Research Paper On Ted Bundy

In this paper I will discuss the life story of the notorious killer, Ted Bundy. Bundy was a very strange serial killer. From the beginning of his life to the end where he died in Florida State Prison he was a very strange individual. Little is known as to why Ted Bundy went on his killing rampage. This is the life story of the notorious killer Ted Bundy.

Since we are talking about the life story of Ted Bundy, let’s start at the beginning when he born. He was born in the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers in Burlington, Vermont. He did not have a father, which meant that his mother had to work long hours and did not have much money to support the both of them. For that reason, Ted and his mother went to live with Ted’s grandmother. When

Ted was about five years old his mother had found a husband with the name of Johnny Bundy. She was married in 1951. Since Bundy didn’t get to see his mother much in his early years he had a strange delusion that his mother was his sister and his grandparents were his mom and dad. Despite this, experts say that Bundy had nice normal childhood.
After a while Bundy grew up. His mother and step-father had more kids which Ted had to babysit often. Ted did not like his step-father even though he tried to connect with Bundy several times. His step-father tried taking Bundy on camping trips and other father son activities and Ted denied him. Although Ted didn’t get along with his stepfather, he was a very good student in school. He was one of the top students in his class. Bundy was also very religious at a very young age. Bundy was very involved in his local Methodist church, serving as vice president of the Methodist youth fellowship.
As Bundy grew up he started to hit a social wall. Ted did not talk to other kids his age and it is thought that he didn’t understand the meaning of socialization. According to The Killers among Us Ted grew up and graduated high school in 1965 and was one of the top students in his class. As he went to college he attended the University of Pugent Sound. When he started at this school he majored in psychology and Oriental studies. His time at the University of Pugent Sound did not last long, he only went there for two years. After his time at Pugent Sound he transferred to the University of Washington in Seattle.
While he was At the University of Washington in Seattle he had a lot of odd jobs.

Although Bundy was a student at the University, he worked part time as grocery store bagger. Ted also had many other odd jobs but didn’t have a same job for more than two months. Since Bundy was majoring in Physiology he got a job on the Seattle suicide hotline. While doing this job Bundy had a very good relationships with the local sheriff’s department, which would become a key piece of evidence in his later crime.

At the start of Bundy’s sophomore year of college Ted started to get an interest for governmental activities. Since Ted had an interest in this he served on the Nelson Rockefeller presidential campaign in 1968. After graduation he became the crisis counselor for Governor Dan Evan’s successful reelection campaign. Bundy became assistant to Ross Davis the chairman for the Republican Party. Working for Davis, he thought that Bundy had a very promising future in Campaigning and also thought that Ted would be one of the best campaign managers in the country.

Since Bundy was so interested in politics, he decided to enter law school at the University Of Pugent Sound. Although Bundy had an ambition for politics he did not do well in the classes. Bundy started to skip classes and did very poorly. He finally flunked out of Law school and was soon kicked off of his republican

