Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer2020
Created by Trish Wood
🏆 1 win & 1 nomination total
The premise
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.
Horror Vault's take
This gripping docuseries pulls back the curtain on one of America's most infamous serial killers — not through the lens of sensationalism, but through the voices of the women who lived closest to the horror. Ted Bundy's long-term girlfriend Elizabeth Kendall and her daughter Molly speak out after decades of silence, offering a raw and personal account of life in his shadow. Woven into their testimonies is a broader cultural reckoning, examining how the era's gender dynamics and the rise of feminism shaped — and were shaped by — Bundy's reign of terror. The result is a chilling reframing of a well-worn story that centers those who have too often been pushed to the margins.
Content: Descriptions Of Violence Against Women, Emotionally Distressing Survivor Testimony, Discussion Of Sexual Violence, Mature Themes Related To Serial Murder
Episode Guide
S1.E1 · Boy Meets GirlPremiere8.0Jan 31, 2020 · 49 min · Dir: Trish Wood
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 meet
S1.E2 · Falling7.0Jan 31, 2020 · 49 min · Dir: Trish Wood
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 a
S1.E3 · Gone Girls8.0Jan 31, 2020 · 52 min
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 surviv
S1.E4 · Take Care of Yourself, Young Man8.0Jan 31, 2020 · 44 min
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
S1.E5 · Collateral Damage7.0Jan 31, 2020 · 37 min
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 P
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