Ted Bundy’s stepdaughter says she was only spared because he loved her mother as they both claim there were ‘red flags’ he was a killer
- Liz Kendall and her daughter Molly appeared on GMA on Friday morning
- They told how they feel they were only spared because the authorities would have immediately suspected Bundy if he’d hurt them
- Liz had a six year relationship with Bundy, during some of his 30 killings
- She said she was ‘smitten’ with him from the beginning when they met in a bar
- The pair are also featured in a new Amazon documentary about the killer
- Bundy was electrocuted in prison in 1989
Ted Bundy’s girlfriend’s daughter, who lived with the serial killer as a child, revealed in horror on Friday her belief that she was only spared by him because authorities would have suspected him immediately if he’d hurt her.
Molly Kendall was a baby when her mother, Liz, met Bundy in a bar.
She and Bundy would go on to date for years and she grew up living with them.
She was 12 when he killed Lynette Dawn Culver in Idaho. She was his last victim after a killing spree which totaled 30 victims across several states.
In an interview with ABC on Friday, Liz and Molly say they feel conflicted about their life with Bundy.
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Molly Kendall, the daughter of Ted Bundy’s longtime girlfriend Liz, said on Friday she felt lucky they were spared
Liz and Ted dated for six years, during which time he helped raise her daughter Molly. They are shown above in a photograph before his arrest
‘I mean, it’s hard to find words for how devastating it is – the loss of this girl. And the things that he did to her.
‘Whatever transpired at the beginning of his interaction with my mother, put her in a different category and our placement in his life kept us safe,’ she said.
The pair also added that Bundy knew he would be the prime suspect if he attacked either of them.
‘People knew he was involved with us,’ Molly explained.
Her mother Liz said she is still conflicted about her feelings towards him. While she reported him to the police several times after noticing eerie similarities between him and the person in a sketch authorities issued in their search for the serial killer, she did not think he was capable of murder.
Liz recalled meeting him for the first time in a bar and approaching him.
‘I was pretty smitten right from the get go. I went over and talked to him because I told him he looked lonely.
‘He was completely [a gentleman]. He put a lot of energy into making us happy, doing fun things.
‘My parents loved him. I really wanted to marry him,’ she said.
Asked if there were ‘red flags’, Liz recalled one incident where he callously pushed her into freezing water while they were rafting.
‘We’d been rafting down a very cold river and I was sitting on the edge of the raft and he pushed me in quite violently.
‘I grabbed a hold of the rope so I could get back in but his eyes were so, his eyes were so….it was like he couldn’t see me anymore,’ she said.
Liz and Moly are speaking out for the first time in an Amazon documentary about their life with Bundy, who was executed via electric chair in prison in 1989.
Kendall’s memoir, The Phantom Prince: My Life With Ted Bundy, had been out of print for decades, and rare copies of it sell for hundreds of dollars online.
Liz Kendall said she was ‘smitten’ with Bundy the first time she saw him in a bar
Ted Bundy and Liz Kendall at Snowbird ski resort in Utah in 1974, warming by a fireplace. Kendall met the serial killer in a Seattle bar five years earlier
Bundy’s victims. He is believed to have killed at least 30 women between the 1970s and 1980s
However, a re-issue of the book with new and expanded material was released earlier this month in conjunction with the new docuseries.
According to Amazon, the new series will share Kendall and Molly’s experiences with unsettling new details about Bundy, the pull he had on women and an abundant archive of never-before-seen family photos.
The series also features interviews with other female voices, including survivors of Bundy’s attacks – some of whom are stepping forward for the first time.
Bundy met Kendall in 1969 while he was a student at the University of Washington in Seattle.
In her memoir, Kendall describes how she was a single mother struggling with alcohol addiction when she saw Bundy gazing at her from across the room in a bar called the Sandpiper Tavern.
‘The chemistry between us was incredible. I was already planning the wedding and naming the kids,’ she writes. ‘He was telling me that he missed having a kitchen because he loved to cook. Perfect. My Prince.’
She took him home that night, and the two soon fell hard for one another and moved in together.
Bundy died by electric chair in prison in 1989
‘I loved her so much it was destabilizing,’ Bundy told journalist Stephen G. Michaud about Kendall in an interview released in the Netflix docuseries, Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes.
Molly considered Bundy to be her father from ages three to 10. In the upcoming Amazon docuseries, Molly as an adult says, ‘We were like a family’.
In new material added to her mother’s memoir, Molly recalls that Bundy taught her how to ride a bike and even took her skiing. But she also remembers the uncomfortable moment he crawled into bed with her, leaving the mattress wet.
She said she recalls she said to him, ‘You peed,’ as she was too young to think the liquid she noticed might be something else, she writes in the new version of her mother’s book.
As a disturbing series of murders of young women began to unfold in Seattle, Kendall had mounting suspicions that Bundy might be involved.
According to a friend, Kendall confronted him after finding women’s panties and plaster of Paris in the home — the killer was known to use a fake arm cast to lure victims.
‘He said to her, “if you ever tell anyone this I’ll break your effing head,”‘ Kendall’s friend Marylynne Chino told KUTV .
Kendall wrote in her memoir that she contacted police with suspicions several times, but was brushed off by investigators.
Despite her suspicions, Kendall supported Bundy when he was originally arrested for kidnapping Carol DaRonch in Utah in 1975, even sitting with Bundy’s parents in court for the trial.
After Bundy escaped custody twice while facing a murder charge in Colorado, and was recaptured and sentenced to death in Florida for a series of grisly murders there, Kendall gradually began to lose faith in his innocence.
‘After he was arrested, he wrote me many, many letters. We were going to start a life together. No goodbyes. Just I love you,’ she recalls in the new Amazon docuseries.
In a phone call from Florida’s death row, Bundy finally admitted the evil inside him.
‘There is something the matter with me,’ he told her on a phone call from Florida’s death row. ‘I just couldn’t contain it. I fought it for a long, long time … it was just too strong.’
Kendall writes in her memoir that she asked Bundy if he ever tried to kill her, and Bundy responded that he had once sealed off the chimney and filled the house with smoke while she was asleep. She recalled waking up coughing after a night of drinking.
After getting sober and going to Alcoholics Anonymous, Kendall broke off contact with Bundy.
An end note on the film based on her memoir says that Kendall and her daughter are living in Washington state, and that she has been sober for decades.
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