Last night I finished watching Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, a 4-part series, created and directed by Joe Berlinger. Most writers who've ever written a police procedural know this story well, but the series is both enlightening and disturbing due to the extensive amount of archival footage and interviews with surviving victims, friends, and family members. The Bundy case chronicles a period in time before modern technology changed law enforcement. The psychopath's horrific rampage took place across several states and the series documents the pressures brought to bear on police departments ill-equipped to fight such a ruthless killer. The FBI eventually responded to Bundy and his kind, by creating a system of psychological profiling and coining the term serial killer. Thomas Harris, who wrote The Silence of the Lambs, drew many elements in his story from the catalog of shocking behavior and feral cunning that characterized Ted Bundy's modus operandi. Bundy is not an easy topic. He represents the darkest, most repulsive aspect of humanity. He was a murderer, … [Read more...] about Ted Bundy: Wolf Among the Sheep
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