Evil People
The family’s faces were smashed in, there were blood splatters all of the walls, and there was a hand in the living room. Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. (Ethiopian) Evil has supposedly been around for centuries well, that’s what some believe. It starts in little ways and then spreads to others or places. This makes people afraid of others or afraid to come out of their houses. Fear is what feeds the evil and it gets stronger with more fear. The importance of living by Ethiopian proverb “Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree can be shown through Lizzie Borden, Ted Bundy, The Borden Tragedy by Rick Geary, and the article “Phoenix ‘Serial Shootings” CNN News.
Lizzie Borden was
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Ted Bundy had a hard life, he lived with mother and his step-father. John Philip Jenkins author of “Ted Bundy” stated. “Bundy had a difficult childhood, he strained a relationship with his step-father and his shyness made him a target for bullying.” (John Philip Jenkins 1) Ted Bundy had been bullied when he was young, looking back at his life when he was younger might have made him snap. The possible reason Ted became a serial killer was because of how bad he was treated by others. John Philip Jenkins author of “Ted Bundy” stated. “Ted had normal relationships with women, he killed several people mainly women.” (John Philip Jenkins 1) He tricked the women that they could trust him and then lured them to his house. He then killed them after gaining their trust. Evil had been introduced to Ted when he was younger until it took over him. John Philip Jenkins author of “Ted Bundy” stated. “Although he would ultimately confess to twenty eight murders some estimate he was responsible for hundreds of deaths.” (John Philip Jenkins 1) Ted was an evil man, he wanted others to suffer because he had it rough. The people he killed didn’t deserve to get their lives taken away from them at such a young age. True evil was inside of Bundy and took over him in his adult
Ted Bundy killed women in Colorado, Utah, Oregon, Florida, And Washington. To capture his victims, Ted would fake an injury to get help from them. Once they Agreed to help him, he would proceed to knock them unconscious. His method of murder was noted as being with a metal bar and strangulation. “Bundy would often rape his victims before beating them to death.”
He found it difficult to engage with people after breaking up with his girlfriend. This serial killer suffered from Antisocial personality disorder. without any empathy at all, Ted Bundy killed and raped at least 36 people, most of them were college students with brown long hair. Bundy was becoming better on the outside; a murderous rage was building on the inside of him. In other words, Ted’s superficial was charming, engaging, and he was intelligent. He took advantage of people who trusted him because of his appearance. He used double personalities when he was seducing women. The Charming Evil Bundy used to wear a cast on his arm and ask beautiful women to help him with his books to the car, after that he hit them with his crutches and push them into his car. He usually brutally beat, rape, and murder those women without any reason. Ted Bundy was untruthfulness, insincerely, and lacking empathy. Bundy was unable to have an interpersonal relationship because he did not understand the intrapersonal
Ted Bundy was a notorious American serial killer known to be active between 1973 and 1978. Before his execution in 1989, Bundy confessed to over 30 murders, although the actual number is estimated from 26 to 35 or more. His modus operandi was to lure and bludgeon young women, and then strangle them to death. Bundy confessed to acts of rape, mutilation and necrophilia with his victims. He escaped twice from county jails prior to his final apprehension in 1978, and was executed by electric chair in 1989 in Florida.
Ted Bundy was born on November 24, 1946. He was known as a rapist and murderer to young women in different states. He was incarcerated in Utah in 1975 for aggravated kidnapping and attempted criminal assault. Bundy became a suspect in unsolved homicides in multiple states. Facing murder charges in Colorado, he escaped and committed further assaults. Three of them were murders in Florida in 1978. He was finally captured in February of that year. The physical evidence in the case led to his conviction. Incriminating physical evidence included the bite impressions that Bundy left in a females left buttock. The jury deliberated for almost seven hours before convicting Bundy on July 24, 1979. The trial judge imposed death sentences for the murder
The actual count of how many people he murdered remains a mystery. (Montaldo) While some Bundy experts, including former King County detective Robert D. Keppel, believe Ted may have started killing in his early to mid-teens a twelve-year-old neighbor vanished from her house when Bundy was fourteen the earliest verified murders began in 1974, when he was 27. Shortly after midnight on 4 January 1974, Bundy entered the house of Joni Lenz, an 18-year-old student at the University of Washington and bludgeoned her with a crowbar while she slept. Bundy also removed a bed rod from Lenz’s bed and used it to sexually assault her.
started showing disturbing behaviours and interested. One of his first noticed interested, was his fascination with knives. As a teenager, he started hiding behind people’s window and thought of what he could steal from their houses (Biography.com Editors, 2017). This strange act of behaviours and fascinations started emerging the dark side of Ted B., despite his good grades and work ethic at school. He was known not to get along with his peers, but an outstanding child when it comes to his learning. In his early years of adulthood, Ted attended the University of Washington and graduated with a degree in psychology in 1972. During his psychology studies, he fell in love with a woman, unfortunately, due to unknown reasons, they broke up-emotionally hurting Ted (Liam, 2015). Moreover, this emotional problem could be used at the beginning of his massacre and fascination of raping and killing
Theodore Bundy was an infamous American serial killer who preyed upon numerous young women during the 1970s and possibly earlier. He was associated with at least 30 counts of homicide and suspected of an estimated one hundred or more. Beyond homicide, he also made it apparent that he was capable of other sinister crimes such as rape, kidnapping, and necrophilia. His most frequent method of killing was an attack with a blunt weapon to the head. However, he did not merely kill his victims; evidence concludes that each were also sexually assaulted and sodomized. It is reported that he even revisited his crime scenes to further engage in sexual acts with the decomposing corpses. Moreover, at least 12 of his victims had been decapitated .
