Buried Family Secrets: Dark Tide: Growing Up with Ted Bundy

Once Upon A Crime | True Crime

Esther Ludlow

True Crime, Society & Culture, Crime, Truecrime, Criminology, History, Criminals

4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Before Ted Bundy became a collective symbol of a real-life boogeyman and the person who helped coin the term “serial killer,” he was a son, a brother, a grandson, and a cousin - someone with friends and family members who loved him and never could have suspected the evil that lay within him and would come to destroy so many lives.

In this episode, I have the pleasure of speaking with one of those family members - someone who grew up with Ted Bundy and with whom he shared a close relationship.

Edna Cowell Martin knew Bundy as “cousin Ted.” Having to face the horror of what her cousin had done and the chaos of the media circus surrounding his arrest, trial, and execution, Edna and her family chose to remain anonymous…until now.

Edna’s new memoir, “Dark Tide: Growing Up with Ted Bundy,” reveals new details of his life, personality, and family relationships through his cousin Edna’s memories, photographs, and letters from Bundy himself. We learn what it was like for his family members to grapple with the realization that a person they loved and thought they knew well was one of the most infamous serial killers in U.S. history.

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0:00.0	This podcast details true crime cases. It contains adult themes and may contain descriptions of violence.
0:07.0	It is not intended for children.
0:09.0	Listener discretion is advised. Thank you for joining me for today's episode of What's Upon a crime?
0:20.0	Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime.
0:23.4	This week will wrap up the series Buried Family Secrets
0:26.7	with a very special episode and one that I think my listeners will find fascinating.
0:31.8	In early 1974, women began going missing in
0:35.2	Washington State. By the fall over a dozen women had been abducted, raped, and
0:40.3	strangled, their bodies taken to remote areas, some never to be discovered.
0:46.0	More cases of missing and murdered women were recorded in Utah and Colorado, before one man
0:51.3	on investigators' possible suspects list was arrested on unrelated charges.
0:56.1	He would eventually be suspected of over 30 murders and tried and convicted for two
1:01.8	paying for his crimes in a Florida electric chair at the age of 42.
1:06.8	The name Ted Bundy would become synonymous with the term serial killer, and his infamy long outlasted his life. Even today, over three
1:16.5	decades later, movies, documentaries, books and podcasts are dedicated to his story.
1:25.0	But before Ted Bundy became a collective symbol of a real-life boogie man, he was a son, a brother, a grandson, a
1:30.3	cousin, someone with friends and family members who loved him and never could have suspected
1:35.3	the evil that lay within him and would come to destroy so many lives.
1:40.6	Today I have the pleasure of speaking with one of those family members, someone who grew up with Ted Bundy and with whom she shared a close relationship.
1:49.0	Edna Cowell Martin knew Bundy as Cousin Ted.
1:54.0	Having to face the horror of what her cousin had done
1:56.9	and the chaos of the media circus surrounding his arrests,
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