New Amazon Prime series Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer drops today on the streaming service, and will provide a fresh take one of the world’s most notorious crime stories.
Separating itself from previous documentaries, Amazon’s new series will provide a fresh take on Ted Bundy’s crimes, by telling the crime story through his female victims.
It’s also the first time his former long-term girlfriend Elizabeth Kendall, who he’d dated from 1969-1975, and her daughter Molly have appeared on film to speeak about the twisted killer.
One of the most shocking revelations in the documentary is that Bundy’s abuse of women extended to his own partner’s daughter, who he’d acted as a father figure towards through the ages of three and 10.
Molly recalled having great adoration for Ted, who she used to play games and go for bike rides with.
Elizabeth Kendall and Molly Kendall have spoken out
But she revealed one of Ted’s games turned sinister.
The pair were playing a game of hide and seek when Molly found Ted naked under a blanket.
She recalled: “I remember we were playing hide and go seek is how this started.
“He had hid under a blanket and I came out to the living room, and I pulled the blanket off him, and I say in shock, you’re naked. And he’s like, ‘Yeah, it’s because I can turn invisible but my clothes can’t.’ And I didn’t want you to see me.”
Molly says that things “devolved” from there.
Elizabeth Kendall was Bundy’s longtime girlfriend
Director of the series, Trish Wood, has spoken about the new series and Molly’s decision to speak out about Bundy’s behaviour in a chat with Daily Star Online.
Reflecting on Molly’s decision to share her story, Trish said: “It was super brave and she’s very forthcoming about in books that she’s publishing. But I never really discussed with her ‘why now?’
“There was a sense with Molly always that there was a shift and I think she, like Elizabeth, felt it was time for her to tell that story.
Ted Bundy confessed to killing 30 women
“Like Karen Sparks [Bundy’s first-known survivor] says, ‘Every woman keeps her secrets for various reasons and for various time frames,’ and for some reason now is the time for Molly to speak out and it might have had something to do with the fact she could do it with her mother by her side but that was my sense of it.
“It was an enormously brave thing to do and she was hugely admirable person in many many ways. I was quite blown away with it to be honest with you, it’s a privilege to know them.”
Woods also gave her take on why Bundy’s other survivors were compelled to speak out at this time.
She said: “I believe that the idea that we were doing a gendered take – a female take on the story was really important for them. A lot of women have said they’re sick of men telling the story and we want to be part of a series of telling it from a female perspective. That was a big part of it.
Elizabeth Kendall and Molly Kendall have spoken out
“I think the other aspect of it too is just that time is ticking away and these women are in their late sixties or seventies now, and you know times are short and they were witnesses and participants in one of the major crime and cultural stories of our time and they wanted to speak on the record about it. But I think also they just wanted assurances that it was told by people who are respectful and kind in allowing them to tell it in a way that felt comfortable for them.”
Bundy confessed to killing 30 women in total, and was executed on the electric chair in 1989.
Part Two of Daily Star Online’s interview with Trish Wood will explore the cultural impact that Ted Bundy’s crimes had a generation of women
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
