Thedore Cowell Bundy An American serial killer, rapist, kidnapper, and necrophile
Theodore Bundy was an American serial killer, rapist, kidnapper, and necrophile, who assaulted and murdered multiple females during the 1970’s and possibly before then. After years of killing and constant denial of these murders Bundy confessed before his execution to numerous homicides committed in seven states between 1974 and 1978. How true Bundy confession was is still unknown to this day. No one really knows how many females he actually murdered. Bundy was regarded as handsome, well groomed, and charming to his victims. He used those former traits to exploit his victims into trusting him. Before Bundy could overpower and assault his victims he had to get them to a secluded location. He apprehended them usually by approaching his female victims in public places, pretending he was disabled in some way, or by impersonating an officer of authority. “He sometimes revisited his crime scenes for hours at a time, grooming and performing sexual acts with the decomposing corpses” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Bundy, 2013). He has dismantled at least 12 victims and preserved some of the victims’ heads as souvenir (http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/bundy106.htm, 2013). On different occasions for no apparent reason he would break into victims’ homes and beat them to death while they slept. Bundy was arrested for suspicion in Utah in 1975 and later held for aggravated kidnapping and attempted criminal assault, Bundy became a suspect in many cases in multiple states for unsolved homicide. In 1977 he was
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