Ted Bundy. Ted Bundy was a infamous serial killer between the time of 1974 through 1978. Bundy committed to killing 30 women and girls during the time but people suspect that he killed a significantly higher amount. Before I get too ahead of myself, let's learn about Bundy's life to see if we can explain what led him to kill.
Childhood- Usually when serial killers are younger they usually have some signs to them that don't seem normal to the human eye like killing their pets brutally. Well, Bundy had one of those moments himself. His aunt woke up to find Bundy as a toddler placing knives near her when she was sleeping. A quote that she told Vanity Fair stated ¨I remember thinking at the time that I was the only one who thought it was strange. Nobody did anything.¨ In the same article a Doctor named Dorthy Lewis
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Bundy, also known as Theodore Cowell when he was younger, had quite an interesting childhood. When he was just a baby his mother had him in a place for unwed mothers in Burlington Vermont on Nov. 24, 1946. They only lived there for two months until his mother Louise was thinking about placing Bundy up for adoption. Louis´s dad wanted Bundy to be a part of the family that lived in Philadelphia. Sense they moved when he grew older he thought that Louise was his sister and not his mother. In the book The Stranger Beside Me written by Ann Rule though there was confirmation that he always knew that Louise was his mother and not his sister A quote that Ted Bundy told Ann herself about the situation was¨Maybe I just figured out that there couldn´t be twenty years´ difference in age between a brother and a sister, and Louise always took care of me. I just grew up knowing that she was really my mother.¨ At first look the Cowells were just a normal family, but they were wrong. Bundy's grandmother sadly had depression and also Agoraphobia