Ted Bundy
Ted Bundy was an American serial killer who confessed to murdering at least thirty women during the 1970s.
His case drew unusual public attention because he was educated, articulate, and conventionally attractive—contradicting stereotypes about violent criminals.
Bundy's name has become shorthand for the danger lurking behind a charming facade: He seemed so normal, but then so did Ted Bundy.
One who unlawfully kills
- rapistOne who commits assault
- kidnapperOne who seizes people
- necrophilePerson attracted to corpses
- fugitiveOne fleeing authorities
escapee · execution · conviction · trial · confession · evidence · victims · homicide
Person without conscience
- sociopathOne without conscience
- narcissismExcessive admiration of oneself
- compartmentalizationDivision into distinct sections
- grandiosityExaggerated sense of importance
manipulation · mask · dissociation · denial · profiling · FBI · interviews · diagnosis
Having a terrible reputation
- documentaryFactual film about reality
- biographyWritten life account
- self-representationPortraying oneself directly
- groupiesObsessive celebrity followers
cautionary · 1970s · Florida · Washington · Colorado · Utah · infamy
Women's collegiate social organization
- brunetteBrown-haired person
- vulnerabilityOpenness to harm
- hitchhikersThose seeking free rides
- campusesUniversity property areas
targeted · stalked · abducted · identification · remains · families · survivors · memorial
Pleasantly attractive in manner
- persuasiveAble to convince others
- deceptiveCreating false impressions
- groomingSelf-care for appearance
- luringAttracting through enticement
Volkswagen · impersonation · disarming · smooth-talker · con-artist · ruse · pretense · disguise
murderer
One who unlawfully kills
- rapistOne who commits assault
- kidnapperOne who seizes people
- necrophilePerson attracted to corpses
fugitive · escapee · execution · conviction · trial · confession · evidence · victims · homicide · felony
psychopath
Person without conscience
- sociopathOne without conscience
- narcissismExcessive admiration of oneself
- compartmentalizationDivision into distinct sections
grandiosity · manipulation · mask · dissociation · denial · profiling · FBI · interviews · diagnosis · cold-blooded
infamous
Having a terrible reputation
- documentaryFactual film about reality
- biographyWritten life account
- self-representationPortraying oneself directly
groupies · cautionary · 1970s · Florida · Washington · Colorado · Utah · infamy
sorority
Women's collegiate social organization
- brunetteBrown-haired person
- vulnerabilityOpenness to harm
- hitchhikersThose seeking free rides
campuses · targeted · stalked · abducted · identification · remains · families · survivors · memorial · count
charming
Pleasantly attractive in manner
- persuasiveAble to convince others
- deceptiveCreating false impressions
- groomingSelf-care for appearance
luring · Volkswagen · impersonation · disarming · smooth-talker · con-artist · ruse · pretense · disguise · calculated
- Famous TrialsScopes Trial, Nuremberg Trials, Tokyo Trials
- controversial figuresdictator, tyrant, demagogue, extremist, war criminal
- Teds & TheodoresTeddy Roosevelt
- criminalsmurderer, thief, burglar, criminal, killer
- Famous DeathsAbraham Lincoln, Julius Caesar, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Ted BundyMother Teresa
Canonized Albanian missionary
Mahatma Gandhi · Albert Schweitzer · Florence Nightingale · Desmond Tutu · saint
Ted Bundyhomicide detective
Officer solving unlawful deaths
prosecutor · crime fighter · detective · criminal investigator