Ted Bundy

             He watched intensively through her bedroom window as she undressed. He searched for a way into the residence so he could become closer to the girl he had just watched get ready to turn in for the night. He found an unlocked door and made his way into the basement where her bedroom was located. The unfamiliar house was like many other old fashioned clapboard houses with minimal security located in Seattle that housed many pretty university students. He quickly went to work when he entered her room by removing a metal bar from her bed frame and beating her over the head until she fell unconscious. Although he didn't rape her, he managed to accomplish something unthinkable by shoving the metal bar into her vagina causing the victim lacerations. It wasn't until mid-afternoon the following day, January 5, 1974, when fellow students discovered Sharon Clarke laying unconscious on her bed in a puddle of blood. Sharon received permanent brain damage resulting from the attack; she lay in a coma for more than a week before she was able to release any information about the attack to the police. Due to the severalties of the attack she was unable to provide police with any valuable information.
             Louise Cowell, a respectable and religious young secretary, gave birth to an illegitimate baby boy in November 1946 at a home for unwed mothers. Born Theodore Robert Cowell, Ted would grow up never knowing his real father. Stricken with poverty Louise and her new born were forced to live with her strict Methodist parents in the city of Philadelphia. Ted grew up thinking that he was a late baby to his grandparents and that his birth mother was his sister. Over the years Ted had a professing love for grandfather Sam Cowell, but other members of the family describe Sam as a racist wife beater who enjoyed torturing dogs by kicking them and swinging cats through the air by their tails. It is evident that something troubled young Ted in those days living with...

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