


"Ted Bundy does not go around killing women and little children!" she told The News Tribune in 1980 after Ted Bundy was convicted in the Florida killings. In the mid-1970s, Louise Bundy was a married mother of five working as a secretary at the University of Puget Sound when authorities across the nation began to accuse her eldest son in a series of gruesome killings.įor years, she refused to believe the charges. Melvin Woodworth, pastor of Tacoma's First United Methodist Church, which she attended from 1951 until a few years ago, when her health prevented her.

Her death was confirmed to The Associated Press by the Rev. She died last month in her hometown of Tacoma after a long illness, The News Tribune newspaper reported Wednesday ( ). (AP) - Louise Bundy, who was a staunch defender of her serial killer son, Ted Bundy, before he made a series of death-row confessions, has died. He was executed in 1989 for serial killings.Bundy's mother Louise strongly defended him.
