Why is the phantom prince out of print
Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy (Chapters 1 & 2)
hello everyone so ever since the Netflix
movie about Ted Bundy came out extremely
wicked shockingly evil and vile there
has been renewed interest in this book
The Phantom Prince my life with Ted
Bundy by Elizabeth Kendall and I think
at one point this book was for sale on
Amazon for $500 because it has been out
of print for a really long time and
because of the interest in the story
again the book will be going under or
getting reprinted in 2020 however that
is still several months off so since
I've had a copy for a while
curiosity killed the cat I did not pay
$500 for it that is a little too much
even for me but I really wanted to know
what Liz's side of the story was so I
bought a copy and I thought I would just
do a reading of it not a review just a
reading so for those of you who are
curious about what she has to say what
the book is about you don't want to wait
until the book is released I'm so
impatient like that so I can understand
if nobody has any interest I'll just end
up taking the video down I don't know
how many videos it's gonna take for me
to read all of these but or through this
because it's not a very long book at all
but I am just going to do probably 15
minute increments at a time so I'm going
to dive right in with chapter 1 Monday
March 1st 1976 i sat in a cold courtroom
in Salt Lake City next to ten buddies
it was snowing outside Ted sat at the
defense table with his attorneys waiting
for the judge to return with the verdict
I stared at the back of Ted's head my
mind filled with memories of things we
had gone through together for the past
six years Ted Bundy was on trial for the
attempted kidnapping of a young woman
carol Dhiraj from a suburban shopping
mall near Salt Lake City she identified
Ted as the man who posing as a police
officer had lured her into his
Volkswagen handcuffed her and tried to
crush her head with a crowbar her
attempted abduction had been linked to
the disappearances and murders of
several young women in the Salt Lake
City area and the Salt Lake murders were
linked to the eight murders of young
women in the Seattle area during the
first seven months of 1974 Ted and I met
in Seattle in October 1969 became lovers
and continued an intense relationship
until September 1974 when he moved to
Salt Lake City even now a year and a
half later we were far from finished
with each other since the summer of 1974
I had been tormented by fears that Ted
was involved in the murders in the
Seattle area finally I had gone to the
King County police with my suspicions
they told me they had checked it out and
eliminated him as a suspect but I
continued to worry and in January 1975 I
talked to the police in Salt Lake City
they also told me he was clear now I
knew that I had been terribly mistaken
that my Ted could not be guilty of these
horrible crimes but that I had set in
motion machinery of the law that could
crush out his life judge Stuart Hanson
entered and we all stood there seemed to
be no air in the room
I find the defendant Theodore Robert
Bundy guilty of aggravated kidnapping a
first-degree felony
Ted's attorney asked that he'd be
allowed some time with his family
we entered the judges chamber where Ted
was frisked and his hands cuffed behind
his back I put my arms around him and
told him I was sorry he was drenched
with sweat and stiff with tension I
kissed him on the cheek and whispered I
love you I hated myself for what I
done to him in July 1979
I watched Ted again as another verdict
was read this time the trial was in
Florida and I was seeing it on TV this
time I was sure that Ted was guilty as
charged
guilty of raping and beating to death
two young women as they slept in their
Florida State University sorority house
and of severely beating three others I
knew he was guilty because of what he
had told me in a 2:00 a.m. telephone
call in February just after he was
captured in Florida the Florida
prosecutors have visited me in Seattle
and asked me to testify against Ted I
had at first agreed but the more I
thought about it the more reluctant I
became I still cared about him very much
and I had worked very hard at putting my
life back together I was sure the
defense could make mincemeat of my
testimony and of me I had never been
named in the press and I valued my
anonymity my sex life with Ted would be
a subject of great interest as it had
been to all of the investigating police
officers I was a recovering alcoholic
had not had a drink in three years but
people would only hear the word
alcoholic the prosecutors had told me my
testimony was vital and that they would
protect me from attacks by Ted's lawyers
but I reminded them that in our 2:00
a.m. phone conversation Ted had
specifically refused to talk to me about
the crimes in Florida he was trying to
arrange things so that he could be
returned to a prison in Washington State
and be near his family and friends I
asked the prosecutors why they didn't
bargain with Ted offer him this in
exchange for answers to questions about
the murders of young women in Washington
Oregon Utah and Colorado in a heavy
southern drawl one of them told me mr.
