The Making of Ted Bundy: Secrets, Shame, and Silence
10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories
Joe Kuner
4.8 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Before the headlines. Before the manhunt. Before the courtroom smirks and the fan mail from strangers—Ted Bundy was just a kid with a fake name and a made-up family. In this episode, we’re not talking about what he did. We’re talking about who he was before anyone knew what he was capable of.From a birth certificate stamped “father unknown” to a childhood built on lies, Bundy’s early life is a slow-burn psychological case study. Raised by his grandparents under the illusion that his mother was his sister, surrounded by secrets and a whole lot of silence, this is the part of the story that gets skipped when people jump straight to the horror.But it matters. Because the monster didn’t appear out of nowhere. He was shaped, masked, and sharpened over time—one lie, one manipulation, one performance at a time.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to 10-Minute Murder, brief and bingeable true crime. I'm Joe, I'm the host, and there's |
| 0:07.8 | something about this episode that I need to let you know ahead of time. It's not the normal |
| 0:12.0 | everyday 10-minute episode. It wasn't even planned to be an episode initially. It was a blog post, |
| 0:19.8 | I wrote, for 10-minute murderurder.com. That was the intended |
| 0:23.7 | purpose of it, and that was it. But a lot of people read it, and I thought, well, maybe it would |
| 0:28.9 | make a decent episode, not to throw in the mix of the normal Tuesday, Thursday cycle, |
| 0:33.6 | but just throw in there as an extra, because this isn't a timed out situation like my |
| 0:39.0 | normal ones are. I try to keep those to 10 minutes. This one, at this point, I'm just starting |
| 0:44.0 | the episode. I have no idea how long it's going to be. It's definitely longer than 10 minutes, |
| 0:47.8 | so we'll find out together. And that's about the best I can do with the disclaimer. So, |
| 0:52.3 | let's get into it. Ted Bundy was born on November 24th, 19 in Burlington, Vermont. His birth certificate said, |
| 1:33.0 | Father Unknown, which was true, but everything else about the situation? Not so much. He came into the |
| 1:40.6 | world as Theodore Robert Cowell. And from the start, his life was a lie wrapped |
| 1:46.2 | in a cover-up tied with a neat little bow of 1940s shame. |
| 1:51.4 | His mother, Eleanor Louise Cowell, was 22, unmarried, and Catholic, which in 1946 meant |
| 1:58.9 | she might as well have been excommunicated by the wallpaper. |
| 2:02.7 | To avoid all that scandal, she gave birth in the Elizabeth Lund home for unwed mothers, |
| 2:08.4 | one of those institutions designed to quietly fix problems like Ted. |
| 2:13.5 | And fix it, they did. |
| 2:15.2 | Eleanor's parents brought her and the baby back to their home in Philadelphia, |
| 2:19.4 | where Ted was raised to believe his grandparents were his parents, |
| 2:23.1 | and that his mom was actually his sister. |
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