Ted Bundy
At the age of twenty-two, Eleanor Louise Cowell gave birth to her son, Theodore Robert Cowell. Ted Bundy was born on November 24, 1946, and his childhood was anything but ordinary. From the day he was born, Bundy had to face criticism and lies from both society and his relatives. The criticism came because of the fact that Ted was an illegitimate child born into a Methodist family. Shortly after Ted's birth, he and his mother moved into his grandparent's house. While living there, Ted was told that his mother was actually his older sister and that his grandparents were really his birth parents. After four years of living with his grandparents, Ted's mother decided to move to Tacoma, Washington. Unwilling to leave his grandfather, later to be the only man Ted ever looked up to, Ted was forced to go with his mother. After being in Washington for only a year, Ted's mother married an army cook named Johnnie Culpepper Bundy, whose last name Ted would take on for the rest of his life. Bundy's torment would continue throughout his school years as well. As a child, Ted was extremely shy and was often teased by other kids in junior high school. It is thought that because of the constant humiliation, Ted often lost his temper.
While on the witness stand, Dr. Souviron described the bite wounds that were on the body of Lisa Levy. At the same time as his description, the jury was being shown photographs of the bite marks which were taken on the night of the murder. Dr. Souviron then spoke of how unique bite marks are to every individual. He finally compared the marks on Levy's body to a scale picture of Bundy's teeth---they matched perfectly. The photos were said to have been "the biggest piece of evidence the prosecution had linking Bundy to the crime," by National Review. On July 23, 1979, Bundy waited while the jurors decided on his guilt or innocence. It took almost seven hours before the jury returned to the courtroom with their verdict. "Bundy showed no emotion as one of the jurors read out that he was guilty," stated People Weekly. Bundy was found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt on all counts of murder. Soon after the Chi Omega murder trials, Bundy went on trial for the attacks of Karen Chandler and Kathy Kleiner, and he was once again found to be guilty. On July 31, Bundy was sentenced to death by the electric chair. In 1965, Ted graduated from high school and won a scholarship to the University of Puget Sound. Then in 1966 Bundy decided to transfer to the University of Washington, where he worked low-level jobs such as a bus boy and shoe clerk. Then after a year of studying at college, in 1967, Ted met his first girlfriend, Leslie Holland. Leslie was an extremely smart woman who was born into a wealthy California family. Ted and Leslie went on many ski trips together, spending most of their spare time with each other. Leslie was Ted's first love, and the first woman he was intimate with, but Leslie was not as infatuated with Ted as he was with her. This fact made the break up even more devastating for Ted. In 1968, after graduating from the University of Washington, Leslie ended th
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