10 Things Netflix’s Ted Bundy Documentary Left Out
2. What Happened To His Mother
Louise, Ted Bundy's mother, is shown in the documentary first defending her son against then lamenting her boy's crimes following his confessions. There's a particularly powerful shot showing her slumped at the feet of a middle-aged man as she struggles to come to terms with what her child had done. That's the last we see of Louise.
It's not the full story.
Louise Bundy lived until she was 88 years old and didn't pass on until late-2012. Netflix' Tapes don't talk about what happened in her life after Ted's execution in 1989. That's the end of the road, as far as they're concerned, but it leaves a bit of dangling thread when it comes to his mother. She was forced to try and pick up the pieces of her life.
An obituary report in USA Today said Louise and her husband had to repeatedly change their home phone number due to calls from gloaters about Ted's demise. It must have been hell for her to live on for another 23 years knowing the atrocities Ted had committed.