Essay On Ted Bundy

In your lifetime you are likely to unknowingly walk past an average of 10 murderers, in the U.S, who have not been caught yet. Names like John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Ted Bundy are all widely known serial killers that have been sent to jail for their crimes. One thing that you may have not known though is the fact that Ted Bundy killed two of his victims in Tallahassee, specifically right here at Florida State University. Ted Bundy admitted to killing 30 people but many believe he had as many as 100 victims. Although at one point his own lawyer, John Henry Browne, admitted that Bundy had told him he killed more than 100 people both men and women.

Theodore Bundy was born in Burlington Vermont on November 24th of 1946 to Eleanor Cowell. Bundy’s mother Eleanor was unmarried and very young when she …show more content…
Eventually Eleanor moved to Washington with Theodor and got married to a man named Johnnie Bundy. Although Ted grew up in a normal household with a normal family he showed an interest for death and morbidity when he was very young. He also developed an allure for knives at the age of around three years old. When Ted was growing up his mother admitted that he was very materialistic and was very ashamed of his stepfather. He did not think his father earned enough and was humiliated that his stepfather drove a Rambler, so he slowly started detaching himself from John along with his four half siblings. Ted did not really have any morals and did not see anything wrong with taking things from people if he wanted them. Bundy did not really think about things before he would do then and as a teenager he even “liked to peer in other people's windows” (Editors, 2014) and just watch them. He would not do anything harmful, he just liked to observe them.

Growing up, Ted Bundy was a smart student and got good grade although he wasn’t particularly good at interacting with other students. He exhibited signs of a psychopath claiming