Topic > A Brief Biography of Ted Bundy - 1129

On January 24, 1989, a handsome and charming man named Theodore (Ted) Robert Bundy was put to death at 7:16 am by the electric chair of a Florida state prison due to of the conviction for the murder of Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman. Before being electrocuted he confessed to 28 other murders (Bundy, 1999). Louise Cowell became pregnant by Ted Bundy when she was 22, unmarried and living with her parents. Her refusal to name the father of her baby led to her being sent to the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers in Burlington, Vermont. On November 24, 1946, she gave birth to Ted. Two months after residing in that home, Louise's family finally reclaimed him and Ted became the adopted son of Louise's parents and was raised as his mother's brother to legitimize him (Ramsland, 2013, p. 5). To this day, it is said that Ted's real father may be Louise's aggressive and abusive father, Sam Cowell; however the truth behind Ted's parentage was never discovered (Bundy, 1999). From age one to three, Bundy lived with his maternal grandparents. While Bundy's grandmother was periodically hospitalized to undergo electroconvulsive therapy for depression, he was often left with his grandfather, Sam Cowell, who was a violently abusive man. Even when Bundy was younger he expressed very disturbing behavior. When Bundy was a child, his Aunt Julia woke up one day and saw little Ted placing three butcher knives next to her with a smile on his face (Bundy, 1999). When Bundy was three years old, Louise took him with her when she moved to Tacoma, Washington, to be near her uncle Jack Cowell and to be in a better environment. Two years later she met and married coffee shop chef, John Bundy. Together they had three children. As a family, that…half of the paper…”the one where you become addicted [to pornography], you seek out more powerful, more explicit, more graphic types of material…until you reach the point where pornography just comes up to a certain point, that starting point where you start to think that maybe actually doing it will give you a greater sense of excitement that goes just beyond reading it and watching it (Stiles 1989)". After Bundy realized that his addiction to violent porn was no longer satisfied by simply watching, for a couple of years Bundy faced very strong inhibitions against criminal and violent behavior due to his teenage neighborhood, church, and schools. At one point, a sexual frenzy overtook him and he "threw caution to the wind." Toward the end of the interview, Bundy talks about his remorse, his rant against pornography, and his newfound devotion to religion..