Katie Ring

He was smart, good-looking, and well-spoken.

A lot of the girls at his high school wondered why he'd never went on dates.

That's the thing about insecurity, though.

It isn't always rational.

Despite everything he had going for him, Ted never felt like he fit in, especially around young women.

He was interested in girls, but Ted wasn't able to express those desires in a healthy way.

He was more comfortable being on the outside looking in.

Somewhere he was in control.

So instead of letting himself be vulnerable, he started sneaking out at night to take walks around his neighborhood, stalking women and peeping on them as they got dressed.

He'd fantasize about dominating these women and controlling them.

He graduated high school in 1965 when he was 18 with average grades and moved on to the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington.

A lot of young people treat college as a fresh start, a way to reinvent themselves.

but not Ted.

He felt lonely and aimless.

He couldn't decide on a major and had trouble making friends.

Ted thought that getting a girlfriend would solve a lot of issues, both in terms of his identity crisis and his urge to peep on women.

He decided that if he was gonna really make a major change in his life, he had to push himself further out of his comfort zone.

So in 1966, when Ted was 20, he transferred to the University of Washington in Seattle.

But instead of fixing his problems, it only made them worse.

After Ted Bundy transferred to the University of Washington, it seemed like the move to Seattle was a fresh start.