Bundy Killed the Same Woman Over and Over Again

Not true. They had all different hair colors and lengths. Many had hair parted in the middle but that's simply because most young women wore it that way at the time. And, they didn't all look alike aside from the fact that they were attractive.

After what I have read about Bundy, I believe his inner core of rage (antisocial personality disorder) was indirectly directed at both his mother and his girlfriend (who is Cas in the film). A journalist studied the pattern of Bundy's relationships with the women who he knew and therefore never physically harmed (or at least to anyone's knowledge).

Bundy would have likely been a serial killer under any circumstances, but his mother and his girlfriend made him feel vindicated because they helped him to perceive all women as "bossy bitches" or "weak whiners." Deep down, he felt the same contempt for his girlfriend as he did for his mother. His being nice to them was all a phony act and he hated them even more for falling for it, over and again.

Louise Bundy was allegedly an extraordinarily controlling, domineering, "bossy" woman. Years ago I read a transcript (that may or may not have been genuine). The interviewer refers to Bundy's biological father as a Navy guy who may have had a lot of psychopathic issues. Bundy appears to chuckle and basically says "Wrong parent." He went on to say his mother never listened to him his entire life and constantly nagged at him about being less than she expected him to be. He said that the law school idea was as much hers as his. He asked: "How do you satisfy a woman who is never satisfied?"

The girlfriend who he had after Stephanie Brooks (Cas in the film) was allegedly weak, boring, clingy, needy, whiny, and co-dependent. Glynnis does a superb job of portraying her that way in the film. All the other women appear much more dynamic and interesting. She's a one note character, obsessed with having a man at all costs and who completely defines herself in terms of the man who she is with. She didn't have any self-esteem or outside interests (other than her kid).

The journalist concluded, hypothetically, that Bundy fueled his hatred of all women by having his mother (the woman who he could never please) and his girlfriend (the woman who he could never make whole) play off each other, again and again. In other words, in his antisocial mind, all women were either domineering or dependent and both deserved what they had coming.

Glynnis is superb in the film because she really makes you want to shake sense into her with her constant whining, fussing about eating yogurt, no interests except for Bundy, and relentless pining for him. He's just a man and when you think about it, she's the same way a lot of hyper-religious people are about God. I have a lot more tolerance for the hyper-religious people than I do the whiny co-dependents, though, because if you're going to obsessively adore someone, who better than the Alpha and the Omega? Cas' choice was a closeted serial killer of women!