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Why Serial Killers Do What They Do

life (Conroy, 2018). This he was 4 years of age. He In his teen years, he was

experience could anything had surgery in the attempt tense, disconnected and
from abuse, both physical to fix a double hernia he had no friends. Dahmer
and sexual, in their early had but believes his urges towards

years of life, parents who necrophilia and murder
were not there for them, began around the age of

14 but this may have been
caused by his parents’
rocky marriage and angry

divorce (Editors, 2014).
Clearly, there was a few

drastic events that hap-
pened in Dahmer child-
hood/teen years.

Now let’s take a look at
Ted Bundy’s childhood.

He was born in Burling-
ton, Vermont to a single
mother Louise Cowell,

which according to an
FBI survey, put Bundy in

a category of sexual and
serial killers (Ted Bundy’s
Childhood, n.d.). After

his mother gave birth to
him, she left him in Ver-

Photo Courtesy of google.com mont for three months
being in a dysfunctional it left him with an obvi- while she went to Phila-
family or even being emo- ous change in his body delphia. There, her father,

tionally distant (Conroy, (Editors, 2014). After his Sam Cowell, pretended
2018). younger brother was born, to adopt Bundy from an

Dahmer began to with- orphanage (Ted Bundy’s
Take for example Jef- draw from his family. It Childhood, n.d.). From
fery Dahmer. He grew up also did not help that the that point forward, Louise

in Milwaukee and was a family moved around a lot pretended to be Bundy’s
happy go lucky child until as well (Editors, 2014). sister. Bundy also had a

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