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Show cA TheSalt Lake Tribune UTAH Sunday, January 24, 1999 10 Years After His Execution, Ted Bundy Is Still an Enigma EEharming serial killer’s total victims may never be known By RON WORD THE ASSOCIA’ ED PRESS Theheavy footsteps of emergency medicaltechnicians and the crackling of police radios awakened Susan Denton from a deep sleep. The horror of what she saw took several minutes to register. In the hallway of Chi OmegahouseatFlorida State University, her friend Karen Chandler was bloodied and beingloaded onto a gurney. Denton raced down the hall and saw another sorority sister, Kathy Kleiner, sitting dazed on her bed, blood pouring ‘down herface. In another room,Lisa Levy wasin herbed, splattered with blood. Someone had beat herandtried to strangle her. She died on the way to the hospital. Margaret Bowman's strangled body was in her room. Ten years after Theodore Robert Bundy was exe- cuted in Florida's electric chair, some whoselives were upended by his deadly rampage across six states recalled the sinister stranger with the engaging smile and magnetic appeal. Denton still quivers at the thought of the grisly scene she foundin herTallahassee sorority house on Jan. 15, 1978 — her friends clubbed with an oak limb, one bitten and sexually assaulted. “When you realize how close it occurred, you think why was it their room and not our room? You go throughall that,” shesaid. The bite marks on Levy’s body were used to convict Bundyforkilling the two Florida State students, whosharedsimilar features with more than 30 other victims — pretty with long brown hair parted down the middle. From Jan. 4, 1974, to Feb. 15, 1978, the stranger called “Ted” stalked young women on college campuses, at shopping malls, in apartment buildings and grade schools in Washington, Oregon, Utah, Idaho, Coloradoandfinally Florida “There probably wasn’t a day that went by that I didn’t think of Lisa and Margaret,” said Denton, who for 14 years worked to makeFlorida’s victim rights ; laws moresensitive to crimevictims before she took ‘ a job with the city of Orlando as a neighborhood ' liaison. It was in Lake City, Fla., midway between Jacksonville and Tallahassee, that Bundy’s last and youngest known victim, 12-year-old Kimberly Diane Leach, : was abductedoutsideher schoolon Feb. 9, 1978. She was brutalized and left dead in a deserted hog shed. Six days later, about 1 a.m. on the morning of Feb. 15, Pensacola Patrolman David Lee spotted a stolen Volkswagen and signaledthe driver to pull over. As a teen, Bundy was shyandsensitive. At a Seattle crisis center, he counseled the depressed, the alcoholic, the suicidal. He graduated with a degreein psychology from the University of Washington in 1972, designed a program for dealing with habitual criminals and wrote a pamphlet on rape for the King County crime commission. Although noone knowsfor sure how many women Bundykilled, his first victim is believed to be Mary Adams, 18, whose battered body was found in her Seattle bedroom on Jan.4, 1974. Between March and June 1974,atleast five women vanished from campuses and taverns in Washington and Oregon. In July, two women vanished near a Seattle lake and a 17-year-old girl disappeared from her high school in November. Beginning in January 1975, four women vanished from Utah and Colorado. That July, a womandisappeared near Sait LakeCity. Bundy was arrested in August and convicted in March 1976 of kidnapping Carol DaRonchin Utah. Thatfall, he was charged with killing a Michigan nurse in Aspen, Colo. He escaped from an Aspen courthouse in June 1977, was captured and escaped again that December. Andonceagain, the bodies started mounting. Bob Keppel, chief investigator of the Washington attorney general's office in Seattle, spent Bundy’s final days trying to tie him to unsolved crimes. “There was no human remains found. We were able to feel he was the one who committedall the murders. He confessed to more than 30 of them,” Hejust couldn't doit,” said Minerva, who worksin the public defenders office in Tallahassee. After 11 years of trials and appeals, then-Florida Gov. Bob Martinez signed the final death warrant against Bundy on Jan. 17, 1989. Bundy offered to provide investigators with details on his crimes, but pleaded for moretime, said Martinez, now a Tampa businessman. “Wesimply indicated therestill were a number of days before the sentence would be carried out and he would have ample time to confess to whatever else Bill