Katie Ring

Ted managed to get Linda in his car and drove to a secluded spot where he knew nobody would find them.

There, he sexually assaulted and murdered her.

Afterwards, he dismembered her body, scattering the remains off to the side of the road on Taylor Mountain, about 18 miles from Seattle.

He raced back home to his girlfriend Elizabeth and climbed into bed like nothing was wrong.

Linda Ann Healy was officially Ted Bundy's first confirmed murder victim, but she wouldn't be his last.

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To preface this, I'm not a forensic psychologist, but I do love forensic psychology.

And the hard thing with Ted Bundy's story is that there are a lot of conflicting accounts.

As I said earlier, Ted claims that his childhood was completely normal, that he had no abuse, and that nothing in his childhood affected the crimes he did later in his life.

There are, however, other accounts

from family members and biographers that his grandfather was abusive.

So we have that conflicting thing.

But when it comes to serial killers, we see a lot of abuse earlier in life.

But on the other hand, there's a lot of people who have had and experienced much more severe abuse that haven't turned out to be serial killers.

Most psychologists say that Ted Bundy showed strong signs of psychopathy.

And one thing that's interesting is that researchers are now suggesting that traits of psychopathy actually have biological components, particularly in how the brain is wired.

So on one hand, we have people who have been severely abused in childhood who have not become serial killers or even violent.

And on the other side, we do have psychopaths who have grown up in seemingly normal houses and have become serial killers.

So I believe that upbringing doesn't determine everything, but it can shape how traits unfold, like abuse, attachment disruption, identity confusion, and abandonment.