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Why did Ted Bundy work crisis lines? What did he get out of that? Why don't more people talk about it?
"Bundy dropped out of college after Brooks graduated and didn’t return until the fall of 1969 as a psychology major. With his new major, he excelled in his classes, became an honors student and was a favorite student among many of his professors.
Ronald Smith, current director of Clinical Psychology Training, taught Bundy as a student in two psychology courses.
“He distinguished himself academically in both courses,” Smith said. “He was extremely bright, always well-dressed, very mature.”
Smith remembers Bundy coming to him with an interest in pursuing an honors thesis on the topic of mental illness and conditional decision making.
“He was a tormented soul in a lot of respects, and psychology would appeal to a person like him,” Smith said. “He was not unusual for a very clever psychopath individual. He was able to inspire confidence in others and provide a very good front. Nobody who interacted with him actually suspected what was going on.”
As part of a requirement for his psychology degree, Bundy began volunteering at the Crisis Clinic — a nonprofit, 24-hour hotline — located at the time in an office building up on Capitol Hill. It was here where he first met and befriended Rule who was a fellow volunteer.
“I thought he was a very nice young man, very smart, very poor,” Rule said. “I used to make him cookies and sandwiches and listen to his problems. But of course, he never gave away any of the rage that was underneath.”
The two worked together over many long nights helping people who would call in for advice with issues including domestic abuse or on suicide. With no reason to be suspicious of the seemingly normal college student answering phones beside her, Rule said she never felt in danger working alone with him."
http://dailyuw.com/archive/2011/06/...infamous-uw-alumnus’-time-campus#.U1zD-dxqmLE
"Bundy dropped out of college after Brooks graduated and didn’t return until the fall of 1969 as a psychology major. With his new major, he excelled in his classes, became an honors student and was a favorite student among many of his professors.
Ronald Smith, current director of Clinical Psychology Training, taught Bundy as a student in two psychology courses.
“He distinguished himself academically in both courses,” Smith said. “He was extremely bright, always well-dressed, very mature.”
Smith remembers Bundy coming to him with an interest in pursuing an honors thesis on the topic of mental illness and conditional decision making.
“He was a tormented soul in a lot of respects, and psychology would appeal to a person like him,” Smith said. “He was not unusual for a very clever psychopath individual. He was able to inspire confidence in others and provide a very good front. Nobody who interacted with him actually suspected what was going on.”
As part of a requirement for his psychology degree, Bundy began volunteering at the Crisis Clinic — a nonprofit, 24-hour hotline — located at the time in an office building up on Capitol Hill. It was here where he first met and befriended Rule who was a fellow volunteer.
“I thought he was a very nice young man, very smart, very poor,” Rule said. “I used to make him cookies and sandwiches and listen to his problems. But of course, he never gave away any of the rage that was underneath.”
The two worked together over many long nights helping people who would call in for advice with issues including domestic abuse or on suicide. With no reason to be suspicious of the seemingly normal college student answering phones beside her, Rule said she never felt in danger working alone with him."
http://dailyuw.com/archive/2011/06/...infamous-uw-alumnus’-time-campus#.U1zD-dxqmLE
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