To avoid the stigma of being a young, unwed mother, Ted Bundy's mother raised him with the belief that she was his sister, and that his grandparents were his parents. According to his aunt Julia, a three-year-old Ted once placed a number of knives around her as she was sleeping.

To avoid the stigma of being a young, unwed mother, Ted Bundy's mother raised him with the belief that she was his sister, and that his grandparents were his parents. According to his aunt Julia, a three-year-old Ted once placed a number of knives around her as she was sleeping.