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Ted Bundy



Biography
 * Birth Name:**Theodore Robert Cowell
 * Born**:November 24, 1946 ( 1946-11-24 ) Burlington, Vermont, United States
 * Death**: January 24, 1989 ( 1989-01-24 ) (aged 42) Florida State Prison Bradford County, Florida, United States
 * Conviction/ sentence:** Murder, Aggravated Kidnapping/ Death
 * Family:** Bundy's maternal grandparents, Samuel and Eleanor Cowell, claimed him as their son. He grew up believing that his mother was his older sister. Bundy biographers Stephen Michaud wrote that he learned Louise was actually his mother while he was in high school.
 * Personality buildup:** Bundy remained shy and introverted throughout his high school and early college years. He would say later that he "hit a wall" in high school and that he was unable to understand social behavior, stunting his social development. He maintained a facade of social activity, but he had no natural sense of how to get along with other people, saying: "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." As a teen, Bundy would look through libraries for detective magazines and books on crime, focusing on sources that described sexual violence and featured pictures of dead bodies and violent sexuality. Before he left high school, Bundy was a compulsive thief and a shoplifter.
 * Building up to crime:** During University, Bundy reacted to this rejection of his girlfriend by becoming depressed, he dropped out of college and traveled east. Rule states that, around this time, Bundy decided to visit his birthplace of Burlington, Vermont. There he visited the local records clerk and finally uncovered the truth about his parentage. After his discovery, Bundy became a more focused and dominant person.

Victim Profiles -All young, attractive women -Dark hair worn at shoulder length or longer, parted in the middle -When their photos were laid down side by side, they could have passes as sisters and some for twins because they resembled each other alot -Ted Bundy was attracted to women with these kinds of characteristics; the women resembled his old girlfriend who rejected him

Method of Operation
 * [[image:471px-Ted_Bundy_murder_kit.JPG width="279" height="359" align="center" caption="Items found in Bundy's Car"]]
 * Bundy used heavy objects to abuse the victims, bludgeoning them and often raping them and hiding the body.
 * All victims were either abducted/kidnapped or lured into his vehicle.
 * In his car, items such as handcuffs (to bound the victims), gloves, masks, weapons, etc. were found.
 * Methods were various. However, for the murders before his first arrest his method was generally the same. He would cruise in his car looking for a suitable victim.
 * The car had the front passenger seat removed especially for this purpose. He had a variety of ruses to lure the victim to his car. This included impersonating a police officer; and feigning a broken leg or arm and asking for assistance with something.
 * Bundy would then beat each girl with an iron bar or other similar heavy weapon. He would then drive the victim to a lonely place, where he could rape her and kill her.
 * The attacks and murders of the 15th January 1978 were less calculated.
 * Bundy broke into the two halls of residence and went from room to room, attacking women with the same oak branch. He also sexually assaulted them.

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