Been watching the Ted Bundy tapes on Netflix and then just read the Wikipedia entry about him.
The truly despicable acts the man carried out are beyond anything I would even want to imagine, however one other thing which totally baffles me is the fact that his then partner (later wife) actively chose to stay with him through the trial, conviction, sentencing, and only cut contact with him not because of what he’d done, but because it emerged that he’d also had relationships with other women.
Just why?
I know it’s easy to say that these women are often controlled, scared etc etc but it seems clear that she wasn’t, and as an adult was presumably also capable of making her own decisions, including to continue to support him even after he’d been convicted of numerous murders.
And she’s not the only one, I’ve certainly read of other women who support their murderer and pedophile husbands during their prison stays and after their release etc.
I can’t help thinking that it’s possible, likely even, that some of these women somehow share the thrill of what their partners have done.