Bundy's Psychological Profile Highly intelligent, antisocial, manic-depressive -- all of these descriptions fit Ted Bundy.

He was also traumatized as a child and claimed in a prison interview the night before his execution that violent pornography led to his killing spree. However, Edward Donnerstein, a psychologist from the University of California at Santa Barbara, told the Los Angeles Times in 1989 that there wasn't a single component that made Bundy who he was. "Unfortunately, there are so many factors that the removal of any one isn't going to solve the problem," said Donnerstein. Ted Bundy's killing spree began in Seattle in 1974. It ended five years later with at least 30 women dead, according to the Washington Post. Estimates on that final number, however, vary. The Dallas Morning News bumped up that number to 35, and Bob Keppel, a Seattle detective who tracked the killer, told the Associated Press that Bundy may have committed more than 100 murders. Bundy drew the rapt attention of a nation of onlookers scratching their heads at the charming and intelligent man who used his good looks and sharp wit to perpetrate widespread murder. Troubled Childhood Theodore Robert Cowell was born on Nov. 24, 1946, in a Burlington, Vt., home for unwed mothers. While the identity of his father is unknown, some family members believe that Bundy's mother, Louise Cowell who claimed to have been seduced by a wandering war vet was, in fact, impregnated by her father, Sam. In "The Stranger Beside Me," author Ann Rule describes the elder Cowell as "a volatile, maniacal man ... the sort of breadwinner whose homecomings sent his family scattering for shelter." Bundy was raised believing that his maternal grandparents were his mother and father and that Louise was his older sister. When Ted was 4 years old, he and Louise moved to Tacoma, Wash., leaving his supposed parents on the other side of the country. When Louise married, her husband Johnnie Bundy adopted Ted, changing his last name. Yet it wasn't until Ted was in college at the University of Washington that he learned his mother's true identity after retrieving his birth certificate. Bundy had been dumped by his college sweetheart a few months earlier, and the combined events are believed to have set him off on his murderous path Crime Spree Begins Bundy committed his first known violent crime at the age of 27 when, as recounted by Kevin M. Sullivan in "The Bundy Murders: A Comprehensive History," he broke into an off-campus apartment in Seattle and sexually assaulted a female University of Washington student. A month later, he abducted another female student from her home and murdered her. According to the Seattle Times, Bundy continued to prey on college girls throughout 1974, often posing on crutches or with his arm in a sling and pretending to have trouble carrying books. Killing at least eight women in Washington, he became bolder as months went by. In one single day, he abducted and murdered two women he'd approached on a beach in broad daylight, the Times reported. The following year, Bundy moved to Utah to attend law school. He is believed to have killed at least 10 women and a 12-year-old girl across three states. In 1975, a routine traffic stop led to Bundy's arrest. Salt Lake City's The Deseret News reports that a vehicle search revealed masks, a crowbar, ice pick and handcuffs. Police eventually linked his Volkswagen to a kidnapping for which Bundy was convicted and sentenced to 15 years in a Utah prison. But Bundy wasn't long for the Salt Lake. He was sent to a jail in Colorado to await a murder trial. There, he eventually escaped through a ceiling crawlspace, according to the Ellensburg Daily Record. End of Murderous Rampage In 1978, the crafty killer resurfaced in Florida where he murdered two Florida State University students asleep in a sorority house and 12-year-old Kimberley Leach, the final victim in his bloody rampage, writes the Seattle Times. That winter he was again apprehended during a traffic stop when a police officer noticed that he was driving a stolen car. Bundy would be convicted and sentenced to death in two separate trials for the three Florida murders. Ted Bundy was executed by electrocution in 1989