Ted Bundy Research Paper

Ted Bundy was born on November 24, 1946 at the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers in Burlington, Vermont. Bundy’s mother Eleanor Louise Cowell was not married and still to this day does not know who the real father is. His grandparents took him in as if he were their own child and changed his name, he became Theodore Robert
Cowell. Bundy grew up believing that his mother was his older sister. He has never specified when he found out that Louise was his mother, it has been said that he found out in high school or he found out after a traumatic breakup with a college girlfriend. Louise met a man named Johnny Bundy at a singles night and later married him and adopted Ted which changed his last name to Bundy. In Bundy’s that high school
He was convicted for DaRonch 's kidnapping and was sentences to 15 years in prison. During his hearing on June 7, 1977 at the Pitkin County Courthouse in Aspen Bundy was allowed to visit the library during recess he jumped out a second story window spraining his ankle in the process. Bundy walked away casually and stole a car. He was apprehended on June 13, 1977. Bundy escaped again this time from the Glenwood Springs, Colorado Jail on the night of December 30, 1977 he sawed through a bar on the ceiling and climbed through a crawl space over to a spot directly above the jailer 's linen closet. The jailer and his wife were out for the evening. Bundy dropped down into the jailer 's apartment, and walked out the door. The guard didn 't notice he was gone until 17 hours later by that time he was already on a plane to Chicago. Before his escape from the Glenwood Springs jail, Bundy wrote a letter it stated "I have known people who...radiate vulnerability. Their facial expressions say 'I am afraid of you. ' These people invite abuse... By expecting to be hurt, do they subtly encourage it?" In a 1980 interview, speaking of a serial killer 's justification of his actions, Bundy said "So what 's one less? What 's one less person on the face of the planet?" When Florida detectives asked Bundy to tell them where he had left Kimberly Leach 's body for her family 's solace, Bundy allegedly said, "But I 'm the
Bundy stated as a young boy he found pornography. He found this in the local grocery store and in a local drug store. He became fascinated with the hard core pornography. Bundy stated that it happened in stages. “My experience with pornography generally, but with pornography that deals on a violent level with sexuality, is once you become addicted to it — and I look at this as a kind of addiction like other kinds of addiction — I would keep looking for more potent, more explicit, more graphic kinds of material. Until you reach a point where the pornography only goes so far, you reach that jumping off point where you begin to wonder if maybe actually doing it would give that which is beyond just reading it or looking at