ng a loner in school. In college he met a young woman by the name of Stephanie Brooks, and he fell instantly in love. Stephanie became Ted’s first love, and she was the first woman Ted was ever involved with sexually. Although they dated for a while, and enjoyed many of the same things, Stephanie did not feel for Ted, the way he did for her. She felt he had no goals no future. Ted tried all he could to impress her including lying, which was something Stephanie could not stand. Eventually, she broke it off with him. Ted never recovered from this breakup. Stephanie moved to California, but Ted could not stop thinking about his lost love. Ted was obsessed with Stephanie, and he couldn't get her out of his mind. It was an obsession that would span his lifetime and lead to a series of events that would shock the world. (www.crimelibrary.com)Ted Bundy, was sentenced to death on July 31st, 1979 when he confessed to the murders of 28 young women, all whom looked exactly like his first love, Stephanie Brooks. All of the women were about college aged, with long brown hair parted in the middle, from middle class families, just as Stephanie Brooks had been. The brutalities of his killings were nauseating to most. He lured the women in pretending to be a poor, helpless man in an arm or leg cast, asking for their help. Eventually, he would lure them away, rape and torture them, and finally kill them. Again, we see the effects of how some trauma or even heartbreak in a person’s past could make such a menace to society in a search and destroy mission.The way a person is brought up and raised, the events that take place around them as they are growing up, their relationships with parents, siblings, friends, lovers, all these things are a factor in the way the mind of any one person will develop. I don’t believe one is born a criminal, or born a psychopath. These types of behavior, are made in the mind at a young age. On...
