Ted Bundy: The Creation of a Serial Killer

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Is Ted Bundy an average serial killer? What do you think of when you hear the words serial killer? Generally a serial killer is a person who looks for young and weak victims, most typically women, because they are the weakest, and cannot fight back to defend themselves. As stated by Serge-Moses Pakhomou “The term ‘serial killer’ was coined by Robert Ressler (Ressler & Shachtman, 1992, 1997) in the 1970s in order to replace the label of ‘stranger killings’, and in order to reflect the repetitive (in series) nature of those murders” (219). Ted Bundy is not the typical serial killer, he is very different, because he had a preference of woman he wanted to kill. “This group of offenders who committed a series of sexually motivated murders is referred to as serial killers in the present research” (220). It is also almost as if he is a celebrity murderer; he is so well known and popular, but nobody truly knows how messed up he was. Bundy did not go out and randomly attack young and weak people. He had a type. There are a few factors in the creation of this serial killer; Ted Bundy, which are a hard childhood life, pornography, and the rejection from his beloved Stephanie Brookes. Ted Bundy did not have the best or easiest life growing up. According to Rachael Bell, when Ted was growing up, he had no idea who is father was and he was led to believe that his grandma and grandpa were his parents, and that his mother was his sister. They did this because they wanted to protect his mother from ridicule and prejudice of being an unwed mother. Bell also informs us that when Ted was age 4, he and his mother moved and she married a man named John. Bundy never had anything to do with his stepdad, even though he made subtle efforts to include h... ... middle of paper ... ...ders." Aggressive Behavior 34.4 (2008): 341-351. Academic Search Elite. Web. 20 Apr. 2014. Sinković, Matija, Aleksandar Štulhofer, and Jasmina Božić. "Revisiting the Association between Pornography Use and Risky Sexual Behaviors: The Role Of Early Exposure To Pornography And Sexual Sensation Seeking." Journal of Sex Research 50.7 (2013): 633- 641. Academic Search Elite. Web. 14 Apr. 2014. Bell, Rachael. “Ted Bundy” Crime Library, Criminal Minds and Methods. Crime Library, Criminal Minds and Methods. Web. Mercer, Dave. "Girly Mags and Girly Jobs: Pornography and Gendered Inequality In Forensic Practice." International Journal Of Mental Health Nursing 22.1 (2013): 15-23. Academic Search Elite. Web. 28 Apr. 2014. Bundy: An American Icon. Dir. Michael Feifer. Perf. Corin Nemic, Jen Nikolaisen, and etc. Feifer World Wide North American Entertainment. 2008. Film.

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