Teddy Bundy
By Donnie
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Were there any precursors?
•Ted's psychopathic nature was revealed throughout his childhood into college,
but the people who witnessed his behavior did not realize the implications of the
tendencies he was developing
•He stole without any sense of guilt and but instead a sense of entitlement
•His employers considered him to be unreliable
What was his childhood like?
•Born November 24, 1946
•Ted and his mother moved with his grandparents to Philadelphia when he was
very young
•He was led to believe that his grandparents were his parents, and his birth
mother was his older sister
•He was often teased and bullied in junior high school
•In high school, Ted appeared to become well liked
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Did childhood behavior reflect problems?
•Around the age of 3, he became fascinated by knives.
•Bundy was a shy, but bright child who did well in school, but not with his peers.
•As a teenager, a darker side of his character started to emerge.
Ted Bundy was not born a killer but made one by the early childhood circumstances that he had
to endure
● What was their adult life like?
•After high school, Ted attended college at the University of Puget Sound and the
University of Washington
•Ted met Stephanie Brooks who was everything he had ever dreamed of in a woman
•She was really Ted's first love and possibly the first woman with whom he became
involved with sexually
•She was not as infatuated with Ted as he was with her
•After his girlfriend graduated from the University of Washington, she broke off
relations with Ted
•Ted never recovered from the break-up and became obsessed with her and couldn't
get her out of his mind
Did he finish high school or college?
•He dropped out of college after the break up.
•Re-enrolled at the University of Washington after a little.
Back to older life
•He dated Meg Anders for 5 years.
In 1973 on a business trip to California he met up with his old girlfriend
What was the nature of his crimes
•Serial Killer
•Rapist
•Thief
•Kidnapper
Did he marry?
•Carole Ann Boone
Did he have kids?
Yes he did
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Was he a loner?
•Regarded as handsome and charismatic by his young female victims
•Able to seduce his victims to help him
Plus he had kids
Was he ever diagnosed with a medical disorder?
•Classified as a High Factor 1 Psychopath
Did he receive treatment?
•Antisocial Personality Disorder is very difficult to treat.
•People with antisocial personality disorder often do not admit they have a
problem that should be treated.
•There is actually a chance that individuals with this disorder may get worse with
treatment because they learn more about other psychopaths and use that
information.
•Medications may be used to help control symptoms such as irritability or
control associated psychological conditions
•With or without treatment, rates of imprisonment and violent death are high
among those with antisocial personality disorder
What was the timespan of the murders?
•Between 1974 and 1978
How many victims?
•Confessed to 36, estimated at almost 100
•First victim
•Anne Marie Burr
What was his behavior when he was caught?
•He felt like he could beat the system regardless of all the evidence.
•He escaped multiple times.
Was he found capable of standing trial?
Yes
What was the verdict?
•July 1979, Bundy was convicted for the two Chi Omega murders.
•Bundy received another death sentence the following year in the murder of
Kimberly Leach.
Is he still alive?
•Spent years trying to appeal his death sentences.
•Tried to take his case as high as the U.S. Supreme Court, but was turned down.
•Offered information on some of unsolved murders to avoid the electric chair.
•Executed January 24, 1989 by the electric chair at Raiford Prison in Starke,
Florida.