What got him started?
Just before he was executed he said that pornography is what started it all.
shareStart with Wikipedia and go from there, but he took a road trip to find out his roots after his college girlfriend dumped him, maybe she sensed something maybe she was a b I t c h, who knows, anyway he found out some really disturbing stuff about his um family, really disgusting. His sister is his REAL mother and his mother is his REAL grandma, don't ask, just do your own research, and I'm not justifying his conduct but like the son of Sam, it was a time bomb waiting to go OFF.
By the way, the highway of tears, route 16 in Canada has a ongoing issue with similar gruesome crimes but nobody cares because they are Native American/1st nations and Canada has NO stand your ground laws either so these crimes keep going, sadly.
Spoiler alert for them spoil sports out there! Y'all like spoiled milk, stop crying over it!
In Ann Rule's book, his girlfriend dumped him and Ted made himself into the kind of man she would want, got her back and dumped her.
Jack Nicholson and Bobby Darin were also raised by their grandmothers and thought they were their mothers when their sister was really their mother