Ted Bundy: The Classic Mask of Sanity

It has been twenty-two years since Ted Bundy was executed in Florida's electric chair. Yet the world remains fascinated by Bundy's crimes &; the psychology behind them. There is no doubt that Bundy was an evil man as proven by the confessions to several of his murders made shortly before his 1989 execution.



There's no doubt that part of Ted Bundy's allure to his victims lay in his looks. He was admittedly easy on the eyes, he seemed confident, well-groomed, & intelligent. His parents were hard-working, religious people who ensured that Bundy attended the methodist church as a youth. To those who knew him, he appeard to be an ambitious, smart young man with politics in his future. This was the mask of sanity that he hid behind his entire life.

The reality of Bundy's personality is that he was a sociopath who craved nothing more than death &; destruction. Nothing made him happier than kidnapping a young woman & committing necrophilic acts on her dead or comatose body. Bundy, in his arrogance, even once declared that he had a "Ph.D in serial killing."



Ted Bundy's profile is worth studying to get a sense of how manipulative he was. He eventually alluded to murdering at least 30 women, if not more, & it's clear he knew how to gain their trust quickly & overpower them before they were out of his control. He could turn on the charm at will & engage in his destructive game over & over again without concern for the lives he snuffed out.

Bundy had this to say about his crimes when the mask finally slipped:

“Murder is not about lust and it's not about violence. It's about possession. When you feel the last breath of life coming out of the woman, you look into her eyes. At the point, it's being God.” ― Ted Bundy