Trivia

On February 16, 1978, at 5:00 PM, Kloepfer received a phone call from Bundy saying that he was in custody.

Elizabeth Kloepfer met Ted Bundy at a bar in Seattle, Washington in October 1969.

Elizabeth Kloepfer hails from Ogden, Utah. She has a degree in business from Utah State University. She was divorced when she met Ted Bundy. She worked as a secretary at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

Her relationship with Bundy has most recently been depicted in the Netflix-produced, Zac Efron-starring thriller, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile. Kloepfer's own memoir (published under the pseudonym Elizabeth Kendall) served as the basis for the film. The 1981 book, The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy, chronicles the couple's rocky relationship and was published eight years before Bundy was executed on January 24, 1989.

Kloepfer had a daughter, Tina, who was 3 years old when Elizabeth started dating Ted Bundy.

In hindsight, Kloepfer wrote that she remembered the night and had opened a window for some fresh air when she was having trouble breathing.