# Have there been any interviews with Ted Bundy's parents

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**Created:** [October 3, 2004, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-there-been-any-interviews-with-ted-bundys-parents/267303 "2004-10-03T08:25:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-there-been-any-interviews-with-ted-bundys-parents/267303/1 "2004-10-03T08:25:16Z")

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Either his stepfather, mother or biological father? I want to know what they had to say about the subject.

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**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-there-been-any-interviews-with-ted-bundys-parents/267303/2 "2004-10-03T17:26:36Z")

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There were interviews with Ted Bundy’s mother Eleanor during his time on death row, and after his execution. I remember a photograph of her in _Vanity Fair_ magazine, sadly holding her son’s Boy Scout uniform.

Who Ted Budy’s biological father was is open to question. His mother claimed that he was one Lloyd Marshall, a travelling salesman and Air Force veteran who would visit the office where she worked. But apparently few people believed that story. No such man has been identified. Bundy himself was raised by his grandparents, and was told that his mother was his sister. He didn’t find out the truth until he was an adult.

[More.](http://tedbundy.150m.com/part1.html)

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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-there-been-any-interviews-with-ted-bundys-parents/267303/3 "2004-10-03T18:01:25Z")

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I also heard his father was a traveling salesman with the military (I heard navy though). I also remember seeing a quote by him about ted in a book once and figured maybe that quote came from a full interview.