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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 …show more content…

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 …show more content…

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

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Theodore would now bear the name that he would make infamous later in life. Theodore Bundy was all over the place during his university years. He was enrolled at numerous institutions and showed no real direction until he went to the University of Washington. While Bundy was trotting through his college years, he got involved with the Republican Party.

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Ted Bundy was an American serial killer who committed a string of murders in the 1970s. Born on November 24, 1946, in Burlington, Vermont, he grew up in a middle-class family in Tacoma, Washington, where he was described as a shy and introverted child. Despite his unassuming demeanor, Bundy had a fascination with violence and sex from an early age. Bundy's first known murder was that of Karen Sparks, a college student in Seattle, in January 1974. Over the next four years, he went on to murder at least 30 young women across seven states, though the actual number of his victims is still unknown.

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Ted was born on November 24, 1946, in Burlington, Vermont. In the 1970s, he raped and murdered young women in misc. states. Some people thought he committed one hundred or more murders. He was executed in Florida’s electric chair on January 24, 1989.

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BIOGRAPHY: Theodore Robert Cowell was born on Nov 24th, 1946 in Burlington, Vermont. More commonly known as "Ted", he was one of the most prolific serial killers in America. He confessed to 36 murders, but nobody really knows how many had been committed or when he began his killing spree. Many speculate that there are even more than the 36 victims out there, but without any further tips or beaks in any major cases it is unknown if the specuklation is true. Ted was born to Eleanor Louise Cowell and a father that had taken off when Eleanor discovered that she was pregnant.

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But after rumors of Bundy being a thief circulated, he sank into a deep depression. He later completed a semester at Temple University then returned to Washington in fall of 1969. As if by the flip of a switch, Ted became very confident and outgoing to the point of being called an “extroverted braggart”, and earned his Bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1972. After he had finished school, Bundy decided to return to the political scene and worked on the re-election committee of Washington’s republican governor, Dan Evans. Once he was elected, Evans gave Ted a seat on the Seattle Crime Prevention Advisory Commitee.

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Regardless of the many lives of women that he would take, he would not be discovered as a serial killer for almost eight years. This is because even though he would kill many, he would be careful about the way he would do it. He would kill women in different jurisdictions and even states. He didn't perform sexual acts with his victims, so it was hard to get DNA results for a suspect. His crimes were also not sexually motivated, and he didn't seem to hold any closeness or involvement with the victims.

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He signed his letters with his symbol, which was a circle with a plus sign over it. Although several suspects have been identified, the cases involving the zodiac killer have never been solved. The Zodiac killer claims to have murdered more than 37 victims, but only seven have been identified two of who survived the attacks. Five murders have been directly linked to the zodiac killer.

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In fact, Bundy wasn’t extremely intelligent, and was not a genius, he only had an IQ of about 124, and he was not wildly successful in school, he was an average student who actually failed out of college after being dumped by a girlfriend, though he did return to school at a later date and finish (Michaud & Aynesworth, 2000). Even so, there was something that everyone could agree upon, Theodore Bundy was a deranged sociopath who became famous for murdering all of his victims, he was one of the serial killers to become extremely famous because of his killings, and some would say that he seemed happy to be getting all of the recognition (Michaud & Aynesworth, 2000). With articles written about him titled, “Bundy: The Man, The Myth, The Legend” he had truly become a legend (Caputi, 1989). These are only a few examples of how the media portrayed Bundy and how that caused the public to see and talk about

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Bundy is known to have stated that his grandfather was a man that he respected and looked up to. At a very young age, Ted was ripped away from his beloved grandfather and thusly experienced the removal of positive stimuli. Ted experienced the third source of strain, shortcomings, when Stephanie Brooks rejected him and their college relationship. Finally, Ted experienced the failure to achieve goals when he unsuccessfully tried to get his beloved ex Stephanie to fall back in love with

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Sociopaths can also have chemical imbalances or areas of the brain with lesions. Sociopaths are usually a bit more impulsive than psychopaths. Sociopaths may be able to create some genuine relationships with people that think like them, but normally have more trouble even having false relationships with others. They have more difficulty maintaining a job or healthy relationships. They are less strategic when they commit crimes and often times will get caught either during the act or shortly after.

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Theodore Robert Bundy was an American serial killer, kidnapper, rapist, and necrophile who battered and murdered an abundance of young women and girls during the 1970s and earlier. Shortly before his implementation, after more than a decade of disavowals, he confessed to thirty homicides committed in seven states between 1974 and 1978. The true victim count remains unknown, and many believe that it is much higher. Bundy was observed as handsome and charismatic by his young female victims, traits he exploited to win their trust. He typically contacted them in public places, feigning injury or disability, before overshadowing and assaulting them at locations that were more isolated.

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After series of sexual abuse, Bundy would revisit some of his victims to continue to engage in sexual actions until the women’s remains were well decomposed to the point where it was no longer possible to do so. Ted would travel around the country in search for his ideal victim this shows that he had well thought out his attacks and would plan ahead to find his perfect victim, these victims generally

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During his college years, he went to study law and psychology in Pennsylvania at Temple University, and later got a degree in psychology. Ted Bundy was one of the most psychotic serial killers of all time because of how he killed his victims, the insane psychological side of him, and how many he killed in total. Ted Bundy killed his victims in the most suspenseful and terrifying way. He would approach the young female

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Ted’s violent side was thought to be inherited from his grandfather who had allegedly raped and abused Ted’s mother. This lead many to believe that Ted’s grandfather was actually his father. Ted in his early life also believed this, therefore he became a role model for Ted which shows why Ted would eventually carry this violent side in his life. Ted’s biological father was never known. This meant that she dated a string of men and one of these men became her husband and was a major influence on Ted and he lead him to change his name to Ted Bundy.

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Ted Bundy was a notorious serial murderer who’s reign of terror lasted from 1974 to 1978. Bundy was convicted of three homicides and was sentenced to death for all three charges. However, at the time of his execution, Bundy confessed to 30 murders however the exact number of victims is still unknown. Bundy’s crimes evolved over time but he was both a sexual sadist and a necrophiliac serial killer. At the beginning of his rampage, Bundy would sneak into the victims house in the middle of the night, violently attack them while they were sleeping with a blunt object and then Bundy would usually sexually assault them.

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