Ted Bundy Research Paper

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The FBI calculates that there may be up to 500 serial killers at any given time in the United States and many them have drug addictions and or abuse alcohol. Interviews of three well-known serial killers, Ted Bundy, Jeffery Dahmer, and John Wayne Gacy yielded results that they often got drunk before they killed their victims to try and deal with their psychosis. Ted Bundy was an alcoholic and he admitted to journalists that he would drink before murdering his victims. According to some accounts, Bundy killed at least 30 women, but it is believed that he killed nearly three times that number. The most violent of his murders happened after Bundy left a bar in Florida. While at the bar, Bundy approached a girl and was rejected by her. In his intoxicated …show more content…

He was an alcoholic in his early teenage years, as he was known to consume large amounts of alcohol before school, and during the school day. Early warning signs of Dahmer’s alcoholism was linked to his struggle to deal with his sexuality which triggered feelings of socially awkwardness and loneliness causing him to isolate himself from society. After graduation Dahmer entered the U.S. Army and according to accounts from some of his peers, he expressed signs of alcoholism, violence and homicidal thoughts. He was discharged from the Army for drinking problems. During his killing spree, he would sit at a bar drinking until he met a man to take home. Most all of Dahmer’s victims were murdered when he was in a drunken state and sexual rage (Wilson, Tolputt, Howe, & Kemp, …show more content…

According to a 2003 study conducted over 202 serial killers conducted by Radford University, serial killers appear to have an IQ in the “bright normal range”. This study indicated the IQ of serial killers who raped their victims prior to killing them, their methods of killing their victims, their motives for killing their victims, and the type of serial killer they were, organized or disorganized. Most often, organized serial killers who are methodical in their approach has an average IQ of 113 while disorganized serial killers have and average IQ of 93 (Salfati,

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