teepeeformybunghole:

The press stories about Ted have stressed his normalcy, his intellect, his attractiveness, his Republicanism. For the most part, these stories ignored or failed to report that Bundy was a compulsive nail biter and nose picker, that he was only middling bright (I.Q. 124), that he was at best a fair student in college and a failure in law school, that he was essentially untraveled and poorly read, that he stuttered when nervous and had acquired only a surface sophistication. Against a backdrop of mass insane homicide, Ted instead emerged as a variety of criminal genuis, a nearly fictive character who wasn’t stereotypically a loner or a loser - because he didn’t look like one - and so must be something else: the incarnation of Evil.

- Excerpt from The Only Living Witness by Stephen G. Michaud & Hugh Aynesworth

(via eyes-of-a-killer)