Ted Bundy
Serial Killer Profile
CJ-490-001
Ted Bundy Bibliography
4/7/14
TED BUNDY
In this profile I will be discussing Ted Bundy and his life, and what things may have lead him to commit such atrocities in his later years which would overall come to an end with him being placed on death row and executed. By doing this I will have to reflect on multiple portions of his life by reviewing his childhood, behavior patterns, childhood issues that lead to future problems as an adult, his social life, and what type of possible mental breakdowns or disorders could have lead him to commit this series of murders in the past. First is Ted Bundy’s childhood, and what it was like for him growing up. Ted Bundy was born by the name Theodore Robert Cowell on November 24, 1946, in Burlington Vermont his mother’s name was Louise Cowell age twenty-two. From birth Ted Bundy already fit the category with most serial and sexual killers the FBI composed, because 43 percent of them were born too single parents like Ted Bundy. When Ted Bundy was born, his mother left him for about three months to go to Philadelphia, and later returned and brought him to his grandfather, in Philadelphia who pretended to be his father, Sam Cowell acted like Ted had been adopted from some unknown orphanage as he grew up and claimed that his mother was his sister. So Ted grew up thinking unknowingly that his mother was really his sister, and he himself was just an orphan.
Ted Bundy loved his grandfather but he was reported to have a “volatile temper and a mild taste for pornography.”(Most Notorious 1) Ted Bundy was not very fond of his step father, but he never received any type of abuse from any of his family members growing up. Although, Ted Bundy reported being confused about the relationship with his mother, this was because she would alternately refer to herself as both his sister and mother on separate occasions, this possibly fueled some of his mental issues that developed in his later life. In
CJ-490-001
Ted Bundy Bibliography
4/7/14
TED BUNDY
In this profile I will be discussing Ted Bundy and his life, and what things may have lead him to commit such atrocities in his later years which would overall come to an end with him being placed on death row and executed. By doing this I will have to reflect on multiple portions of his life by reviewing his childhood, behavior patterns, childhood issues that lead to future problems as an adult, his social life, and what type of possible mental breakdowns or disorders could have lead him to commit this series of murders in the past. First is Ted Bundy’s childhood, and what it was like for him growing up. Ted Bundy was born by the name Theodore Robert Cowell on November 24, 1946, in Burlington Vermont his mother’s name was Louise Cowell age twenty-two. From birth Ted Bundy already fit the category with most serial and sexual killers the FBI composed, because 43 percent of them were born too single parents like Ted Bundy. When Ted Bundy was born, his mother left him for about three months to go to Philadelphia, and later returned and brought him to his grandfather, in Philadelphia who pretended to be his father, Sam Cowell acted like Ted had been adopted from some unknown orphanage as he grew up and claimed that his mother was his sister. So Ted grew up thinking unknowingly that his mother was really his sister, and he himself was just an orphan.
Ted Bundy loved his grandfather but he was reported to have a “volatile temper and a mild taste for pornography.”(Most Notorious 1) Ted Bundy was not very fond of his step father, but he never received any type of abuse from any of his family members growing up. Although, Ted Bundy reported being confused about the relationship with his mother, this was because she would alternately refer to herself as both his sister and mother on separate occasions, this possibly fueled some of his mental issues that developed in his later life. In
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