Mariae Claire Anne M.

Parpan MA Clinical Psych Advanced Abnormal Psychology

I. DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE/INFORMATION

Name: Theodore Robert Bundy (Ted Bundy)

Age: 42

Narrative:
Ted Bundy was an American serial killer who kidnapped, raped, and murdered
numerous young women during the 1970s and possibly earlier. The true number of
victims is unknown and possibly higher.

Bundy was regarded as handsome and charismatic, traits that he may have
exploited to win the trust of victims and society. He would typically approach his victims
in public places, feigning injury or disability, or impersonating an authority figure, before
overpowering, raping and killing them in secluded locations. He sometimes revisited his
secondary crime scenes, grooming and performing sexual acts with the decomposing
corpses until putrefaction and destruction by wild animals made any further interactions
impossible. He decapitated at least 12 victims and kept some of the severed heads as
mementos in his apartment.

In 1975, Bundy was jailed for the first time when he was incarcerated in Utah for
aggravated kidnapping and attempted criminal assault. He then became a suspect in a
progressively longer list of unsolved homicides in several states. Facing murder charges
in Colorado, he engineered two dramatic escapes and committed further assaults in
Florida, including three murders, before his ultimate recapture in 1978. For the Florida
homicides, he received three death sentences in two separate trials.

Psychosocial History:

Ted Bundy was born Theodore Robert Cowell on November 24, 1946, to Eleanor
Louise Cowell at the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers in Burlington, Vermont.
His father's identity was never determined with any degree of certainty. His birth
certificate is said to assign paternity to a salesman and Air Force veteran named Lloyd
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Marshall. Although other accounts state this father is listed as "Unknown". Louise
claimed she had been seduced and abandoned by a "Jack Worthington" who claimed to
be a war veteran. Years later, investigators would find no record of anyone by that
name. Some family members expressed suspicions that Bundy might have been
fathered by Louise's own violent, abusive father, Samuel Cowell, but no material
evidence has ever been cited to support this. Bundy was also rumoured to have been
fathered by an older, married member of Louise's church.

For the first three years of his life, Bundy lived in the Philadelphia home of his
maternal grandparents, Samuel and Eleanor Cowell, who raised him as their son to
avoid the social stigma that accompanied birth outside of wedlock. Family, friends, and
even young Ted were told that his grandparents were his parents and that his mother
was his older sister. Bundy expressed a lifelong resentment toward his mother for never
talking to him about his real father, and for leaving him to discover his true parentage for
himself.

In some interviews, Bundy spoke warmly of his grandparents and told Rule that
he "identified with," "respected," and "clung to" his grandfather. In 1987, however, he
and other family members told attorneys that Samuel Cowell was a tyrannical bully and
a bigot who hated blacks, Italians, Catholics, and Jews, beat his wife and the family
dog, and swung neighbourhood cats by their tails. He once threw Louise's younger
sister Julia down a flight of stairs for oversleeping. He sometimes spoke aloud to
unseen presences and at least once flew into a violent rage when the question of
Bundy's paternity was raised. Bundy described his grandmother as a timid and obedient
woman who periodically underwent electroconvulsive therapy for depression.

Bundy occasionally exhibited disturbing behaviour, even at that early age. Julia
recalled awakening one day from a nap to find herself surrounded by knives from the
Cowell kitchen; her three-year-old nephew was standing by the bed, smiling.

In 1950, Louise changed her surname from Cowell to Nelson and at the urging of
multiple family members, she left Philadelphia with her son to live with cousins Alan and
Jane Scott in Tacoma, Washington.

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In 1951 Louise met Johnny Culpepper Bundy, a hospital cook, at an adult singles
night at Tacoma's First Methodist Church. They married later that year and Johnny
Bundy formally adopted Ted. Johnny and Louise conceived four children of their own,
and although Johnny tried to include his adoptive son in camping trips and other family
activities, Ted remained distant. He later complained to his girlfriend that Johnny wasn't
his real father, "wasn't very bright," and "didn't make much money."

During high school, he was arrested at least twice on suspicion of burglary and
auto theft. When he reached age 18, the details of the incidents were expunged from
his record, which is customary in Washington.

In 1967, he became romantically involved with a UW classmate who is identified

by several pseudonyms in Bundy biographies, most commonly "Stephanie Brooks”.

In early 1968 he dropped out of college and worked at a series of minimum-wage

jobs. Shortly thereafter Brooks ended their relationship and returned to her family home
in California, frustrated by what she described as Bundy's immaturity and lack of
ambition.

During a trip to California on Republican Party business in the summer of 1973,

Bundy rekindled his relationship with Brooks, who marvelled at his transformation into a
serious, dedicated professional who was seemingly on the cusp of a distinguished legal
and political career. He continued to date Kloepfer as well; neither woman was aware of
the other's existence.

In the fall of 1973, Bundy matriculated at UPS Law School, and continued
courting Brooks, who flew to Seattle several times to stay with him. They discussed
marriage; at one point he introduced her to Davis as his fiancée. In January 1974,
however, he abruptly broke off all contact; her phone calls and letters went unreturned.
Finally reaching him by phone a month later, Brooks demanded to know why Bundy had
unilaterally ended their relationship without explanation. In a flat, calm voice, he replied,
"Stephanie, I have no idea what you mean" and hung up. She never heard from him
again. He later explained, "I just wanted to prove to myself that I could have married
her" but Brooks concluded in retrospect that he had deliberately planned the entire
courtship and rejection in advance as vengeance for the breakup she initiated in 1968.
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By then, Bundy had begun skipping classes at law school; by April, he had stopped
attending entirely, as young women began to disappear.

II. Diagnosis:

Ted Bundy exhibited the following behaviour, thus, fits the criteria for Antisocial
Personality Disorder;

A. A pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others,

occurring since age 15 years, as indicated by three (or more) of the following:

1. Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviours, as

indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest.

Ted Bundy has been arrested for several grounds of unlawful behaviours such as
kidnaping, murder and rape and is repeated multiple times.

2. Deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning

others for personal profit or pleasure.

Bundy was regarded as handsome and charismatic, traits that he may have exploited to
win the trust of victims and society. He would typically approach his victims in public
places, feigning injury or disability, or impersonating an authority figure, before
overpowering, raping and killing them in secluded locations.

3. Irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights

or assaults.

Bundy easily gets irritated when confronted regarding his whereabouts. He is also
involved in physical fights and several assaults.

4. Reckless disregard for safety of self or others.

He disregards others’ safety as seen on his murders; he lures his victims for him to rape
them and satisfy his lusts. He eventually kills the victim.

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5. Lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing

having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another.

There is no sign of remorse during the trials. He kept on denying despite several
evidences had been presented.

B. The individual is at least age 18 years.

Ted Bundy is 42 years old and several assaults were reported since he was in College.

C. There is evidence of conduct disorder with onset before age 15 years. D. The
occurrence of antisocial behaviour is not exclusively during the course of Schizophrenia
or Bipolar Disorder.

At a young age there is already evidence of conduct disorder including getting in

physical fights and robbery. Also, he is already fascinated with sharp objects such as
knife and at one time his Aunt woke up with Ted standing near her holding a knife
smiling.

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