In “The Stranger Beside Me”, by Ann Rule, she discusses the once loving man Ted Bundy who suffered from a series of events in his early life causing him to develop into one of the most deadly and fascinating serial killers known to man. In the Washington and Oregon state area, Bundy went on a killing spree throughout the 1970’s, targeting young college women who fitted a specific look. He would visit populated areas and prey on victims, killing for the thrill of pleasure. During the book Ann Rule discusses the damage that Bundy had caused to so many families and people during his reign of terror. I’ll be examining the reasoning and motives that caused Bundy to react in such a psychotic and violent way.
Ted Bundy grew up living a
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lie, he was told that his mother Louise Cowell was his sister and that his grandparents were his parents. Growing up he lived a very healthy life, as he grew older he enrolled at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. Studying law he met a girl and began to have an intimate relationship with her. Time would follow and she decided to ultimately brake up with him. Devastated, he began showing signs of depression and dropped out of college. During this time of depression he would feel very alone and later would drop out of college. He comes to conclusion that his grandparents were not his actual parents, and that his sister was his mother. He began committing small minor crimes and was a suspect in a burglary case. In later time, Bundy began to become a more confident person meeting woman and met a young women by the name of Elizabeth Kendall. Fallen in love with him, Bundy didn’t seem to feel the same emotions or seem very interested in her but stayed anyways. . Bundy began working on the re-election campaign for the governor of Washington, Republican Dan Evans. He soon began to move up in the Republican Party and was appointed assistant to Ross Davis, chairman of the Washington State Republican Party. With his old girlfriend back on his side and the position with the Republican Party, life was good for Bundy. Later on he met up with his ex girlfriend whom had also fallen in love with the “new” Ted Bundy, ending up in a relationship with his ex While life was treating Bundy well, disappearances began around college campuses in the Washington, and Oregon area. Investigators searched for the lost but never found these young women. A 21 year-old radio announcer by the name of Lynda Ann Healy, was missing in 1974. Two girls were approached by a man who introduced himself as “Ted” in a Washington park. Refusing to help him with his sail boat, two other women were seen walking with the man and were never seen again. A group of hikers had found an area in a forest in Washington with remains of women who had been missing in the local area. Investigators received blood samples and confirmed that the man who had murdered these women had an O blood type. Around the Pacific Northwest women had gone missing in numerous states such as Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Utah, and Idaho. With all of these disappearances nobody would have thought to look at Bundy as a suspect because of his position in society. He was a strong individual with a steady job and higher ranking in the government. Even more disappearances were occurring around college campuses, primarily women with dark hair parted in the middle. Colleges were told to tell women not to go out after a certain time to take extra precautions on keeping women safe. With all of these disappearances occurring, Bundy moved to Utah and women had started going missing there too. Investigators looked for anyone who might have info on the man who approached women with the name “Ted”. During the investigation, investigators noticed a similarity between the victims found.
Typically having long dark hair parted down the middle, white, thin, and single. All of the bodies in Colorado that were found had been hit with a blunt object, raped, and sodomized. Bundy had been arrested when he was in Colorado for suspicion of burglary. He had turned his lights off to run through stop signs in the area. When the police searched his tan Volkswagen bug, he had an ice pick, handcuffs, crowbar, and pantyhose with eye holes cut out and other suspicious items. Taken to the police station, Bundy was picked out by an eye witness named Carol DaRonch who had been kidnapped by Bundy disguised as a police officer. While Bundy had gotten her into his car with consent he attempted to put handcuffs on Daronch to keep her in the car. Escaping from the struggle she was taken to the police department told the police the whole story. Police powdered down the handcuffs to check for latent fingerprints. Once Bundy was identified he was charged with attempted kidnapping. Sentenced to 15 years in prison Bundy soon broke out of prison by jumping out a bathroom window, he was caught a week later. For the second time Bundy had broken out of the Colorado prison and fled to Tallahassee, Florida. After he moved, many series of sorority house murders occurred. One involving a woman named Nita Neary and the death of Lisa …show more content…
Levy. Bundy’s last victim was Kimberly Leach, whose skull was found in a box mutilated with a broken jaw. Bundy was later arrested for a stolen vehicle and was charged for 3 murders with physical evidence of bite marks on the breast, buttocks, and nipple of the victims. Bundy did not take a plea bargain and was going to try to get a lesser sentence. The jury found him guilty and was sentenced 3 death penalties which would be taken place on January 17, 1989. With a crowd surrounding the prison, 12 people sat to witness the death of Ted Bundy who Clark Hoshall described him as “one of the most heinous sexual predators of our time.” With Bundy fighting for his life, the 12 witnessed the electrocution of an evil human being. Around 7:13 am Theodore Bundy was pronounced dead. With crowds cheering with joy, the world was made a safer place. Ted Bundy had admitted to over 50 detailed murders he had caused over his serial events.
