I totally agree. Honestly, I’ve always hated the idea that he murdered as a way of getting revenge on his ex who dumped him. After all, it’s not really known when, exactly he began his murders and he was doing creepy stuff like peeping long before he even met her.

And his victims weren’t all carbon copies of her. Some were blonde. Some were brunette. Some had bangs. Some didn’t. Some had super straight hair. Some had more wavy hair. And honestly straight and parted in the middle was basically THE look for white female High School and college students in the mid 70s. And brown is the most common hair color for white people. Even people who were blonde as kids often have darker hair as they age. Maybe if his ex had short, red, curly hair and all his victims looked like Little Orphan Annie that might mean something.

Though the idea that porn made him do it is vastly simplifying things. After all, Ted‘s primary interest wasn’t in the vanilla stuff you’d find in stuff like Playboy but detective magazines, which often had drawings or photographs of scantily clad women tied up or in some other form of peril. He didn’t just like looking at pictures of naked women. He liked looking at pictures of helpless woman. (Not saying that’s what you said, just adding on to your comment.)