Ted Bundy (36), John Wayne Gacy (33), Jeffery Dahmer (17), and Richard Ramirez (13) are known as some of the most notorious serial killers. Despite their horrendous and despicable actions these men are said to have a sort of charm to them. Bundy was the young, attractive, educated man that gave off the ‘boy next door’ persona and Gacy was a well-known man in the community that spent time as Pogo to entertain ill-children (Lust). No one could imagine at the time what these men were capable of doing and after discovering the truth people were fascinated. Each other these serial killers holding high numbers of victims, or at least the victims we know about. After all the media coverage of their atrocities the public became fascinated, fans were made, letters sent, merchandise created and sold. While the public deserves to be informed of these killers it’s in these new coverage that the interest starts.
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There is a fascination the public has with serial killers that isn’t quite well understood. When the evening news broadcasts the tragedies of the day we find ourselves glued. The same applies to when serial killers are covered on …show more content…
He was handsome and had a charm that drew both the people in the courtroom and those watching on in their homes. Bundy was young, well-educated and appeared to be able to attract women easily (Lust). During Bundy’s trial inside and outside the courtroom women came to see him. Women who were close in age and physically resembled his victims, women of his type, and these spectators were there for him. Though one would expect these women to stay away or be in attendance to see the man face his fate, but that was not the case. These women were his fans, and some of them were even hoping to catch Bundy’s eye. Bundy was seen as a ‘lady’s man’ and for some there was no amount of evidence that could change that (natural born
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There is a fascination the public has with serial killers that isn’t quite well understood. When the evening news broadcasts the tragedies of the day we find ourselves glued. The same applies to when serial killers are covered on …show more content…
He was handsome and had a charm that drew both the people in the courtroom and those watching on in their homes. Bundy was young, well-educated and appeared to be able to attract women easily (Lust). During Bundy’s trial inside and outside the courtroom women came to see him. Women who were close in age and physically resembled his victims, women of his type, and these spectators were there for him. Though one would expect these women to stay away or be in attendance to see the man face his fate, but that was not the case. These women were his fans, and some of them were even hoping to catch Bundy’s eye. Bundy was seen as a ‘lady’s man’ and for some there was no amount of evidence that could change that (natural born