Ted Shawn

Serial crimes have been on the ascent over the recent years. The quantity of reported cases of individuals found to have been killed in puzzling ways has commanded news headlines around the world. Serial offenders have a propensity of redundancy of the same crimes. There are certain factors which are believed to be the motivating variable of serial offenses. Gary Leon Ridge who is also known as the Green River Killer is an American serial killer. It is assumed that Gary could have murdered more…

Ted went to the University of Puget Sound (UPS) taking courses in psychology and Oriental studies, Bundy transferred to Seattle's University of Washington (UW). While in college Ted worked as a grocery bagger and shelf-stocker at a Seattle Safeway store, Ted also worked as a night-shift volunteer at Seattle's Suicide Hot Line for one of his classes. While working for the Suicide Hotline Ted met Ann Rule. “He began a relationship with fellow university student ‘Stephanie Brooks’ (a pseudonym),…

Ted Bundy is one of those criminals that will never be forgotten with the stuff that he pulled off and the stuff he got away with. Ted changed his named and was previously known as Theodore Robert Cowell rather than Ted Bundy. Ted was born in Starke, Florida, located in the Jacksonville, Florida area. Ted grew up having a very confusing life, he was adopted by his grandparents and was always told his own mother was actually his sister. Although he was very smart he did a lot of damage in a few…

The Psychological Theory best represents the reason Dennis Radar committed the hideous crimes in the town of Wichita, Kansas because he was predestined to be a psychopath, which is the basis of this theory. The theory explains that mental disorders such as Psychopathy can cause an individual to turn towards criminal acts. According to Jack Levin, Ph.D., Dennis Radar is considered a psychopath because “The most essential characteristic of a psychopath is an excessive need for control and power,…

One of the most coldest cases in LAPD history, The Black Dahlia Murder. One of the most gruesome murders. Elizabeth Short’s death is well know but her killer remains a mystery. There are many theories as to who might be her killer but only one adds up to the conclusion. Although many believe that Walter Bayley is the killer, or Robert M. Manley, But the most well known and credible suspect for this case is George Hodel. Short was not killed by Walter Bayley. Bayley had no connections with…

Because they believe it is acceptable to kill, rape, or torture other human beings, let alone children, they cannot be entrusted with the betterment of their specific state allowing its citizens to follow in his or her footsteps. Former Alaskan senator Ted Stevens had been convicted on seven felony accounts of corruption, yet he is known to be the longest serving republican senator in history (Kolawale). A man with no respect for his country should not able to take part in controlling its…

To further understand how serial killers are created by their upbringing, we must first get to know what a serial killer does, and the different types of serial killers there are running around. Many psychologists have classified that serial killers are sociopaths and or psychotic. Under the psychological microscope, Sociopath and psychopaths are considered to be the same by nature, they both exhibit antisocial behavior, but they’re both extremely different. Psychopathy, used to describe a…

Stab stab stab death despair. I am referring to Machu Picchu and all of the death in Machu Picchu. Machu Picchu was a cool place and people still visit Machu Picchu today. What you are about to read is all about Machu Picchu. Machu Picchu was built around 1450 and was abandoned about a century later and no one knows why the place was abandoned but some people speculate that it was smallpox. after further research, they figured out that most of the deaths at Machu Picchu were women. Machu Picchu…

Matthew Goldberg ENGL 280 The Journey To Life And Death Sylvia Plath’s “BlackBerrying,” uses imagery and personification to bring the reader into the life of the speaker. Plath committed suicide at age 30, with these poems to show how much life you can live in a short period of time. In this three stanza poem Plath uses seven different colors which allows each reader to create their own image in their head. The poem is straight forward, meaning it is read consecutively. This also illustrates an…

There was a man named Frederick Matthews. Freddy had blond hair, and green eyes that seemed like they burned into the souls of anyone who looked into them. Freddy was a retired athlete who played football. He was married to Raven Boris. Their relationship was not the best. They always got in fights and if you could listen closely you could hear them from a half a mile away, but they always loved each other either way but that would change. One day they were arguing and six gunshots fired.…