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The Evidence He Left Behind: Chi Omega, the Bite Marks, and a Stolen VW
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Ted Bundy's deadliest weeks — the Chi Omega sorority house attack, the murder of Kimberly Leach, and the routine traffic stop that finally ended his run — are examined through the physical evidence he couldn't outthink. This chapter traces how a law student who understood forensics still left enough behind to seal his fate.
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By the time officer David Lee pulled over a tan Volkswagen Beetle in Pensacola, Florida, on February fifteenth, nineteen seventy-eight, Ted Bundy had already escaped from two different jails, murdered at least four more women, and had been living under a stolen identity for weeks. He was twenty-four hours away from attempting to flee the state again.
Bundy had been in custody in Colorado since his arrest in nineteen seventy-five. He was facing a murder charge there after his conviction in Utah for kidnapping Carol DaRonch.
The attack on the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University happened on January fifteenth, nineteen seventy-eight. It was a Sunday night running into Monday morning.
Six days after the Leach abduction, officer Lee stopped him in Pensacola. Bundy gave a false name.
The nineteen seventy-nine trial for the Chi Omega murders was unlike anything American courts had seen to that point. Bundy chose to serve as his own co-counsel, appearing alongside public defenders but taking an active role in cross-examination and courtroom strategy.
Between the nineteen seventy-nine convictions and the execution date, Bundy's legal team filed appeal after appeal. The process stretched across a decade.
At seven oh-six in the morning on January twenty-fourth, nineteen eighty-nine, Ted Bundy was executed in the electric chair at Florida State Prison. The chair was known as Old Sparky.
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