Bundy is bargaining for his life we're
bargaining for his death I couldn't be a
part of it they saw Ted Bundy as a
murderer I knew him as a lover and a
friend I was threatened with extradition
if I wouldn't cooperate but finally the
matter was dropped and I never heard
from the Florida prosecutors again it
took the jury only six hours to come in
with a verdict of guilty I can count on
two fingers the times Ted
and me or was the least bit violent
towards me yet I feel that I have lived
through a violent time I have spent too
much of the last six years thinking
about beatings strangulations rapes the
outrage of the brutal deaths of innocent
people and my own guilt
the untrue things that have been written
about me and my relationship with Ted
are a different kind of outrage this
book is an attempt to rid myself of both
nightmares by facing them down I left
Utah in 1969 24 years old and not
pleased with the way my life was turning
out on the surface I was doing all right
I was in my last year of college at Utah
State getting good grades good enough to
make the Dean's List not bad considering
that I'd been suspended for disciplinary
reasons a few years earlier my
two-year-old daughter Tina was a great
joy to me and since she was the first
grandchild on both sides of her family I
had help and support from all four
grandparents on the other hand my brief
marriage to Tina's father had been a
disaster while I was relieved when our
divorce was final I was now acutely
embarrassed about being a divorcee I
spent a lot of time trying to figure out
what was wrong with me that I couldn't
make my marriage work I'd been given all
the tools anyone needed to lead a
successful life but somehow I have
managed to screw up my dad was a
respected dentist in Ogden 30 miles
north of Salt Lake City my mom had been
a nurse until my oldest brother was born
and then she became a dedicated
stay-at-home mother our family wasn't
active in the church we were considered
Jack Mormons people who were Mormon in
name only but didn't follow all the
church's rules but I still knew that our
ancestors had walked across America so
that we could be Mormons mom and I
prayed together when I was little and I
grew up knowing the power of prayer I
also knew that if you forgot to be
grateful God would get you by the time I
got to high school all I wanted to do
was spend time with my boyfriend then he
had a black mga sports car and when we
weren't out riding around in it we were
washing it waxing it and cleaning the
wire wheels we went skiing every chance
we got the ultimate in teenaged chic as
we tooled around the road
in the shiny black mga with the skis on
the back Ben and I went steady all
through high school we were going to get
married as soon as we graduated and have
a baby and named him Stine after Stein
Eriksen a popular ski racer at the time
my parents had other ideas they told me
I needed a college education I told them
they would be wasting their money
because all I wanted out of life was to
marry then and start having babies they
won and I went off to college I went
through sorority rush and was dropped at
the end of rush week I hadn't really
wanted to be a sorority girl but I was
surprised at how much it hurt I figured
it was my shyness that had done me in
when I was with my friends with Ben I
talked constantly I loved to laugh and
make Ben and my friends laugh but when I
got around strangers I could never think
of anything to say or I would say
something really stupid and relive it
for months
they turned red when I was spoken to and
the more I fought it the redder I would
get I began to party a lot my grades
crashed and at the end of my freshman
year I was suspended I also broke up
with men without being able to tell him
why Ben and I were strongly attracted to
each other physically but we had decided
early in our relationship that we were
not going to go all the way until we got
married in the spring of my freshman
year I went to bed with a man for the
first time not Ben but Jim the man I
eventually married when the marriage
ended I was on my own I had always been
half of a couple first Ben then Jim now
I was alone with a young daughter and
needed to start over Utah didn't seem
like any place for a single parent so I
started thinking about moving Angie my
friend since junior high school had just
had a bad experience as a Vista
volunteer and she was looking for a
fresh start - we considered San
Francisco where my sister lived but
decided it would be too sophisticated
for us at quarter break we went skiing
at Sun Valley met some guys there who
were learning to set up a ski patrol for
a new resort near Seattle and were
easily persuaded that Seattle might be
the place
I even had a cousin living there and I
figured that having some family nearby
would soften the lump in my throat
feeling I was having about leaving my
family and familiar territory I had to
stay around long enough to
collect my degree so Angie went on ahead
by herself I hung on in Utah until fall
when I decided it was Now or Never
chapter two I fell in love with Seattle
at first sight my brother and his wife
had pulled a u-haul trailer with all my
belongings behind their car while Tina
and I followed in my VW Bug we came into
the city early one morning over one of
the long floating bridges across Lake
Washington it had been raining and the
mist was clinging to the tops of the
