{"id":12792,"date":"2024-06-24T17:43:23","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T17:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=12792"},"modified":"2024-06-24T17:43:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T17:43:23","slug":"ted-bundys-family-reveal-his-chilling-death-row-letters-as-they-break-their-50-year-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=12792","title":{"rendered":"Ted Bundy’s family reveal his chilling death row letters as they break their 50-year silence"},"content":{"rendered":"

A family member of Ted Bundy’s has released some of his death row letters<\/h2>\n

Ted Bundy’s family are speaking out for the first time in 50 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The notorious serial killer kidnapped, raped and murdered several women throughout the 1970s.<\/p>\n

Bundy<\/a>\u00a0confessed to killing as many as 30 victims in just a four-year period – but it’s widely believed that his kill count was higher.<\/p>\n

Eventually he was caught for his\u00a0crimes<\/a>\u00a0and received the death sentence.<\/p>\n

He was executed by electric chair in 1989.<\/p>\n

Before taking his last breath, Bundy – like all\u00a0death row<\/a>\u00a0inmates – had\u00a0a final meal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He had a standard-issue final meal of steak, eggs, hash browns, and toast because he refused to choose his own last meal.<\/p>\n

Apparently he didn’t touch his dinner and he died hungry.<\/p>\n

Now, decades on from his death and his family are speaking out for the first time – his cousin, Edna Cowell Martin, specifically.<\/p>\n

Martin grew up with Bundy and while they were only cousins, she described him as being like a ‘brother’ to her.<\/p>\n

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Ted Bundy’s cousin claimed she was initially adamant he was innocent. (Bettmann via Getty)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Ahead of the release of her upcoming book\u00a0Dark Tide: Growing up with Ted Bundy,<\/em>\u00a0Martin\u00a0spoke<\/a>\u00a0with DailyMail.com to discuss Bundy.<\/p>\n

One topic that was covered was\u00a0the ‘red flags’ their family missed about Bundy<\/a>\u00a0when he was a child.<\/p>\n

One was his obsession with reading ‘salacious detective novels’.<\/p>\n

Martin has also divulged what Bundy wrote to her while he was on death row.<\/p>\n

She had written letters to him about the accusations he was facing and urged him to tell the truth.<\/p>\n

Responding to this, one chilling letter Bundy wrote to Martin read: “I wasn’t sure it said what I wanted it to say.<\/p>\n

“I won’t disregard your accusations completely. I will say this much, I have not killed anyone.<\/p>\n

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Bundy was executed in 1989. (Bettmann via Getty)<\/cite><\/div>\n

“Let the dead bury the dead (Luke 9:60) for he is not a God of the dead but of the living: for all live unto him (Luke 20:38).”<\/p>\n

Bundy went on to write that his cousin never really knew him.<\/p>\n

He said: “What you seem to be basing what you said in your letter on is an assortment of random recollections and a multitude of impressions which have been drawn from years of being exposed to the sensational publicity, the rumors, the gossip about some character named Ted Bundy.”<\/p>\n

While Bundy claimed his family didn’t really know the true him, his final words were in tribute to them.<\/p>\n

He said to his attorney Jim Coleman and Methodist minister Fred Lawrence: “Jim and Fred, I’d like you to give my love to my family and friends.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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