Content Warning: This post deals with sexual assault and might be triggering for some readers.
One night in 1969, Elizabeth Kloepfer was sitting in a Seattle bar when her friend Marylynne Chino noticed that a man had been staring at them.
“That guy has been staring at you all night,” Marylynne told Elizabeth, who turned to look.
“I’ve never forgotten this,” Marylynne later told KUTV. “I walked in, and across the room, I saw Ted for the first time. I will never forget the look on his face, it wasn’t evil but he was staring, nursing a beer.”
Elizabeth walked over to the man and struck up a conversation.
Unbeknownst to Elizabeth, the man was Ted Bundy.
Watch the official trailer for Amazon Prime’s upcoming docuseries, Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer, below. Post continues after video.
In the years that followed, Elizabeth and Bundy’s lives became deeply entwined. In fact, within just weeks, Bundy had moved into Elizabeth’s home, which she shared with her young daughter, Molly.
“There was this nice family unit of three,” Joe Berlinger, who directed Netflix docuseries Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes and Netflix movie Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile said.
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Can we just leave her, and her mother, alone?
Bundy was an evil monster, I don’t see the need to victimise more innocent women 30 years after his death. You’re right, the mother called the police on suspicion it could be him, in a perverse way she was also very loyal to him until the verdict, deeply misguided but commendable. Her daughter however had nothing to do with it and should be free to love her life and not be defined by her mothers former partner.
“This is what her life looks like now”. She lives in Washington state, she visited the movie set... and that’s all we know. We don’t even know the name she uses. Or anything about her at all, actually. Was there any point to this story, other than to squeeze out another Ted Bundy article?
Truly a fascinating insight, wasn't it?