Ted Bundy was a serial killer and rapist and was infamous for his notorious acts. He was born on November 24, 1946 in Burlington, Vermont. Ted Bundy was the son of Eleanor Cowell, who was embarrassed by having Ted as her son because she was unmarried and 22 at the time. Her deeply religious parents were ashamed and took Ted in as their son and told him that his mother, Eleanor, was his sister. Eleanor and Ted moved to Tacoma, Washington a few years later and in 1951 Eleanor married Johnnie Bundy and had many children together. Ted grew up in a happy, working class family and did not appear to have had a traumatizing childhood. At a young age, Bundy was interested in death and injury and was captivated by knives at the age of 3. He was shy and did well and in …show more content…
Many of his victims resemble his ex-girlfriend, they were all beautiful with long dark hair. There is not a known date as to when Bundy began his killing spree, but some have speculated that he began in 1974. By this time, he was not the shy boy he was in his younger years. He had completely transformed and became more confident and and active socially and politically. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1972 with a psychology degree and later was accepted into law school in Utah. He became a charismatic Republican campaigner and even got a recommendation letter from Republican governor of Washington. Around this time was when women were missing and were heard to have been in the company of a man with short, dark hair, named Ted. Bundy raped, mutilated, and strangled his victims. He kept his victims heads in his apartment and slept with their corpses until the stink became unbearable. To lure his victims, Ted often wore a fake sling on his arm, or casts on his legs and arms. He then would ask his victims to help him carry things into or out of his car. When