The Serial Killers : Ted Bundy

In today’s world, murderers aren’t a surprising thing, as long as they are fictional. Plenty of TV shows and movies have plot lines around murder, but what about real life? As Scott Bonn states in his writing, of the approximate 15,000 murders in the United States, only 1 percent are serial killings, amounting to about 150 victims per year, with between 25 and 50 serial killers active at any given time. There are plenty of statistics on serial killers. 1 in 20 had the same three characteristics as a child: bedwetting, fire setting, and torturing animals. Animal torture is a common indicator that the child will be violent in the future. Also, over 30 percent of murderers use killing as a way for their sexual arousal (Stone). A murderer

Crime occurs every day, all over the world. Most crime is unreported or is unknown to the vast majority of the populations. Over time, crime has grown to become a normal part of society and typically people are not surprised to hear that a crime has been committed. Most crimes are dealt with and forgotten, however a few crimes grab the media’s attention and are highly publicized, ultimately giving the criminal their 15 minutes of infamy. Ted Bundy was one of these criminals. Bundy was a law student in Utah and during the 1970’s, he assaulted, raped and murdered at least 30 known women with some criminologists suspecting as high as nearly 100 victims. The tactics he used along with the extent of his killings is how Bundy acquired his long lasting infamy and notoriety as one of America’s top 10 most wanted during his time. Our true focus here is explaining why these murders occurred; truly understanding the motivation behind Bundy’s actions and finding the roots of causation which could lead a person to commit such serious crimes.

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

Theodore Bundy was an infamous American serial killer who preyed upon numerous young women during the 1970s and possibly earlier. He was associated with at least 30 counts of homicide and suspected of an estimated one hundred or more. Beyond homicide, he also made it apparent that he was capable of other sinister crimes such as rape, kidnapping, and necrophilia. His most frequent method of killing was an attack with a blunt weapon to the head. However, he did not merely kill his victims; evidence concludes that each were also sexually assaulted and sodomized. It is reported that he even revisited his crime scenes to further engage in sexual acts with the decomposing corpses. Moreover, at least 12 of his victims had been decapitated .

Theodore (Ted) Robert Bundy was a serial killer who claimed the lives of more than 30 women, over the course of a decade (Owen). He was the son of Louise Cowell, who had Bundy on November 24, 1946 in the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers in Vermont (Rule). He was raised in Philadelphia, believing that his maternal grandparents were his parents (Ramsland). Ted and his mother Louise left to Washington State, shortly after arriving, Louise married Johnnie Bundy; who adopted Ted and gave him his famous surname (Ramsland). Ted attended the University of Puget Sound in Washington State and after a year he transferred to University of Washington (Rule). This is where he met Stephanie Brooks, his dream girl (Rule). Stephanie was from a wealthy

Theodore “Ted” Bundy was an infamous, coast-to-coast American serial killer who kidnapped, assaulted, and raped numerous of young women. He faked injuries and posed as state officials to lure female victims, raped them, and used strangulation and/or blunt trauma as primary killing methods. Bundy was first convicted in 1976 after Carol DaRoach, who he failed to kidnap, identified him in a police lineup. He was sentenced 1 to 15 years for attempted kidnapping in Utah. Bundy was later transferred to Colorado to stand trial of the first-degree murder of Caryn Campbell; her frozen nude body was found near a rural area road a month later from her disappearance at the Rocky Mountain resort. During the trial, Bundy is also being investigated on the disappearance of eight other women. However, on June 7, 1977, Bundy managed to escape at the Pitkin County Courthouse. He was again apprehended a week later when police officers pulled over the cadillac he stole. In

Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations" (Pat Brown Agency, 2017). Recent discoveries have shown that one of the very first murders that was found is dated back to 430,000 years ago with a victim that was hit hard enough to cause major damage to the skull before being tossed into a cave to be found thousands of years later (Knapton, 2015). Criminal activity has been active throughout centuries. In recent times, police have solved cases that seemed impossible to solve with the use of criminal profiling that has been advanced with help of technology, studies, and new techniques.

Ted remained emotionally detached from his stepfather. According to Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth's book Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer, Ted became increasingly uncomfortable around his stepfather and preferred to be alone. “This desire to be by himself increased and possibly led to his later inability to socially interact comfortably with others.” Ted granted an interview, his last one , to psychologist James Dobson just a few hours before he was executed on January 24, 1989. In that peculiar interview, he describes the throes of his an addition to pornography.

Criminal Case Study Theodore Bundy, also known as Ted, was born on November 24, 1946 in Burlington, Vermont to Eleanor Cowell who secretly was ashamed. Eleanor was a 22 year old single mother whose parents were very religious and humiliated of Ted. After Ted was born, Eleanor brought him to her parents who lived in Philadelphia, where he was raised as the adoptive son of his grandparents. This led to his real mom being called his sister.

The serial killer I will be discussing is a Ted Bundy. Ted Bundy was a serial killer who had been linked to at least 36 murders. In the 1970’s Ted had raped and murdered women in several states. The first source comes from crimefeed.com.

As stated Ted Bundy was born with name Theodore Robert Cowell. His mother, Eleanor Cowell, had Bundy when she was twenty-one years old and unmarried in a home for unwed mothers in Vermont. She

Described as “THE execution” (Lyons & Trei, 1989, p. Ia) serial killer and rapist Ted Bundy was put to death by the State of Florida at 7.16 A.M. January 24, 1989. During his life he had been convicted of the 1978 rape and murder of a 12 year old, Kimberly Leach in Lack City; and the death of Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman, sorority sisters at Florida State University. Just two days before his execution Bundy also admitted to killing a number of other females of various ages in Washington, Colorado, Utah, Oregon and Florida although he was never tried or convicted for those (Rule, 1989, p. 479-480). In total it is estimated that he killed between 25 and 30 women (Rule, 1989).

A well-known serial killer, Ted Bundy had escaped from jail in Colorado while waiting for his trial. Bundy ended up at the Chi Omega sorority at Florida State University. While there, he attacked four girls with a bat and strangled them to death. He sexually assaulted and bit one of the girls, which would later be used against him at trial. He was recaptured in February of 1978, and the case went to trial.

Analysis on the Criminal Behavior of Ted Bundy Ted Bundy was a man who committed extremely violent and heinous crimes during his life. He is guilty of committing at least 36 murders; often times he would rape his victims before killing them. Ted Bundy was a well-educated man, who exuded confidence to everyone he met. How could someone so seemingly normal be a serial killer?

Ted Bundy was born in Burlington, Vermont on November 24, 1946. He became his mother’s shame due to the fact he was conceived while she was unmarried and young. Eleanor Cowell, the mother of Ted Bundy had strict religious parents which put more pressure to the situation.