The Bundy Family.

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.

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.

A rare picture of baby Rosa by herself, photo courtesy of ‘Ted Bundy: I was Trying to Think Like an Elk.’
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, 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, Jaime Boone, Carole Ann, and Rosa.
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.
A rare picture of Rosa by herself, photo courtesy of ‘Ted Bundy: I was Trying to Think Like an Elk.’
Ted and Rosa.
Ted and his daughter.
Carole Ann and Ted.
Carole Ann and Ted.
Ted and Carole Ann.
Just Ted… he looks so ghastly in this picture.
A young Ted before his time in prison aged him, photo courtesy of ‘Ted Bundy: I was Trying to Think Like an Elk.’
Ted in prison. Photo courtesy of Tiffany Jean.
Another picture of Ted in prison. Photo courtesy of Supernaught.
Ted looks quite a bit heavier than he normally does in this picture.
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 shot of a magazine article about Ted, Carole Ann, and Rosa.
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.