Ted Bundy Research Paper

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Isaac Franks Mrs Burger Psychology 101 1 January 2017 Childhood and Serial Killers Even before man invented the sword their has been serial killers One of america's most famous serial killers is Ted Bundy. Bundy was a killer, kidnapper, necrophile, rapist and burglar. Bundy admitted to murdering 30 women but the total amount of killings could be drastically more, some say that the true total could be close to 100 young girls and women. Bundy was said to be charming and handsome, which is partly one of the reason he was able to lure so many women to their deaths. Bundy would dress up nicely and portray an authority figure or fake an injury to add to the chances that a girl would "help" or approach him. Ted would kill his victims in various …show more content…

He'd sometimes rape them or practice necrophilia. Bundy would also take pictures of his victims or keep some of their heads as mementos. Bundy would revisit some of his victims remains on many occasions. Bundy grew up in a very catholic lovely home. Bundy said that he had a great home life with very loving parents. Bundy said the thing or the monster as he describes that sent him downhill was pornography, specifically sexually violent pornography. In his very last interview, with James C Dobson shortly before his death, Bundy says "The most damaging kind of pornography - and I’m talking from hard, real, personal experience - is that that involves violence and sexual violence. The wedding of those two forces - as I know only too well - brings about behavior that is too terrible to describe." Bundy said he had an addiction and eventually porn wasn't good enough so he started to act out what he saw. Ted Bundy was executed in 1989 at …show more content…

All of the serial killers had damage to their orbital cortex. All had the MAOA gene or a major violence gene. Its sex linked on the X chromosome, so only men can get it. The brain is bathed in serotonin during development so when they mature their brains don't react to serotonin. This would explain why a lot of serial killers are men, they obtained the high violence gene from their mother so their is no other X chromosome to cancel it out. It would also explain why their are few serial killers that are female because both mother and father would have to have the

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