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Post by snowfairy on Dec 23, 2021 19:17:02 GMT -5
What specifically did you find odd about him? This is going to sound weird, but one of the things I found odd was the way he laughed. It's hard to explain, but when he laughed, it seemed forced, like he was just pretending to laugh. To me, he seemed to be putting on an act, like he was playing some kind of role. His mannerisms just weren't what I'd call normal.
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Post by kitty on Dec 31, 2021 14:53:10 GMT -5
This is going to sound weird, but one of the things I found odd was the way he laughed. It's hard to explain, but when he laughed, it seemed forced, like he was just pretending to laugh. To me, he seemed to be putting on an act, like he was playing some kind of role. His mannerisms just weren't what I'd call normal. I've read a lot about how handsome and charming he was, but the people who actually knew him tell a different story. As a teenager, was he the kind of boy younger girls would have a crush on? Did you think he was handsome?
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Post by snowfairy on Jan 1, 2022 23:01:11 GMT -5
I've read a lot about how handsome and charming he was, but the people who actually knew him tell a different story. As a teenager, was he the kind of boy younger girls would have a crush on? Did you think he was handsome? In my opinion, no. He was very narrow through the chest and shoulders, nothing like the hunk he's supposed to be in some of the movies about him. He should have worked out, lifted weights or something to build his upper body muscles, because he didn't have any.
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Post by kitty on Jan 2, 2022 14:43:36 GMT -5
In my opinion, no. He was very narrow through the chest and shoulders, nothing like the hunk he's supposed to be in some of the movies about him. He should have worked out, lifted weights or something to build his upper body muscles, because he didn't have any. What was his mother like?
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Post by snowfairy on Jan 5, 2022 14:29:25 GMT -5
What was his mother like? She worked outside the home, which a lot of women didn't do at that time -- my mother didn't -- but their house was always neat and clean. I have to say everything about the family was typical. A lot of psychologists and psychiatrists have tried to pinpoint something that caused Ted Bundy to kill, but there wasn't anything about Mrs. Bundy, or anyone else in the family, that stood out. I've seen where others on this site have said some kids are just bad seeds and in the case of Ted Bundy, I agree. I've seen in books and on other sites where people say it was when he found out Louise was really his mother and that she wasn't married when he was born that somehow drove him over the edge, but he had known Louise was his mother from the time he was a toddler. A lot of kids were born out of wedlock and they didn't turn into serial killers. There just wasn't anything in his childhood that can account for what he did. After he was arrested, I remember my father saying Ted just wasn't wired right and in my opinion, that was the problem.
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Post by pat on Jan 6, 2022 12:08:34 GMT -5
She worked outside the home, which a lot of women didn't do at that time -- my mother didn't -- but their house was always neat and clean. I have to say everything about the family was typical. A lot of psychologists and psychiatrists have tried to pinpoint something that caused Ted Bundy to kill, but there wasn't anything about Mrs. Bundy, or anyone else in the family, that stood out. I've seen where others on this site have said some kids are just bad seeds and in the case of Ted Bundy, I agree. I've seen in books and on other sites where people say it was when he found out Louise was really his mother and that she wasn't married when he was born that somehow drove him over the edge, but he had known Louise was his mother from the time he was a toddler. A lot of kids were born out of wedlock and they didn't turn into serial killers. There just wasn't anything in his childhood that can account for what he did. After he was arrested, I remember my father saying Ted just wasn't wired right and in my opinion, that was the problem. I think your father was right. Whatever was wrong with Ted Bundy, he was born with. Some children are just bad seeds and no matter how they are brought up or what opportunities they have, they go wrong.
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Post by Sam on Jan 6, 2022 19:43:00 GMT -5
I think your father was right. Whatever was wrong with Ted Bundy, he was born with. Some children are just bad seeds and no matter how they are brought up or what opportunities they have, they go wrong. I wonder if there will ever be a way to detect if a child is a bad seed before it's born, like detecting for Down Syndrome and other abnormalities.
