Ted Bundy : A Serial Killer

To many Ted Bundy is merely another cold hearted murderer. Is this all that he is or was? Was Ted Bundy’s entire life spent as a maniacal killer? Looking back on his entire the resounding answer is no. While it might seem that murderers are born evil or simply pop up overnight and decide to kill others, it is often times the slow effect of one’s life situations which lead them to commit such violent acts. By looking at the case of Ted Bundy it is possible to see the threats our society has cast upon us when they discredit the importance of family in the upbringing of a child.

Throughout the year 1968, Ted became obsessed with winning Stephanie back. He changed his whole outer appearance and was more determined than ever to impress her. Transforming himself into a totally different man, he was becoming someone who Brooks would want. Bundy chose politics as his chosen road towards status; he was active in the Washington State Republican party (Serial Killers 15). Toward the end of 1968, he was unemployed after the Republican

Ted Bundy is known for charismatic personality, good looks, and charm; he is also known as the most organized murderer to have lived. Bundy would lure woman to his car using a number of excuses; he was handicap or else lost. Because he was so charming women would feel at ease around him and go where he asked. Once at his car, Bundy would grab and restrain the woman. He would then drive to a different location where he would beat and rape the woman until death. Finally he would drive to yet ANOTHER location to dispose of the body. In February 1978, Ted Bundy was finally captured and interviewed. As a child, raised by his grandparents, he showed no signs of previous abuse or neglect. He was raised well and sociable during high school where classmates report that he was well liked. After further analysis, Bundy was presumed to have low activity to his orbital frontal cortex; this is the part of the brain in charge of the conscious, and the “right or wrong” factor. This is not to say that Bundy had a deficiency that prevented him from knowing what he was doing. Just merely a common abnormality that should be noted. Bundy’s case supports the idea that an individual’s makeup can have an effect on their actions.

Ted Bundy was one of the most vicious and notorious serial killers in United States history. His success in finding and slaughtering his prey was often due to his meticulous planning and preparation. In other moments he simply seized upon the opportunity to charm a woman he met without any prior planning and lured her to a place where he could kill her. He killed as many as 36 women, although authorities suggest that there may have been more victims than that. Was Bundy a classic case of a criminal whose activities can be linked to the "Rational Choice" theory? Do the principles of "Trait" theories explain his behaviors? This paper looks into those theories as they may or may not apply to the murderous life of Ted Bundy. This paper finds that Rational Choice theory fits the facts of Ted Bundy's serial killing more appropriately than Trait theories.

Theodore Bundy was born on November 24th 1946. He was born to an unwed mother who was told that she was his sister. He was raised by his grandparents who portrayed themselves as his parents throughout his early childhood years. According to the article I read Ted’s grandfather was abusive towards Ted and his other siblings (Montaldo). Ted was shy and said to be sociably awkward, but during high school he developed into good looking guy and was liked by many.

Ted Bundy was born on November 24, 1946 in Burlington, Vermont. He was incredibly fascinated by

Theodore Bundy born Theodore Robert Cowell was born in Burlington, Vermont to Eleanor Cowell. He was born on November 24, 1946. She had him when she was still a teeneager and so Ted was raised believing that she was his sister. His birth father is somewhat confusing on his birth certificate it has Lloyd Marshall but investigators believe that his real father 's name was Jack Worthington. Ted’s mother married Johnnie Bundy who eventually adopted Ted as his son.

