A Damaged Boy
In 1946, Eleanor Louise Cowell was unmarried and pregnant, so she went to the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers in Burlington, Vermont. There, she gave birth to her son on November 24, 1946. She then left her baby, returned home, and then came back to retrieve the boy at her father’s insistence.
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Unsurprisingly, Ted Cowell (later Bundy), was a damaged child. In 1986, in preparation for a death-row legal appeal, tests were performed on him, and a psychologist concluded that he lacked “any core experience of care and nurturance or early emotional sustenance.”