Talk about a quirky /querki/guy, Ted Bundy, one of the biggest serial killers in the history of the
United States
Ted Bundy was born in 1946. He lived his first four years in the house of his maternal
grandparents. His mother was a single mother so during this time he believed that his
grandparents were his parents and that his mother was his older sister. His mother got married
and they moved to Tacoma, Washington.
He went to the University of Washington where he majored /meiyid/ in Psychology. He was a
very good student and got very good grades.
Years later he also studied Law.
He was described, especially by women, as an attractive, charming, polite and
affectionate/affectionatid/ man.
However, some specialists who studied is case, considered him a special case, he was sadistic,
necrophilous /nécrofeles/, devoid of guilt and with the need to harm others to obtain sexual
pleasure. They claimed that he suffered from multiple personality disorder and that he was a
psychopath/sáicopath/.
In College, he had a relationship with a girl named Dayanne who, two years later, ended the
relationship. Bundy never got over his breakup and became obsessed with her.
Everything changed in 1973, when he met again with Dayanne, with whom he maintained a
relationship that lasted between the summer and winter of that same year. In the end, Bundy
abandoned her.
He entered into a five-year relationship with a woman named Elizabeth who was a single
mother of a little girl.
However Elizabeth was unaware that he had had a relationship with Dayanne and that he
continued to maintain contact with her by letter.
He used the excuse of going to the Library to study Law to be absent from home for hours, in
which he committed the murders.
He committed the murders between the years 1974 and 1978.
To attract his victims he posed as a man who requested help from girls who were never seen
again. He had the peculiarity of being loaded with books with a casted arm and because of this,
he needed help to open his car door.
Another peculiarity was that he always traveled with a light-colored Volkswagen.
The police were on his trail and one of his victims managed to escape, providing the police with
a robot portrait that was published in the newspapers.
When Elizabeth saw the portrait, she anonymously / ánonimosly/ called the police, because the
portrait bore a strong resemblance to Bundy, but due to lack of evidence, attention towards Ted
Bundy dissipated until a few years later.
For years Elizabeth, despite her suspicions, believed in his innocence. She always felt guilty
about making that call to the police, in case he was innocent. Bundy always called her from jail,
but she stopped taking her calls and went to visit him in jail.
During his last judgment, a woman named Carol Anne, a former co-worker, went to visit him in
jail. She had been in love and obsessed with Bundy for many years. She blindly believed in her
innocence and Bundy took advantage of this to use her to defend him in the media. He even
married her and they had a daughter.
A few hours later he would be convicted and sentenced to die in the electric chair.
He always pleaded not guilty and, just a few days before his execution, he confessed some of
his crimes, although he was never willing to admit everything, especially the murders of some
of the younger victims.
He was electrocuted / electroquiuted / on January 24, 1989. He was 42 years old.
