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Ted Bundy Research Paper

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Ted Bundy was described as charming, handsome, charismatic, articulate, and intelligent. He was also known as one of the most horrific murders in the 20th century. Police suspect that he murdered over one - hundred women; all with the common theme of having a small waist and brunette hair.
Starting at an early childhood his mother did not find any signs the Ted was anything close to the monster people thirty years later would find him to be. Ted was born Theodore Robert Cowell, born at the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers in Burlington, Vermont on November 24th 1946. It was said that Ted’s father was never identified to be the man listed on his birth certificate. For the first three years of Ted’s life he lived with his maternal grandparents, Samuel and Eleanor Cowell, in Philadelphia they raised Ted to not look down on women who have children outside of wedlock like common society did in the 40’s. Both family, friends, and even Ted himself were told that his grandparents were actually his parents and his mother was his older sister. Eventually Ted discovered the truth, at first saying that his cousin showed …show more content…

It was even said that Samuel had once thrown his daughter Julia down a flight of stairs for oversleeping. Though being described by Ted as a “timid” and “obedient” old woman who periodically undergone electroshock therapy for depression and feared leaving the house towards the end of her life; Multiple other family members described her as an angry old woman who sometimes described seeing evil presences. Julia recalled that Ted exhibited weird behavior from an early age, one time awakening from a nap to see every knife in the kitchen surrounding her body while her three-year-old nephew smiled at the edge of the

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