evergreens everything that wasn't grey
was Green
there were sail boats on the lake kills
all around and the University of
Washington off to the right I could
hardly wait to get going on my new life
Tina and I stayed with Angie and her two
roommates in her Capitol Hill apartment
until I found my own place the city was
a new world to me
there was water everywhere I looked Lake
Washington to the East Puget Sound to
the West Lake Union in the middle and a
canal with locks that connected them all
losing my sense of direction I kept
confusing one body of water with another
the street numbering was worse
there was one street called 40th North
East and another called North East 40th
within a few days I found an apartment I
could afford about 12 blocks from
angie's I hadn't realized that rent
would be a lot higher than in Utah and
that I would have to pay the first and
last month's rent in advance along with
a cleaning deposit the place wasn't much
a one bedroom first floor apartment in a
1950s building that looked like a motel
it was furnished with a turquoise
naugahyde couch and matching chair a fur
mic a coffee table and not much else the
kitchen was the size of a closet and the
refrigerator was the size of a TV set on
one side was a tiny lanai from which I
could look up at the tall building next
door Tina who had just turned 3 would
have to sleep on the couch until we
could afford something better I looked
for a job right away my degree in
business and family life wasn't going to
impress anybody but I thought it could
get me a good secretarial job the
University of Washington was my first
choice I was used to being a student and
I was encouraged when the university
personnel department sent me for an
interview at the medical school as I
walked out of the personnel office 10 or
12 police cars full
men in riot gear roared by trying to
find my way across the campus a few
minutes later I came upon a huge
construction site where a crowd was
milling with picket signs suddenly a
great howl went up from the crowd as
some black men pushed a bulldozer off
the edge of a hundred foot deep pit as
it crashed to the bottom the riot police
moved into the crowd I stood clutching
my map of the campus lost when I finally
arrived for the interview I was nearly
45 minutes late
the man who interviewed me and later
became my boss and my friend told me not
to worry about it that the kind of thing
I had just watched happened on the upper
campus that down here in Health Sciences
things were a lot quieter what I had
seen was one of Seattle's most violent
civil rights protests an angry demand
that more blacks be hired on the
construction project my interview went
well and a few days later I was hired as
a secretary in one of the university's
medical departments within a few weeks
my life in the city was taking shape
not having grandmother's around to take
care of Tina was a problem but I was
able to find a good daycare center in
the university district some mornings
Tina cried when I left her and I didn't
like the way I felt either I thought it
was important for mothers to mother
their children and wondered how I could
do a good job of mothering when I was at
work eight hours a day I called my
parents a lot and I wished I could drop
by for Sunday dinner but all in all I
was pleased that I had started my new
life money as always wasn't worried I
counted my quarters and dimes carefully
one Saturday put my clothes in a
laundromat washer and Tina and I went
across the street to visit with Angie
when I went back to put the clothes in
the dryer I found a parking ticket on my
windshield I leaned against the car and
turned the ticket over to see how much
the fine was twenty dollars I was
sitting at Angie's kitchen table still
crying about the damn ticket when one of
her roommates boyfriends came in what
you need he said is a night out let's
find you a babysitter and go out and get
rowdy it didn't solve my money problem
but it sounded good Angie's place was
headquarters for a bunch of people we
knew from Utah and their boyfriends and
girlfriends by nightfall we had
organized a party to celebrate my
parking ticket
when Angie and I got to the Sandpiper
Tavern in the University District our
friends had started to gather it was
dark inside people were dancing on an
elevated dance floor to a jukebox
stocked with Beatles and Jimi Hendrix
looking as if they had strolled out of
their sorority or fraternity houses
dressed in jeans and sweaters it wasn't
so different from Saturday night back
home after two beers I decided that this
was exactly what I needed after a few
more beers I didn't even feel shy the
last bits of shyness disappeared when a
tall sandy haired man invited me to
dance
I had already sized him up from across
the room he looked a little older and
better dressed than the rest of the
crowd I figured he must be a graduate
student or maybe even an instructor do
you come here often he asked as we
danced no I said this is the first time
I've been out since I moved to Seattle
he asked the inevitable from where and I
thought of saying San Francisco or some
other place that sounded classy but I
admitted to Utah Utah he exclaimed isn't
that in Wyoming we laughed about where
Utah really was somewhere around the
Great Salt Lake and carried on his
strangers and bars do till the music
stopped I danced with everyone who asked
drinking and dancing go together and
