Bundy and Bundy

Ted Bundy has always been a figure that fascinated me. He's a serial killer, which is awful, but at the same time he functions as a family figure. Someone people look up to, admire, and even love. How he manages this is interesting, oftentimes being called by his interrogators as a "chameleon". This reptilian title comes from the fact that Bundy fit in throughout everywhere he went in society because he could adapt his personality to be pleasing to whoever was around him, and he was smart enough to play off of personalities to garner credibility and fool his community into enjoying his presence.

He has an elaborate expressed and unexpressed self that I feel don't necessarily have even a static existence as a result of his chameleon-like traits. His expressed self was that of a family man or a good looking and charming man, but the individual characteristics of those changed. And on the inside, we cannot be sure his unexpressed self was a single entity due to this ever changing external personality. Perhaps his lack of individuality outside of his violent and sexual desires is what led to his capture? He didn't have an internal self to relate to him how risky an action might be for him to avoid law enforcement-- or even to just tell him how vile his actions are. He was just a husk of a man filled with only pursuit of his desires.