Ted Bundy's childhood home

Ted Bundy's childhood home is located at 658 North Skyline Drive in Tacoma, Washington.

The serial killer spent most of his childhood and teenage years living at this address.

Bundy's family left their home on South Sheridan Avenue and moved to this house in Tacoma's West End in 1953. At the time, he was only six or seven years old.

For the next thirteen years, he lived on North Skyline Drive with his mother, stepfather, and half-siblings.

Bundy's path to becoming a serial killer started in this neighborhood

Serial killers often engage in voyeurism, fetishism, and auto-eroticism during their formative years. They are also sometimes exposed to sensitive materials or distressing sexual experiences.

During interviews, Bundy recalled how he used to roam around this neighborhood late at night. At the time, he liked to steal things, peer through windows, and search through people's trashcans for detective magazines.

His interest in detective magazines had very little to do with their articles about crime. Instead, he found the photographs and illustrations of sexual violence against women to be fascinating.

It is likely that Bundy's continuous exposure to these images at such a young age played a huge role in the development of his deviant fantasies.

By repeatedly seeking this material out and associating it with pleasure, he was essentially conditioning himself to become aroused by sexual violence.

By the time he reached his teenage years, he was a voyeur who liked to sneak out of his house, creep around in the darkness, and peer through women's windows.

Shortly before his execution, he told a psychiatrist about one of the deviant activities that he engaged in when he was just 13 years old.

Bundy said that he liked to go into the woods at the back of his house, take off his clothes, and then run around. In his opinion, this particular activity marked the beginning of his "problem".

Haunted

In 2017, the property was purchased by a man named David Truong, who planned on remodeling it and then flipping it. It was only after Truong bought the house that he learned about its history.

During the remodeling work, the contractors reportedly experienced a number of strange events. These events spooked them so much that pastors were eventually called to bless the house.

For example, on one occasion, a large piece of furniture fell over and moved across the hall. One of the contractors also claimed that they saw the word "leave" written in sawdust.

Ann Marie Burr

Although Bundy's first confirmed murder did not occur until 1974, he is considered a suspect in the 1961 disappearance of 8-year-old Ann Marie Burr.

Burr lived at 3009 North 14th Street, which was about five miles from Bundy's childhood home on North Skyline Drive. Bundy, who was 14 years old at the time, reportedly worked as a paperboy in the area. Furthermore, police found a footprint outside of Burr's window that fit the profile of a teenager.

It is also worth noting that Burr's house is close to where the Bundy family previously lived.

Silas High School

During his time in Tacoma, Bundy attended Woodrow Wilson High School.

In February 2021, the school changed its name to Dr. Dolores Silas High School.

Bundy's family sold his childhood home in 1968

Bundy lived at this address up until September 1966, when he moved to the McMahon Hall dormitory building at the University of Washington campus in Seattle.

Two years later, in 1968, his parents sold this house and moved to 3214 North 20th Street.

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