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A serial killer is traditionally defined as a person who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time (a "cooling off period") between the murders. The motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification (Wikipedia).Ted Bundy was a notorious murderer not because he took innocent lives but what he did with the bodies afterward is what makes him notorious. Bundy was a necrophiliac and a very sick man at that. Necrophilia is to have intercourse with a dead body. Therefore, Ted Bundy knew exactly what he was doing a few wasn't crazy, just pure evil. Ted Bundy was a deceptive manipulator, who used his looks and charm to lure women and kill them. It was not only his troubled past that caused him to become a vicious murderer: it may have helped it but ultimately he knew exactly what he was doing and this is why he was able to get away with it for so long .

Bundy was born Theodore Robert Cowell in November, 24, 1946 in a home for unwed mothers. As a child, he looked at porn and sexually violent media and practiced voyeurism. Voyeu...

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