The Psychological Theory Of Ted Bundy

Moreover, one of the most widely known and notorious serial killers in the United States is Ted Bundy. I choose Ted Bundy for a case study because I work for the Pensacola Police Department and I see daily the pictures in the hallway of his capture by my agency and I have heard the stories told of his arrest by officers that worked here during that time. Ted Bundy was a very articulate, charismatic, and charming person. This is believed

Throughout history, criminal investigators have encountered different forms of serial killers. One of the many famous serial killers in the twentieth century was Theodore Robert Bundy (Ted Bundy). Ted Bundy was responsible for the Chi Omega killings and many more. When people think of serial killers, they visualize some dirty, crazy, looking individual that would stand out from everybody else. In Ted's case this was different. Ted Bundy was a very smart individual who had attended college at various colleges, studying law and finally receiving his degree in psychology from the University of Washington. He had volunteered for the Republican Party in California for a Governor campaign. His family and friends considered Bundy as

“Ask a psychopath what love is and he’ll go on and on, but he has never felt it himself…If you catch him lying, he’ll just shift gears and go on as though nothing had happened” (Goleman). Ted Bundy was one of the most famous psychopaths in the history of the country (Nordheimer). People say he was the perfect killer- handsome, intelligent, witty, and charming (Boynton 25). Bundy was the complete opposite of what people thought a serial killer looked like, so his victims did not fear him (“Ted Bundy”). Robert Keppel, an expert on serial killers, stated, “He taught us that a serial killer can appear to be absolutely normal, the guy next door (“Serial Killers and Mass Murderers”). At one point he was working for a suicide hotline; a friend

Out of all the Infamous killers in the U.S the two well-known killers that I will be researching are Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy. These two murderers share many similarities such as their backgrounds, Crimes, and Motives. Both Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy are serial killers who’ve killed over a dozen people each. They’ve committed crimes including rape, murder, and kidnapping. In this research paper I will be comparing and contrasting the two serial killers.

Eventually, Bundy would figure out the truth because one of his cousins would show Ted a copy of his birth certificate after calling him a “bastard” (Ramsland, K. 2013, p. 2). This resulted in Bundy expressing a lifelong resistant toward his mother forever because she hid this fact from him leaving him to have to find out for himself. Evidently, this ties quite well with attachment theory because the relationship between his mother and him would never be the same after that unfortunate day.

Is biology-making people serial killers? "One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature 's too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned” (Woolaston 2015) Marquis de Sade held an interesting view of people. Most humans have their own moral compass, most all differ from one another. Certain aspects of the mind control animal propensities and more in depth emotion; such as empathy (Solano). An extreme cause for certain insane acts is head trauma. A study of 15 inmates developed head trauma prior to their crime. There was neuropsychological testing for these inmates and it exemplified that their brains were indeed affected by trauma (Solano, 2015). Research shows that serial killers do not commute and use emotions in general. This would explain why they have such a microscopic understanding of empathy within themselves. It would be a leading cause for why they kill, rape, and abuse. In ‘The Stranger Beside Me’ novel by Ann Rule she elaborates of her and Bundy’s friendship of 17 years, and how they worked side by side in a Crisis Clinic in Seattle; Both of them answered the calls to aid emotionally unstable people. Rule also worked alongside the police force and documented police cases. Little did Rule know that Bundy was the culprit for all these attacks. Rule was fooled by Bundy’s

This research paper will explore the life of a serial killer named Ted Bundy. We will look at the cause and effects of him becoming a serial killer. We will also discuss the different criminology theories behind Ted Bundy’s actions. Based on what was discovered in the research no one theory can explain the action of Ted Bundy as a serial killer. The remainder of the paper is laid out as follows: biography of Ted Bundy, introduction, discussion of crimes and theories, and the conclusion.

Ted was feeling resentment towards his mother for lying about who his parents was, and for finding out by his cousin instead of her.

“Three-year-old Ted Bundy sneaked into his teenage aunt Julia's room one morning, and slipped butcher knives under the covers of her bed. ‘He just stood there and grinned,’ she said” (Scott 28). Bundy would go on to murder over 30 girls via strangulation and mutilation. “Serial killer Carl Panzram himself wrote: ‘All of my family are as the average human beings are. They are honest and hardworking people.

In the quadripartite model of sexual aggression against adults by Hall and Hirschman, the explanation of the reason why “men sexually assault women” involves four factors (Wong, 2016, p. 287). All four factors apply to why Ted Bundy became a serial rapist. The four factors being “physiological sexual arousal, cognitions that justify sexual aggression, affective dyscontrol and personality problems” (Wong, 2016, p.287). Being a straight sexualized male, Ted Bundy had physiological sexual arousal towards women. Growing up and being sexualized by violent pornography, Ted had “cognitions that justified (his) sexual aggression” such as the reason he gave a reporter stating that he believed it was the violence towards women in porn that made him sexually

The biological theories are essential to the criminal justice profession so that they won't assume that a person's genetic characteristics cause a person to commit a crime. However, there are born criminals and “these types of criminals are the most dangerous, and can be identified through his or her stigmata or identifying characteristics” (Akers, Sellers, See, & Kieser, 2013, p. 10). Biological theories are the bases for severe criminal behavior mostly found among people who are born with an innate impulse to commit a

There are various theories within the biological explanation as to why individuals commit criminal behaviour, these include:

Ted Bundy is best known as arguably the most cunning and infamous serial killer of the 20th century. There were a multitude of factors that may have shaped Bundy’s mind, personality, and actions, ranging from struggling with addictions during his childhood all the way to emotional distress around the time when he killed Ann Marie Burr, the first of his many victims. There is, however, one concept of Bundy’s personality that may have especially been influential on his decision to commit his heinous crimes. There is strong evidence that argues that this particular personality facet, the unconscious shadow, may have had the strongest impact on Bundy’s life and behavior.

This psychological investigation made me seeks to understand and explain emotion, and behavior of Ted Bundy. I really love studying human behavior by observing people around me interact to their surroundings, and how they face problems and solve them. I really learned a lot from reading many different articles on celebrities that I found online before focusing on my chosen character. Those readings helped me creating my own psychological investigation on my selected character, Ted Bundy. I did my research, and read a lot about him, and heard Ted Bundy's Final Interview with James Dobson. I believe I did sufficient research on him. If I got the opportunity to do a psychological investigation, I would do the same steps that I did before. I really

The very first serial rapist and killer Ted Bundy told a reporter in his last interview with the press that he was raised in a happy Christian upbringing. He said that until the age of 28 years old he had lived a relatively normal life. He had a bachelor degree and was attending law school. He said he had one small deep dark secret obsession that consumed him. As an adolescences male visiting his local supermarket he coincidentally came across a soft