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)
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)
My mom has trouble talking on intimate, personal terms.'" (Rule 2001) Displacement is the redirection of an impulse onto a substitute target
He often kept the bodies or body parts for days, enjoying his 'possession' and control or dispose them and revisit the burial sites. This was Bundy's signature (Fadiman and Frager, 2002)
The two theories of crime that are applicable in his situation are Informal Social Control Theory and Social Learning Theory. Informal Social Control Theory postulates that criminal behavior is a by-product of incomplete or inadequate socialization whereas Social Learning Theory suggests that crime is motivated by adequate socialization towards incorrect values and norms (Vito & Maahs, 2011, p