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Ted Bundy -- Serial Killer

Ted Bundy: Serial Killer

Theodore Robert Bundy aka Ted Bundy, was born Theodore Robert Cowell to Louise Cowell on November 24, 1946 in Burlington, Vermont at the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers. After spending eight weeks in the home Louise went to her parents house to raise her son in Philadelphia. Ted Bundy, serial killer grew up believing that his mother was his sister and his grandparents were his parents until in 1951 when Louise and Ted moved to Tacoma, Washington where Louise married Johnnie Bundy, a military cook. Ted Bundy was handsome wel liked and a good students. Following school Ted attended the University of Puget Sound and although he achieved academically he felt inferior to his classmates who were mostly a group of wealthy individuals. Ted Bundy's first love was a girl with long brunette hair and this young lady jilted him and he was became obsessed with her and suffered a deep depression. During this time he learned that his parents were his grandparents and that his sister was his mother.

Ted in Politics

Ted Bundy replaced his shyness with a new false front of confidence. Bundy went to work for Washington's Republic Governor, Dan Evans who upon being elected appointed Bundy ot the Crime Prevention Advisory Committee in Seattle, Washington. Ted Bundy was dating a woman, had his old girlfriend once again in love with him and had a strong footing in politics. However, in 1974 young women were coming up missing from college campuses in Washington and Oregon. Among the missing, was Lynda Ann Healy, a radio announcer that was 21-year of age. The women were reported to have been approached by a man named Ted at a Seattle state park and were seen going off with the man never to be seen again. The young women who were missing were slim and had long hair parted in the middle.

Ted the Serial Killer

Bundy enrolled in school at the University of Utah in 1974 and in November of the same year, Carol DaRoach was attacked at a mall in Utah by a man in a police officer uniform. DaRonch managed to escape from her attacker and was able to give the police a description of not only the man, but as well of the Volkswagen he was driving and a sample of the man's blood that got on her jacket when she was struggling to get away. Only hours after the attack on DaRonch, 17-year-old Debbie Kent came up missing. It was around this time that hikers in Washington found a graveyard of bones in a forest in Washington. The bodies of the dead women that were found in the state of Utah had all been hit on the head with some type of blunt object before they were raped and sodomized.

Ted Arrested and Escapes

In August 1975, Bundy was pulled over for a driving offense and DaRonch picked him out of line-up and he was charged with attempted kidnapping. Bundy was sentence in 1976 to 15 years in prison and was later linked to the murder of another young woman. However, in December, 1975 Bundy escaped from prison and went to Florida. On January 14, 1978, Bundy broke into the Chi Omega sorority house and strangled two women and raped one of the women leaving bite marks on the woman's buttocks. One month later Bundy killed by mutilation a 12-year-old girl named Kimberly Leach. Bundy was arrested one week later driving a stolen car and was charged with the murders. Bundy went on trial in 1979 and was found guilty of the three murders and received three life sentences. Prior to his execution in 1989 Bundy provided details on the murder sites of more than 50 women and related that some of the heads of the women were kept in his home where he used them in necrophilia. (Boyle, 2013, p.1)

Ted's Mind

Ted Bundy was a highly intelligent individual and it is reported that during the time that Bundy was active "he had gained a deep understanding of the society he lived in and successfully manipulated its weak spots for his own sadistic gain. He realized that the young, pretty girls he targeted were not encouraged to cultivate physical strength, or to question authority figures (he impersonated a police officer on at least one occasion). He recognized that the status he had attained -- that of an attractive, educated, and genial young man -- essentially placed him above suspicion. He worked in politics and aspired to a career in law, and saw that self-absorption, manipulation of others, and the cultivation of a deceptive exterior were not just encouraged but required of the powerful men he observed." (Marshall, 2013, p.1)