I do too.... but I'm interested in the psychology of anyone who strays from the norm of whatever society they are part of.
I've always been interested in the psychology of entire societies who stray from the norms....
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I do too.... but I'm interested in the psychology of anyone who strays from the norm of whatever society they are part of.
I think many of the male killers of female victims and child victims get a sexual kick out of their crimes.
I attended the University of Utah in the early 1970s during the time that Ted Bundy was enrolled in law school there. Several female students went missing and were found mutilated and dead at his dumping ground in the mountains. He subsequently admitted to the FBI that he returned to the dead bodies to have sex with them.
While I was there as a student, a friend and I went skiing one day at Snowbird ski resort. Our car got stuck in heavy snow in the parking lot and we were unable to get it out. A young man approached us and offered us a ride down the mountain to Salt Lake City in his VW beetle which we accepted. He looked okay, appeared normal, but his car reeked of formaldahyde (which I knew the smell of from biology classes) but he claimed it was film processing chemicals (which I also knew the smell of and knew it was not film developer). After we reached SLC, we told him where to turn to take us to my friend Liz's house. Instead of turning, he sped up and kept going in the wrong direction. I was in the front seat and Liz was in the back seat. Liz suddenly screamed at him to stop the car; it startled him, he slowed down enough for me to jump out of the car, flip the car seat back and grab Liz's hand to pull her out of the backseat. We took off running as fast as we could through the dark along the highway and made it safely to her house. He just took off in his car at a high rate of speed.
To this day, Liz and I believe we were in Ted Bundy's car and escaped from him by following our instincts. If it had been only one of us rather than two, then I believe that one would have been murdered. And he killed a waitress who worked at Snowbird so it was one of his hunting grounds, even more evidence that it was Bundy. I regret that we did not call the police about what happened. If we had, maybe some women would have been saved. And the smell of formaldahyde has long intrigued me - I wonder if he kept body parts as souvenirs. Creepy and gave me nightmares for a long time.
When the state of Florida executed him, Liz and I celebrated and cheered the death of a horrific predator. Years later I read a book about him and learned that he lived about 2 blocks from my apartment in SLC.
When the state of Florida executed him, Liz and I celebrated and cheered the death of a horrific predator. Years later I read a book about him and learned that he lived about 2 blocks from my apartment in SLC.
Thank God for those whose "inner voice" could detect when something might be terribly wrong.
Wish I knew what that actually was, intuition, or an extra sense for something not quite right? People walk away from situations that make them nervous at times. I've encountered perhaps two people in my entire life who were strangers, who didn't seem quite right. They made me nervous or anxious and I fled.
Hitch-hiked with a girlfriend in the early eighties and I had a plan if something happened. We were picked up by someone, and we opened the doors of his buick as he turned onto a small dirt road. And rolled out and ran. There were six deaths of young women who hitchhiked in that area in those years. That we didn't know about at the time. The description of the man is the same one who picked us up. He was never found, never arrested. But both of us knew that there was something frightening about him. Both myself and Gina may have also escaped a serial killer. Probably why I'm interested in them. May have been in a car with one.