‘Extremely Wicked’ on Netflix: Where are Ted Bundy’s Wife Carole Ann Boone and Girlfriend Liz Kendall Now?

Netflix’s Ted Bundy movie, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, is now streaming, and while Zac Efron makes for a very charming serial killer, the film is more interested in the women of Bundy’s life: His wife, Carole Ann Boone, played by Kaya Scodelario; and his former girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer, played by Lily Collins. (Kloepfer is also known by her pseudonym, Liz Kendall.)

Bundy killed at least 30 women between 1974 and 1978 on the west coast and Florida area. Many suspect the number is actually much higher. Bundy vehemently maintained his innocence for years after his arrest but eventually confessed to 30 homicides when he was facing death row.

Some may already be familiar with the living characters in Bundy’s life from the Netflix docuseries, Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, a series that came from Extremely Wicked director Joe Berlinger. But if you missed that one, or just need a reminder, here’s a refresher on the women in Bundy’s life.

Who is Kaya Scodelario’s Character, Ted Bundy’s Wife Carole Ann Boone?

Carole Ann Boone was Ted Bundy’s wife from 1979 to 1986. As people who watch Extremely Wicked will see, Bundy actually proposed to Boone during one of his trials, in which he, a former law student, was serving as his own lawyer. Boone said yes. This triggered a little-known Florida law: Any marriage declared in a court of law in front of a presiding judge constituted a valid marriage.

However, that proposal-marriage took place at a slightly different time than the timeline in the film. In an interview with Decider, Berlinger noted: “The marriage proposal actually happened during the Kimberly Leach trial [for the murder of a 12-year-old girl] and not the Chi Omega trial [for the murder of several girls in a Florida State University sorority house]. But since we weren’t doing the Kimberly Leach trial, the marriage proposal was put into the Chi Omega trial.”

Later, we see in the film that Boone and Bundy have sex during a visitation in prison, leading to Boone becoming pregnant with Bundy’s child. The real Boone did indeed give birth to a child in 1981 and named Bundy the father, and prison guards were rumored to accept bribes allowing such a thing to occur.

Where is Carole Ann Boone Now?

Boone and Bundy ended their marriage three years before he was executed in 1989. Boone’s whereabouts, as well as the whereabouts of her child, are not known today. Newsweek reports rumors that Boone died in 2005, based on a Facebook page, but that has not been verified.

Who is Lily Collins’s Character, Elizabeth Kloepfer, aka Liz Kendall?

Elizabeth Kloepfer was Bundy’s longtime girlfriend and for a time, his fiancé. Under the pseudonym Liz Kendall, she penned the memoir The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy in 1981, on which the script for Extremely Wicked is based. Kloepfer and Bundy were together for over six years. Notably, Kloepfer privately reported Bundy to the police on three separate occasions, passing along her suspicions to his connection to women disappearing in the area, even as she continued to date him.

Bundy acted as a father figure to Kloepfer’s young daughter, though they were not biologically related. Berlinger described his meeting with the real Kloepfer, in which she shared memories of her and Bundy’s life together:

At one point she brought out some photo albums—these 1970s plastic-sleeved, classic family photo albums. I’m thumbing through not one or two, but hundreds of photos of pony rides, birthday parties, camping trips and ski trips over the years of this happy family unit: a male, a female, and a young daughter. But the male in all of these pictures is Ted Bundy. These are very real memories, very real experiences.

Where is Elizabeth Kloepfer Now?

Berlinger said that while the real Kloepfer gave the film her blessing, she had no desire to see the final cut of the film and relive those now-painful memories. Berlinger said:

This is obviously an extremely painful chapter of her life that she’s put aside. I’m grateful that she trusted us to tell the story, but she does not want to see the film. She did come to set, though.  She wanted to come for only happy scenes—of which there aren’t that many in the movie. But the day [the characters] met at the bar, which was originally shot as a much longer sequence, we invited her to set that day.

Berlinger added that Kloepfer is not doing any press for the film.

Stream Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile on Netflix