No matter which culture, country, or origin you belong to, we as a society look at murder as a horrendous crime. We value human life more than anything else in the world. However, there has been countless serial killers and mass murderers throughout history that you have seen or have read about. Serial killers are usually tough to spot in a crowd, because they look like anybody else. Do you think all serial killers have mental illnesses or pure hatred and rage due to their past childhood, or certain events? You will figure out what you think when i explain a different serial killer each week and what makes them all the same.
Theodore Robert Cowell a.k.a. Ted Bundy
Ted Bundy was born in 1946 to an unmarried mother who was only 22 years old. Growing up, his grandparents made him believe that he was their son and that his mother was his elder sister. Bundy was a good student and got his heart broken by his first love, who left him. He spent years trying to win her back and when he did, he started to kill innocent people, majority of them between the years of 1974 and 1978. Later on, he dumped his girlfriend just like she had before.
Bundy was really attractive and good looking, which helped him in luring his victims. His unique style of approaching potential victims would include him faking an injury to his arm by placing a fake cast or sling over it. He would drink alcohol before approaching them and gain their trust by acting as a policeman or fire department personnel. He would then take the victims to his car and hit them with a crowbar over their head. Bundy would rape and sexually assault his victims just before strangling and mutilating the bodies.
Bundy would rape, murder, and engage in necrophilia with his young female victims. it is also said that he would visit the Taylor Mountain, where he would dump the corpses, apply makeup on the dead bodies, and then sleep with them till the bodies would decay. In 1989 Bundy was executed for 40 murders, which he confessed about. Bundy admitted to pornography addiction and how it had led him into doing those things. He was executed in an electric chair on January 24, 1989. His last words were "I'd like to give my love to my family and friends"
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