every time I came back to the table the
beer tasted better I kept trying to
catch the sandy haired man's eye but he
was usually dancing with somebody else
we smiled at each other across the floor
a couple times but he didn't ask me to
dance again later in the evening a
skinny young man asked me to dance and I
did even though Angie and I had been
joking about his taste and clothes he
turned out to be a creep and looking for
a chance to escape
I saw the sandy haired man singing by
himself looking sad I headed for his
table you look like your best friend
just died I said he looked up surprised
I said you look lower than a snake's
belly in a wagon truck is that how you
folks from Utah talk he said what do you
call yourselves you tawny ins Utah
heights
Utah's I told him in my best hick voice
he laughed and I sat down he asked me if
I was a student I was tempted to say yes
because they didn't like telling people
I was a secretary I told him I worked at
the University but then I found myself
telling him that I made heart valves in
the instrument department I could feel
my face turning red so I started
blabbing about living in Seattle for
only
weeks about it raining all the time
about the riot I had seen on campus
anything to keep talking he wanted to
know why had moved away from Utah I told
him briefly that I had been married that
I had a daughter and that my marriage
had ended I explained that Utah was very
family-oriented and then I felt out of
place there he asked me why I didn't
consider my daughter and myself a family
I guess I do I said but the rest of Utah
doesn't consider us a family actually I
just moved here myself he said I've been
living in Philadelphia and going to
school at Temple and now I've moved here
to go to law school he had a distinctive
way of speaking not really an Eastern
accent but more like a British one his
name he said was Ted Bundy I knew when I
first looked at him before we had even
danced then he was a cut above the rest
of the crowd his slacks and turtlenecks
certainly weren't from JC Penney and the
way he moved projected confidence he
seemed to be in control of his world
sitting across the table from him I was
surprised too how easy he was to talk to
and how easily we laughed together he
had a smile that made me smile back and
beautiful clear blue eyes that lit up
when he smiled he had thick eyelashes a
strong jawline rich curly hair and a
nice body when he told me he was only 23
I couldn't believe it he said he didn't
realize he had been looking sad he was
just thinking about leaving the couple
at the next table got up to go and
offered us their unfinished pitcher of
beer I said I was never one to let good
beer go flat Ted wanted to know where
I'd been around Seattle you haven't been
to the public market we should go there
sometime you'll love it the chemistry
between us was incredible as I watched
his handsome face while he went on about
places to go and things to see I was
already planning the wedding and naming
the kids he was telling me that he
missed having a kitchen because he loved
to cook perfect my prince the pitcher
was empty in the crowd was moving on I
invited Ted to come for coffee with my
friends and he said sure since he didn't
have a car he would come in mind along
with Angie and a couple of other people
when we stepped outside the rush of
night air made me realize how drunk I
was we couldn't find the cafe we were
headed for and as the glow began to dim
and she and the others decided to go
home when they got out of the car at her
house Ted moved into the driver's seat
and drove me to the babysitter's house
to pick up Tina the babysitter was
wearing nothing but overall
and when she bent over you could see
right down to her navel I was
embarrassed but Ted didn't seem to
notice he scooped up the sleeping Tina
and carried her to the car I drove and
Ted helped Tina in his lap Ted was doing
most of the talking down I was beginning
to feel very sick he was writing a book
on Vietnam explaining how the cultural
differences between Americans and
Vietnamese contributed to the war I was
a little surprised and a little
skeptical but I was most of mostly
concentrating on driving the car and not
throwing up the closest parking space
was two blocks from my apartment
Ted carried Tina in and gently put her
to bed on the couch I don't think I can
drive you home I said why don't you just
stay here I was so sick all I could do
was to take my shoes off and fall into
bed I remember Ted's still dress lying
down next to me then the room turning
wildly I hung one leg over the edge of
the bed and put my foot on the floor to
make it stop spinning then I slept
restlessly I knew Ted was up and walking
around the apartment part of the night
once I opened my eyes and saw him
standing next to my dresser looking at
my bottles of perfume and things I wish
I hadn't left my birth control pills out
but I wasn't awake long enough to
imagine what he must be thinking and
that is the end of chapter 2 let me know
if you want me to continue reading this
book like I said it is not a long one
has short chapters so should be able to
finish it that way you don't have to
either buy the book when it comes out if
you don't want to or wait for the book
to come out in January of 2020 alright
everyone that is it for this weekend I
will see you in the next video as always
thank you for watching and I will see
you next time
