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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.

1 Seasons
5 Episodes
Ended
Documentary Crime
Cast & Characters
episode image Collateral Damage
8.3/10 (175 votes)

#1 Collateral Damage

S1:E5

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.

episode image Gone Girls
8.2/10 (184 votes)

#2 Gone Girls

S1:E3

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 image Take Care of Yourself, Young Man
8.2/10 (173 votes)

#3 Take Care of Yourself, Young Man

S1:E4

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 image Falling
8.1/10 (193 votes)

#4 Falling

S1:E2

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 image Boy Meets Girl
7.7/10 (215 votes)

#5 Boy Meets Girl

S1:E1

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.

Cast & Chracters

character image Serial Killer (archive footage)

Serial Killer (archive footage)

Actor: Ted Bundy
character image Ted Bundy's Ex-Girlfriend

Ted Bundy's Ex-Girlfriend

Actor: Elizabeth Kendall
character image Elizabeth Kendall's Daughter

Elizabeth Kendall's Daughter

Actor: Molly Kendall
character image Ted Bundy's Brother

Ted Bundy's Brother

Actor: Rich Bundy

The highest rated episode of Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer is "Collateral Damage" (S1E5) with a rating of 8.30.

This episode received 175 votes.


The lowest rated episode is "Boy Meets Girl" (S1E1) with a rating of 7.70.

This episode received 215 votes.

The highest rated episode is "Collateral Damage" (S1E5) with a rating of 8.30.

This episode received 175 votes.


The lowest rated episode is "Boy Meets Girl" (S1E1) with a rating of 7.70.

This episode received 215 votes.

Name Department Job
Betty Orr Production Producer
Michael Kot Production Producer
Trish Wood Production Producer
Ariel Marx Sound Original Music Composer

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