Growing Up With My Cousin, Ted Bundy
4/11/20261 hr 12 min
Between 1974 and 1978, Ted Bundy confessed to killing 30 women. During that time, he was especially close with his cousin, Edna Cowell Martin. In this episode, Edna shares what it was like growing up with him. From small, unsettling moments, to the shock of discovering who he really was.
For more of Edna’s story, check out her memoir, Dark Tide: Growing Up with Ted Bundy.
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First 90 secondsEdna Cowell Martin· Guest0:00
[gentle music] Super Real. [gentle music] So there's kind of a crowd there, and they're milling around, and the c- crowd parts just a little bit and I go, "Oh my God, it's Ted." And he's standing there in the middle of all these people with his, his arms out like he's some kind of a messiah, and he's slowly rotating, just he's kinda got his eyes closed, and he's going, "I'm Ted Bundy," over and over again as he's turning around. And then I grab him and I haul him out of that crowd and throw him in my car. We're not talking. And I turn my head and I look at him, and he's looking back at me and he's smiling. And I go, "Oh my God, he did it." That's when I, it hit me that this thing that's next to me is possibly one of the most dangerous people in America.
Julian Morgans· Host0:57
Hey, I'm Julian Morgans, and you're listening to What It Was Like, the show that asks people who have lived through big, dramatic events, what it was like. [gentle music] So a few weeks ago, we shared a story from a woman who survived an encounter with Ted Bundy, and the response was huge. So today we're gonna return to Bundy, but we're going further back.