Chapter 1-- for all of you armchair pychiatrists ...........
The Early Years
After spending the last remaining months of her pregnancy at a home for unwed mothers Bundy's mother gave birth to Theodore Robert Cowell on November 24, 1946. Ted's father, who was an Air Force veteran, was unknown to his son throughout his life. Shortly after Ted's birth, mother and son moved back to Philadelphia to live with his grandparents, who he would later refer to as his mother and father. This charade allowed his mother to escape any harsh criticism and prejudice for being an unwed mother. Ted grew up referring to his own mother as his older sister.
At the age of four Ted and his mother moved to Tacoma, Washington, to live with relatives. A year after the move to Washington, his mother married Johnnie Culpepper Bundy, whose last name Ted would assume for the rest of his life.
The Bundy family added four other siblings who Ted spent much of his time baby-sitting after school. Ted never really took to his new father who tried unsuccessfully to raise him as his own son, including him in camping trips and other father-son activities. Ted had his own ideas and thought of himself as special. Ann Rule reports that Ted's grandfather was the only man Ted respected and Ted was unhappy to leave him to move to a strange new place on the other side of the country.
As a youth, Ted was terribly shy and was often teased and made the butt of pranks by bullies in his junior high school. Regardless of the sometimes humiliating experiences he suffered, he was able to maintain a high grade average that would continue throughout high school and later into college. Friends from high school would later remember Ted as being a more popular figure than he was in junior high. Although he was very shy, Ted was thought of as "well dressed and exceptionally well mannered." Yet no one recalled him dating anyone during that period. His interests lay elsewhere such as in skiing and politics. In fact, it was in high school that Ted's interest in politics began to bloom.
Ted told Michaud and Aynesworth that his mother was the most directly involved in raising her kids:
"'We didn't talk a lot about real personal matters," says Ted. 'Certainly never about sex or any of those things. My mom has trouble talking on intimate, personal terms.'"
Michaud took a close analytical look at Bundy's youth and came up with some insightful conclusions:
"No one noticed that he was different, not like other children. He looked and acted like them...But he was haunted by something else: a fear, a doubt --sometimes only a vague uneasiness -- that inhabited his mind with the subtlety of a cat. He felt it for years, but he didn't recognize it for what it was until much later. By then, the rip in his psyche, had become the locus of a cold homicidal rage."
Even though he was popular, good-looking and friendly, Bundy had very few dates during his high school years. This social awkwardness and fear of social situations haunted him into his college years at the University of Puget Sound and the University of Washington.
Ted told Michaud and Aynesworth, "My social life was a big zero. I spent a great deal of time with myself. It was lonely for me...I didn't feel socially adept enough. I didn't feel I knew how to function with those people. I felt terribly uncomfortable."
He worked his way through the university by taking on low-level jobs such as a bus boy and shoe clerk. Yet, he never stayed with any one position for very long. He was thought of by some employers to be unreliable. Although he was inconsistent with his work outside of school, he was more focused on his work in school and was able to maintain a high grade point average. But his focus changed during the spring of 1967 when he began a relationship that would change his life forever.
He met a girl that was everything Ted had ever dreamed of in a woman. She was a beautiful and highly sophisticated woman from a wealthy Californian family. Ted couldn't believe someone from her "class" would have an interest in someone like him. Although they had many differences, they both loved to ski and it was during their many ski trips together that he fell in love. She was really Ted's first love, and, according to Ann Rule, possibly the first woman with whom he became involved with sexually. However, she was not as infatuated with Ted as he was with her. In fact, she liked Ted a lot but believed he had no real direction or future goals. Ted tried too hard to impress her, even if that meant lying, something that she didn't like at all.
Michaud writes that Ted won a summer scholarship to the prestigious Stanford University in California just to impress her, but at Stanford, his immaturity was exposed. He writes, "Ted did not understand...why the mask he had been using had failed him. This first tentative foray into the sophisticated world had ended in disaster."
In 1968, after she graduated from the University of Washington, she broke off relations with Ted. She was a practical young woman and seemed to realize that Ted had some serious character flaws that took him out of the running as "husband material."
Ted never recovered from the break-up. Nothing, including school, seemed to hold any interest for him and he eventually dropped out, dumb-founded and depressed over the break-up. He managed to stay in touch with her by writing after she returned to California, yet she seemed uninterested in getting back together. But, Ted was obsessed with this young woman and he couldn't get her out of his mind. It was an obsession that would span his lifetime and lead to a series of events that would shock the world. (cont.)
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last commentit seems that alot of these seril killers and/or rapist are into the DBSM scene- makes me wonder how many other people in that scene are killers and rapist as well and have not been caught yet.
Ted Bundy---part 2
Money Buys Love
In one of his many neurotic phone calls to Father Jacobs, Marty Frankel told him, "Without money, there is no freedom. If I was living in my mother's house and I was a garbage man, do you think I would be attractive to most women? Money buys love."
For a very large part of his adult life, the only women in Marty's life were his mother and his sister. It wasn't until 1986 when he went to work for John Schulte that he began a sexual relationship with a woman. In this case it was Sonia Schulte and the relationship lasted, in one form or another, until Marty was caught.
Marty and Sonia had become convinced that John Schulte was molesting his two daughters. Marty helped Sonia get her husband into court on that matter and eventually to hide herself and children from Schulte. Marty was afraid of Schulte's reprisals and hired security expert David Rosse (the man who Marty impersonated in his Vatican deal) to protect him. Rosse told him the only way he could get away from Schulte was to get out of town -- as far away from Toledo as possible.
Marty found a marvelous property to lease in Greenwich, Connecticut. 889 Lake Avenue was in one of the most desirable parts of that very well-to-do suburb. Into this mansion, Marty moved Sonia and her daughters and two of his employees, Beng Tan and Tee Sow. It was the spring of 1993.
Frankel home at 889 Lake Avenue
Immediately, the easily frightened and naturally reclusive Marty had a high fence installed around the entire 3-acre property, which did not endear him to his neighbors. Rumors abounded about this odd new neighbor and his secretive behavior. What could he be hiding and who was he really?
As Marty's embezzled wealth grew enormously with money from the insurance company reserves, so did his ego inflate proportionately. He began to surround himself with beautiful young women, some of which were his sexual partners, others of which were just devoted followers. Vera Mironova, his housekeeper, said to the Wall St. Journal, "Everybody loved him and he cared for them. Care he did. Mr. Frankel paid for posh apartments in New York City, homes in suburban Westchester County, five-figure shopping sprees at Neiman-Marcus and Saks, cars and drivers, and first-class trips to Europe." Marty had purchased a lot of love. He had even leased another mansion on the same street to house his expanding household.
Martin Frankel in 1995
A dark side of Marty started to emerge and he became obsessed with sadomasochistic and group sex. Tensions became unbearable in Marty's relationship with Sonia. She and her daughters moved out of what had become a very unwholesome household to raise children. Neighbors were convinced that he was running a brothel -- with all of the young women living there, coming and going at all hours.
In 1996, a young woman named Frances Burge responded to Marty's ad in the newspaper. She told her mother that he told her to strip and then told her that he didn't want to have sex with her because she was overweight.
Frances Burge's room at the time of her suicide
She stayed on in the household, but suffered from depression. In the summer of 1997, she was found hanged on the deck of one of the mansions. The death was ruled a suicide.
If anything, Marty's eccentric life style became increasingly lavish and bizarre as his wealth increased. But, in May of 1999, Marty started to "flip out" and there were signs that the Xanadu that he had created was in trouble.