Ted Bundy: An Informative Speech On Serial Killers
Title – The Charming Predator
General purpose – To inform the audience about serial killers
Specific purpose – To inform the audience about Ted Bundy, a person that committed outrageous crimes.
Central Ideas – What makes a person a serial killer? Ted Bundy proved that even a handsome and smart individual with everything going for him, can become a monster.
Introduction – (Attention getter) As Ted Bundy once stated, “We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere…” (Orienting material) A serial killer is classified as someone killing three or more people in a short period. The exact reason why people kill is unknown. However, experts suggest that it may date back to traumatic events faced during childhood which …show more content…
Body – (Main point) Ted Bundy was responsible for raping and murdering many young women. His childhood was just as dark as his adulthood, which was believed what drove him to become that killer that he was. I. Theodore “Ted” Bundy’s childhood was extremely complicated. He was born in a home for unwed mothers to Louise Cowell. He grew up believing that his grandparents were in fact his parents and his mother was his sister. Studies on Ted Bundy tried to explain why he was mentally incompetent. His grandfather was “an extremely violent and frightening individual”. Throughout his younger years his grandmother was hospitalized several times for psychotic episodes. It is rumored that his grandfather Sam Cowell was indeed Bundy’s biological father. Ann Rule, author of The Stranger Beside Me, stated that Bundy found out the truth about his parentage in 1969. He found a copy of his birth certificate that proved that Louise Cowell was actually his mother. When Bundy was a teenager, he was shy and scared in social situations, he preferred to be alone. He had an obsession with pornography and later turned to watching women through windows. He became bored with this and began torturing, raping, and murdering women. All this was brought about in his last interview by James Dobson, Fatal Addiction. During the interview, Bundy spoke about why he did what he was being accused for. (Bundy) “In conjunction with my exposure to pornography, alcohol reduced my inhibitions and pornography eroded them
General purpose – To inform the audience about serial killers
Specific purpose – To inform the audience about Ted Bundy, a person that committed outrageous crimes.
Central Ideas – What makes a person a serial killer? Ted Bundy proved that even a handsome and smart individual with everything going for him, can become a monster.
Introduction – (Attention getter) As Ted Bundy once stated, “We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere…” (Orienting material) A serial killer is classified as someone killing three or more people in a short period. The exact reason why people kill is unknown. However, experts suggest that it may date back to traumatic events faced during childhood which …show more content…
Body – (Main point) Ted Bundy was responsible for raping and murdering many young women. His childhood was just as dark as his adulthood, which was believed what drove him to become that killer that he was. I. Theodore “Ted” Bundy’s childhood was extremely complicated. He was born in a home for unwed mothers to Louise Cowell. He grew up believing that his grandparents were in fact his parents and his mother was his sister. Studies on Ted Bundy tried to explain why he was mentally incompetent. His grandfather was “an extremely violent and frightening individual”. Throughout his younger years his grandmother was hospitalized several times for psychotic episodes. It is rumored that his grandfather Sam Cowell was indeed Bundy’s biological father. Ann Rule, author of The Stranger Beside Me, stated that Bundy found out the truth about his parentage in 1969. He found a copy of his birth certificate that proved that Louise Cowell was actually his mother. When Bundy was a teenager, he was shy and scared in social situations, he preferred to be alone. He had an obsession with pornography and later turned to watching women through windows. He became bored with this and began torturing, raping, and murdering women. All this was brought about in his last interview by James Dobson, Fatal Addiction. During the interview, Bundy spoke about why he did what he was being accused for. (Bundy) “In conjunction with my exposure to pornography, alcohol reduced my inhibitions and pornography eroded them