Ted Bundy Research Paper

Christopher A. Kimock

Ms. Meredith

English 1 CP- Period 8/9

20 January 2015

Ted Bundy

Ted Bundy was a serial rapist, killer, necrophilia, and kidnapper. Ted was born Theodore Robert Cowell and later changes it to Bundy after his stepfather. Bundy had been convicted of killing thirty plus women in the 1970’s, possibly earlier. The sad thing about this is that technology was not as advanced in the 70’s His killing’s in Washington and spread to Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and finally Florida. It eventually came to an end in 1979 after he escaped twice. His last trial was against the state of Florida. The outcome of his trial was Guilty and capital punishment. His motives were the wanting of something more than pornography but the real life fantasy

2 years later he was again put on trial for murder charges. He had asked to go to the library and jumped out of a window spraining his ankle and escaping. The reason he escaped was because Bundy knew that he would get incarcerated even longer and feared that. Only a guilty man would escape before even being convicted for murder like that. However, he was caught again and thrown back into jail. Bundy was stuck in jail now, so he had spent six months getting money, 500$ to be exact, and losing 30-35 pounds Bundy got a hacksaw from a fellow cellmate and sawed a hole in the corner of his cell. Then, he had made his second escape out of

Bundy had mentioned that a big reason to him wanting to rape was because of pornography. He did not necessarily blame it on pornography, but it made him want to do crazy stuff like rape. Bundy had murmured that pornography was poison for people and that for him it was an addiction to him. To add, Ted Bundy had committed the worst crimes known. The crimes were horrific and sickening. Bundy had been identified as a sociopath by a psychologist. Ted had killed, raped, and performed necrophilia on several women. His crimes were sickening to people all over the USA. “His sister was actually his mother and his parents were actually his grandparents. Not unexpectedly, this late discovery had a rather serious impact on him”(Bell). Another thing that had knocked screws loose in his brain was the love of his life broke up with him. Later, she got back together with Ted but he broke it off with this girl and she never saw him again. Bundy had an extremely high I.Q. which is a very common pattern in serial killers. Being super smart had helped him commit these murders without getting caught for about 5 years. His insanity was off the charts. He had a collection of dead body parts from women. Bundy would lay with them for several hours and become intimate with them. “ He remembered those days fondly, recalling his grandfather Samuel Cowell as