Ted Bundy: The Raising Of A Serial Killer

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Ted Bundy: The Raising Of A Serial Killer

the word “serial killer” comes to mind, usually for me the name Ted Bundy is the one that dominates. Before Bundy was executed in 1989, he confessed to killing more that thirty women in almost a dozen states across the U.S. during his four year long string of murders in the 70s. “The thing that set Ted Bundy away from the serial killer’s stereo typical analysis is that he was such a mainstream All-American man that the Washington State Republican Party hired him, so cunning that he escaped from jail, twice, and so dashing that a woman friend used to send marriage proposals to him on death row.” (www.crimemageyine.com) If this man was such a moral citizen, what could have brought him to the torturous murders of those young women? What psychological explanation is given on his behalf?
I feel that a child’s upbringing and their exposure to different things can also trigger certain urges. Usually, the profile of a serial killer tends to be white heterosexual males in their twenties or 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, stealing, cheating, alcohol and drug abuse, and a very high fascination for pornography. A lot of these traits are prominent in Ted Bundy’s character. An obvious one was he was white, he had a history of torturing animals and was often found reading his grandfather’s porn magazines. The biggest question is how can someone of such great intelligence, highly accomplished, and praised as Bundy do such horrid things to another human being without what seems to be remorse. Let’s just look back into the childhood of Theodore “Ted” Bundy and his surroundings to learn more about the Life of Ted Bundy.
Ted Bundy was born Theodore Robert Conwell on November 24, 1946, in Burlington, Vermont. His mother, Eleanor Louise Conwell, was not married and was...

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