Blaming pornography as the cause of his fix on killing young women, some believe he killed more than 100 women simply because of psychopathic and sociopathic characteristics. Other psychologists have attempted to diagnose Bundy, but everyone has changed their mind from multi-personality disorder to schizophrenia. Bundy was given a very belittling childhood growing up. Living a lie his entire life and dealing with multiple losses could have been seen as a cause of the obsession. Evidence had all been linked to him who gave investigators no doubt of Bundy being responsible for the murders. Ted Bundy is one of the most notorious serial killers the world has ever seen, and will be known as one of the most clever and evil killers of all time. I personally believe as many do the same, he was a horrific man who did terrible things in an unspeakable manner. I am very grateful for reading this book to broaden my horizons and fully understand not all people may seem what they truly are and be careful when traveling to unknown
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“Don’t Look Behind you” is filled with suspense as Mike the hetman tries to kill the father. The author use of imagery contributes to the story. Duncan’s story was able to contain many of SOAPSTone elements. Duncan wrote “Don’t Look Behind You” in a teenager perspective as her life changed dramatically. The use of suspense to create the mystery element in the story as the Corrigan goes in hiding to run away from a hit man. Don’t Look Behind You” have a speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, subject and tone.
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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.
In 1982, police received a call about a body floating in the Green River in Salt Lake City, Utah (it was just one of many bodies that they were going to find). Police were stunned when they started receiving more calls about bodies found in parks, play grounds, and near highways. When police learned that all of the victims were prostitutes, they knew this was a key piece of evidence in their investigation. No one could have ever known that Gary Ridgway just started one of the largest killing sprees in American history. Ridgway grew up in a house where he was abused and harassed by his mother, Mary Ridgway. Ridgway soon began growing a strong hatred towards his abusive mother. Ridgway had begun thinking of some ways he could get back at her by hurting her, but he never did. According to American Murder, Ridgway went through numerous divorces and had a history of interacting with prostitutes (Mayo). ). Ridgway’s past with women soon made him develop a strong dislike for them and led to his killings.
Ted Bundy was a brutal serial killer. He was also very charming and handsome to
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.
Sanity is subjective. Every individual is insane to another; however it is the people who possess the greatest self-restraint that prosper in acting “normal”. This is achieved by thrusting the title of insanity onto others who may be unlike oneself, although in reality, are simply non-conforming, as opposed to insane. In Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted, this fine line between sanity and insanity is explored to great lengths. Through the unveiling of Susanna’s past, the reasoning behind her commitment to McLean Hospital for the mentally ill, and varying definitions of the diagnosis that Susanna received, it is evident that social non-conformity is often confused with insanity.
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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.
Another criminology theory that may apply to help explain the criminal behavior of Ted Bundy is the Psychodynamic theory. This theory is largely based on the findings of Sigmund Freud. The underpinnings of this of the approach are that the unconscious mind affects behavior and emotion. The theory advances the argument that no behavior is without cause and that childhood experiences affect emotions and behavior as adults. Serial killers like Ted Bundy therefore are particularly affected by their unconscious mind. Bundy did not receive proper care as a young boy and the negative impact of his sense of rejection and isolation negatively impacted his adulthood with aggressive tendencies. In short, Bundy’s adult actions under this theory can be viewed as manifesting his anger over his childhood oppression in the form of brutal rapes and
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
Ted Bundy was an American born rapist, a necrophile, a serial killer and a kidnapper who assaulted and murdered several young women during the 1970’s. The criminal kept on denying the charges for more than ten years and later confessed to having committed the thirty homicide crimes in seven different states before his execution (Rule, 2009). Bundy’s handsome and charismatic appearance made it possible for him to easily win the confidence of young women who were always his targets. He broke into the dwellings of his victims at night and bludgeoned them as they slept. He also approached young women in public places where he impersonated an authority figure or feigned injury on his victim before empowering and assaulting them in a more secluded area where he left them dead (Rule, 2009).
Society and media also played a role in creating Bundy. “Children learn what they see––and unfortunately, in our country through news reports, movies, and television, and everyday life in many parts of our country, children see violence; and they do not learn that violence is bad. Too often, they learn that violence is an acceptable way to resolve conflict; furthermore, many children, because of their home and neighborhood environments, have little opportunity to learn about alternative ways to settle disputes” (Osofsky 4). Bundy watched his grandfather act violently and vulgar, leading to him partaking in similar behaviors. Social learning theory can be placed at the forefront of reasoning for Bundy’s actions, but all of the factors that lead to the creation of his vicious, sadistic crimes may never be
Emotions and mental aspects are not to be overlooked when differentiating an appearance with reality. In the field of criminology, the general population is exposed to, and has interacted with the most well-behaved and the most polite of people. The kind of people who are perfect models of virtue and goodness. Underneath this shroud of morality, however, it is not infrequent that a man or woman is raging with anger or destructive thoughts. Take Ted Bundy, for example. On the outside, he was the perfect example of an educated gentleman, equipped with a one-tracked mind yearning to kill. Luring countless unsuspecting women, Bundy murdered, and raped with ease. Wearing the costume of a sophisticated and well put-together man, he was able to manipulate take advantage, and take the life of thirty