ted bundy was born in 1946 in burlington, vermont, usa. he lived with his mother louise cowell and grandfather sam cowell when he was a child. bundy and his mother moved to washington where she married a man named john culpepper bundy. as a child in washington, bundy was a good student and went to church often, yet he found it hard to make friends and he began stealing. as a young man, bundy became involved in politics and got together with a woman named diane edwards, known better by the pseudonym stephanie brooks. she left him, and he went on his own for a while. after seeing that he had improved, she got back together with him, but he proposed and left her a few days later. this is when the murders began. the people that bundy would murder were much like this lady: young, white skinned (caucasian), and with long dark hair parted in the middle.