Research Paper On Ted Bundy

A psychopath is someone who lacks the ability to truly know what is right from wrong. Psychopaths are often cunning and manipulative. Psychopaths also have a sense of grandiose and that they are better than everyone. Psychopaths are also sometimes confused with antisocial personality disorder. A psychopath is also not a mental condition listed in DSM. A psychopath is a type of personality trait with certain characteristics. Psychopaths also lack empathy, impulse control, and lie often. Psychosis is a complete mental breakdown. If a person is in psychosis, they have lost the ability to tell the difference between reality and fiction. Many mental health conditions can lead to psychosis including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Many mental

Ted Bundy is well known American Serial Killer who confessed to murdering some 40 women. Many researchers and authorities think that number is much higher though and closer to the hundreds. On the PCL-R I gave Bundy several ratings of two. The areas where I gave him ratings of two were Glibness/ superficial charm, egocentricity/ grandiose sense of self-worth, Pathological lying and deception, lack of remorse or guilt, callous/lack of empathy, early behavior problems, and poor probation or parole risk
Ted was known to charm his victims before kidnapping them. He would often act like he was hurt and ask for help in order to get his victims to his car. In the few relationships he did have he was often described as being very charming. Ted also had a sense of egocentricity/grandiose. It was documented that Ted did not get along with his stepdad and thought less of him because he had not received a college education. Ted attended college himself and even graduated with a degree in

Ted also did not do well when it came to social interactions or working with peers. As Ted got older, he also began to look into people's windows. Other than those few things Ted fit into normal society and you would never suspect a thing by looking at him.
The last category I gave Ted a two on was poor probation and parole risk. Ted escaped from prison two different times. When he escaped both times he continued on his killing spree. The limited time he had spent in prison before those two escapes showed that nothing could deter him. Ted was a stone cold serial killer not even a stay in prison made him change his ways. Ted is one of the most famous serial killers in the world. Nobody truly knows how many women he killed but some experts put it in the hundreds. Ted will continue to be studied for years to help people figure out what makes psychopaths