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TED BUNDY, SERIAL KILLER:

A SHORT BIOGRAPHY AND PSYCHOLOGICALANALYSIS

By Tamworth Grice

Ted Bundyhandsome, charming, and articulateluredvictims to their deaths with tricks such as crutches or a fake caston his arm. He confessed to murdering thirty young women in sevenstates between 1974 and 1978, but his true number of victims isunknown. How could such a handsome and intelligent man be such amonster?

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Ted Bundy, Serial Killer: A Short Biographyand Psychological Analysis

By Tamworth Grice

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR

Im not a psychologist, criminologist, or lawenforcement professional.

However, for my most recent novel thatfeatures a serial killer as a character, I did extensive researchinto serial killers in general, and what I call sociallywell-integrated serial killers in particular. I use this term torefer to serial killers who hide in plain sight, never suspected byeven their closest friends. Ted Bundy is one such person. He workedat the Seattle Crisis Clinic side-by-side with professional crimewriter and former police officer Ann Rule who never once suspectedhim, and his own mother believed in his innocence until heconfessed to her on the eve of his execution.

After researching Bundyhis background, hispersonality, and his crimesI thought Id share my findings in thislittle book.

Ive made every effort to present true andaccurate information, and to document my sources properly. Iverefrained from mentioning any victims names out of respect fortheir memories and their families. I apologize if this bookcontains errors.

Of course, a survey of this subject by anonprofessional such as myself may result in a simplified summaryof a complex person. Given this complexity, this book is notintended to enable a reader to accurately identify a Bundy-likeserial killer who is, for example, a neighbor, or to enable areader to diagnose a potential serial killer who is, for example,his or her young student or child. In addition, this is notintended as a full or partial course in criminal psychology or anysimilar discipline.

It is, rather, intended as a brief overviewof a complicated criminal. I hope it will prove interesting,informative, and perhaps even entertaining to true-crime buffs andcrime-fiction fans. It will also, perhaps, serve as a jumping-offpoint for those, including educators and law enforcementprofessionals, wishing to know more about this subject.

OVERVIEW OF TED BUNDYS EARLY LIFE

CHILDHOOD

Theman who came to be known as serial killer Ted Bundy was born in1946 as Theodore Robert Cowell at a home for unwed mothers inVermont. His twenty-three-year-old mother was Eleanor LouiseCowell, a modest department store clerk from a deeply religiousPhiladelphia family; his father was probably a salesman or asailoralthough there is some suspicion that Ted was a child ofincest fathered by his mothers violent and abusive father.According to one source, he was left in an orphanage for his firstthree months. He was eventually brought home to Philadelphia by hismother, and to avoid the scandal of illegitimacy (common in thosedays) his maternal grandfather and grandmother immediately beganraising Ted as their own son. Eventually Ted discovered hispaternity, and for the rest of his life he was bitter about beingdeceived by his family.

In 1950, his mother moved with Ted to Tacoma,Washington, where she had relatives. The following year at a churchsocial function she met a hospital cook, Johnnie Bundy, who marriedher two years later, formally adopted Ted, and gave him the lastname of Bundy. Ted, however, kept his distance from his adoptedfather, for whom he had little respect due to the mans modestincome and blue-collar job. He also never bonded with hisstep-siblings.

Ted had probably been physically abused inPhiladelphia by his violent and sadistic grandfather. Indeed, somebiographers theorize that his mother moved 3,000 miles away to theother part of the country to get herself and her son away from herfather. Nevertheless, Ted was devastated by the loss of the man hebelieved was his father. To a limited extent, the father-figurevacancy was filled by his Uncle Jack, a cultured and intelligentmusic professor at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma.

At an early age Ted he exhibited tendenciestoward violence and antisocial behavior. For example, a teenagedbaby-sitter once awoke from a nap to find that young Ted hadarranged the households kitchen knifes around her. The points ofthe blades were all aimed toward her body.

ADOLESCENCE

More significant, however, is the fact that when Bundy wasfourteen, an eight-year-old girl disappeared from his neighborhood.In spite of an extensive search, she was never seen again. The girlknew Ted because she took piano lessons from his uncle, and herhouse was on his paper route. Bundy denied responsibility for thecrime until the day he died, and opinion remains divided about hisinvolvement. DNA tests have been inconclusive, but writer Ann Rulebelieves this little girl was Teds first victim.

As an adolescent Ted formed no closeattachments to his peers, and although he was not unpopular in highschool, he was a loner who stuttered, was shy, and dated only whengirls asked him to Sadie Hawkins dances. His antisocial tendenciescontinued, and before the age of eighteen he was arrested twice forburglary and car theft. He was also a juvenile firestarter. Inaddition, he began reading pornography and magazines about sexualviolence. He also drank and engaged in voyeurism.

ADULTHOOD

Compared to many of his peers, Ted was smart, good looking,well-mannered, and adept at manipulating teachers and otherauthority figures. He graduated with a B average and enrolled atthe University of Puget Sound on a scholarship. But Ted, who longedto be special and recognized for something, felt anonymous and lostin college.