

He had a plan for revenge.Įven while he was dating single mother Elizabeth Kloepfer, Bundy continued to try to rekindle his relationship with Diane. "In there, somewhere was a desire to have some sort of revenge on Diane."įollowing their split, Bundy made it his mission to reconnect with Diane. I had this overwhelming fear of rejection that stemmed, not just from her, but everything. "She stopped writing and I started to get fearful of what she was up to. "We spent a lot of time driving around in her car, making out and telling each other how much we loved one another."īut after failing to get into law school, Bundy and Diane's relationship quickly dwindled and over the summer, Diane broke it off. "She inspired me to look at myself and become something more," he said in the Netflix documentary. Ted Bundy with his first girlfriend, Diane Edwards.īundy, who often felt that Diane was out of his league, spent a lot of time trying to impress her.įrom working for the Republican candidate for Seattle to applying for a number of law schools after college, Bundy tried hard to gain the approval of his girlfriend and her affluent parents. “So for a first-time girlfriend, you know, it was really not so bad.” “She’s a beautifully dressed, beautiful girl. “The relationship I had with Diane had a lasting impact on me,” Bundy said in The Ted Bundy Tapes. A bad breakup.Īt the University of Washington, Bundy met his first girlfriend, Diane Edwards, who is often referred to as her alias Stephanie Brooks.
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According to Investigation Discovery, he grew up thinking his biological parents were his grandparents, and that his mum was his older sister.Īccording to Carlisle, finding out the truth years later had a big impact on Bundy.īundy’s first signs of criminal behaviour were in his teens when he began peeping in windows and shoplifting.

That loneliness may have been partly down to Bundy’s unusual family set-up. And they turn to fantasy to comfort themselves. Speaking to A&E Real Crime, Carlisle said, “If early in life a person is lonely and doesn’t fit in and is empty, they begin to look for some way to undo that, to satisfy their loneliness.

In another Netflix series, The Ted Bundy Tapes, we heard a lot more about Bundy’s boyhood, which he painted as idyllic.īut according to psychiatrist Al Carlisle, who carried out a 90-day psychological assessment on Bundy while he was in prison, it was actually ‘lonely’ and could be what lead to his ‘psychopathic tendencies.’ Here are some of the more prominent theories about why Ted Bundy became a serial killer: 1.
