Ted Bundy murdered a high school classmate of mine. It was a terrifying time for those of us who matched the description of his victims.

He apparently made my classmate watch as he killed the victim he had kidnapped 4 hours earlier. Years later, upon his execution, it seems the scene of those crimes is where he requested his ashes be spread, in the Cascade Mountains of Washington. Sick.

Kinda gotta wonder what role religion played for some of these serial killers. The Green River Killer south of Seattle, years later, obviously had a hangup between his religious upbringing and the prostitutes he was attracted to.

I don't know much about Bundy's motivation. I remember reading something about his grandfather's porn stash, being raised by that sadistic/abusive grandfather, who might even have been his father by way of incest, and was told his mother was his sister. Not sure how much religion and shame may have played a part, but seems he found out that his "sister" was his mother only a few years before the murders began. Definitely a fascinating story, if true, and we may never know the whole of it.

Not sure I ever want to see any movie about him. Curious what caused him to be the way he was, but don't care to see it portrayed.

Ted Bundy didn't have "straight good looks" IMO. There are no shortage of photos where he looks like a straight up weasel, but one doesn't necessarily have to be attractive to possess charisma.

Lot of interesting comments here about "looking into the eyes of" & the way the person in question looked "through" the writer.
Would this type of being be what some religions and some philosophies define as "pure evil"?

Why is it that only humans can be psychopaths? There's no such thing as psycopathy in dogs, or horses, or ringtailed lemurs, or any other species. Only humans can achieve that level of sick and twisted behavior.

All part of god's perfect plan, I guess.

There are some sick ass people out there and I have met some in mental wards that are one small step from being in that world (or they are and I never knew). I remember one sexual predator who would back off any time I said, and politely, to do so, yet he terrified the women and always pushed the bubble with them, so to speak.

I met Ian Brady once (He was in a maximum security mental health hospital). I cannot explain the sensation of looking into someone's eyes who had literally no humanity. All I can equate it to is seeing computer animated avatar. Every thing looks like a human but isn't.

I know that look...it is empty and dark...what a fortunate friend...but such a piercing memory...

I don't think we will ever understand what made Bundy tick. He was a truly malevolent, vicious human being deviant who managed to appear normal.