“Ask a psychopath what love is and he’ll go on and on, but he has never felt it himself…If you catch him lying, he’ll just shift gears and go on as though nothing had happened” (Goleman). Ted Bundy was one of the most famous psychopaths in the history of the country (Nordheimer). People say he was the perfect killer- handsome, intelligent, witty, and charming (Boynton 25). Bundy was the complete opposite of what people thought a serial killer looked like, so his victims did not fear him (“Ted Bundy”). Robert Keppel, an expert on serial killers, stated, “He taught us that a serial killer can appear to be absolutely normal, the guy next door (“Serial Killers and Mass Murderers”). At one point he was working for a suicide hotline; a friend
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 of 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 as an authority figure or feigned injury on his victim before empowering and assaulting at a
Ted Bundy is known to be the worst serial killer in U.S. History. In the 1970's, Ted raped and murdered women in at least five different states. Bundy eventually confessed to thirty murders, although the actual total remains unknown. Theodore Robert Bundy was born on November 24th, 1946 in Burlington, Vermont to Eleanor Louise Cowell, a 22 year old single woman. Ted's mom never told him much about his father other than that he was in the armed forces and that they never were really together. Bundy had a difficult childhood and was pretty much an wanted by his mother. After being left in foster care for two months, Eleanor decided to have her parents raise Ted and make him and everyone believe that they were his adopted parents and
Ted Bundy was known as a “charmer” luring women to him by appearing injured. Striking these women as a harmless injured stranger, they sympathized with him and rushed to care for the stranger in need. Affection proved to be their weakness when Ted captured, tortured, raped, and raped again after their death. Their murderer, an organized killer and meticulous man, stalked them for weeks before deciding to initiate his structured plan (Serial Killers vs. Mass Murderers). Bundy was able to trick these women with his charm and ability to appear sane, when in fact he was the complete
Looking helpless and using his good looks and charms Bundy was able to lure in his victims and would knock them out with a foreign object or would handcuff them in his car. Once he had the victims he would proceed in kidnapping, sodomizing, raping, and killing them in a brutal manner. In Ted Bundy case agencies from different states worked together in the apprehension of Bundy. The conviction of Ted Bundy was credit towards good criminal investigation; with police cooperation, forensic evidence and the witnesses' statements.
Many people wonder it takes to make a serial killer. Is there something inherently defective in that person that means that they have the ability to commit murder without remorse or somehow enjoy the suffering or others, or doses childhood abuse and other mistreatment mean that someone will grow up to commit these atrocities? Unfortunately, the conflicting information about Bundy's childhood does little to help answer these questions. On the surface, Bundy's childhood does not appear to feature the level of child abuse or neglect that one normally associates with a serial killer. He was born to a single mother in 1946, a time in which there was a tremendous social stigma attached to being born out of wedlock. However, Bundy did not experience that stigma, as his grandparents raised him as their son. Bundy's own accounts of his childhood vary tremendously. At times, he seems to indicate that he was raised in a stable and loving home, but at other times he
Ted Bundy is known for charismatic personality, good looks, and charm; he is also known as the most organized murderer to have lived. Bundy would lure woman to his car using a number of excuses; he was handicap or else lost. Because he was so charming women would feel at ease around him and go where he asked. Once at his car, Bundy would grab and restrain the woman. He would then drive to a different location where he would beat and rape the woman until death. Finally he would drive to yet ANOTHER location to dispose of the body. In February 1978, Ted Bundy was finally captured and interviewed. As a child, raised by his grandparents, he showed no signs of previous abuse or neglect. He was raised well and sociable during high school where classmates report that he was well liked. After further analysis, Bundy was presumed to have low activity to his orbital frontal cortex; this is the part of the brain in charge of the conscious, and the “right or wrong” factor. This is not to say that Bundy had a deficiency that prevented him from knowing what he was doing. Just merely a common abnormality that should be noted. Bundy’s case supports the idea that an individual’s makeup can have an effect on their actions.
Based on the general idea of Ted Bundy’s background, psychological theory can be applied to his cases of murdering. Psychological theories focus on human’s mind and behavior and the assumption is problems are rooted in unconscious mind and symptoms are manifestations of hidden disturbances or conflicts. According to his childhood circumstances, Ted Bundy’s childhood trauma and abuse played an important role in his serial murders. His father disappeared before he was born and his whole started with the loss of parent. Not only he was living without his father, his mother did not take the full responsibility of him neither. Ted’s mother pretended to be his sister and let his grandparents to be their parents. Although Ted Bundy was