However, other people give accounts of his childhood that starkly contradict with Bundy's account in his final interview, in which he characterized his childhood home as a good Christian home. There is significant evidence that his grandfather was both physically and emotionally abusive to Bundy and his mother (Montaldo, 2012)
139). These women were Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman, who were killed, and Karen Chandler and Kathy Kleiner, both of whom survived the attack (Bell, n
In order to compare the impressions of Bundy's teeth to the photograph of Levy's buttocks, two transparent overlays were superimposed on the original picture. The first overlay was a hand drawn "hollow volume" type that showed Bundy's lower front teeth and the second overlay was a felt pen "drawing of the edges of Bundy's teeth" (Bowers, 2011)
). Credit card receipts also place Bundy in Lake City at the time of murder and a witness linked Bundy to the knife used to kill Leach (Boynton, 2007, p
Although Bundy was initially charged with possession of burglary tools, he was charged with aggravated kidnapping on October 2, 1975 when DaRonch, the director of the play at Viewmont High School that Bundy had initially approached, and a friend of Kent picked Bundy out of a seven man line-up that they launched an investigation into his criminal activities. During a search of Bundy's apartment, police discovered a brochure advertising the play at Viewmont High School and a guide to Colorado resorts with Wildwood Inn checked off (Keppel, 2005, p
Bundy's next victim would be Lynette Culver who disappeared in May 1975 in Pocatello, Utah. Police did not know of Bundy's involvement in Culver's disappearance until Bundy made a last minute confession in which he also claimed that he dumped her body in the Snake River (Levenson, 1989)
Police did not know of Bundy's involvement in Culver's disappearance until Bundy made a last minute confession in which he also claimed that he dumped her body in the Snake River (Levenson, 1989). Another last minute confession was his involvement in the disappearance of Susan Curtis who disappeared without a trace from Provo, Utah, and whose body was never recovered on June 28, 1975 (Michaud & Aynesworth, 1999, p
On January 4, 1974, Sparks was discovered in her bed with her face and hair matted with blood. On January 31, 1974, 22-year-old Lynda Healy disappeared from her basement apartment near the University of Washington (Vronsky, 2004, p
He worked in politics and aspired to a career in law, and saw that self-absorption, manipulation of others, and the cultivation of a deceptive exterior were not just encouraged but required of the powerful men he observed." (Marshall, 2013, p
He revealed information about the murders in bits and pieces, partially to bargain more time before he was executed, partially because he seemed to enjoy playing a cat and mouse game with the authorities. Some believe that Bundy first killed a girl when he was age fourteen (Chua-Eoan, 2007)
This desire to be by himself increased and possibly led to his later inability to socially interact comfortably with others." His shyness became a defining feature of Ted's early childhood, as he was "self-doubting and uncomfortable in social situations," (Bell)
" His shyness became a defining feature of Ted's early childhood, as he was "self-doubting and uncomfortable in social situations," (Bell). However, Ted seemed to come out of his shell in high school and was even described as being "attractive" (Montaldo) and "popular," (Bell)
Ted Bundy's actions contradict these established laws and regulations. Bundy's crimes included rape, kidnapping, murder, and necrophilia (Bell, n
). Not much information is given about Bundy's relationship with his mother, however it is believed that he was resentful of her throughout his life for having lied about his parentage and leaving him to find out the details himself (Rule, 2009, p
Given the instability of his childhood -- not knowing his biological father and being left in the care of his grandparents at an early age -- psychoanalytic factors may have contributed to the formation of his psyche. Additionally, the development of his psyche could also have been impacted by his grandfather who has been described as "an inflexible perfectionist given easy to verbal abuse and the occasional physical abuse of cats, dogs, and his wife" (Simon, 2008, p
Emile Durkeheim felt that crime provided an "indirect utility" for understanding the need for changes in our laws and values. Durkeheim proposed that, "If there were no crime, it would be evidence that change was not possible: To make progress, individual originality must be able to express itself"(Durkeheim, P
Neither relative deprivation nor poverty, but social inequality was another force that drove Ted Bundy to steal luxurious possessions and to act out violently upon victims who resembled a well-to-do woman who at one time rejected him. "American studies of economic inequality have found it to be a more significant variable than poverty" (Greek/Ecological Support and Social Disorganization)
Bundy was not insane, nor was he evil. Anne Rule, the true-crime writer who was Bundy's good friend for years prior to his arrest, said, "Ted seemed to embody what was young, idealistic, clean, sure, empathetic"(Rule, p
But after two and a half years of "repressed homicidal violence erupted," as he broke into a sorority house in Tallahassee and killed two college women (Clark Prosecutor). The difference between a serial killer and a spree killer is dramatic: the serial killer "takes extended breaks between slayings" and victims "usually fit a particular profile" (in Bundy's case, vulnerable young women); the spree killer generally will "pack their mayhem into a brief time span" and the victims don't fit "any discernible profile but may be dispatched out of necessity" (the killer may need their car, so he kills them) (Koerner, 2002)
Bundy may have been "degenerate" and a "savage killer," but he was also a "consummate gamesman," Michaud explains on page 15, and the mind has to be able to organize events and stories to play those sort of mind games with interviewers, as Bundy did. Whether Bundy was talking about his life while he was in school, or "…detailing the essence of victim 'possession' -- he never seem to stop striving for a fuller, more comprehensible explanation for who he was and why he had become a killer" (Michaud, 15)