Ted Bundy Quotes

“Bundy wasn't just a savage killer; he was a degenerate, too.”
― Stephen G. Michaud, Ted Bundy : Conversations with a Killer

“Guilt? It’s this mechanism we use to control people. It’s an illusion. It’s a kind of social control mechanism – and it’s very unhealthy.”
― Stephen G. Michaud, Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer: The Death Row Interviews

“TB: I mean I don’t feel guilty for anything! I feel less guilty now than I’ve felt in any time in my life. About anything. And it’s not that I’ve forgotten anything, or else closed down part of my mind, or compartmentalized.”
― Stephen G. Michaud, Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer: The Death Row Interviews

“TB: A burden? No, I carry no burden, except being in prison.”
― Stephen G. Michaud, Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer: The Death Row Interviews

“And yet, is there a more crucial phrase used in the criminal trial process?”
― Stephen G. Michaud, Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer: The Death Row Interviews

“TB: The overexcited, overaroused, driven, compulsive state this person was in… could in no way be integrated with what we characterize as the moral, ethical, law-abiding part of the individual. We’d probably be more accurate if we stated that this normal self had been repressed… to such a degree that even the encounter with the first victim did not sufficiently arouse it… so it could take predominance.”
― Stephen G. Michaud, Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer: The Death Row Interviews

“TB: You have that period where he swore to himself that he’d never do it again. That was the end of it. That he felt he had it under control. It was the deceptive fashion, you might say, in which that psychopathology withdrew into this dormant stage that (led) the individual (to the) erroneous belief that he got it out of himself. (..) he would try to indulge himself in normal activities. (..) a state of mind, that was without the fear, the terror, and the harm. But slowly, the pressures, tensions, dissatisfactions which, in the very early stages, fueled this thing, had an effect. (Yet) it was more self-sustaining and didn’t need as much tension or as much disharmony externally as it had before. (..) this condition would generate its own needs.”
― Stephen G. Michaud, Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer: The Death Row Interviews