Blue-eyed serial killer, Ted Bundy's real story.

Wavy brown hair, big charming smile and overall nice guy demeanor.

Those who knew Ted Bundy thought it was impossible for him to hurt a fly.

But behind this facade hit a depraved, sadistic, and terrifying killer.

Our son is the best son in the world.

With a shaky voice on her cowl proclaimed these words when she was interviewed about her son Ted in the 80s.

22 and unmarried, she gave birth to a baby boy at Elizabeth Lund home

for unwed mothers in Burlington, Vermont on November 24, 1946.

Days later she went home, leaving the boy in the facility.

But her father, Samuel, picked up the infant shortly after and took him home.

Both Samuel and his wife, Eleanor devout Methodist and were ashamed of having

their daughter impregnated out of wedlock. To hide the shame they officially

adopted Theodore Robert Cowell and the boy grew up believing

his grandparents were his parents and his true mother as his sister.

At three years old Theodore moved to Tacoma, Washington with his real mother.

It was here she met Johnny Bundy, a cook.

The two fell in love and married, having four children together.

Johnny formally adopted Theodore, and since then then the little boy was known as Ted Bundy.

My name is Ted Bundy. High school life for Ted differed depending on his recounting of events.

In interviews he said he roamed around the neighborhood picking up nudity magazines from

trash bins.

He also said he often read detective magazines with gruesome or illustrated images depicting sexual violence.

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