Serial Killers: Ted Bundy

As my psychology teacher presses play on a documentary and turns off the lights, my head is already on my desk and my eyelids beginning to feel heavy from the idea of watching a film for educational purposes rather than for personal entertainment. I started to drift off as the narrator began describing a man named Theodore Robert Bundy as an intelligent, articulate, and charming member of society, but what woke me up and held my attention for the duration of the film was the narrator’s abrupt change in tone and the coldly stated fact that “Ted Bundy raped and murdered scores of women by strangling and mutilating his victims.” This seemingly perfect man is one of the most infamous serial killers in American history. The fact that someone capable