Richard Mark: Ted Bundy
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Ted Bundy : Fantasy finally becomes reality. And speaking of fantasy, well, that's what normality is. What's normal for the spider, well, it can seem like chaos to the fly.
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Ted Bundy : Society wants to believe it can identify bad or harmful individuals, but it's not practical. The truth is, people who indulge in this sort of thing, well, they look just like everyone else. Their subconscious might be a raging inferno, but you'd never tell, they blend in so well. This is what it comes down to, Bob, we serial killers, we're your sons, your husbands, we're everywhere, and there will be more of your children dead tomorrow
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Ted Bundy : Well, I wanna emphasize this, the most damaging kind of pornography, I'm talking from real personal experience here, is the kind which involves violence and sexual violence. The wedding of those two forces, as I know only too well, well, it brings about behavior that is too terrible to describe.
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Bob Keller : Well, in my line of work, I'm always asked is serial killing down to nature or nurture? That incident with your aunt would suggest it's down to nature, that you were born with a darkness inside of you. But the thing is this, there are many people out there who are born with darkness inside of them, there are many people who suffer violence or have terrible things happen to them as kids, but they don't all grow up to be serial killers.
Ted Bundy : Is this going somewhere, Bob?
Bob Keller : It's like the parable of the two wolves. And what's that? A father is talking to his son, and he says there are two wolves inside of us, always at battle. The good wolf represents things like kindness, bravery, and love. The bad wolf represents things like greed, hatred, and fear. The son stops and thinks about it for a second, and then looks at his father and says, Which one wins? And the father quietly replies, The one we feed.
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Ted Bundy : Guilt... it's an illusion, a mechanism of social control. It's very unhealthy, does terrible things to the body. What about when you were young, Ted? What was your emotional state of mind? Confusion. I could never understand what made people want to be friends, or what made people attracted to one another, or what underlays social interactions. I'd watch people and see them feel, but, I don't know, I could never be like them.
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Ted Bundy : Prostitutes are low risk. Not many people would miss them. Who would you consider to be high-risk prey? Well, people who work normal jobs, have families, social circles, people who are noticed. You know, with all the slasher movies being made at the moment, you should stake out the car parks of the movie theaters. I am sure you'd find many serial killers of the future, people who go to those films to fuel their fantasies.
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Ted Bundy : It was like coming out of some horrible trance or dream. I can only liken it to being possessed by something so awful and alien, and then the next morning, waking up and remembering what happened, and realizing that, well, in the eyes of the law, and certainly in the eyes of God, you're responsible. Possession is an interesting word. What I did, it was like possessing them, physically, as one might possess a potted plant, or a painting, or a horse, owning, as it were, this person, and then taking ownership of the remains. But when I'd wake up in the morning and realize what I'd done with a clear mind, with all my essential ethical and moral feelings intact, well, it absolutely horrified me.
