re: Another victim of serial killer Ted Bundy confirmed after 52 years

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He never got an answer.

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He still has time.

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He still has time.

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Doesn't matter.


If they haven't figured out a reason why yet, he won't get one.


There probably isn't a specific reason why some become serial killers. They may notice some similarities in behavior and familiar relationships shared by multiple serial killers, but you'll also notice that just as many have completely opposite life experiences.

Some serial killers grew up in well-off, loving families.


My hypothesis is that they were just curious about what it would feel like to kill someone, and that curiosity built up so much that they finally give in and they get a huge thrill out of it. So they do it again to experience the thrill.

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Bundy had confessed to killing Aime

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It’s great that the family that it is confirmed, but I assume they’ve assumed he killed her for 52 years as well. So I’m not sure how much closure this offers other than confirming what they’ve believed all along due to an actual confession. It may be different had they not gotten the confession and didn’t know.

Either way, it’s cool that DNA shite has come so far that it can do things like this decades later.

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What did probably screw him up was that he was raised to think his Grandmother was his mother and who he thought was his sister was actually his mother. This was done because he was born out of wedlock.

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That alone is not traumatizing

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What a team of crack investigators to finally close the case

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It’s not uncommon for serial killers to claim credit for crimes they didn’t commit. The higher the body count, the higher the prestige and the more they get remembered. If the evidence is ambiguous, never take their word for it until definitive evidence leaves no doubt.

I really don't want to be too graphic or seen as flippant when we are talking about lovely young women being murdered in the prime of their lives but people don't seem to get how primal it is with these guys. First know they are psychopaths and lack compassion and empathy for other humans. They usually don't know those emotions in any way other than to intellectualize them and display them performatively.

But the main factor- His sexual urge got crossed with murder. It became a sexual fantasy that overwhelmed him-stronger than compulsion. He became erect when he murdered. He masturbated at many scenes. He went back and F'd skulls of victims. It's much stronger than a desire-it literally becomes like a hysterical sexual compulsion. Like we want to have sex with our wives or girlfriends and maybe fantasize about a great blowjob in the car or a threesome. He fantasized about beating a woman's brains out of their heads. We feel relief when we have an orgasm-endorphins-thoughts of admiration and love for our partner. He feels a release or a a physical and emotional and psychological relief when he murders. HE POSESSES them-he controls them-he owns them-for eternity and that makes him horny and it makes him feel significant. He may loathe himself for it but it also really makes him feel superior to other "normal" people. He became addicted to it-it was essentially his sex life and how he released all his psychological tension.

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Ted Bundy, more than any other criminal, is terrifying to me because he looks so normal and basically like the boy next door.

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Ted Bundy was textbook.

White male between the age of 20-40, above average intelligence, appeared to be social, etc. He was able to make people feel comfortable around him and that's a strong tool for a serial killer

People always think that people with mental illnesses are incapable of having moments of clarity which is not true. Schizophrenia can cycle through phases quite commonly meaning somebody hearing voices or aggressively paranoia can snap suddenly into acute episodes or be relatively “normal”