A Dramaturgical Approach to Understanding the Serial Homicides of Ted Bundy: Impressions of Murder

Bernard East

doi:10.5771/9781793625052

Summary

Ted Bundy withheld his darkest secrets from police, journalists, and psychologists. While on death row he shared these hidden insights with his closest friends in the Florida State Prison. Finally, a way to make sense of the mysteries regarding all of Bundy's perversions, his biggest influences, his secret dump sites, and what happened to his victims. Using Erving Goffman's concept of dramaturgy, this book is an insider's guide to the reality of what Bundy shared behind-the-scenes with fellow inmates and how he constructed a different identity backstage to what he revealed at the front stage. This work presents the uncensored, multi-layered, graphic details of this most notorious of murder careers, and in doing so provides readers with a comprehensive and authentic account of Ted Bundy.

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Edition: 1/2021
Copyright Year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-2504-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-2505-2
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 167
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Figures No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 2
Chapter One: Front Stage, Backstage, and Sexual Homicide Typologies No access Pages 3 - 22
Chapter Two: Unsolved Homicide Cases No access Pages 23 - 32
Chapter Three: Victimology No access Pages 33 - 52
Chapter Four: The Significance of Souvenirs No access Pages 53 - 62
Chapter Five: Methods of Dispatch No access Pages 63 - 74
Chapter Six: Revisiting Ted Bundy’s MO and Signature Themes No access Pages 75 - 84
Chapter Seven: Ted Bundy’s First Murder No access Pages 85 - 90
Chapter Eight: Validation and Significant Influences No access Pages 91 - 106
Chapter Nine: Victim Totals No access Pages 107 - 112
Chapter Ten: Possession and Perversion No access Pages 113 - 132
Chapter Eleven: Front Stage Narratives No access Pages 133 - 142
Chapter Twelve: Front and Backstage Principles No access Pages 143 - 152
Bibliography No access Pages 153 - 162
Index No access Pages 163 - 166
About the Author No access Pages 167 - 167