We have come to expect most killers, especially those who do it wholesale, to be shaggy, unattractive outcasts whose frustrations and disappointments lead them into mental instability, but this is not always the case.
Ted Bundy, who confessed to 28 to 30 killings, was quite the opposite: a handsome charmer whose manner and good looks greatly appealed to the women who became his victims.
From 1974 to 1979, Bundy murdered at least 30 women of various ages in several states: Florida, Colorado, Utah and Washington. In many instances, he also assaulted them sexually, sometimes after their deaths. Most of his victims were attractive young brunettes, and he usually either strangled or clubbed them to death.
Unlike most serial killers, Bundy appears to have had a reasonably happy childhood, but by age 15, his murderous tendencies had surfaced. Ironically, he worked for a time in a rape crisis center and even wrote a pamphlet on rape prevention.
Bundy was arrested for burglary in 1977 but escaped, was recaptured, and then escaped again. He was caught in Pensacola, Florida, when someone spotted the license plate of a stolen car he was driving.
In 1989, Bundy was executed by electrocution. He had blamed his murderous instincts on pornography.
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