Ted Bundy was an infamous serial killer, burglar, rapist, and necrophile from the 70’s known for his violent crimes against countless young women and girls. He was raised by his grandparents due to his unfit mother and absent father, where he discovered in his youth that the girl he thought to be his sister was actually his mother and he had no clue who his father was. The unknown identity of his father consumed his thoughts in his youth. His mother never told the true story of his paternity and for a time Bundy and members of his family thought his abusive grandfather to be his true father and even though this was never proven the possibility haunted Bundy. The lack of clarity about where he came from caused so much confusion in his childhood. He was also raised by an abusive, violent grandfather for a father figure, aided by a grandmother …show more content…
All of this can be attested to him developing antisocial personality disorder. Antisocial personality disorder is characterized by the total disregard of the feelings of others, the lack of care of what happens to them, a grandiose sense of self, pathological lying, conning-manipulative behaviors, lack of remorse, lack of empathy and failure to accept responsibility. Sufferers of antisocial personality disorder care only about what they can gain from others and feel that they are the only person that matters, they live only in the present and behave as if social regulations do not apply to them. Bundy’s crimes point to this disorder based not only on the sheer numbers of his victims ( he confessed to over 30 murders but the true victim count could be much higher) but also by his treatment of the victims. He typically charmed the victims with his charisma before he raped and killed them violently. He then would return to the murder scene and reminisce his killings and usually have sex with the corpse because the thoughts of his murders turned him