‘Will tell you…’: Ted Bundy’s chilling death row letters to his family exposed

One of America's most famous and dangerous serial killers, Ted Bundy, was imprisoned for about 11 years until his execution in 1989. Letters that he sent to his family members from death row have finally been revealed and according to them they were 'pretty patronising'.

Bundy was known for kidnapping, raping and murdering dozens of women. He would typically pretend to be injured so his victims could get close and offer help, just before he attacked them. Then, he'd beat them unconscious and take them elsewhere to be murdered. He also kept their severed heads as trophies.

Ted Bundy's letters

Bundy's cousin Edna Martin described how in some of the letters he wrote to her, he asked the family to ignore the high amount of evidence against him and also had no remorse for his actions. "I will tell you this much, I have not killed anyone. I have no guilt, remorse or regret over anything I’ve done. What is done is done," he wrote in one of the letters.

As per PEOPLE, Martin first wrote to her serial killer cousin in 1980 asking him what he thought of the book 'The Stranger Beside Me' where the author Ann Rule looked back at her friendship with Bundy. Apparently, Bundy thought the book was 'full of falsehoods and half-truths'.

Martin, an insurance broker in Washington, continued writing to her cousin in the hopes that he would confess to his crimes, even asking him why he killed people. 'I won't disregard your accusations completely... I will say this much, I have not killed anyone', he replied. He then quoted a bible verse and as per Martin the letters he wrote were 'pretty patronising'.

She explained that in one of the letters he told her 'you don't know me anymore and you need to get to know yourself first before you can know me'. He also claimed he had 'no guilt, remorse, or regrets over anything' he had done. He also signed every letter with 'Love, Ted'.

“Ted was two people,” she said to the outlet. “He was one person to his family and friends, and obviously he was something altogether terrifyingly different to his victims. I don't think he felt like he ever wanted to take that mask off with me."

Ted Bundy: The notorious serial killer

On January 24, 1989, Theodore Bundy was put to death in an electric chair at the Florida State Prison in Starke by the State of Florida. As a child he grew up in Tacoma and graduated from the University of Washington, even attending law school at the University of Puget Sound and later the University of Utah. He also volunteered at a crisis clinic in Seattle and as a Republican Party campaign worker. He confessed to killing more than 20 girls and young women between 1973 and 1978.