What's One Less Person Off the Face of the Earth Anyway?

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Personality Assessment: Ted Bundy “What’s One Less Person Off The Face Of The Earth Anyway?” In The Mind Of A Sociopath Ted Bundy He’s been the subject of countless documentaries; he’s had honorary cameos in Hollywood films like Copycat (starring Sigourney Weaver), and it’s safe to say that he is the most notorious serial killer in American history. Theodore Robert Bundy was born in 1946 in Burlington, Vermont. His mother, Eleanor, had given birth to him out of wedlock, and his father remains unheard of. Because of the controversy surrounding illegitimate children, neighbors and friends were told that Ted was Eleanor’s youngest brother and that he is her parents’ adopted son. Signs of psychopathic tendencies emerged prior to Eleanor leaving her parents’ home to Tacoma, Washington, like arranging knives around his mother, or harming animals. Eleanor had then married John Bundy, and surrounded Ted with conservative, Methodist Christian values. Ted Bundy, as a result of many convoluted factors leading up to his demise, had been engaging in criminal activity. Robbery, conning. As he grew older, he had gained more experience after finding love, losing love, being betrayed and abandoned by his college lover Stephanie Brooks, finding out the truth of his family, and developed a dangerously charming, charismatic persona that which he used to abduct over 30 documented women, and then proceeded to murder and rape them (sometimes in that order). He was a cited sociopath, rapist, murderer, and necrophiliac. He managed to get away with murdering over 30 women from 1974 to 1978, and the reason is because he managed to reconstruct himself so efficiently, that nothing seemed psychologically off about him. He

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