Episode 7: Lady Killer
Women with long dark hair kept turning up dead, first in Washington state, then in other states like Idaho, Utah, Oregon, and Colorado. Who was this man killing young women and girls as young as 12? The police gathered clues as the body count kept climbing. Soon the world would know the lady killer was Theodore Robert Bundy, Ted, as he made his last killing spree in Florida where he was finally caught for good.
Listen as we discuss Bundy’s crimes and then dig into a family tree that makes you wonder how it all went wrong.
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Episode 7: Lady Killer
Early sketch of the mysterious “Ted”
Source: Daily News, 8 Sep 1974
The jail cell where Bundy escaped through the ceiling.
Ted’s first known victims
Source: Daily News, 8 Sep 1974
Ted proposes to Carole Ann Boone
Source: Messenger Inquirer, 10 Feb 1910
FBI Wanted Poster
Source: FBI
Source: South Florida Sun Sentinel, 20 Feb 1989
Ted’s revised birth certificate
Source: Vermont Birth Records
Johnnie Culpepper Bundy
Source: Find A Grave
Pictures from the yearbook of Denise’s father-in-law (who, FYI, never knew he went to school with Bundy until recently).
Rowland C. “Rollo” Longstreet (1893-1972), former professional basketball player and Ted’s granduncle.
Grandfather Samuel Cowell (1898-1983) and Ted, likely at “the shore.”
Source: Find A Grave
Samuel Cowell’s World War I record
Editha Lampert Espenett Cowell (1819-1854), daughter of David, wife of George Richard Cowell, and 3rd great-grandmother of Ted
John Rowland Cowell (1920-2007), music professor and composer, known as Uncle Jack
David Espenett (b. 1796), former mayor of Tenterden, Kent, England, and Ted’s 4th great-grandfather