Ted BundyEssay title: Ted BundySerial killers tend to be white heterosexual males in their twenties and thirties. While it is impossible to predict who will become a serial killer there are traits that appear to be similar in all killers. These behaviors include cruelty to animals, bedwetting, lying, drug and alcohol abuse, and a history of violence. According to Robert Ressler, serial homicide involves the murder of separate of separate victims with time breaks between victims, as minimal as two days to weeks or months. These time breaks are referred to as a cooling off period. Because homicides involving multiple victims is gradually becoming more commonplace, and to facilitate an understanding of the aforementioned definition, it is helpful to differentiate serial murder from other types of murder, such as mass murder, which involves four or more victims killed within a short time span, and spree killings, which Ressler defines as a series of sequential homicides connected to one event committed over a time period of hours to days and without a cooling off period.
Ted Bundy is one of the worst serial killers in history. His antisocial personality and psychotic character made him feared across the country. After all was said and done Ted left behind a trail of bloody slayings that included the deaths of 36 young women and spanned through four states. The biggest question in many peoples mind was how someone as intelligent, highly accomplished, and praised as Bundy does such a thing?
Theodore Robert Bundy was born November 24th, 1946 in Burlington, Vermont to a 21 year old mother. Teds mom never told him much about his father except that he was in the armed forces and they had only dated a few times. Ted was left in foster care for two months while his mom and parents decided what to do with him. In 1946 a not so intelligent child was extremely looked down upon by society. Once they decided to keep Ted, his grandparents told everyone he was their adopted son. Ted knew who his biological mom was, but outsiders were told that she was his sister. When Ted was three years old, his Aunt, age 15, said she awoke to find him slipping butcher knives into the bed beside her under the covers. She told him to leave and took the knives back.
The older Ted got, it became more difficult to hide his familys identity and his birth mother a secret. Ted and his mother moved to Washington where she met and married John Bundy. At the time Ted was four years old. He was adopted by John and his new parents had four children together. From the beginning Ted did well in school. His teachers complimented him on his good grades. But they also commented on Teds inability to control his violent temper. Friends recall Ted as one who would usually avoid fights, though when provoked could explode with frightening violence and anger. Ted was active in Boy Scouts and attended church regularly. He also held a part-time job and made excellent grades. Ted just dated once during high school and was described as shy. It was around this time that Ted began sneaking out of the house and peeping into windows. He also began shoplifting for expensive items and told his mom that they were gifts. He was picked up at least twice by juvenile authorities for suspicion of auto theft and burglary, but nothing came of it.
Ted recognized that he did not have remorse the way other kids did so he learned to mimic normal emotions. Ted participated in many respectable behaviors that helped make it so unbelievable to accept his guiltiness. He caught a purse snatcher and was given a commendation from the police department. He also saved a drowning toddler once by diving into a lake after him. Ted also worked for a suicide prevention hotline talking others out of killing themselves. He also wrote rape-prevention books and became active in politics gaining the attention of very important, highly known people. Ted worked many low paying jobs to pay for college. He was a busboy at a hotel, a messenger, and clerks at various stores. He left most jobs after only a few months. Some employers said he was a good worker while others gave him less than favorable comments.
He is said to have begun his serial killings in his late twenties in 1974. However many people believe that he started earlier than this. He is said to be the suspect in numerous unsolved murders. In January of 1974, an 18 year old student was found unconscious in her bedroom. Ted had beaten her with a metal rod and then he sexually assaulted her with it.. The woman survived but was in a coma for several months and had no memory of the event at all. A month later he abducted and killed a 21 year old woman named, Lynda Ann Healy. When police entered her room they found blood all over her bed, her nightgown stiff with blood, and her clothes and backpack from the night before were missing. Six weeks later, a 19 year old college student never arrived at a jazz concert she
He once claimed that he killed and then killed a 16 year old and then shot and killed a 14 year old.
When law enforcement questioned his motives, a former California college student confessed that he killed and then killed several women on his way from a high school to the University of California at Corcoran.
There was no doubt that Ted was probably motivated and obsessed with the same problems that drove him. He had no clear idea of his own motives from the time he entered University of California, because the students he talked to did not seem to have any clue about the issues he was dealing with. When he was first asked to explain that he did not have any knowledge of a murder, he seemed to accept it as an inevitable result of his own selfishness, which was the case with these women who also had no desire to kill him. However, the fact that he told this interviewer that he did not have any knowledge of the murders, and yet had some sort of motive, makes this a particularly disturbing fact that he should have been ashamed of, even if there were no obvious motives at all.
That he has a family has been widely speculated as a cause of his obsession.
A former boyfriend described Ted as “just not very nice.” He had only had sex with friends that he considered to be “nice” but also never had any desire for it. Ted could never come up with any of those things of course, but his friends had always wondered if they were really really nice people who wanted sex.
One theory that holds is that Ted was an avid outdoorsman, with a special interest in rock climbing. He was also an avid outdoorsman and very observant. Some of his friends were also recreational enthusiasts.
In addition, his father, William Ted, had a long-standing fascination with dinosaurs, which he said was an obvious cause of his fascination. Ted also had a history of abusing young women and had abused and molested other men he met near the University of California. His children had no idea of what was going on. His behavior, then, wasn’t that bad, he was just fascinated with them in ways that he was not atypical for his age.
In fact… even now, more than a year after Ted left the University of California at Los Angeles, he still thinks that he has never done something with any children by anyone. He admits that he did go to church occasionally, but he went to church only when there was a good reason for it. He also felt that being with a friend he was going to marry at least for the time being until he lost interest, and that he felt that it wasn’t necessary at the time. For all he knew, Ted would be alive ten years from now.
Despite the fact that many other adults have been caught committing child abuse, Ted himself has not been accused of such acts. But if this is