Biological Perspective of Criminal Behaviour
Confessing to the murder of 36 young women from 1974 to 1978, America’s romanticized yet terrorizing serial killer and rapist was put to death on the electric chair in 1979. Theodore Robert Bundy, notoriously known as Ted Bundy, is believed to have murdered more than 100 women in seven states from Washington to Florida. He lured women by feigning injury or impersonating authority in public places. Appealing to their empathetic side, he kidnapped them to secluded regions where he raped, tortured and killed them until putrefaction. His death was cheered on by citizens after he previously escaped prison twice. But what makes this case interesting? No one around suspected him due to his appeared intellectual and kind personality. Even if he matched the said description perfectly, it didn’t seem believable to those around him due to his natural unemotional demeanor and societal acts. In this blog, we are going to delve into the biological causes of Ted Bundy’s actions by analyzing his child...