The Lady Killer

 Hi, my morbidly curious mates!

Today's serial killer for all intents and purposes is quite famous- for murders, as well as his charm which actually had a major part in his MO (Modus operandi). Mirroring his nickname, 'the lady killer' he is quite infamous for tricking, luring women into their untimely demise. 

Yes, today we'll be looking at Ted Bundy.

THEODORE 'TED' BUNDY.

Theodore Robert Bundy was one of America’s most prolific serial killers who kidnapped, raped and murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s and possibly earlier. After more than a decade of denials, he confessed to 30 murders committed in seven states between 1974 and 1978. His true victim total is unknown and likely significantly higher.

Bundy was often regarded as charismatic and handsome, traits he exploited to win the trust of both his victims and society as a whole. He would typically approach his victims in public places, either feigning a physical impairment such as an injury, or impersonating an authority figure, before bludgeoning them into unconsciousness and taking them to secondary locations to be raped and strangled. Bundy often revisited his victims, grooming and performing sexual acts with the corpses until decomposition and destruction by wild animals made any further interactions impossible. At least twelve of his victims were decapitated and their severed heads kept as mementos in his apartment. On a few occasions, he broke into homes at night and bludgeoned his victims as they slept.

 

Bundy once described himself as "the most cold-hearted son of a bitch you'll ever meet," a statement with which attorney Polly Nelson, a member of his last defense team, agreed. "Ted," she wrote, "was the very definition of heartless evil."

Bundy’s tendencies can be traced back to his childhood. He occasionally exhibited disturbing behavior at an early age. Louise's younger sister, Julia, recalled awakening from a nap to find herself surrounded by knives from the kitchen, and three-year-old Ted standing by the bed, smiling. Bundy's childhood neighbor, Sandi Holt, described him as a bully, saying, "He liked to terrify people... He liked to be in charge. He liked to inflict pain and suffering and fear.”

(Victimology)

The disappearances of his victims took place at night, usually near ongoing construction work, and were within a week of midterm or final exams. All of the victims were young, wearing slacks or blue jeans when they disappeared, and at many crime scenes there were sightings of a man wearing a cast or a sling and driving a brown or tan Volkswagen Beetle.

(Modus Operandi)

Bundy was an unusually organized and calculating criminal who used his extensive knowledge of law enforcement methodologies to elude identification and capture for years. His crime scenes were distributed over large geographic areas; his victim count had risen to at least 20 before it became clear that numerous investigators in widely disparate jurisdictions were hunting the same man. Bundy's assault methods of choice were blunt trauma and strangulation, two relatively silent techniques that could be accomplished with common household items. He deliberately avoided firearms due to the noise they made and the ballistic evidence they left behind. He was a "meticulous researcher" who explored his surroundings in minute detail, looking for safe sites to seize and dispose of victims. He was unusually skilled at minimizing physical evidence. His fingerprints were never found at a crime scene, nor any other incontrovertible evidence of his guilt, a fact he repeated often during the years in which he attempted to maintain his innocence. Other significant obstacles for law enforcement were Bundy's generic, essentially anonymous physical features, and a curious chameleon-like ability to change his appearance almost at will. Early on, police complained of the futility of showing his photograph to witnesses; he looked different in virtually every photo ever taken of him.

 

Bundy was executed in the Raiford electric chair at 7:16 am (EST) on Tuesday, January 24, 1989. His last words were directed at his attorney Jim Coleman and Methodist minister Fred Lawrence: "Jim and Fred, I'd like you to give my love to my family and friends."

Mutiple YouTube channels such as - Documentary Central, Paranormal Files, Our Life has documentaries based on Bundy, including real-time interviews of him. 
More than 35 books on Bundy have been published including one by Ann Rule, who was Bundy's workmate and friend. 
Around six movies have been based on Bundy's life and crime, including Zac Effron's 'Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile.'

A lot of literature has been published and produced on Bundy which has to some extent glorified a serial killer like Bundy.

What are your views on this? Do you agree that creating reading material, movies and documentaries immortalizes someone wicked and takes our attention away from the victims?