Ted Kotcheff

A murderer always has a motive for killing someone. Everyone is different which means there could be billions of different scenarios, none of which having the exact same outcome. In the hit crime investigating show Criminal Minds, Season 5 Episode 21 tells the story of a BAU investigation team working to find a man who has gone on a killing spree, murdering five people the team believes to be all connected. The murderer of this episode is discovered to be a young sixteen year old boy whose only…

The Zodiac Killer The Zodiac Killer took blame for many murders in the San Francisco Bay area in the late 1960s. To this day he has not been caught. The Zodiac Killer has been directly connected to five murders at the least, he is likely responsible for more (Biography.com). On October 30 1966, Cheri Jo Bates was at riverside College coming from the library. Bates got in the car and it would not turn on. Police think Bates’s killer approached her with an officer to help. The killer drug Bates…

Historically, the identity of the infamous killer of more than five prostitutes in the East End of London during 1888 remains a mystery (Jack the Ripper Bio). Evidence suggest, that the person behind these “Jack the Ripper murders was either a doctor or butcher. Based on the findings the weapon used on the bodies showed knowledge of understandings of the human anatomy. For instance, George Hutchinson, who witness the interaction of Mary Kelly and Jack the Ripper’s shortly before her killing.…

Former LAPD, Greg Kading, belives that Sean (Diddy) Combs had Tupac Shakur murdered for 1 million dollars. There are other accusations such as The Illumanti had him killed because of his power, or the Jewish Defense League made death threats towards Tupac and wanted him dead. There are a lot more accusations that could or could not be true. However these have been the most popular. A lot of people are still wondering what happened to Tupac Shakur. Tupac Shakur and Suge Knight went to see an MMA…

Freud in his 1919 essay, The ‘Uncanny’, offers us an explanation of ‘uncanny’. According to him, ‘uncanny’ is the experience of dread which returns to what is already known and familiar. In other words, he investigates how the familiar returns as a lingering, uncertain dread. For the purpose of this paper, I will look at the film, The Cure (1997) to explore the concept of Freud’s ‘uncanny’. I intend to look at how the film deploys the concept of ‘uncanny’ in a two-pronged approach: how the…

Theodore Robert Cowell or as many people would refer to him as Ted Bundy, was a notorious serial killer and rapist who was born on November 24th 1946 and was executed by an electric chair on January 24th 1989. Ted 's ' mother Eleanor Louise Cowell gave birth to him in Burlington, Vermont. When Ted was born, Eleanor left Ted for three months and returned to Philadelphia. Later, Teds ' grandparents pretended to adopt Ted and said that Eleanor was his sister. Many people believed that Bundy was a…

The United States of America has had a rich history of presidential elections, with every one being interesting and important to the future of the country. Out of all the steps in the election process, debates have been an important factor. Atifete Jahjaga once said, “Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.” Debates are crucial to American elections, as evidenced by the…

The poem “Daddy,” by Sylvia Plath is a descriptive poem of Plath’s feelings towards her dead father. The grief stuck by her father passing, heavily impacting her way of life. Plath had a hard time growing up because she felt alone without her father and she felt incomplete because she never got a chance to know her father or what he was like. Plath claims she is “through,” but evidence shows that she did not come to terms with her father because her suffering, aggression, and disrespect towards…

married when she had him. Her parents decided to take the responsibility of raising Ted in order to hide Eleanor’s role of being an unmarried mother. Ted was told that Eleanor was really his sister and that her parents were his as well. Ted never thought anything about the situation because it was all that he had known growing up. However, he did move with Eleanor to Washington a few years later. It was not until Ted was older that the truth came out about his family.…

The distinctions between serial, mass and sensational or murders who are on a killing spree are, serial killers murder three or more people or as we say victims, but on separate occasions they normally select their victims and have periods of time in between before the next killing, serial murders also like to plan out their murders carefully and will travel to find their victims others may stay in a general area. Serial killers also may have specifics, such as they may target a specific type of…