Ted Bundy's Daughter Molly Kendall Describes Chilling Moments With the Serial Killer
Molly wrote an addition to her mother's memoir, 'The Phantom Prince: My Life With Ted Bundy.'
Published April 2 2026, 12:39 p.m. ET
The daughter of serial killer Ted Bundy, Molly Kendall, shared chilling details about life with her father in an update to her mother's 1981 memoir, The Phantom Prince: My Life With Ted Bundy. Molly was just a toddler in 1969 when her recently divorced mother, Elizabeth Kendall (then Elizabeth Kloepfer), met Bundy, and from the age of 3 until she was 10, Molly viewed Bundy as her dad.
Bundy later confessed to traveling throughout the country to rape and murder dozens of girls and women. The serial murderer confessed to killing at least 30 people between 1974 and 1978 in Colorado, Idaho, Washington, Utah, Oregon, and Florida, but the authorities believe it was closer to 100. He was convicted and put to death in the electric chair on Jan. 24, 1989, per People. In 2020, Molly added an update to her mother's book, and the stories she shared are disturbing.
Ted Bundy's daughter Molly Kendall reveals a chilling story.
Elizabeth described her life with Bundy in the 1981 book The Phantom Prince: My Life With Ted Bundy, and Molly shared her experiences in an update back in 2020, per The New York Post. From 1969 until Bundy was arrested in 1975, he helped Elizabeth raise Molly in Seattle.
Bundy taught her how to ride a bike and took her skiing, and the serial killer even made fun games out of merry-go-round rides, but he also terrorized the little girl.
In the memoir, Molly recalled an incident with Bundy when she was swimming in a lake. Bundy was in the raft, and as Molly tried to swim toward the raft, the killer kept moving away from her as she ran out of energy.
She also described him being around her naked with full erections as they played hide-and-seek. The killer once hid under an afghan, and when Molly found him, he was naked with an erection. "It was long after this that I figured out that penises were not always erections,” Molly wrote.
Molly also recalled a time when Bundy got into her bed with an erection, and later, she thought he wet the bed after he ejaculated and exclaimed, “You peed."
In the documentary Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer, Elizabeth said she couldn't fully believe Bundy was a murderer before he confessed, although she did suspect him, per People.
"I felt like this man is not a killer," she said. "There is no way this can be true; this is the Ted I've known for so many years."
Elizabeth also described a terrifying moment while the couple was rafting down a river.
During an interview with ABC News, she said, "We had been rafting down a very cold river. I was sitting on the edge of the raft, and he pushed me in quite violently. I grabbed a hold of the rope that was dragging behind the raft so that I could get back in, but his eyes were so, it just got really weird looking, and it was like he couldn't see me anymore."
Molly said that Bundy wrote her mother a letter from prison in the late 1980s before his execution, but Molly, who was in college at the time, found it in the mailbox first. Bundy reportedly said in the note that he'd found God, but she worried he was trying to manipulate Elizabeth and destroyed it.
“I burned that letter in the fireplace,” Molly wrote. “I honestly would have taken him out back and shot him myself rather than let him hurt one more person.”

