‘Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer’: Ex-girlfriend opens up in documentary

Three decades after Ted Bundy’s execution, filmmaker Joe Berlinger reignited interest in the serial killer with the back-to-back Netflix projects — the documentary,, and the scripted film,, starring Zac Efron and Lily Collins. 

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Bundy and Kloepfer met in 1969 while they were both living in the Seattle area. She was a divorced single mom working at University of Washington, where Bundy attended school. Among other terrible tendencies, he cheated on her pretty early on in their relationship, dating his ex-girlfriend Stephanie Brooks in 1973 without ever bothering to tell Kloepfer about her existence.

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Bundy was a father figure to Molly in her younger years, but they’re actually not biologically related. However, he did father a child while he was on death row. His actual daughter, , was born in 1981. Her life is understandably a mystery, but here’s what we do know about her:

Looking at photos of Ted Bundy now, it's hard to see what unsuspecting people saw in the 1970s.

Ted Bundy’s longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kendall, and her daughter, Molly, are opening up for the first time after nearly 40 years of silence. The two are speaking out in the five-part Amazon docuseries,, chronicling their relationship with the serial killer, which overlapped with his murdering spree from 1974 to 1978. 

While there may be renewed interest in and fascination surrounding Ted Bundy three decades years after his execution, there’s no forgetting that he was a serial killer, responsible for the deaths of 30 young women across the country. Amazon’s five-part docuseries,, reframes the narrative around the infamous serial killer with women in his life or affected by his crimes opening up on camera for the first time. 

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In 2019, there was renewed interest in Ted Bundy thanks to two Netflix projects from director Joe Berlinger — the four-part documentary, and the scripted film , starring Zac Efron — both of which were released 30 years after the serial killer was executed in prison.