services.
As Bundy grew older he met what he thought was the love his life, Stephanie Brooks. The relationship did not last long, and after she graduated in 1968 she broke up with Bundy because in her mind he was immature and lacked ambition. After Stephanie broke up with Bundy, he went into a deep depression and went back to his hometown. While visiting his hometown Bundy decided to look up his records at his local library. This made him a very angry individual.
Many say that his break up with Stephanie awakened a killing machine. According to "Ted Bundy." American National Biography Soon after breaking up with his girlfriend women started to disappear from the University of Washington campus. They started to disappear in about 1974, starting with a 21-year old Lynda Healy. After Lynda several women between Washington University and Oregon State University. All were white females. Later on 1974, Bundy entered the house of Joni Lenz who was a dancer. Bundy said that he needed some help carrying things up from the basement, Joni came down where a brutal death awaited. The next morning the neighbors came to check out what was going on and found Joni and her roommates in a big pool of blood. Police say that Bundy raped and brutally knocked them unconscious with a giant crow bar.
Bundy had many tricks to get women to go with him. Sometimes he would use his looks to his advantage and ask the girl on a date. Other times he would act like he was hurt and would dress up in a cast or a sling and say that he needed help picking something up. Most of the time the women that went with him were never seen again. But some slip away and manage to tell their tale. In one instance a women was confronted by Bundy saying he needed some directions to the nearest park. The girl got into the car and about 5 miles later Bundy tried hitting her with a crow bar and handcuffing her. He failed and the women got away.
According to the Oxford University Press after committing these awful crimes Bundy moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. Even though Bundy had left his troubles in a different state he still continued his murderess phase. When he got to Utah instead of dressing up like he was hurt, he went to a store and bought a police uniform. While in Colorado it is believed that Ted had killed 3 more women. A couple weeks later the 3 women’s remains were found on a trial in the forest outside Utah. According to Oxford University Press, police pulled over Bundy while he was driving intoxicated. While looking through Bundy’s car police found handcuffs, pantyhose with eye slits, and a crowbar.
After seeing all of this police took Bundy in for attempt of kidnapping. According to http://www.clarkprosecutor.org after arresting Bundy police searched Bundy’s house and found brochures to local ski resort where some of the women were disappearing. After much investigation they also found out marked points on a map in house locating where he stored the dead bodies. After a lengthy trial Bundy was found guilty and was sentenced to 15 years in Utah State Prison. Although a couple months later Bundy had another trial and was allowed to go to the local library before going to court. While in the library Bundy escaped from police officers and jumped out of a second story window. Although spraining his ankle Bundy made a clean getaway. Bundy then went through the town of Aspen and hitch hiked up to the top of Aspen Mountain. After arriving at the top of Aspen Mountain. Bundy decided to hike down the mountain in search of tiny town called Crested Butte.
Although Bundy was free he was not yet safe. As Bundy was going down the Mountain he realized that he had gotten lost. The other thing was that Bundy was going to be caught in the middle of the snow storm. Also while hiking down the mountain a crazed man with a shotgun had Bundy at gunpoint. Ted had to give all of his money and belongings to the man in order for him to keep his mouth shut and so he would let him go. After this confrontation Bundy stole a car in Aspen. Bundy could have escaped for good but police realized that a car was weaving in and out of traffic. He was arrested for escaping and was only free for six days.
In 1977, Bundy was back in jail. The jail was called Glenwood Springs Prison. Bundy did not want to be in prison so he designed a new was to escape. While messing around Bundy found that he could escaped through the celling if he cut through the metal bars. According to http://www.clarkprosecutor.org Bundy had to lose weight just to fit through the hole that he had made. Other inmates reported hearing something crawling in the celling, but no investigations were made on the comment. Bundy escaped, but now had a challenge of staying alive since it was the middle of winter in Colorado. He found a car and drove it until it stalled out. He then hitch hiked to Vail and flew to Chicago the next morning. Police did not notice he was gone until 17 hours after he had escaped.
According to http://www.clarkprosecutor.org Bundy got a room in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he got a room at the YMCA. After getting to Ann Arbor Bundy decided that he wanted to watch a football game. Bundy got a ticket to watch his Alma madder, The University Of Washington Huskies, vs. the University Of Michigan Wolverines. After watching his team win the Rose Bowl, Bundy stole a car and headed for Georgia. After getting to Georgia he ditched the car and stole a Voltzwagon to get to Tallahassee, Florida. After getting to Tallahassee Florida Bundy rented an apartment. Instead of murder he first started to steal, rob, and burglarize every store he saw. After realizing that wasn’t the way to go he tried to get a normal job on a construction site but was denied because he didn’t want people to know his true identity. Bundy even grew a mustache and drew a mole on the right side of his face so now one knew who he was.
After two and a half years of trying to live a normal life style Bundy had to release all of his tension built up inside. After trying to live a normal lifestyle Bundy decided that he had to go back to his old ways. According to http://www.clarkprosecutor.org Bundy entered the Florida State University Chi Omega sorority house at approximately 3 a.m. and killed two sleeping women, Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman. Both women were sexually assaulted, raped, and strangled. According to "Ted Bundy." American National Biography He said that he had actually murdered everybody who lived in that house. After leaving the Chi Omega house, Bundy broke into a home a few blocks away, clubbing and severely injuring Florida State University student Cheryl Thomas.
In 1978, Bundy traveled to Lake City, Florida.

While Ted was their he had raped, sexually abused, and killed 12 year old Kimberly Leach. After killing the girl Bundy threw her dead carcass under a pig shed and left her to rot. After discarding the body Ted went quiet for a couple days while police were investigating suspects. According to "Ted Bundy." American National Biography In February of 1978, Bundy stole a voltzwagon and was driving the panhandle of Florida. After driving for a while Bundy noticed a police officer behind him and soon realized that his lights were on. Bundy pulled over and police turned in the license plates and they came back as stolen. Although Bundy knew that he was going to jail, he got out of the vehicle and fought the cop and lost and was sent to

jail.
After getting Arrested Bundy had to go to trial. Although Bundy had to go to court he requested that it be nationally televised. He also wanted the court to let himself be his own attorney. Bundy did not admit to any killings and had cost the government over 1 million dollars in money because he kept asking for a retrial. Although Bundy was a very smart criminal, in 1980 Bundy went to trial again acting as his own attorney, in what was known as the bite mark testimony. While examining the body of Lisa Levy police had noticed that there was a bite-mark on the left hindquarter. When showing the court this, police took Bundy to get an imprint of his exact bite and the bite was a match.
During all of this madness Bundy also was being charged for the killing of Kimberley Leach. Bundy again was offered 5 different court attorneys but decided to be his own attorney once again. He was again convicted on all counts, the found fibers in his van that matched Leach's clothing and people that saw him leading Leach away from the school and sentenced to death. Bundy found a loophole in the the state of Florida’s laws that said, that he he constitute a legal marriage in court. So he got married to Carole Boon.
During his time in all of these court cases Bundy managed to dodge 3 death warrants. Ted Bundy was killed on January 24, 1989. The story is a live report of what happened that day. According to "This Buzz Is For You" It was a very happy day for America. Surprisingly he was very scared to die. Before his death he also confessed to the University Of Florida State’s killing spree. And also confessed to killing a 12 year old. Many people did not like Ted Bundy. Bundy only took half to time to die as any other person would. The choice of his death was the electric chair and it only took about 2 minutes to kill him. Bundy’s mother was very surprised to see that her son had done all of these terrible things.
Ted Bundy is one of the world’s most notorious serial killers. When people mention Ted Bundy’s name it sends chills down their spines. No one really knows what set this honor student into his death frenzy. From the beginning of his life where he was born in Vermont, to the end of his life where he was put to death in the electric chair in Florida State prison he was a very strange individual. Clearly Ted Bundy was one of the most notorious, and one of the most brutal killers ever to live.