"The Serial Killer and the revelations of Ted Bundy"
Added 2022-09-01 06:50:42 +0000 UTCBased largely on Bill Hagmaier's interviews with serial killer Ted Bundy, this 1990 article profiles the motives and methods of serial killers. Several interesting pieces of MO information in here.
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"According to Hagmaier, Bundy's attacks on women centered around control and total domination. Bundy wanted his victims to be totally submissive and in some instances Bundy performed necrophilia shortly after killing them.
Hagmaier stated that most of the murders that Bundy told him about were planned. Only five or six were committed impulsively. In fact, Bundy's first killing was an impulsive act of displaced aggression.
Bundy's plans involved sadistic fantasies with a combination of sex and violence featuring a dominant male and a submissive and terrified female. All of his victims were raped, traumatized and then killed...
Bundy returned to certain burial sites which were available to him, and was able to assess the police investigation as well as change the crime scene. This oftentimes was based on the news media information which had been provided by the authorities.
He engaged in dismemberment and decapitation to preclude identification of the bodies. According to Hagmaier, Bundy also engaged in necrophilia with the corpses of some of his victims. The dissection of the bodies was for the purposes of transportation and/or making the crime appear to have a different modus operandi. He buried some of his victims, placed others in the water and spread the remains of his victims between burial sites..."
Comments
When it says he strangled people during sex, I wonder how many were conscious during that considering they had just been savaged with a crowbar
Joy Mulvaney
2023-03-08 14:02:00 +0000 UTCI think I was most intrigued to learn that he picked up his favorite ruse from an experiment in a psychology course. I had originally assumed he took the course to try to better understand his own mental state; why he had the thoughts and murderous ideation he possessed. Now it seems like he was resigned to what he was and was attempting to learn better ways to manipulate people.
Nunya consoin
2023-01-26 12:52:49 +0000 UTCDecapitation is not at all difficult. There are any number of videos online which show how simple it is.
Nunya consoin
2023-01-19 19:08:29 +0000 UTCI’m not sure I totally agree with your ideas. Bundy did mutilate his Florida victims, if you would consider biting the nipple off a women mutilation. His abductions in Seattle seemed more controlled than Utah. Georgann Hawkins wasn’t a spontaneous attack but a planned one. Same with Lynda. He claimed verbally to have beheaded six but Bill said he wrote 12 (if memory serves me). I agree burning a skull in a fire place sounds ludicrous but I believe in his confessions lies some truth in addition to his desire to control the narrative of his legacy, if you will.
Karen Olsen
2022-10-07 22:24:36 +0000 UTCI'll be excited to see it. It's so good to see you up and posting again!
Emmanuel Allison
2022-10-07 06:04:24 +0000 UTC"So much of a cult has built up around Bundy that even presumably sober professionals who ought to know better fall under it..." Speaking of which, check out the next article I'm posting...
Tiffany J.
2022-10-07 05:52:41 +0000 UTCSo much nonsense here. So much of a cult has built up around Bundy that even presumably sober professionals who ought to know better fall under it. The fact is, we have no evidence that the man ever decapitated or dismembered anybody, despite his stories claiming to have done so. We have no evidence of him cutting or mutilating anyone, or even going so far as to bury anyone if memory serves. What the physical evidence shows is basically spontaneous physical attacks, usually savagely beating someone over the head, then sexual assault, then careless disposal of bodies by the side of rural roads outside of town afterwards. There are only two victims he claimed to have beheaded if memory serves: Donna Manson and Georganne Hawkins. We have no evidence he had anything to do with Donna Manson's dissapearance at all-in fact we unfortunately have no more idea of her fate today than in 1974-but the idea that he was able to burn her skull to ash in his girlfriend's fireplace while she was at work leaving no trace behind is absurd. Georganne Hawkins is unfortunately one of the small number of victims we can definitely tie to Bundy, but the casual way in which he described decapitating her-in reality a very difficult operation-makes me highly skeptical, and no remains ever found of his known victims show any sign of such cutting. Bundy was a narcissist: if he was going to be known as a murderer, he wanted to be known as the worst. Also, the more brutal his crimes were represented to be, the more clout he would carry within prison society.
Emmanuel Allison
2022-10-07 05:39:28 +0000 UTC
