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Theodore Robert Bundy Trial Summary

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Sheriff Katsaris chose to inform Bundy of the Florida indictment as described in the book and as displayed in the video because he wanted to show Bundy that he would never be a free man again and to test his insanity. Bundy told Katsaris that he would not be able to get anything out of him other than an indictment (Rule, 2009, pg 405). Utilizing the indictment, Katsaris announced to the public about all the charges held against Bundy stating, “Theodore Robert Bundy did make an assault upon Karen Chandler and/or Kathy Kleiner...did then and there unlawfully kill a human being, to wit: Lisa Levy, by strangling and/or beating her until she was dead,and said killing was perpetrated by Theodore Robert Bundy…(Rule, 2009, pg 405-406)”. Though Bundy …show more content…

It showed that the indictment took toll on him especially when he talked to Ann and expressed how “time doesn’t mean anything anyone” because he had to face the reality of his future (Rule, 2009, pg 411). The introduction of Serial Murder: Pathways for Investigations goes into factors that are involved with homicide investigations. Often cases are challenging to law enforcement in many ways due to the complexity of each cases given.Serial murder cases are very rare and because they are of so complex, most investigators don't have enough experience to look into these murders. Majority of these cases involve offenders who murder for sexual reasons. Typologies are broken into categories to show differences in each serial murder case Gaines, Morton, Tillman, 2016, pg 4,7-8). Chapter 2 deals with study parameters and results. It involved charts and accurate information on the offender from examining activity at a crime scene such as motivation, method of killing, victim selection, etc. The charts generally will show the percentages of victims that were of a certain age group and the offender's ethnicity. For example, In the "US Department of Justice, 2010" charts it showed that there were more white offenders (52.2%) than black offenders (38%) (Gains, Morton, Tillman, 2016,

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