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Who is Ted Bundy’s wife, Carole Ann Boone?

Carole Ann Boone is the woman who fell in love with Ted Bundy, the serial killer and also had his child, Rose Bundy while he was on death row. While the notorious serial killer’s activities have fascinated the minds of many for decades, what do we know about his wife, Carole Ann Boone?

Carole Ann Boone’s husband, Theodore Robert Bundy was an American serial killer who kidnapped, raped, and murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s and possibly earlier. After more than a decade of denials, he confessed to thirty murders he committed in seven states between 1974 and 1978.

His expertly masked sociopathy allowed him not only to terrorize some 30 women across seven states but to earn the affections of and even wed a young divorcee named Carole Ann Boone while he was on trial for the murder of these women.

Carole Ann and Bundy even had a child while Bundy was imprisoned and acting as his own defense attorney for the murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach, and they stayed together until three years before his death by electric chair on January 24, 1989. They married in 1980, the day before he was sentenced to death for the third time.

How did Carole Ann Boone Meet Ted Bundy?

Carole Ann Boone’s fascinating relationship with the killer, Ted Bundy began in 1974, long before she married him, as a harmless office relationship in Olympia, Washington’s Department of Emergency Services.

According to Stephen G. Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth’s The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy, Ted Bundy’s wife, Boone was a “lusty-tempered free spirit” who was going through her second divorce when she met Ted. Though both were still in relationships when they met, Bundy expressed a desire to date her — which Carole Ann Boone refused at first in favor of a platonic friendship she began to cherish dearly.

“I guess I was closer to him than other people at the agency,” revealed Carole Ann Boone. “I liked Ted immediately. We hit it off well.” She didn’t know that Bundy was already kidnapping, raping and murdering young women.

While it may appear strange for someone to warm up to a mass-murdering criminal like Ted Bundy, it is important to remember his sociopathic charm. Bundy kept the women in his life at a safe distance, so as not to blur the lines between his nightly bloodlust and his pleasant daytime persona during work hours.

As with Bundy’s previous girlfriend of seven years, Elizabeth Kloepfer, for whom he served as a de facto father figure to her daughter, his qualities as a potential partner seemed to stem from a mysterious allure. Women had the impression that he was hiding something important from them. But, of course, it wasn’t obvious at the time that this mystique was based on murder and mental anguish.

“He struck me as a rather shy person with a lot more going on under the surface than what was on the surface,” Ted Bundy’s wife, Carole Ann Boone explained. “He certainly was more dignified and restrained than the more certifiable types around the office. He would participate in the silliness parkway. But remember, he was a Republican.”

Bundy was vehemently opposed to the hippie and anti-Vietnam movements of the time, as evidenced by his statements in the Netflix documentary, and appeared socially conservative in comparison to many of his peers. Perhaps it was this image of respectability and stoic manliness that drew Boone into his life.

With a Netflix documentary series, Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, and a film starring Zac Efron as the insatiable killer, this infamous killing streak of the 1970s has reawakened media interest in Carole Ann Boone’s husband Ted.

While Bundy’s deviant, sexual exploits, and homicidal tendencies have received much of our national attention, his largely ignored relationship with the unharmed women in his life may provide an entirely new perspective on the killer.

Bundy was arrested in Utah in 1975 after police discovered pantyhose, a ski mask, handcuffs, an ice pick, and a crowbar in his iconic Volkswagen Beetle. He was eventually convicted of kidnapping and assaulting a 12-year-old girl.

Nonetheless, Boone and Bundy’s relationship grew stronger over time. They exchanged letters, and Boone came to see him for seven days. Carole Ann Boone wasn’t Ted Bundy’s wife yet, but they were getting closer all the time.

Bundy was extradited to Colorado two years later to complete his 15-year sentence. Bundy staged an impressive prison escape with the help of money smuggled in by Boone. He then fled to Florida, where he committed the murders of Chi Omega sorority sisters Margaret Bowman and Lisa Levy, as well as the kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach. Boone, ever loyal to her friend Ted, relocated to Florida to attend the trial.

Carole Ann Boone seemed unwavering in her loyalty to Ted. “Let me put it this way, I don’t think that Ted belongs in jail,” said Boone in a news clip employed in the Netflix documentary. “The things in Florida don’t concern me any more than the things out west do.”

Ann Boone’s Marriage to Ted Bundy

During his trial, Carole Ann Boone was called as a character witness several times. Bundy, who had previously studied law, was a member of his own defense team. She told him she wanted to marry him in 1980. He later petitioned the prison, expressing his desire to marry Boone. The request was denied by the jail authorities.

Undaunted, Bundy decided to use an obscure law in the legal books of Florida. On 9 February 1980, during the trial for murdering Kimberly Leach, Boone had been called to the witness stand. Bundy asked her if she would marry him. She accepted and as it occurred in front of the presiding judge, they were legally married. A day later, he was given the death sentence (for the third time) by electrocution.

In October 1982, Carole Ann Boone gave birth to Rose or Rosa Bundy. There have been rumors that Rose is Bundy’s daughter, and if so, how she was conceived. Although conjugal visits were forbidden at Raiford Prison, where Bundy was held, inmates were known to bribe guards in exchange for private time with their female visitors.

Boone continued to visit her husband, frequently accompanied by Rose. Bundy was placed on death watch in 1986, which prohibited any physical contact between Bundy and his family. According to various sources, Rose was upset because she was denied the hugs she used to get from her father and frequently threw major tantrums as a result. Boone eventually decided to stop paying visits to her husband.

Bundy was executed on January 24, 1989, in Raiford electric chair. By then, Carole Ann Boone had completely vanished. It is likely that she changed both her and Rose’s names and relocated somewhere else and has not been heard from since.

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