yearbook.
Sandra Bundy’s junior picture from the 1974 Stadium High School yearbook.
Sandra Bundy’s senior picture from the 1975 Stadium High School yearbook.
An article about the Bundy family’s reaction to Ted’s confessions published in The Spokesman-Review on January 23, 1989.