Summary: The Grisly, All-American Appeal Of Serial Killers

In 1946 a boy named Theodore was born in the town of Burlington, Vermont to an unwed mother in a religious family. He was raised by his grandparents due to the circumstances of his birth in a religious environment to a young mother. He would go on to gain fame and notoriety often reserved for movie stars and athletes. According to his biography he was a gregarious man with many friends including a longtime girlfriend he met during his college years. Hundreds of letters would pour into his mailbox along with countless marriage proposals from women he had never met. Ted Bundy gained fame in the 1970’s not due to a special skill but due to the countless grizzly rapes and murders and the trial that followed. According to his biography entry Bundy

From 2000 to 2008, there were more than 270 movies about serial killers (Beck, Julia). Although this points to the conclusion that the country has become more infatuated with serial killers the opposite has become true. In Julia Becks article titled “The grisly, All-American Appeal of Serial Killers” she explains “While there has been an increase in the amount of movies based on serial killers, the majority are based on serial killers pre-21st century”. In the 21st century, references to serial killers in social media has become more accepted and casual. In the song Ball T.I. casually raps references to Ted Bundy. “Drink all muddy, flag all bloody/I’m killin’ these hoes like Ted Bundy”. In the 21st century alone there have been five songs titled after the Unabomber, spanning multiple genres of music from cultish Metal to mainstream hip-hop. Ted Kaczynski, or “the Unabomber”, was a mathematician prodigy who sent mailed bombs to universities and airlines between the years 1978 and 1995. He fatally killed three and injured many more as his bombs captivated the attention of many. To this day the fatalities caused by killers like Ted Kaczynski and others still captivate the attention of people in the United