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Essay on Ted Bundy
Ted Bundy, 1974-1978 is 0ne of the highest-profile serial killers ever; he thoroughly enjoyed his fame and notoriety, up to his execution in 1989. Numbers of victims may have reached fifty, as the attractive law student lured women wherever he went. His final rampage, an uncharacteristic set of impulse killings, led to his final arrest. He acted as his attorney, reveling in the attention before his eventual conviction and death sentence.
Ted Bundy, the bright, glib, psychopathic law student who had an affinity for young women with long, dark hair parted in the middle, had acknowledged responsibility for the murders of dozens of such young women.
Ted Bundy advertised as: "the boy next door," the man with the charming smile and charismatic personality, the brilliant law student who defended himself in court, the promising young Republican who worked to elect the governor of Washington, the concerned humanitarian who worked on a suicide hotline in Seattle, or even the teary-eyed, "remorseful" death row inmate who warned the parents of America about the evils of pornography. What a guy! He just happened to go wrong somewhere.
When one of Westley Dodd's young victims asked him "Why are you doing this to us?" he responded: "Because I have to do it" (King, 1993, p. 288). An example even more illustrative of this compulsion comes from of Ted Bundy:
I have a sickness . . . a disease like your alcoholism. You can't take another drink and with my sickness. . . . There is something . . . that I just can't be around. . . . I know it now. . . . There is something the matter with me . . . I just couldn't contain it. I've fought it for a long, long time. . . . It got too strong. I tried, believing me, to suppress it....
