Reef Nelson David Muller ENC1102-20242-31-M-005 8/ April / 2024 Terror with a Badge: "The X-M Martin County’s Killer Cop Mug shot of serial killer, Gerard Schaefer. January 1, 1973 1. On March 26, 1946, a monster was born in the city of Neenah, Wisconsin. This child would grow up to be the most prolific serial killer of Martin County, Florida, between the years of 1966 and 1973 (TCPALM). This man was Deputy Gerard John Shaefer Jr., otherwise known as the Killer Cop. Apprehended on April 7, 1973, Shaefer’s crime would be brought to light, and he was given two life sentences (Beyond Killer Fiction: Rogue Cop). Lead prosecutor Robert Stone claimed Schaefer was, “the most sexually deviant person I have ever seen. He made Ted Bundy …show more content…
Schaefer was highly effective at evading police detection because of his law enforcement knowledge, which allowed him to always be a step ahead of the police departments who were looking for missing people. Schaefer would additionally use his image of a police officer to convince and lure his victims to accept a ride in his police cruiser (Beyond Killer Fiction: Rogue Cop). Schaefer would then abduct his victims and bring them to isolated locations so he could torture, rape, and murder away from prying eyes, and these locations would become the graves of his victims. His motives, charisma, and identity in social situations is remarkably like a different serial killer who abducted and murdered women from 1974 to 1978, Ted Bundy …show more content…
serial killers, Ted Bundy used his charm and wit to murder 36 people across the country. Bundy grew up in a broken home and developed deviant fantasies involving women, like Schaefer, that would fuel his violence. Many of his victims believed he was an upstanding gentleman, which they found attractive. “He was a clean-cut young man who seemingly did not fit the mold of the traditional serial killer. Throughout the documentary, he is described in both the media at the time and in present day interviews as a handsome, charming, well-mannered, smart, boy-next-door type of person. Characterizing Bundy in a positive light reveals his privilege– his ultimate identity is a serial killer, yet he is afforded the opportunity to be remembered as a charismatic and smart individual.” (The Unheard Voices and Privilege of a Killer: An Analysis of Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes). Ted Bundy’s killing spree was a year after the end of Schaefer’s murders, according to Schaefer. Bundy was inspired partially by his method of roadside abduction and torture murders, “‘Bundy was always 100% respectful of me. I treated him as a supplicant, while others were hanging on his every word.’ Bundy allegedly confessed that he had been inspired by Schaefer's case to kill two victims on a single day in 1974.” (Crime
Throughout history, America has been the home of serial killers, with more than 2,000 throughout history. In this country, America has encountered many different kinds of these sick people. One of the most infamous serial killers throughout American History was Theodore Robert Bundy, also known as Ted Bundy. On November 24, 1946, in Burlington, Vermont, Theodore Robert Bundy was born. When people think of serial killers, they usually see a dirty, insane looking person that would stand out from the average person. In Bundy’s case it was very different. Ted was a very smart individual who had attended 5 different colleges throughout the United States, studying law and eventually getting his degree in psychology at the University of Washington. Bundy was a very handsome and charming man, unlike most other serial killers. Looking helpless and using his good looks, Bundy was able to lure his victims and would knock them unconscious with an object such as a crowbar or a pipe, then would handcuff them inside his car. Once the victims were under his control he would then proceed in kidnapping, raping, sodomizing, and eventually killing them in very harsh ways. Throughout the 70’s, he raped and murdered young women all across the country. Bundy was said to be connected to at least 36 murders, and suspected to have committed one hundred or more.
Ted Bundy was a brutal serial killer. He was also very charming and handsome to
...words of Ted Bundy, one of the most ruthless serial killers of our time: "Most serial killers are people who kill for the pure pleasure of killing and cannot be rehabilitated. Some of the killers themselves would even say so" (qtd. in Holmes and Deburger 150).
He was intelligent, articulate and handsome. During a gruesome killing spree, Ted Bundy slaughtered more than thirty five women within the span of five years, becoming one of the most notorious serial killers in American history. He grew up believing that his grandparents were his parents and his unwed mother to be his older sister. He was not very good at building relationships and had a lot of conflict with his stepfather and enjoyed the terms of violence and sex as a child. Ted shoplifted during his teenage years and enjoyed being above the law. He was generally very shy and gained a lot of popularity and self esteem in high school because of his good looks. It was there that he met his high school girlfriend Stephanie Brooks with whom he become obsessed, but the relationship did not last very long as she did not feel the same way for him so she broke up with him. Depressed by the break up, Ted dropped out of college and returned home with his family where he found out the truth about his biological mother. This left Ted in a state of confusion about his identity and he felt betrayed by the women in his life. He went back to high school where he and Stephanie got back together but right after she agreed to marry him, he broke up with her to seek revenge. After this charade his killing spree began, luring young women with lies, abducting, raping, physically abusing and killing them.
