TV series
Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer
Overview
After years of silence, Ted Bundy’s long-term girlfriend Elizabeth Kendall, her daughter Molly, and other survivors come forward for the first time in a docuseries that reframes Bundy’s crimes from a female perspective. The series reveals how Bundy’s pathological hatred of women collided with the culture wars and the feminist movement of the 1970s in one of the most infamous crime stories of our time.
Details
- First air date
- 2020-01-31
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 5 episodes
- Genres
- Documentary, Crime
- Network
- Prime Video
- Production
- Amazon Studios, Saloon Media
- Country
- US
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Ted Bundy as Self - Serial Killer (archive footage)
- Elizabeth Kendall as Self - Ted Bundy's Ex-Girlfriend
- Molly Kendall as Self - Elizabeth Kendall's Daughter
- Rich Bundy as Self - Ted Bundy's Brother
- Steve Winn as Self- Journalist & Author
Creators and crew
- Trish Wood - Creator
- Trish Wood - Producer
- Betty Orr - Producer
- Michael Kot - Producer
- Trish Wood - Director
- Richard O'Regan - Writer
Episodes
Episode 1: Boy Meets Girl
1969-1974: Everything's possible. The women's movement takes root, Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in tennis, and Mary Tyler Moore inspires single women. Shy, single mom Elizabeth Kendall strikes out on her own in Seattle, where she meets Ted, an aspiring lawyer. But darkness looms on the horizon. Female university students are disappearing, and Elizabeth's new boyfriend has a strange meltdown.
Episode 2: Falling
1974: Ted gets accepted into law school in Utah, but he refuses to ask Elizabeth to move down with him. Their relationship begins to fray and she blames herself. Meanwhile, female students continue to disappear throughout Washington state and a composite sketch of the suspect convinces campus cop Cheryl Martin that the disappearances may be linked.
Episode 3: Gone Girls
1974-1977: More disappearances follow Ted to Utah where he is at law school. Elizabeth tumbles down the rabbit hole of doubt, wondering whether or not her boyfriend is the culprit. For a while, police rule him out. After a kidnapping survivor identifies Ted as her attacker, however, he is arrested, thrusting Elizabeth even further into limbo.
Episode 4: Take Care of Yourself, Young Man
1978-1980: Ted escapes from prison and is in the wind. Elizabeth has bad dreams and big fears; gruesome news reports out of Florida point to his whereabouts. A collect call from a Pensacola jail brings her to her senses. The nation, however, is suddenly swept up in Bundy mania. Upwardly mobile poster boy or monster?
Episode 5: Collateral Damage
1980-1989: Sentenced to die, Ted professes his innocence. Elizabeth and her daughter try to move on and put this chapter of their lives behind them. Meanwhile, in a last ditch effort to save his own life, Ted starts confessing. His lawyer Polly Nelson is shaken to the core.
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