A&E Biography Ted Bundy part 2/5

Theodore Robert Bundy, born Theodore Robert Cowell, known as Ted Bundy, was an American serial killer who was convicted for the killings of numerous young women between 1974 and 1978. He twice escaped from prison before his final apprehension in February 1978. After more than a decade of vigorous denials, he eventually confessed to over 30 murders, although the actual total of victims remains unknown. Estimates range from 29 to over 100, the general estimate being 35. Typically, Bundy would bludgeon his victims, then strangle them to death. He also engaged in rape and necrophilia.

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[Lisaannjoel]

Biographies are trying hard to elicit sympathy for this man. I've known people who have had way worse childhoods and don't go run around killing people.

Before he had even figured out the truth about his childhood, he was stealing and hurting people. I wish this sympathy for serial killers would stop. Our society need to quit giving these people attention.

[pep4936]

His mother was treated with electroshock therapy and his father was a known violent man. He himself ended up in the electric chair for violent crimes... Strange cioncidence?

[66familyguy66]

@Lisaannjoel Where's the sympathy? All I see are the facts being stated about Ted Bundy's childhood that could have caused him to kill. They are trying to understand what went wrong in his life that lead to his mental problems

[Blexine]

@Lisaannjoel ...Says the person watching the Ted Bundy documentray.

[05giacomo]

watch charles manson about bundy ;)) LOL

[Decimate92]

@Bebe2020Mega And also the girls from jersey shore, telia tequila, and niki minaj.

[Bebe2020Mega]

@Decimate92 lol like the kardashians and paris hilton right? right with you..

[Bebe2020Mega]

@Lisaannjoel well the biography just says what happened in his life... everyone makes what they want of what they hear...but i agree that people need to stop making up excuses for them. a bad childhood is no excuse for killing people

[kensworth39]

@Boomsmackme People react differently to different situations. He had a vengeful personality, it spawned in his childhood (it did not have any real affect till his first murder though... nevertheless he still aquired it in his childhood).

Also, with his childhood, he learned mistrust, lack of value for human life, and many other traits that contributed. Yes he chose his path, he could have resolved to "show up" the world and be a good person, but he is the product of his enviorment

[kensworth39]

@Boomsmackme I personally believed that your personality is formed early and that you can't change the essence of who you are (An overly-stubborn teenager will still be stubborn in their 80's... however you can change what you are stubborn about).

I agree that he has no excuse. I believe in nurture over nature though. Nature implies "fate" which also implies no choice. Nurture on the other hand involves a small degree of "fate". You can't say that his childhood had no affect.

[Boomsmackme]

@kensworth39 possibly it was because of some of his experienced with women, however he made the decision. there is no excuse. i had many harsh experienced but i choose not to. I sometimes have watched violent porn (porn thats on a link to a normal video, ted would have had to SEEK OUT violent porn in his time no accidental viewing.) and it might turn me on but i wouldnt want to hurt an innocent human being for my own pleasure. i think this man was intensly selfish (he was a republican...)

[kensworth39]

@Lisaannjoel the question is not if his life was worse, no one had the same childhood as he did.

Our personality is a product of our worldview, built in our subconscious ever since birth. Some people's worldviews cause them to respond to trauma with violence, other people use trauma as a motivator to do better in life.

EVERY incident in a childs first 10 years of life forms and defines him. After that, you don't change. That is why teenagers are independent and vices remain 4ever