Terrorism shocked the United States in the 1970s. More and more female students suddenly disappeared. While searching for the serial killer, investigators could not find a connection to the person who committed all these terrible acts. The similarities between the victims showed that someone intelligent was behind these events. However, when he was caught, America discovered that not all serial killers fit a certain profile. Ted Bundy, a man known to many as very intelligent and interesting, spread his terror throughout the United States by targeting and killing young women; using the perspective of the trial, it was established that his confusing and horrific upbringing as a young man influenced his future behavior as a mass murderer. He became one of America's most notorious serial killers. Ted Bundy was born as Theodore Robert Cowell in Burlington, Vermont on November 24, 1946 (Wikipedia). Bundy came from a middle class family, he was a white male born to his mother, Eleanor Louise Cowell. His mother earned her living by working as a clerk in a department store. His father was an Air Force veteran who played no role in Ted's childhood or mature life. For most years Ted and his mother lived with his mentally disabled grandfather in Philadelphia. Later Ted started calling his grandparents his parents and his mother called her his big sister. This went on for so long that he began to believe it was actually true. That may have been where it all started, he seemed to be confused and living in a fantasy. After moving to Philadelphia, Ted and his mother moved to Tacoma, Washington (Google article). They both lived with an uncle named Jack, who taught music courses at the College of Puget Sound. Later Ted's mother met Joh...... in the center of the paper......ted; His new stepfather didn't play much of a role in Tedd's young life. They were simply there. There wasn't much interaction between them. The second most important aspect in a child's life is socialization. Socializing a child will allow him to have more self-esteem and be less afraid of people in social situations. Tedd's parents could have saved him if they had paid more attention to the things he was missing. If they had seen the signs when he was younger, observed his excessive shyness, they could have saved him. Even as a child, no one would have expected Ted Bundy to be anything other than a perfect gentleman. Being intelligent and intelligent, he would fit right in with a white collar cubicle doing paperwork. Instead, he chose the path that ultimately led to his downfall. Ted Bundy shocked the country and changed the face of all serial killers to this day.