Theodore Robert Bundy, was a notorious serial killer and rapist who sexually assaulted and murdered women in the 1970s. He was an attractive man with a high intelligence and charismatic charms. He may have looked like an “All-American Man” but he held many dark secrets that would be unleashed after his first arrest. Bundy stands out from all the other serial killers by having one of the most bizarre childhoods, his reactions to women, the way he manipulated his victims and how he disposed of them while evading police custody several times. Bundy’s childhood is significant compared to other serial killers’. Ted Bundy grew up thinking Eleanor Cowell was his sister, but in fact she was actually his mother who gave birth to him at Elizabeth …show more content…
He also would look through libraries for detective magazines and books on crime, focusing on sources that described sexual violence and featured pictures of dead bodies and violent sexuality” ("Ted Bundy | Murderpedia, the Encyclopedia of Murderers.") Ted out grew his shy and timid stage and blossomed into a confident and social bug. In his University years, he worked the night-shift at a suicide crisis center as a volunteer (which this is also ironic, because the serial killer was saving lives instead of taking lives). “He also had a relationship with “Stephanie Brooks” but ended up dumping Bundy because he was immature and had a lack of ambition.” Bundy took this break up pretty hard and with his revenge he changed into a honor roll student, who was a dedicated professional and a law student. Several years later, Bundy ran into "Stephanie Brooks"' and she saw his new look and attitude. She knew Bundy had grew up to the man she was hoping for and they rekindled their relationship throughout the rest of that year and he even proposal and she accepted. At the beginning of the next year, he abruptly dumped her and refused to return her phone calls. After the breakup, something broke inside Bundy and his murderous rampage