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| The real Ted Bundy |
I'm not sure what I would ask him, given the opportunity to reach beyond the grave. Maybe the one question we all want to ask serial killers: WHY? Or maybe how did he choose his victims. Not all of his victims were college age. Several were younger. But how did he choose them? I want to know. Why were Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman chosen to be bludgeoned in their beds and not the girls who lived on another dorm floor. And what was it about 12-year-old Kimberly Leach that said "pick me!"
I don't believe these women and girls were picked at random. Something caught ole Ted's fancy. I want to know. I want every woman to know.
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| Mark Harmon as Ted Bundy in The Deliberate Stranger |
In 1986, Mark Harmon played Ted Bundy in a TV movie titled The Deliberate Stranger. I remember seeing that movie and being terrified right down to my socks. Harmon was eerily spectacular in the role, and it certainly made you think twice about the packaging of serial killers. It's a movie still relevant today and I encourage everyone to check it out if you haven't already seen it. It's an education.
6 comments:
Serial Killers, Sociopaths... the wolf pack condensed to one. They follow the herd and selectively choose victims. Unfortunately they're not easily externally identified. You mentioned two who are polar opposites on the 'outside'. Manson and Bundy. I read somewhere that buffalo hunters in the lare eighteen-hundreds could 'head-shot' individual buffaloes without stampeding the herd. So, so similar to these human predators. They work in the darkness until dragged in the light. So remember Gena Davis' (The Fly) words... 'No. Be afraid... be very afraid'
I always thought it would be utterly fascinating, and supremely disturbing, to actually talk to a serial killer. I suppose that's one reason why serial killer fiction is so popular.
I think that most of us have a fascination with the emptiness and coldness that characterizes the sociopath, and serial killer. fortunately, the great majority of human beings have some fellow feelings. Whenever, I run into someone with those traits even in moderation, it IS and somehow repellant. Thank God. But you are right, these people are very good at seducing us. Manson is obvious. Someone with charm and smoothness is not.
I managed to miss that movie, Sue Ann. But I think you ask a very good question (although clearly Ted can't answer it anymore). Why them? And what could we do to protect ourselves?
To Alan's comment, after my father-in-law retired as a U.S. postal inspector, he worked for several years as a Leon County Deputy Sheriff in Tallahassee. He actually spoke often to Ted Bundy when he was behind bars there. Bundy was reportedly quite pleasant -- which just makes it more unnerving knowing what he was capable of.
Thanks for stopping by, everyone. It is more unnerving when a killer appears normal or better than average. It's like a monster hiding in plain sight. I think I'll sleep with the light on tonight.
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