Additionally, Ted Bundy first lived in Philadelphia with his maternal grandparents. Ted’s grandfather was an extremely violent individual who would abuse animals, beat people who made him angry and read pornography daily. When Bundy was interviewed as an adult, he said he could only recall fond and enjoyable memories of his grandfather (“Bundy Psychological Problems”, 1989). This is an example of repression in which an individual buries a traumatic event or memory in their unconscious. Bundy could not remember his grandfather being a horribly frightening person or the horrendous acts he committed. Ted had blocked out scarring incidents which indicates his traumatizing childhood. John Wayne Gacy was born in Chicago, Illinois in the year 1942. …show more content…
He became increasingly deranged after her death. Gein left the rooms in the house that he most closely associated with his mother such as the sitting room and her bedroom, completely untouched. He preserved them as a shrine to her and left them like that for the following years (Summers, n.d.). He was so dedicated and obsessed with her that he kept her bedroom locked, undisturbed, and exactly as it had been when she was alive. He also sealed off the drawing room and five more upstairs rooms. He only lived in one downstairs room and the kitchen (“Ed Gein American”, n.d.). This is an example of an obsessive compulsive disorder as he felt the need and urge to keep his mother’s image alive and preserved by dedicating half of the house to her. On the other hand, the rooms Ed lived in were a mess and full of human body parts that helped him stay connected to his mother. He confined himself mostly to the kitchen and a small utility room that he converted into a bedroom. These two rooms he filled with his reading material which consisted of anatomy books and pulp fiction (Summers, n.d.). Gein would quench his lust by visiting graves at night and he ultimately acquired quite a collection of body parts. This continued to crowd his home (“Edward Theodore”, n.d.). Some of the bizarre objects that cluttered his home included the faces of nine women which were carefully stuffed and mounted, a drum made from a coffee can and human flesh, and a shirt of human skin that had been made from the tanned torso of a middle-aged woman. Gein would later confess that he often put the shirt on at night and pretended to be his mother (Taylor, 2004). His house was chaotic and piled with items to the extent that it was unlivable. Gein’s behaviour can be described as hoarding which is an obsessive compulsive disorder. Ed collected numerous objects as he felt
Once in Chicago, Bundy hitched a train and traveled to Ann Arbor, Michigan. Five days later Bundy stole a car and drove all the way to Atlanta, Georgia. In Atlanta, Bundy entered a bus and reached Tallahassee, Florida on January 8, 1978. He ended up in a small room in a boarding house near the campus of the University of Florida State; this is when Bundy went back into his psychotic way.
Ted Bundy was a brutal serial killer. He was also very charming and handsome to
While living with his grandparents, he grandfather was said to be very abusive. One time he threw his mother younger sister down a flight of stairs for oversleeping. Neighbors’ also said that he even took a cat by the tail and threw it, he would also beat the dog and his wife. Some even suspect that Samuel Cowell was rumored to be Ted Bundy’s father. Ted told one of his close friends that he looks up to his grandfather and thinks of him as a role model.
He was intelligent, articulate and handsome. During a gruesome killing spree, Ted Bundy slaughtered more than thirty five women within the span of five years, becoming one of the most notorious serial killers in American history. He grew up believing that his grandparents were his parents and his unwed mother to be his older sister. He was not very good at building relationships and had a lot of conflict with his stepfather and enjoyed the terms of violence and sex as a child. Ted shoplifted during his teenage years and enjoyed being above the law. He was generally very shy and gained a lot of popularity and self esteem in high school because of his good looks. It was there that he met his high school girlfriend Stephanie Brooks with whom he become obsessed, but the relationship did not last very long as she did not feel the same way for him so she broke up with him. Depressed by the break up, Ted dropped out of college and returned home with his family where he found out the truth about his biological mother. This left Ted in a state of confusion about his identity and he felt betrayed by the women in his life. He went back to high school where he and Stephanie got back together but right after she agreed to marry him, he broke up with her to seek revenge. After this charade his killing spree began, luring young women with lies, abducting, raping, physically abusing and killing them.
Marshall, Sarah “The Earthly Remains: Revisiting Ted Bundy." The Order of the Good Death. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2014.
People often suppress traumatic experiences to avoid them, or to stop the realization that what happened was real. For example, in “The Man in the Black Suit,” Gary’s brother dies horribly in a freak accident while playing in the field. He is stung by a bee, something that has happened to Gary multiple times, and the boy is forced to watch his father carry his brother’s lifeless body back to the house. He has nightmares about it, but he never speaks of it. He blames himself, survivor’s guilt. Gary believes his brother was innocent, and did not deserve to die. Later, after Gary narrowly escapes from the devil, he tells no one of it until he is on his deathbed. Even then, he writes it down for his family to find after he passes on. Gary is completely unwilling to tell anyone about his encounter with the devil during his childhood. He suppresses his experience and distracts himself throughout his life. Often people do not want to think
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 more secluded area where he left them dead (Rule, 2009).
