While Bundy struggled with his lack of identity from his family, he was attempting to find his place in the world in the only way he knew how: through manipulation. Published in The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy, Bundy described his struggles with social situations in his confession, “‘I didn't know what made things tick. I didn't know what made people want to be friends. I didn't know what made people attractive to one another. I didn't know what underlay social interactions,’”. Lacking the maturity of children his age, Bundy “listened to the radio and practiced talking like the actors. Highly observant, he'd also imitated the successful boys at school,’”. These tactics allowed him to overcome his timidness, …show more content…
Rule argues, for instance, that albeit everyone knowing and fearing the murderer on the loose, “the abductor…[could] come a little further out of the shadows, take more chances, to prove that he could do what he wanted and still not be caught, or even seen” Bundy had been getting away with murder—both figuratively and literally—for his entire life. Bundy’s casework provides evidence that evil can trump good when it's hidden well enough. Shown through the usage of language pertaining to escape, Rule describes the determined capability of a man who would go to any lengths to stay seemingly positive in the public eye, characterizing Bundy as “a young man for whom the future could surely hold only success,”. Proving that a person does not always have to seem the poster of satan, the worst of a person can always outwit being brought to light when it is concealed well enough. Whether holding prominent public positions or feigning injury, Bundy proves that his external appearance has almost always veiled his internal sinful …show more content…
Bundy’s paradoxical personality of “chameleonic style present[ing] a unique form of mental flexibility” suggesting both “compassion” and “cold” causes his inner aggressiveness to take absolute control over his already diminished guilty conscience. His inner fear of failure causes him to destroy any hope of humanity in order to satisfy the necessity for power. This concept, alongside that of his aggressive murder and assault of over thirty women proves his natural vicious inclination. Similarly, Bundy suffers from self-inflicted destruction of reputation, proving that he is inherently evil despite his path of glory in psychology or politics. Ted Bundy was put to death by the electrical chair as it is believed that there is no reconciliation for his actions, no ability to be healed, no chance to change. This man, driven by dissatisfaction, preformed unjustifiable acts of murder. Bundy personifies questionably self-satisfactory sin, and certainly destroys his external titles due to his thirst for an almost godly title of