A Brief Biography Of Ted Bundy

On January 24, 1989, a handsome and charming man by the name of Theodore (Ted) Robert Bundy was put to death at 7:16 am by a Florida state prison electric chair due to a conviction of murdering Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman. Before being electrocuted he confessed to 28 other murders (Bundy, 1999).
Louise Cowell, became pregnant with Ted Bundy when she was 22, unmarried, and living with her parents. Her refusal to name her baby's father resulted in her being sent to the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers in Burlington, Vermont. On November 24, 1946 she gave birth to Ted. Two months after residing at the home, Louise's family finally claimed him and Ted became the adopted son of Louise's parents and was brought up as his mother's brother in order to legitimize him (Ramsland, 2013, p. 5). To this day, it is rumored that Ted's real father could be Louise's own aggressive and violent father, Sam Cowell; however the truth behind Ted's parentage was never discovered (Bundy, 1999).
From ages one to three, Bundy lived with his maternal grandparents. While Bundy's grandmother was hospitalized periodically to undergo electroconvulsive therapy for depression, he was often left with his grandfather, Sam Cowell, who was a violently abusive man. Even when Bundy was younger he expressed very disturbing behavior. When Bundy was a toddler, his aunt Julia woke up one day to see little Ted placing three butcher knives beside her with a smile on his face (Bundy, 1999).
When Bundy was three, Louise took him with her, when she relocated to Tacoma, Washington to be near her uncle Jack Cowell and to be in a better environment. Two years later she met and married a cafeteria chef, John Bundy. Together they had three children. As a family, th...

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..."one you become addicted to it [pornography], you look for more potent, more explicit, more graphic kinds of material... until you reach the point where the pornography only goes so far- that jumping off point where you begin to think that maybe actually doing it will give you a greater sense of excitement which is just beyond reading and looking at it (Stiles 1989)". After Bundy had realized that his addiction to violent porn was no longer being satisfied by merely looking, for a couple years Bundy dealt with very strong inhibitions against criminal and violent behavior due to his adolescent neightborhood, church, and schools. At a certain point, a sexual frenzy came over him, and he "threw caution to the wind." Towards the end of the interview, Bundy talks about his remorse, rant on pornography, and his new-found devotion to religion.