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can all impact development in meaningful ways.

So could a loving, stable household have changed his path?

Possibly, but the short and somewhat unsatisfying answer is that we'll never know.

So going back to psychopathy, many psychopaths actually have an unsettling ability to blend in.

So as children, a lot of them are looked at as weird or don't fit in.

But over time, they're able to observe how people have interpersonal relationships and they can actually model that very well.

So even though they may not feel emotions deeply, they can perform them very convincingly.

And a lot of them aren't just good at blending in.

They are actually very charismatic, charming, and even magnetic.

So I think that's part of the reason Ted Bundy's story fascinated people so much.

Because before cases like this, many people imagined serial killers as monsters or some like obvious weirdos.

But Bundy didn't fit that image.

Like he was educated.

He fit in socially.

He had relationships.

and was even described as charming or even attractive, which I do not agree with, but that's what some people thought.

Regarding the fact that a lot of his actions seemed very calculated in not getting caught, we do see most serial killers creating kind of personas to hide their crimes.

But Bundy did take it further.

He tended to gravitate towards positions of authority.

He wanted to get into politics.