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Men smell a vulnerable woman miles off

Ted Bundy. Not many people may be familiar with the name. But if you were a young, attractive woman with straight hair parted in middle, in USA in the 1970s, you will probably regret crossing paths with him. While handsome, charismatic to these young women, he exploited these traits to lure them, rape and kill them in cold blood.

As sociopathic serial killers go, none was ever so shrewder, manipulative as Bundy. A rapist, a kidnapper - and reprehensibly, a necrophile - he attacked and murdered numerous young women that some sources have put the figure as high as 100, before he was arrested. He would behead some of his victims and keep the heads of the victims as souvenirs. Often, he broke into the houses of the victims and cudgel them as they slept. He once called himself the “the most cold-hearted son of a b*#ch you’ll ever meet.” He was evil.

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