While there is some debate as to when Bundy started killing, most sources say that he began his murderous rampage around 1974. So, according to Michaud and Aynesworth, ‘He shattered the comfortable preconceptions about the sort of person capable of such monstrosities, presenting the world a figure both gross to contemplate and wholesome to behold a likable, lovable homicidal mutant’. When people found out that Ted Bundy was a serial killer people were shocked to know that someone so nice and friendly like Ted was a serial killer. “Bundy may have experienced physical or psychological abuse at the hands of his grandfather, despite his later insistence that the two had a good relationship.” There is evidence that he did not have a bad trauma in his childhood life. During his childhood he grew up thinking his mother was his sister. Therefore the girls that would fall for his charm would end up getting kidnapped and killed by Bundy. Bundy was a very intelligent man and he used his charm to get girls to help him because of the cast he had on. Ted Bundy was a good looking man and was very manipulative when it came to kidnapping women. He created this in his mind and been wanting to do this at the age 13.Īnother famous Serial Killer I will mention is Ted Bundy. He knew the feeling he felt when he started to kill and he found out when he killed his first victim. He ended up killing 17 men between the year of 19 (Jeffrey Dahmar’s Victims) He knew what he was doing. Because the lack of these emotions, during a kill according to Jentzen, ‘At the basis of hostility-aggressivity, one may find feelings of dependence, passivity, helplessness, a need to be loved frustrated in childhood, or a wish to control or dominate a reaction formation against dependency and passivity.’ Dahmer killed his first victim at the age of 18. He had anger built in him no love or attention given. When he turned 18 years old he went deep into drinking because of his parents problems. When he was 13 years old he would plan to kill a jogger but never ended up doing it. At a young age he already had the urges to kill someone. This may of affected him even more to do what he did and wanted to do because it all started in his mind. Now, is that really a reason to become a serial killer? Of course not.
As all that was happening his parents ended up divorcing. While that happened his mother was going through depression and attempted to suicide. Then, later in his life there were moments where his dad was not present much in his life. His father was a research chemist and they would spend time together doing that hobby. During his childhood Dahmer liked collecting dead animals and decompose them with corrosive chemicals. These serial killers are made and are not born to kill.Įver heard of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer? He is a great example I can talk about what he did and what made him be serial killer. They do not feel guilty after they commit their crimes and why they seem and act normal in public.
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These killers know how to compartmentalized their life. They leave the crime scene and they do surely know how to hide their second personality. They know when they are hiding evidence because of what they did. They know who, when, where, what, and why they are doing it. These serial killers do know what they are doing when they think on their next victim. According to LaBrode, “These serial murderers intrigue the average person because the average person cannot fathom committing such a heinous crime and never showing any remorse.’ We wonder what goes through them and in their minds when they are killing people and if they feel regret or they do not. What really makes a serial killer kill? What goes through mind? Are they Psychopaths? We ask to ourselves these questions and many more on why do they do what they did or why do they do it. There is one known serial killer named Ted Bundy which evidence was not found upon trauma on his early life like the rest of the killers. Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Ed Gein, Richard Ramirez and so on. These well known serial killers are part of that trauma. Their bad childhood will include physical and sexual abuse or parents’ separation etc. Almost all of them have gone through a bad childhood. The killers become who they are and what they do because of their childhood trauma. Serial Killers are very aware what they are doing and they choose to act a certain way. The Serial Killers in the United States are very well known in the world and many argue what makes a serial killer kill. There is no proof if it is genetics if they are born being killers but can say they are made because traumas in their life. Why do Serial killers kill? Are they born or made? The main argument towards serial killers is if they are born or made because they become who they are or do because of experiences in early life.
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