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I still have a sense of disbelief that this man that I love could go out and do such horrific deeds - Liz Kendal Ted Bundy was not a sadistic murderer who killed dozens of women but the man she loved is it fair to say at least at first the Ted Bundy was a gentleman Oh completely my parents loved him he was really get to my opinion and I really wanted to marry him he was like a father to her daughter Molly seen here together in these childhood photos I adored this man they were together for about five years while Bundy secretly began his descent into a serial murderer there were two Bundy's the only people that ever saw the diabolical Bundy or his victims at first Liz didn't want to believe that her smart charming and charismatic boyfriend could be a serial murderer you thought he was innocent I did now in the new Amazon Prime series Ted Bundy falling for a killer he is seen through the eyes of Liz and Molly the women who knew him best we were like a family they're breaking their silence after nearly 40 years in the docu-series and in a book The Phantom Prince my life with Ted Bundy unless I'm sure you've asked yourself why not me I hate to even say this because it makes him sound normal but I do think you love this Bundy was in his early 20s when he met Liz Kendall at a bar in Seattle Washington well I was pretty smitten right from the get-go she was a young reasonably naive single mother from Utah who met the man who was considered by virtually everybody in society and culture in the 1970s as the dream date the perfect husband material a prince charming but there were two sides to Bundy this is what makes 1974 so extremely different he determined he's gonna launch himself into full-time murder and he's just gonna keep doing it until he was captured or killed one of his first known victims was 21 year-old Linda and Healy a senior at the University of Washington Bundy spotted Healy at a bar followed her home and strangled her in her bedroom can you describe to me what your relationship was like in 1974 subtle changes where I felt like maybe I was losing him you thought maybe worst case scenario he's seeing someone else yes never in my dreams I think he was out stalking women and then eventually abducting the murdering women over the next four months young women in the Pacific Northwest started to go missing there were no clues whatsoever I mean it's kind of remarkable that nobody saw anything but that changed on July 14th 1974 Bundy went to Lake Sammamish State Park looking for his next victim a number of people that day at Lake Sammamish were taking photos in shooting film little did they know the police would want to review this footage Ted was able to meld into the crowd he was able to convince Denise Naslund and Janice pod to help him with the ruse that he had a sailboat that he had his arm in a fake sling if anybody has seen The Silence of the Lambs where the killer had that trying to get that couch into the van and he's got a cast on that that all came from Ted Bundy geez can I help you that [Music] sure he kidnapped and killed the two young women those abductions were very brazen and in front of literally thousands of witnesses police asked the public to send in any video or photos taken that day people saw him and he identified himself as Ted police knew the suspect drove a Volkswagen and were able to produce this composite sketch your co-workers brought over the sketch to show to you was it because they thought the sketch looked like Ted yes there was something about it that just grabbed my attention there was just something about the jawline or something like that but made me think wow and you called Seattle police yeah I called anonymously to a tip line that they had set up there was something like 3,000 potential Ted's who may or may not drive a Volkswagen and he was one of them but he had this terrific spotless clean record you have to understand that detective work was organized in a very different way in the 70s there was no DNA evidence police departments didn't even have fax machines let alone the Internet did you ever ask Ted are you concerned about the similarities in the very beginning I asked him I said did you read this do you know what they're saying there's so many things here that people are gonna be looking at you kind of making a joke out of it but once I started to worry like could this be true I didn't feel safe bringing it up I didn't want him to know what I was thinking as the police investigations intensified Bundy realized he had to leave the Seattle area he had to find a new killing ground use the excuse of going to the Utah Law School Liz and Molly stayed behind Bundy drove away 12 hours later he killed a hitchhiker in Idaho in law school Bundy barely went to class he's like a kid in a candy store he upped it in in Utah and he killed around four women in the in just a matter of weeks but one woman escaped Carroll Dhiraj who managed to get out of his car after he lured her in pretending to be a police officer investigating a crime so this is the first time we have an eyewitness of somebody who survives a Bundy attack my friend came back from Utah and she said I don't want to scare you but it's happening down there now [Music] what did that feel like oh my god like the bottom of my world was falling out it's just too much of a coincidence so I did call King County police and I did meet with the detective I gave them some pictures of him and they showed him to the best witness from Lake Sammamish she pulled just picture out of this stack that the detective had given her she said no he's too old and put it back in the stack she had multiple contacts with the police but it kept coming back he's not your guy it's the winner of 1975 and Ted Bundy's got to find a place where there's not a lot of talk about missing women so he heads up the mountains to Colorado first Aspen where he finds his next victim Karen Campbell a nurse from Michigan 36 days later her nude body was found almost three miles away two months later he heads over to Vail and ends up killing 26-year old ski instructor Julie Cunningham he was just not gonna stop he had more relationships with dead women by now than living women it was all about the hunt but the hunter was about to become the hunted in Utah later that year he got stopped by a local cop in his car a ski mask handcuffs and pantyhose with the eyes cut out I took him in and booked him I said there's something wrong with this guy that put him on the radar of Utah law enforcement and they add this unsolved abduction of Kerala Raj Carol d'orange came to the police station was shown a lineup and was able to identify Bundy as the person who attack he was arrested and charged with the kidnapping of Kerala Raj at one point police did show you a photo of the items they found in Ted's car how could he have possibly explained that away to you and he tried to just brush it off you know I need the crowbar for if I get in a wreck and need to pry cars apart I need this ski mask for when I'm shoveling snow believing he was innocent his friends raised money for his bail while waiting for his trial Bundy returned to Seattle to see Liz what was that time like well when he first showed up at my door and announced I was taken aback but started talking to Guinness it's like it's just Ted because of our placement in his world it's the only reason that we're still alive I'm quite certain because people had their eyes on it did that thought ever cross your mind just gonna kill us I know did you think he was capable of murder no I mean I still believed he was innocent at that point when we come back Liz and Molly come to grips with the horrible truth about the man they both loved hi everyone George Stephanopolous here thanks for checking out the ABC News youtube channel if you'd like to get more videos show highlights and watch live event coverage click on the right over here to subscribe to our Channel 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Length: 9min 50sec (590 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 01 2020