With hundreds of unsolved murders, many of them could be put to rest with the death of Ted Bundy. He will always be regarded as one of the most gruesome murders in history. Some of these murders including the Chi Omega and Leech murders could have been prevented had Ted not been such a witty criminal.
Another serial killer that we discussed was Theodore “Ted” Bundy. Bundy was also an American serial killer who confessed to the murder of 36 young women. However, investigators believe that he killed up to 100 or more women. He grew up in a nice working family. He did really well in school but didn’t have very good social skills. As a teenager he began peering in others’ windows and stealing things from
A serial killer is traditionally defined as the separate killings of three or more people by an individual over a certain period of time, usually with breaks between the murders. (Angela Pilson, p. 2, 2011) This definition has been accepted by both the police and academics and therefore provides a useful frame of reference (Kevin Haggerty, p.1, 2009). The paper will seek to provide the readers with an explanation of how serial killers came to be and how they are portrayed in the media. Several serial killers have a definitive and common personality profile.
Ted Bundy Ted Bundy's Trail of Terror From the Beginning of Taking Life Until The End of His Life. Serial killers tend to be white heterosexual males in their twenties and thirties. While it is impossible to predict who will become a serial killer, there are traits that appear to be similar in all killers. These behaviors include cruelty to animals, bedwetting, lying, drug and alcohol abuse, and a history of violence. According to Robert Ressler et al., "serial homicide involves the murder of separate victims with time breaks between victims, as minimal as two days to weeks or months.
Introduction: On the spectrum of criminal activity, serial killers are rather rare. Rarer still is a serial killer like Ted Bundy. Bundy confessed to killing 28 women in the 1970s in ghastly fashion and some believe he may have killed far more. It is hard to imagine what could cause any person to cross the mental boundary into such macabre behavior as Bundy perpetrated. Nevertheless, it is important to try to understand that behavior because only though such an understanding would society be able to identify and deter mass murderers in order to save lives.
Bundy spent years trying to fight for his life, spending the last couple of years in his life appealing his death sentence. He also tried to keep his case alive by trying to take his case to a high as the U.S. Supreme Court but his case was turned down. He even tried to give more information on case that where unsolved so he could avoid the Florida's electric chair. By now things for him to solve and come clean was too late. Ted had to face the time for the brutal things he did to those young beautiful women even if it kill him.
He was an extrovert and that was why he needed to kill and rape multiple women not just one. He says it was not his family’s fault he was like this and that is true but somewhere in his DNA caused him to do these crazy things. He also had some type of stress that made him snap and never go back to the way he was. I wonder if Ted Bundy would have been different if he put himself in a different environment. Bundy blamed the environment is what caused him to make these crimes but I don’t think so plenty of men watch porn and do not go around killing
By 1978, roughly thirty women were dead and mutilated by the same man with little explanation as to why. Ted Bundy, one of the most infamous serial killers in history brutally took the lives of numerous women for seemingly no reason at all. His justification for these murders was simply that he felt like committing them. A serial killer is defined as someone who has killed more than three people over a period of a month or more for seemingly no reason at all. Most serial killers have no real motive for killing; for them it is an urge that they must satisfy. Was Ted Bundy and others like him always a violent psychopath or did certain events cause him to behave this way? One common belief is that abusive childhoods and other environmental factors are the main reason serial killers develop the way they do. The other belief is that serial killers are born with an innate desire to kill. The answer to this question lies within both arguments and there is no secret serial killer formula. Serial Killers are neither born nor made; instead many factors, both biological and psychological, contribute to the making of these destructive monsters.
A person's intelligence and impulsivity can influence an individual's ability to judge future and immediate rewards and punishments. Ted Bundy falls under the category of the operant utilitarian theory because he saw the reward and not the punishment of his crimes. The reward that satisfied him was the act of murder and the final expression of power and control over his victims. Ted Bundy’s victims were women in which he would rape and kill. Although he only confessed to 30 murders and assaults, it is estimated to be over 100 victims.
Ted Bundy is one of the most infamous, sadistic serial killers known to man. During his tenure as a killer, Bundy confessed to the murders of 30 women, though the official number of kills is unknown to this day. Bundy’s sadistic habits began at an early age due to his rough upbringing and abusive parents. His tactical methods of killing left miniscule amounts of evidence, which remained undetectable by the “still rudimentary forensics techniques of the 1970s” (Crime Museum). Bundy also managed to uphold an impressive “clean-cut appearance” and portrayed characteristics of an “upstanding character” (Crime Museum). Ted Bundy, through the course of a troubled childhood and keen wit, managed to successfully become known as one of the most infamous
Serial killers have been around for decades but According To Jack Levin, 'seven of the ten largest mass killings in American history have taken place in the last decade (Douglas, p. 137). One of the most popular and well-known serial killers in history was Ted Bundy. He was convicted of killing three women but is suspected of killing thirty-six other women (Douglas, p. 137).