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Ted Bundy Research Paper

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Ted Bundy was born out of wedlock in Burlington, Vermont in 1946. While Bundy was very young he lived with his mother, and her parents. It is believed during this time he endured abuse by his violent grandfather and was traumatized from this experience. At age four, Bundy and his mother moved to Tacoma, Washington (Hickey, 2016). After being there for a short time, his mother married Jonnie Bundy a cook for the army. Growing up he was forced to live a very minimalistic lifestyle and deeply resented not having money or being of a respectable social-class. This harbored feelings of resentment and inadequacy. Bundy always competed to live up to those in a higher social class then he lived in. In his eyes, he made up for this by capturing and killing sorority girls or their idealized models as a way to convince himself he could have this possession (Hickey, 2016). As he searched even more of who he was, Bundy convinced himself to become someone else. This was the catalyst point of him turning into the serial murder he was. …show more content…

He even admitted in interviews how he didn’t know what underlay social interactions or what made people want to be friends (Hickey, 2016). This made him create social fronts and disguises to blend in more among the right groups. In reality, he made himself into the mirror image of himself so he could live a life he so desperately wanted but could not ever obtain (Hickey, 2016). He explained it was an entity that overcame him of a purely destructive power (Hickey, 2016). This made him dive deeper into a world of sexual fantasy that became more and more violent. Through pornography he got sucked into a world where women were treated as objects and the use, abuse, and sinister images became more and more

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