Theodore Robert Bundy was born Theodore Robert Cowell born on November 24, 1946, in Burlington, Vermont. Ted was his mother’s secret, because she was a young single twenty two year old unmarried woman. Her parents were very religious and this was a big no-no, Her parents where appalled and shammed her. She gave birth to her son in a home for unwed mothers in Vermont. Her parents took her back in, and she went back to her parents in Philadelphia. Teds mother let her parents raise him as their own, and he was led to believe his grandparents were his patents and his mother was his sister. Ted’s grandfather, Samuel Cowell, is rumored to be his biological father. Although it was never confirmed, if the rumor is true, that would make Ted Bundy the product of incest. After a family argument, that revealed the truth about Ted’s true identity, Louise, Teds biological mother moved them to Tacoma, Washington. Teds mother met Johnnie Bundy shortly after moving to Washington. They got married a short time later and had four children together. Johnnie adopted Ted, changing his last name from

Ted Bundy was born in Burlington, Vermont on November 24 1946. Ted was an illegitimate child, his mother was not married and she was in her early twenties which was socially looked down upon. Her mother and he then moved in with his mother’s grandparents. Ted was then told a lie that her mother was her sister and the grandparents was his parents. In 1951, his mother married and had several children, which in that point everything looked normal. During his adolescent years he was teased in school, never really fit in school. It was also during this time that he was told the truth about the lies that he is an illegitimate child, his mother lying about being his sister and his parents are actually his grandparents. Up until he enrolled into University

Theodore "Ted" Bundy (American killer and rapist) was born November 24, 1946 in Burlington, Vermont. Bundy showed an unusual interest in the macabre at an early age. Around the age of 3, he became fascinated by knives. As a teenager, Bundy started to peer in people's windows and stole things he wanted from other people.

Ted Bundy is known to be the worst serial killer in U.S. History. In the 1970's, Ted raped and murdered women in at least five different states. Bundy eventually confessed to thirty murders, although the actual total remains unknown. Theodore Robert Bundy was born on November 24th, 1946 in Burlington, Vermont to Eleanor Louise Cowell, a 22 year old single woman. Ted's mom never told him much about his father other than that he was in the armed forces and that they never were really together. Bundy had a difficult childhood and was pretty much an wanted by his mother. After being left in foster care for two months, Eleanor decided to have her parents raise Ted and make him and everyone believe that they were his adopted parents and

Theodore Robert Bundy was born November 24th, 1946 in Burlington, Vermont. His mother, Louise Cowell, was twenty-one when she gave birth to him. The only thing that Ted knew about his father was that he was in the armed forces. Ted was raised to the age of four by his grandparents, who had his last name legally changed from Cowell to Nelson. Soon after, Louise moved with her son to Tacoma, Washington, a Puget Sound harbor and mill town. Louise met Johnnie Bundy, a thirty-year-old cook at the Madigan Army Hospital. Louise and Johnnie were married May 17, 1951. It was at that point when Ted took on the Bundy name (Larsen, R. W.).

Theodore Robert Bundy was born Theodore Robert Cowell on November 24, 1949.His mother, Louise Cowell was unmarried at the time, and the name of his biological father has never been determined with certainty, however Lloyd Marshall was named on his birth certificate. Louise moved into her parent’s home shortly after Ted’s birth and allowed him to be raised as her ‘brother’ for quite some time. When Ted’s mother married Johnnie Culpepper Bundy in May 1951 in Tacoma, Washington, when Theodore was four years old, Theodore took his step-father’s last name of Bundy.

Every person carries a lifetime’s worth of stories filled with joy, pain, love, and injustice that form our behavior in all aspects of our life. When analyzing the crimes committed by Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacey, looking back at their lived experiences reveals jaded childhoods that fueled their actions to murder. Bundy and Gacey showed similar biological and social predispositions for deviant behavior, however these men lived very different lives post adolescence. When filtered through intersectional criminal theories, it is amazing to see how the collection of biological, social, and environmental factors created monsters, regardless of success leading into adulthood.

Theodore (Ted) Bundy was born on November 24, 1946 in Burlington, Vermont. Ted’s mother Eleanor Cowell, gave birth to him at the age of 22 years old. She was not married. They soon moved to Philadelphia to be with his mother's parents. Bundy was eventually adopted by his grandparents. Ted was lied to by his family members by telling him that his mother was his older sister.