The 1976 Psychological Assessment of Ted Bundy
“”Do you think I killed those girls?‘
Ted Bundy asked me this question after we had completed the final interview. We were standing in the corridor outside my office and Ted was about to return to his cell. It was an unusual question to ask… I was caught off guard by the question.”
“…With this question, Ted had put me in a lose-lose situation. My best option might have been to tell him that I couldn’t, or wouldn’t, answer his question. However, I said to him, “I don’t know, but if you did, I believe you will do it again.”
I’m sure it wasn’t what he wanted to hear. He didn’t say anything. He turned and walked back to his cell. In future conversations we had together he never again asked that question.”
“ …Putting all the information I had gleaned from the test data as well as the phone conversations and the personal interviews with Ted… I concluded that it was my opinion that Ted’s personality fit the crime for which he was found guilty. I submitted my report to the court. Then all hell broke loose.”
– from The 1976 Psychological Assessment of Ted Bundy
Many books have been written about Bundy, but rarely have we had the opportunity to understand the inner workings of his mind. Now, Dr. Carlisle shares the step-by-step psychological assessment process regarding how he determined that Bundy was indeed a violent person and would likely continue to kill if he was set free.
Book four in the Development of the Violent Mind series.
Über den Autor
The majority of Al Carlisle’s career was as a psychologist at the Utah State Prison from which he retired as the head of the Psychology Department in 1989. He continued to interview serial killers. He wanted to learn why good people chose to do bad things.Dr. Carlisle performed the first psychological assessment of Ted Bundy in 1976 while he was being held for a 90 day evaluation at the Utah State Prison.
Dr. Carlisle was also a consultant for the Salt Lake Rape Crisis Center for several years and hosted workshops on serial homicide and other crime topics. He conducted extensive research on serial killers and interviewed the Hi Fi killers, Arthur Gary Bishop, Westley Allan Dodd, Keith Jesperson, Ted Bundy and many others.
His specialties include Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder).
Al Carlisle, born and raised in Utah, received a BS and MS from Utah State University and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Brigham Young University.
He is the author of four books in the Development of the Violent Mind series:
‚I’m Not Guilty!‘ The Case of Ted Bundy
Mind of the Devil: The Cases of Arthur Gary Bishop & Westley Allan Dodd
Broken Samurai: One Marine’s Journey from Hero to Hitman
The 1976 Psychological Assessment of Ted Bundy
Dr. Carlisle passed away in 2018 at the age of 81.
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