To think the judge who sentenced Ted Bundy said these words to him??

[ElektraLOL]

'You're a bright young man. You would have made a good lawyer and I would have loved to have you practice in front of me, but you went another way, partner. Take care of yourself. I don't feel any animosity toward you.'

I watched the documentary about his horrific crimes.

WTF was the judge doing talking to him like it's a shame he broke into someone's house? I'll bet the families of all those women (and child!) he murdered felt animosity towards him!

The film isn't on Netflix it’s on sky cinema or now tv.

(linked above!)

Kind words from a practising Christian judge to someone he just sentenced to death.

Yes and ?

Wrong thread.

I’m not surprised - if you read the books and watch the documentaries about ted (there are a fair few) - Almost everyone was taken in by him. He was very charming in a sick sadistic way. Unlike your average rapist-murderer.

@GunpowderGelatine Where can I find an article on that please? That just sounds appalling. We really are living in a sick world.

@NottonightJosepheen
Maybe reread my post.

Someone earlier said this was the Ted Bundy story through and through and it certainly was, he was described as the type of man you would want to take home to meet your parents, would have been viewed as a 'good catch', he came across as totally unthreatening, smart, clean, well presented, intelligent and that is what made him so very, very dangerous.

The remarks made by the Judge were awful and even worse would have played right into Ted Bundy's view of himself and vindicated his ego.

I seem to remember that whilst awaiting execution Ted Bundy assisted the FBI investigating Gary Ridgway, The Green River Killer. Whilst his assistance was credited as valuable to the investigation I think he did it for egotistical reasons rather than out of any sense of morality or justice for the victims.

Thanks covert

@SapphireSeptember here you go https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/beta.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/02/teen-girl-was-coerced-into-sex-held-dog-cage-her-captor-will-serve-no-prison-time/%3foutputType=amp I hope you have a strong stomach

I think the judge just recognised that Bundy had wasted his own life as well as his victims. He could have had a brilliant career, a wife and family but he threw all that away. He probably held no animosity because he recognised Bundy as a very mentally ill person.

Why do you say Bundy was a very mentally ill person Littlemeadow123?

If he was a very mentally ill person then surely he wouldn’t have been considered fit to stand trial.

Someone with a diagnosis can stand trial

But it would be taken into consideration if they were capable at the time of understanding what they were being charged with and could they manage being cross examined

There were no concerns with Bundy understanding the charges or him understanding what he was being asked

Look up Judge Pickles a UK judge in the 80's

"Pickles again courted debate when he advocated leniency in sexual assault cases, describing women defendants' "clever manipulation", dressing in a way "calculated to invite attention" or even "asking for it". Women's groups and certain parts of the press were outraged."

He also (1989) gave a man probation for sexual offenses against a 6 yr old stating 'she knew what she was doing'.

Locked up a woman (and her 10 day old daughter) for refusing to give evidence (because she was scared) against the man who had assaulted her.

I'd like to think that in the UK at least we have move on a bit

Judges can be horrible people themselves even if they adjudicate the most heinous of crimes. It's just that white, somewhat handsome and male privilege.

An American man, Brock Turner, was given a 6 month sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious lady (among other things) just because he was going to the same university as the judge went and the judge didn't want to ruin his sporting career. The state wanted him to get 6 years

Little, are you on glue! This man kept women alive for days and tortured and raped them before killing them! He threw nothing away, he was a serial killer. He quite accurately profiled another serial killer, the Green River killer, by choice, he found it all amusing and was spot on. He savagely raped and murdered more people than he admitted because he took pleasure in torturing, raping and murdering women and Old Sparky wasn't good enough for that scumbag.

I know! It was bloody outrageous,way to feed his inflated ego even more!!😱

Bundy was in no way criminally insane and it's an insult to mentally ill people to put his name in the same sentence. He was ultimately sentenced to be executed for the savage rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl. TWELVE. A child.

Wasted his own life, what an insult! He murdered countless women by his own volition. He lured them, he conned them, he abducted them. Many of their families are still alive and have to live every day with the knowledge of the torture, rape and murder of their daughters by his hand.

Immediately prior to making these comments, the judge had said these words:

It is further ordered that on such scheduled date that you'll be put to death by a current of electricity, sufficient to cause your immediate death, and such current of electricity shall continue to pass through your body until you are dead.

I am not sure how much compassion or respect you imagine the judge felt towards a man whom he had just, quite literally, decided to have killed.