Why was Ted Bundy the greatest serial killer of all time?

Answer 1

I hate to bust your bubble if you believe this is true but no one can compare to the man they called THE ICEMAN. I watched a special report on this guy. He was called the iceman because he would dismember some of his victims and put each dismembered member in a bag of ice. With the limbs and head frozen it would mask the actual time of death and thus his alibi was assured.

In this interview (which was taken at the prison where he was incarcerated) he revealed another reason why they called him the iceman. He showed absolutely no remorse for any of his killings. He sat there and described some of them as though he was flipping through a fond memory book. He talked about killing a man that bumped into him by mistake. The man just walked off without saying excuse me. So, the iceman waited in the alley beside the club for hours, waiting for that man to come back out. When he did come out, the iceman wrapped his belt around the man's neck and held him with his back to the man's back until he suffocated.

He talked about being a private hit man for the mob. He talked about how he would use a certain type of cologne to put on his upper lip as he would slowly cut off limbs from a victim. The cologne was to help him to get sick by the pungent smell of a dead body. He also talked about his cave.

He had a cave where he took certain victims. If the mob wanted not only to kill someone but also they wanted that person to suffer, the iceman would take these people to his cave. There he would chain them to a rock. he would cut them in a few places so the blood would flow. He would set up a camera to film it all. And then he would just leave them there. He would come back a few days later to retrieve his camera. More often than not, rats would come by the hundreds and take small bites out of that person. They would scream and cry and beg for mercy. But no one heard their screams.

He said his favorite way to kill someone was with a knife. When asked why he said, "Because it makes it much more intiment." He didn't say more personal, he actually said more intiment. It gave him the rush and excitement of watching a man or woman die as he looked them in the eyes while stabbing them over and over.

When asked this question, "If you were released today would you start killing again?" He just looked at the interviewer and said with a bit of a grin on his face, "Yes."

It is estimated that he killed well over 200 people. Once he was captured he gave detail after detail of as many of his vitims as he could recall. Becuase of his testimony, dozens of FBI missing persons files were finally closed.

Ted Bundy was a shy school girl compared to the ICEMAN.

Answer 2

Greatest
adj. 1. larger in size than others of the same kind. 2. Large in quantity or number:

serial killer
n. someone who murders more than three victims one at a time in a relatively short interval.

mass murderer
n. A person, especially a political or military leader, who is responsible for the deaths of many individuals.

He wasn't the greatest. Theodore Robert Bundy was a sociopath, a serial killer, a rapist and a necrophilliac. His spree lasted 4 years and his list of victims was admitted and confirmed to be 35 women. He is famous because he was considered handsome, charming, self confident, he escaped prison , he delayed his own execution for 10 years and was friends with Ann Rule who wrote her first book about The Lady Killer without knowing it was Ted.

Pedro Alonso Lopez from Colombia (300 proven), Dr. Harlod Shipman from the United Kingom (236 proven), Herman Mudgett from Chicago (227 proven) or (Henry Lee Lucas (3000 confessed , 302 "believable") would be the most prolific to date.

Hilter was a mass murder who used an army, not a serial killer.

John Wayne Gacy murdered 33 males and became the notorius "Killer Clown" because he was a respected child entertainer name Pogo the Clown.

Jeffrey Dahmer murder 17 males. His murders involved necrophilia, dismemberment, and cannibalism.

Aileen Carol Wuornos not eileen wuornos murdered 7 clients and claimed they raped her while see was working as a prostitute and later claimed self defense.

The West Virginia Sniper (williams and malvo) murdered 17 people and were the only serial killer team I know of to kill men, women and police officials.

Gary Ridgeway aka the Green River Killer killed 54 women (he admitted to 48), hardly the most prolific.

Ed Gein wasn't technically a serial killer. He was a grave robber who didn't start murdering people until his lackey Gus was institutionalized. He murdered Bernice Worden and Mary Hogan when he ran out of "supplies". There are also theories that he killed his brother to become closer to his mother.

Richard Kuklinski aka the Iceman only killed 75 people. He was a hitman for the mafia who enjoyed his chosen profession alot.

Lucrezia Borgia the sister of Cesare and daughter of Pope Alexander VI, was a real person but was depicted in a fictional work called the Bride of Borgia as a mass murder who slaughtered virgins to bathe in their blood. The reality was she was a politcal pawn and a victim of anti-Borgia propaganda. Her father and brother were the real monsters and they were mass murders not serial killers.

During the Victorian era there were many attacks on women and Jack the Ripper was not investigated using the standard forensic science and police methods of today making it almost improbable to catch him. "He" is only credited to have murdered six prostitutes. (Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, Mary Jane Kelly, Martha Tabram). There is a theory of "him" being multiple people. Jack the Ripper wasn't the most elusive, he was just the first publicized serial killer that created the standard for spooky killer naming conventions in the media.

Here is a short list of serial killers who murdered alot more people then Jack the Ripper and still have not been caught:

Shotgun Man in Chicago 1911, The Texarkana Phantom 1946, Bible John in Scotland 1960, Jack the Stripper in London 1964, The Frankford Slasher 1985, Colonial Parkway Killer 1986.

Answer 3

I wouldn't label Ted Bundy as the greatest serial killer of all time.

I'd give that dubious honor to someone like Jack the Ripper, who's killings are still unsolved.

Answer 4

I prefer the most "Infamous" Killer of all time not the greatest. I think it's the way that he killed his victims and the grusome things he did to their bodies. With one young man, he drugged him, drilled a hole in his head and put acid in the hole. Very bad guy. The other real weird thing about Ted Bundy was that everyone that knew him thought he was a very nice guy. Sort of like "Wilson" from home improvement. People instantly liked the guy.

Answer 5

Was he? Did the other serial killers vote him the greatest, or is this your opinion of him?

What is this all about? If you will elaborate on what you are looking for, maybe you will get some more answers. . .

Answer 6

Not at all. The green river killer killed around 59 people. There was a borgia countess back in the middle ages that was responsible for the deaths of over 600 girls.

Answer 7

Since when did serial killers get ranked on a a scale of good-great?

Answer 8

I don't think it'd be considered greatest but as far as most prolific serial killer in history that would be Gary Ridgeway...aka the "Green River killer".

Answer 9

Jack the Ripper make Ted look like a boy scout.

Answer 10

He sure was a great one.
Kill women and women were flocking at his trial in support of him.
They could have all been his next victim.

Leaves some guys wondering why when they treat women nice they leave but go to guys like Ted.