Ted Bundy

Ted Bundy

1. He was a serial killer, confessed to thirty-six homicides.

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     • This is an interpersonal conflict, because Ted Bundy was an American serial killer. After more than a decade denied, he confessed to thirty-six homicides of American women that he committed in seven states between 1973 and 1978.
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     • Conflict over psychological needs: Ted Bundy needed to be in control over their victims, reasuring in this way power.
       • Bundy didn't kill just for pleasure He said he did it for the power and control of choosing who lives or dies, and that, after doing so, his victims became his possession, part of him.
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     • The type of relationship that exists between the murderer and the victims is emotionally tense, hostile, there is an imbalance of power (clarifying that the victims were women)
       • How was the case of its first victim
         • On January 4, 1974, he entered Joni Lenz's college room, she was 18 years old. He hit her with a metal plate, and raped her with a leg of the bed.
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     • Was born into a violent family. Ted had a troubled personality and childhood, he was shy and withdrawn. he began to behave cruelly toward animals, capturing, killing, mutilating, and butchering them.
       • he discovered during his adolescence that his sister was actually his mother created a deep resentment in him.
         • When he grew up, he was a GOLDEN BOY, a student with high marks at the university of washington, he obtained a degree in psychology and, later a law degree... qualified as "Brilliant" by more than one professor.
           • The Ted Bundy story has two important women, his mother for whom he had mixed feelings, and Stephanie Brooks, his girlfriend from college. The one in the photo was his wife Elizabeth (With the same characteristics of his victims)
             • Both women had physical features in common, long brown hair, combed with a line in the middle, these characteristics would become a pattern in the victims of the serial killer.
               • His modus operandi was simple, Ted pretended to have an injured arm and need help. When the girls approached him, he attacked them; For years Ted Bundy kidnapped, tortured, raped, and killed his victims without being identified. The criminal attacks both night and day.
                 • He chose to move. Go from one state to another. Change of modus operandi. But his attacks became increasingly erratic and reckless: he had lost all the subtlety of the hunter, the professional assassin. It left footprints everywhere. As is the case with serial killers, they play cat and mouse ... until they want to be caught. and so Ted Bundy fell.
                   • On July 31, 1979, after seven hours of deliberation, the jury found him guilty on all charges, and Judge Cowart sentenced him to die in the electric chair.
                     • but the "perverse with a necrophilic compulsion" (medical opinion) was executed on January 24, 1989. He was 43 years old.

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   • Ted Bundy is the serial killer who has haunted the world for generations, no one explains how one of the most cruel and brutal criminals in history could arouse the curiosity of thousands of women who followed him as if he were a rock star ( Ted Bundy's trial was always full of fans screaming like he was one of the Beatles)
     • His wife and daughter
       • For a long time, Molly (Ted's Daughter) was particularly devastated by the murder of Kimberly, a girl her own age. Until recently his mind rewound crime over and over again. «I have spent my entire life suffering and crying for what happened, but I have come to understand that my tears are not going to bring him back to life. And that I have to stop being martyred ».
       • Both mother and daughter deny suffering from the syndrome known as ‘remorse for having survived.’ "People take it for granted that I have this syndrome, but I don't think so," Molly says firmly. “The deaths of all those women are a horror, of course, but I don't feel guilty for staying alive. My death would not have prevented those murders.
       • How does Kendall feel about thinking of Bundy today? "I try not to wonder if I have forgiven him or not. All I want is to get it out of my head. Molly is more blunt. "I summarize it in three words: a wicked bug."
       • Molly says she found it helpful to start writing to Vivian Winters, the mother of Susan Rancourt, who was killed by Bundy when she was 18 years old. Molly told her that she had been suffering from Rancourt and the other victims all her life and Winters helped her in her recovery process.

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