TED BUNDY
Presentation by: Devon and Carmen
WHAT WAS HIS CHILDHOOD LIKE?
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Born November 24, 1946
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Ted and his mother moved with his grandparents to Philadelphia when he was very young
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He was led to believe that his grandparents were his parents, and his birth mother was his
older sister
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He was often teased and bullied in junior high school
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In high school, Ted appeared to become well liked
DID CHILDHOOD BEHAVIOR REFLECT
PROBLEMS?
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Around the age of 3, he became fascinated by knives.
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Bundy was a shy, but bright child who did well in school, but not with his peers.
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As a teenager, a darker side of his character started to emerge.
WERE THERE ANY PRECURSORS?
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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
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His employers considered him to be unreliable
WHAT WAS HIS ADULT LIFE LIKE?
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After high school, Ted attended college at the University of Puget Sound and the
University of Washington
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Ted met Stephanie Brooks who was everything he had ever dreamed of in a woman
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She was really Ted's first love and possibly the first woman with whom he became
involved with sexually
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She was not as infatuated with Ted as he was with her
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After his girlfriend graduated from the University of Washington, she broke off relations
with Ted
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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?
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He dropped out of college after the break up.
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Re-enrolled at the University of Washington after a little.
BACK TO ADULT LIFE
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He dated Meg Anders for 5 years.
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In 1973 on a business trip to California he met up with his old girlfriend.
WHAT WAS THE NATURE OF HIS CRIMES
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Serial Killer
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Rapist
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Thief
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Kidnapper
DID HE MARRY?
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Carole Ann Boone
DID HE HAVE KIDS?
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Yes
WAS HE A LONER?
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No
• Regarded as handsome and charismatic by his young female victims
• Able to seduce his victims to help him
WAS HE EVER DIAGNOSED WITH A MEDICAL
DISORDER?
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Classified as a High Factor 1 Psychopath
DID HE RECEIVE TREATMENT?
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Anti-Social 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?
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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?
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He felt like he could beat the system regardless of all the evidence.
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He escaped multiple times.
WAS HE FOUND CAPABLE OF STANDING TRIAL?
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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?
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Spent years trying to appeal his death sentences.
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Tried to take his case as high as the U.S. Supreme Court, but was turned down.
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Offered information on some of unsolved murders to avoid the electric chair.
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Executed January 24, 1989 by the electric chair at Raiford Prison in Starke, Florida.
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