Contents of 'patronising' letters that Ted Bundy sent to his family from death row revealed
Serial killer Ted Bundy sent his family letters from death row and they've said what he wrote was 'pretty patronising'.
Bundy was one of the most notorious serial killers in history as he kidnapped, raped and murdered dozens of women and would typically pretend to be injured so his victims would get close and offer to help him before he attacked them.
He'd beat his victims unconscious and take them elsewhere to be murdered, and he kept the severed heads of some of his victims as trophies.
The serial killer would eventually be arrested and sentenced to death, with him being executed on 24 January, 1989, but before that he sent letters to his family while on death row.
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His cousin Edna Martin described how in some of them he told them to ignore the large pile of evidence arrayed against him and showed no remorse for his actions.
In one letter he wrote: "I will tell you this much, I have not killed anyone. I have no guilt, remorse or regret over anything I’ve done. What is done is done."
PEOPLE reports that in an upcoming documentary set to release next month, Martin revealed more about her correspondence with her cousin that started in 1980 when she wrote to him to ask what he thought about the book The Stranger Beside Me where author Ann Rule looked back on her friendship with Bundy.
Martin explained that the letter she got back from her cousin told her he thought the book was 'full of falsehoods and half-truths', and that he had started to use BC and AD to refer to before and after when he was sentenced as he had them meaning 'before court' and 'after damnation'.
She kept writing letters in the hopes her cousin would confess to what he had done but he never did, and when she asked him why he killed people he wrote back 'I won't disregard your accusations completely... I will say this much, I have not killed anyone'.
Martin says he then quoted a bible verse and remembered his death row letters being 'pretty patronising'.
She explained that in one of the letters he told her 'you don't know me anymore and you need to get to know yourself first before you can know me'.
Something else the serial killer wrote was ' have no guilt, remorse, or regrets over anything I've done'.
Despite it all, he would sign each of his letters to his family 'Love, Ted', and Martin said she knew Bundy was 'terrifyingly different to his victims' and didn't show that side of himself to friends or family despite her trying to get him to speak more about what he did, and she didn't think her cousin 'ever wanted to take that mask off with me'.
Love, Ted Bundy is set to release on Oxygen on 15 February.
Topics: Ted Bundy, True Crime, Death Row
Joe Harker