A Comparison: Ted Bundy and Jeffery Dahmer

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Taking the nation by surprise with their inhumane behaviours, serial killers, Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer share many of the same qualities from their personalities to the way they treated their victims before and after their deaths. The victims themselves were very different, though the grisly crimes committed against them were quite similar. Comparing these two very infamous serial killers, the public will come to see that from their preferred methods of killing, they were completely the same, from rape, to mutilating and dismembering limbs and then to fornication with the decomposing bodies. Rape is the act of having intercourse or penetration of the sexual orifices with someone against their will. They began by luring the victims somewhere, whether it be to their car or even their home. When they were away from eyewitnesses, they would hit the victim in the head with a blunt object. Dahmer would cruise through gay bars, socializing with patrons before taking the victims back to his apartment, where he would mix a crushed drug into their drink and engage in sexual acts after the drugs take effect. Bundy’s method of luring his victims away was feigning an injury, from a broken leg to a broken arm; he would drop his books on the ground, asking his preferred type of victim to help him bring them to his car. Once at his car, Bundy would then hit the female in the head with a blunt object -- usually a crowbar. He would then move them into the passenger side of his car; where the seat was missing and would often take the unconscious females somewhere where he would then begin to have coitus with them without their acquiescence. Mutilation is the act in which one disfigures, injures, or made imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts of another person and dismembering is to deprive one of limbs. Bundy’s ‘modus operandi’, being both fascinating and

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