Case Study : Ted Bundy

He consistently fought for his life against the courts, giving confessions in an attempt to receive less of a penalty, or at least delay his death. He confessed to 8 killings in Washington that had taken place in 1974(“Bundy Details…”), and indicated that he had killed anywhere from 40 to 50 women(Tilstone). Although the actual number of his victims is unknown, it is believed that Ted Bundy could have killed up to 100 women, 36 of which he admitted to(Biography.com). In the book Serial Murder, by Ronald M. Holmes, it is stated that Ted was questioned about whether he had killed the 36 women, to which he replied “Add one digit to that and you’ll have it.” This could mean a number of things, like which digit do we have to add, and where? Did he murder 136 women? 361? We might not ever find out. His last minute confessions would help to close up to 23 pending cases of women that were either missing or had been found dead(Lamar). Of all of the open cases, there were three major investigators surrounding the killings of Ted Bundy. Bob Keppel of the King County Police Department in Seattle, Jerry Thompson of the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office, and Michael Fisher of the Glenwood Springs District Attorney’s Office in Colorado. Fisher and Thompson noticed similarities in the disappearances and murders that they both had in their areas, and connected them to the same suspect(Holmes). After all of his arrests and all of the evidence piling up against him, Ted Bundy was sure to lose the many cases against

Ted Bundy was an American born rapist, a necrophile; a serial killer and a kidnapper who assaulted and murdered several young women during the 1970’s. The criminal kept on denying the charges for more than ten years and later confessed of having committed the thirty homicide crimes in seven different states before his execution (Rule, 2009). Bundy’s handsome and charismatic appearance made it possible for him to easily win the confidence of young women who were always his targets. He broke into the dwellings of his victims at night and bludgeoned them as they slept. He also approached young women in public places where he impersonated as an authority figure or feigned injury on his victim before empowering and assaulting at a

Ted Bundy attended college at the University of Puget Sound and the University of Washington. During this time, he took on various low-level jobs, such as being a busboy and a shoe clerk. Generally, he did not stay in one position for very long, which caused employers to view him as unreliable. He was always very focused on his studies and grades. In spring of 1967, he entered a life-changing relationship with his “dream woman,” a classmate of his at the University of

Ted met his first girlfriend in college and eventually falls in love. His girlfriend did not see Ted as someone who would be successful and eventually broke up with him and this broke his heart. This was about the time he learned the truth about his family too. He developed

Ted had to lie and say he had to hide from the law because he was a criminal and needed to cross in

Theodore Robert Crowell, also known as Ted Bundy, was born on November 24, 1946 in Burlington, Vermont. Eleanor Cowell, Ted’s mother, was twenty-two years old and unmarried when she had him. Ted’s father left Eleanor before Ted was born and there is no concrete proof on who Ted’s father really was. Eleanor being an unmarried mother was very upsetting to her parents, as they were very religious and did not believe in unmarried pregnancies so Eleanor delivered Ted at a home for unwed mothers in Vermont, later bringing Ted to her parents’ home in Philadelphia. To hide Ted being an illegitimate child, he was

Bundy and Brooks dated for most of their college career, but suddenly, Brooks called it off, she was planning on returning to her family in California. But, she also stated that she was “Fed up with Ted’s immaturity and lack of ambition” (Murderpedia.org). Ted was devastated because she was his first love and was highly infatuated with her. Some sources state that shortly following this breakup, Ted returned to his birthplace and visited the records clerk to learn the truth about his family. After this discovery, Bundy became a more focused person. He became the manager of Governor Nelson Rockefeller’s campaign. Ted and the governor became close and Bundy even received a letter of recommendation from the governor, to further ensure his law school enrollment. Bundy also began dating Elizabeth Kloepfer, they would continue dating for 6 years. A minor scandal broke out involving Ted Bundy and his role on the campaign trail. He was caught giving audio tape recordings of Governor Rockefeller’s democratic opponent to the republican governor’s campaign. In 1972, Bundy graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in psychology

Ted Bundy became interested in knives when he was three. One event when he was around this age was that his mother woke up in the middle of the night to find him holding a very large knife and standing right next to her bed. Throught elementary school he was described as shy but very smart. When he was a teenager he was described as a well liked and well known kid. Ted, on the other hand, would describe himself as not getting along with others and that he chose to be alone most of the time. He told an interviewer later in life that he liked to pass his free time by reading detective magazines, crime novels, and true crime documentaries. He enjoyed crime documentaries that displayed very graphic images. Later while he was incarcerated he claimed that he never read any crime novels of any sort.

On December 22, 1970, in Calgary, Canada Rafael Cruz, and Eleanor Darragh brought Ted Cruz in the world little did they know their son was about to make a name for himself. His father Rafael Cruz come to the United States from Cuba in the late 1950s but his mother Eleanor was born in America they met when she was a student at Rice University.

Born November 24, 1946 Theodore Bundy was the son of young and unmarried Eleanor Cowell. due to his mother exceptionally religious parents he became her shameful secret; in order to hide the illegitimacy of his birth he was raised as the adopted son of his grandparents causing him to believe his mother was his sister. Bundy and his mother moved to Washington and in 1951 and his mother married Johnnie Bundy and had several children together. besides being the unknown shame of his biological mother, he grew up in a hard working and content household but, there was still something very strange about his character. many believe his atypical upbringing was the cause for this.

Ted Bundy's life changed forever in the spring of 1967, when he met and fell in love with the woman of his dreams. She was beautiful, sophisticated and from a wealthy family. She was Ted's first love and possibly his first sexual encounter. She liked him a lot, but did not have the same deep feelings towards him. This didn't discourage Ted Bundy since he would ask her to marry him on several occasions. She was very reluctant to make a serious commitment, because she felt that Ted had no future goals or real direction in his life. Ted began to try to impress her by lying and even winning a summer scholarship from Stanford to try to influence her feelings for him. But the mask of

Kaczynski was born on May 22, 1942 to Wanda and Theodore Kaczynski of Evergreen Park Ill, a tidy and middle class suburb of Chicago. The second son Ted’s brother, David was born in 1950. As children, both kids were very reclusive, not playing with any neighbor children and rarely seen outside of the house. At a young age Ted started to show signs of being a gifted learner, he skipped a year in elementary school and his junior year in high school. Ted spent most of his early life studying math and science alone instead of being social in any kind of way. Ted had a different side to him though, he had a love of explosives which he homemade with his know how in the fields that he studied. Kaczynski was accepted into Harvard at 16

He has a very sickening individual that committed very horrid acts. He murdered women to feel in control but by killing these young women he rid them of having a chance to live their lives. This essay talked about Ted Bundy’s early childhood, his victims and capture, and his

Sadly, this is when Theodore’s behavior seemed to take a turn for the worse. On January 5, 1974 Theodore Bundy viciously attacked a woman referred to as Joni Lenz, a pseudonym used to protect her true identity, in her basement apartment, beating her severely and then brutally raping her vaginally with a piece of her metal bedframe. The high from this outburst did not last long however, and on February 1, 1974 Theodore Bundy’s first confirmed kidnapping and probable homicide victim, Lynda Ann Healy, was reported missing, her body was never found. After this first confirmed victim of kidnapping and suspected murder, a flood of women disappeared, all eventually attributed to Ted, who took his victims approximately once a month. Donna Gail Manson, Susan Elaine Rancourt, Robert Kathleen Parks, Brenda Baker, Brenda Carol Ball, Georgeann Hawkins, Janice Ott and

Ted Bundy with birth name of Theodore Robert Cowell was born in Elizbath Lund home on 24th of November 1946. But his father was unknown, it was belived that he is son of some one else from his mother family.