The Women Taking Back Their Lives From Ted Bundy

For six years, Elizabeth and Molly Kendall shared their world with the serial killer. Now they’re ready to tell their story.

Sarah Weinman
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11 min readJan 31, 2020

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Ted Bundy and Elizabeth Kendall in Utah, 1974. Five years into their relationship, Bundy had already murdered several women. Photos: Amazon Studios

InIn the fall of 1981, 36-year-old Elizabeth Kendall was visiting New York City from her home in Seattle. She was there for a junket for a memoir she’d just published with a…

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Sarah Weinman
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Crime Lady. Author of THE REAL LOLITA, editor of anthologies. Recent work in the NYT, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, NYMag, and more.