Newly-released letters from one of the world’s most notorious serial killers show how he tried to convince his family he was innocent right up until his execution.
A family member of Ted Bundy has shared correspondence with the evil mass killer for the first time, showing how he compared his jail time to that of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi.
Edna Cowell Martin, Bundy's cousin, has revealed the letters for the first time ahead of the publication of her book 'Dark Tides: Growing up with Ted Bundy’ which contains the letters she exchanged with Bundy as he awaited execution on death row.
Edna is the first member of Bundy’s family to publicly share what it was like to grow up with the world's most infamous serial killer for a relative.
She shared the stories of their youth together and the letters she exchanged with her cousin, 50 years on from his arrest in 1975, showing notes begging him to reveal the locations of his victim’s bodies as his execution date drew near.
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Bundy eventually confessed to over thirty murders and was executed in 1989 (Bettmann Archive)She also tried to tap into the mind of the twisted killer asking him about his possible motives for the killings which he denied to her in his letters but eventually confessed to, some shortly before he died.
“I will tell you this much, I have not killed anyone,” Bundy, who Martin told the Mail on Sunday was more of a ”brother”, said in one of his death row letters. “I have no guilt, remorse or regret over anything I've done. What's done is done.”
Edna described the awful realization of what he had done, as she tried to square her happy memories of the friendly, caring boy she grew up with, and the monstrous killer Bundy turned out to be.
Dozens of women were killed or disappeared before Bundy was first charged with murder in 1976. After more than a decade of denials, he confessed to 30 murders committed in seven states between 1974 and 1978
Bundy pictured with wife Carol Ann Boone and their daughter Rose in 1982 (Netflix)“For the sake of your family and especially the families of your victims will you please explain what happened,' Edna wrote. “Some of the women you murdered have never been found.”
But Bundy refused to confess to her, saying he did not kill anyone, and going on to compare himself to peace activist Ghandi.
Describing life in jail he said: “'We're down to basics here. It's like most everything the experience of being in prison can liberate or entrapped [sic]. Gandhi found his jail experiences to be uplifting, humbling.
'I'm stripped of so many things and being thus deprived I am free to see myself as I was not able to before. I was awakened at 5:30 a.m. for a breakfast of cold scrambled eggs, grits, white bread, and milk.”
Bundy was ultimately executed on January 24, 1989, after several stays and delays as crowds gathered outside Florida State Prison with signs reading “Fry Bundy, Fry” and letting off fireworks when he was announced dead.
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