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Post by madeline on Jan 11, 2022 15:24:49 GMT -5
I remember reading about the disappearances that year, but there weren't any in Tacoma. The closest was Brenda Ball, who disappeared from a bar where she had been drinking till late at night. After that, girls were afraid to go out alone at night, and after the two girls disappeared at Lake Sam, we were afraid to go out alone in the daytime.
I don't know how I overlooked this when I read your post the first time, but I just realized that he never killed anyone in Tacoma. Do you think that was because he grew up there and he was afraid he would be recognized?
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Post by snowfairy on Jan 27, 2022 12:28:57 GMT -5
I don't know how I overlooked this when I read your post the first time, but I just realized that he never killed anyone in Tacoma. Do you think that was because he grew up there and he was afraid he would be recognized? That's probably the reason, although I'm not sure if any of the many authors and police officers who interviewed him ever asked. Tacoma wasn't a small town, even back then the population was more than 150,000, but a killer would risk being identified in the place where a lot of people knew him than in, say, Seattle, where the population was over 500,000 in the '70s. I've checked and can't find where he ever killed anyone in the in the immediate neighborhoods where he lived until he got to Florida.
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Post by uw1983 on Jan 31, 2022 17:31:13 GMT -5
With all due respect, your comment is incorrect… he killed at least two people while living in Seattle’s University District, including Linda Healy and Georgeann Hawkins.
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Post by snowfairy on Jan 31, 2022 18:45:12 GMT -5
With all due respect, your comment is incorrect… he killed at least two people while living in Seattle’s University District, including Linda Healy and Georgeann Hawkins. Seattle's University District encompasses several neighborhoods and although I could be wrong, I don't believe Bundy killed anyone in his immediate neighborhood.
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Post by pat on Feb 1, 2022 23:18:46 GMT -5
With all due respect, your comment is incorrect… he killed at least two people while living in Seattle’s University District, including Linda Healy and Georgeann Hawkins. The size of a neighborhood depends on the population. If you live in a rural area, then your neighborhood would extend for miles, but if you live in a large city like Seattle, where snowfairy said the population was 500,000 even back in the 1970s, then your neighborhood probably wouldn't consist of more than the block you live on, if that. I don't have all the addresses of where Bundy lived and where he abducted Lynda Healy and Georgeann Hawkins, but I'm sure some of those others posting here have them, and I'll bet they were at least several blocks away. I don't think he would have risked abducting someone who lived on the next block.
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Post by madeline on Jan 30, 2024 14:13:37 GMT -5
Tomorrow night is the 50th anniversary of Ted Bundy's first murder. I wonder if there will be anything on Oxygen or the Crime Network (or whatever it's called now) about it.
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Post by snowfairy on Jan 31, 2024 21:49:07 GMT -5
Tomorrow night is the 50th anniversary of Ted Bundy's first murder. I wonder if there will be anything on Oxygen or the Crime Network (or whatever it's called now) about it. I haven't seen anything on TV or anywhere else about it being 50 years since he started killing. Because my mother knew the mother of one of the girls living in the house with Lynda Healy, I remember it like it was yesterday. Things like that just didn't happen, not even in a big city like Seattle. A lot of parents started insisting that their daughters either move to the dorm or live at home. After a while, though, people began to think it was just a fluke occurrence. Then in March, Donna Manson went missing at Evergreen State College, but nobody really connected the two. Then there was Susan Rancourt and Kathy Parks, but they were all far enough apart that people weren't connecting them to a single killer. I think it's when Brenda Ball and Georgiann Hawkins disappeared that some people started wondering if there might be a connection with Lynda Healy's disappearance. But it was the Lake Sam disappearances that really got people scared and convinced the police that the same man was stalking and killing women. However, they were just looking at the disappearances around Seattle, not the one in Oregon. It wasn't until all those skulls were found on Taylor Mountain that everyone knew they were dealing with a serial killer, although the term wasn't even in use at that time.
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Post by steve on Feb 1, 2024 21:04:40 GMT -5
I'll never understand why a guy like Bundy, who wasn't bad looking, got to the point that he was spending his time sneaking around at night, peeping in windows and stalking women.
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