Hagmaier, chief of the FBI's National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crimes, was with Bundy duringall of his final interviews with investigators. subdued and arrested the man. It was several days before Pensacola police learned thattheir car thief suspect was recently added to the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list and wasa suspect in the murders of the two Chi Omega sisters and Kimberly Leach. Police had contacted Tallahassee | authorities after finding among Bundy’s possessions ‘21 credit cards belonging to Florida State students and the identification cards of four Florida State school in Tacoma, Wash., and enters University of Washington at Seattle. In two years, he amasses 190 credit hours and a degreein psychology. Springs, Colo. Travels to Denver, Chicago and Michigan. | MM Jan. 7, 1978, Arrives in Tallahassee, Fla., by 1972, He takes job tracking habitual crimi- bus. Rents room in rooming house and poses as “It made him realize he was going to have to stand up in frontof the whole world and say he was guilty. Campbell, who disappeared from a ski resort in Aspen, Colo. ° cree Ml June 6, 1977, Escapes from Pitkin County Courthouse in Aspen while awaiting trial in er.) 1965, Theodore Bundy graduates from high WSeptember 1973, He enters law school at warning shot, then a second round at the fleeing man. Lee thought he had woundedthe man,but soon ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS @ Nov. 24, 1947, Theodore “Ted” Robert Cow- ell born in Burlington,Vt. (Heis later adopted by Army cook John Bundy, who marries Ted’s moth- nals for King County Law and Justice Planning backedoutat the last minute. he had doneif that’s what he wanted to do,” Martinezsaid. : found himself in a struggle over his gun. He finally Chronology: Model Youth to Savage Killer said Keppel, author of “The River Man” about Bundy's murderous odyssey. Mike Minerva, who defended Bundy in the Chi Omega murders, said Bundy was offered a deal to sparehis life if he pleaded guilty to the three Florida slayings in exchange for 75 years in prison. He During questioning, the driver kicked Lee’s legs out from underhim andtookoff running. Leefired a The Associated Press Theodore Robert “Ted” Bundysits with attorneysattrial in Miamiin 1979. He was convicted of three murders of young women,butpolice say he may be responsibleforup to 36 killings. Camphell case. Arrested 10 dayslater. MDec. 31, 1977, Escapesfrom jail in Glenwood student. Office in Washingtonstate. ; @ Jan. 15, 1978, Margaret Bowman and Lisa University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash. Levykilled in Chi Omegasorority housein Tallahassee. @ May 1974, Heleaves law schoolto go to work . ™@Feb. 9, 1978, Kimberly Leach reported miss- in Olympia, Wash. ing from herjunior high schoolin LakeCity, Fla. W Aug. 30, 1974, He resigns from job at Emergency Services Department in Olympia and WFeb. 15, 1978, Arrested in Pensacola, Fla., after police stop him in stolen Volkswagen. movesto Salt Lake City to attend University of @ July 13, 1979, Sentenced to death plus 196 Utah College of Law. years for Chi Omega murders. Aug. 18, 1975, Arrested in Salt Lake City suburbfor evading a police officer. Police found handcuffs, ski mask and pantyhose with eyes cut out. @ Feb. 9, 1980, Sentenced to death for Kimber_ly Leach murder. Bundy marries Carol Boonein a surprise courtroom ceremony. @Jan. 17, 1989, Florida Gov. Bob Martinez ping Carol DaRonchin Utah. Oct. 20, 1976, Charged with killing Caryn @ Jan. 24, 1989, Bundydies in electric chair at Florida State Prison. March 1, 1976, Bundy convicted of kidnap- signs Bundy’s fourth death warrant. Onthe night before his execution, Bundytalked of suicide. “He did not want to give thestate the satisfaction of watching him die,’ Hagmaiersaid. “We had some discussions about morality and the taking of another life and his concerns about trying to explain to God about his actions,” he said. The sun was peekingover the horizon on Jan. 24, 1989, when a black-hooded executioner turned a women switch that sent 2,000 volts through Bundy’s body. “He was the kind of charmer that you would take home to your sister,” said Lee, now with the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission. the oakenchair and thelife wentoutof the oneofthe His fists clenched tightly, his body straightened in nation’s most notorious serial killers at 7:16 a.m. Yt,$40off Ss.SECURITY ALSIOO| |Choice _. 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