Evan Lewis' psychological evaluation of Ted Bundy
I am now sharing also on my archive.org channel the March 8, 1976 psychological evaluation of Bundy ordered by the State or Utah and made by Dr. Evan Lewis (counseling psychologist):
https://archive.org/details/evan-lewiss-psychological-evaluation-of-ted-bundy
The scanned file was given to me by Judge Stewart Hanson's grandson, Sean Papanikolas, on October 17, 2019, and since then I have been sharing it publicly on Facebook, in my public group "Denying a fair trial: the case of Ted Bundy".
Bundy was charged with attempted murder and kidnap in the aborted 1974 abduction of Carol DaRonch, and Judge Hanson was the one who sentenced Bundy in the DaRonch case.
Dr. Evan Lewis's evaluation was made in the Salt Lake County jail in Salt Lake City after Bundy had been convicted of aggravated kidnapping.
Lewis determined that Bundy was, intellectually, “in the highest 10% of the population. His verbal skills are very well developed, Mr. Bundy being able to express himself clearly and concisely most of the time. There was no evidence in the interview or test data to suggest the presence of a thought disorder. Mr. Bundy is not psychotic, nor does he evidence any other readily observable emotional disturbance.”
Lewis’ evaluation also noted that on a more subtle level, Bundy consistently attempted to disguise his attitudes and emotions, adjusting them to the tests being given to him by the psychologist.
The psychologist further described Bundy as an “intellectually gifted man”, or an “intellectually bright man”. He also noted that the crimes against women which were being attributed to Ted were “most likely of a calculated nature and not of an irrational or uncontrollable origin”. The test results however uncovered no clear-cut reason as to why Ted may have committed the crime of which he had been convicted.
In my opinion, this psychological report is also a conservative one, since the psychologist thought that the “vacillation and ambivalence” evident in Ted’s life were suggestive of a man who “cannot maintain his goal-directed behavior and accept the responsibilities that come with success”.
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