Supremely unsettling. Every time they showed photographs of his victims my stomach churned and I felt like I was going to puke. 

I read The Stranger Beside Me many years ago and usually I don’t watch docs like this... now I remember why—its meticulously crafted, paced well (second episode felt a little long but it picks back up) , packed with information (most of what you probably already know), and by the end I felt totally drained. I know a lot of people love this stuff and you do you, but true crime isn’t something I go out of my way to watch. Like Paradise Lost, I’ll never watch this again—I’ll never forget it either. Emotionally vacant narcissists are the fucking…

He liked to scare people.

Ted Bundy was a person that perhaps had a brain tumor that blocked his empathy. Joe Berlinger spends four episodes delving into what makes Bundy tick. People who knew him or escaped from him are given screentime. We are left to wonder if we should feel bad for the little boy whose father beat him or if we should have been glad he fried... because one thing is clear: he had a compulsion to kill like no other person, before or since.

Random facts:
-Bundy was a law student.
-He escaped several times.
-He had access to crime statistics.
-He killed people in multiple states.
-His youngest victim was 12 years old.
-Most of his…

documentaries like this make me feel so uncomfortable and disturbed but i’m also completely fascinated. even though i already knew most about bundy’s cases since i’ve been curious myself in the past, joe berlinger did a really good job of pulling old clips and audio recordings to show us how he really acted. how manipulative, narcissistic and terrifying he truly was. 

i’d never heard him talk or seen him interact with people, so it was very interesting to see the man behind all of the crimes. this documentary series is extremely well done and i definitely recommend it if you’re into true crime and if you wanna know the back story before seeing extremely wicked, shockingly evil and vile.

i’m…

*mini rant
okay let me just preface this by saying that i encourage people to learn more about psychology and i think it’s okay to have an interest in serial killers and human nature. it’s a lot of complex and interesting stuff you can learn from it. over the last couple of years it seems that this true crime culture has become more mainstream. i find true crime and psychopathology fascinating considering i’m currently studying it.

i think because it’s becoming more mainstream though people are starting to sympathize and connect with these awful people ... at the end of the day they’ve killed innocent people. it seems like these audiences prioritize sympathy for the killer before the actual victims. it’s…

Okay there is pretty damning evidence that Ted Bundy was in fact the killer due to proximity of him and the crime scenes as well as witness reports. With the little girl, which seems sort of random compared to his pattern, there was the fibers and shoe prints which can be a bit iffy because fibers and shoe prints don't necessarily nail one man. But he did it and in the end they have the proof. My issue lies in using the bitemarks because there is only so much variance between teeth someone could have a similar mouth to his. It would be a very big coincidence with all the other evidence, but it doesn't matter it's still possible that…