His work was not the only place where Ted was considered unreliable. When Theodore transferred from University of Tacoma to the University of Washington he met and fell in love with Stephanie Brooks. At first in this relationship all was well, “But Stephanie was pragmatic. It was wonderful to be in love, to have a college romance, to stroll through the wooded paths of the campus hand-in-hand…but she sensed that Ted was floundering, that he had no real plans, no real prospects for the future” (Rule, 2000). Much to Ted’s dismay, Stephanie soon broke this relationship off. Some claim that this is one of the many things that helped ease Theodore Bundy over the edge into homicidal rage, and most cite a similar description of Stephanie Brooks to the majority of his later victims.
Why would someone be so embarrassed of their son that they have to disown them, maybe because he was born out of wedlock, to Eleanor Cowell, though she attempted to give him a good life by giving him to her parents? Also, with the theory of the X or Y model you could say that Bundy could have had an extra X chromosome since he was a person who lived a life of crime and had an uncontrollable urge to keep killing, but you can’t exactly confirm that the theory is right since it’s never been proven to be 100% true, hence the term to why its called a theory. Ted Bundy was a a distributed man who had such a promising future and could have had it all, but something messed this man up so badly that he had to go on a rampage of killings and find joy in it. A man who thought he was going to get away with it all got what he deserved.
Throughout history, America has been the home of serial killers, with more than 2,000 throughout history. In this country, America has encountered many different kinds of these sick people. One of the most infamous serial killers throughout American History was Theodore Robert Bundy, also known as Ted Bundy. On November 24, 1946, in Burlington, Vermont, Theodore Robert Bundy was born. When people think of serial killers, they usually see a dirty, insane looking person that would stand out from the average person. In Bundy’s case it was very different. Ted was a very smart individual who had attended 5 different colleges throughout the United States, studying law and eventually getting his degree in psychology at the University of Washington. Bundy was a very handsome and charming man, unlike most other serial killers. Looking helpless and using his good looks, Bundy was able to lure his victims and would knock them unconscious with an object such as a crowbar or a pipe, then would handcuff them inside his car. Once the victims were under his control he would then proceed in kidnapping, raping, sodomizing, and eventually killing them in very harsh ways. Throughout the 70’s, he raped and murdered young women all across the country. Bundy was said to be connected to at least 36 murders, and suspected to have committed one hundred or more.
He was an extrovert and that was why he needed to kill and rape multiple women not just one. He says it was not his family’s fault he was like this and that is true but somewhere in his DNA caused him to do these crazy things. He also had some type of stress that made him snap and never go back to the way he was. I wonder if Ted Bundy would have been different if he put himself in a different environment. Bundy blamed the environment is what caused him to make these crimes but I don’t think so plenty of men watch porn and do not go around killing
Ted Bundy is one of the most infamous, sadistic serial killers known to man. During his tenure as a killer, Bundy confessed to the murders of 30 women, though the official number of kills is unknown to this day. Bundy’s sadistic habits began at an early age due to his rough upbringing and abusive parents. His tactical methods of killing left miniscule amounts of evidence, which remained undetectable by the “still rudimentary forensics techniques of the 1970s” (Crime Museum). Bundy also managed to uphold an impressive “clean-cut appearance” and portrayed characteristics of an “upstanding character” (Crime Museum). Ted Bundy, through the course of a troubled childhood and keen wit, managed to successfully become known as one of the most infamous
Introduction: On the spectrum of criminal activity, serial killers are rather rare. Rarer still is a serial killer like Ted Bundy. Bundy confessed to killing 28 women in the 1970s in ghastly fashion and some believe he may have killed far more. It is hard to imagine what could cause any person to cross the mental boundary into such macabre behavior as Bundy perpetrated. Nevertheless, it is important to try to understand that behavior because only though such an understanding would society be able to identify and deter mass murderers in order to save lives.
On a chilly afternoon in late 1977, a young, newly-wed woman of 26 was dropped off at her Volkswagen Beetle by her sister-in-law. Her name was Gini McNair. She waved goodbye to her companion, unlocked the driver's door, and stepped into her vehicle. Sitting at the wheel, with the key in the ignition, she glanced around the deserted Boulder Canyon Road located outside of Boulder, Colorado. While waiting for her dusty red Volkswagen to warm up, she saw another one, light blue, heading down Sugarloaf Road towards her. When she glanced at the driver as he went past, he took the opportunity to look her over as well. With piercing eyes, Ted Bundy quickly examined Gini as he drove by her. When his eye caught hers, Gini immediately felt like she had just been delivered a swift punch in the stomach. He turned around at the bottom of Sugarloaf Road and drove over to where she was parked. As he walked over to her window, she rolled it down. He leaned in close and asked, "Are you having car trouble?"