NEWS REPORT: Only one camera fixed on a tripod tapes the courtroom proceedings. It's not part of me anymore. They said, "Do you know Ted Bundy?" I have no doubt in my mind. but I feel that it also helps people to hear that I have been through something so horrific, and I've come out the other side. Lisa Levy, 20 Ted Bundy looked similar So, I sometimes wonder if maybe that was him. The car had stolen plates and Bundy was in possession of stolen credit cards. Ted Bundy's murder spree out west ended when he went to prison in 1976, but at the end of 1977, he had escaped and made his way to Florida. They were both beautiful, wonderful people and I was mad. His warped, devious mind led him to create a large cloud on the FSU campus and on the city of Tallahassee and to leave two promising young women dead. Bundy was convicted and again sentenced to death. 4 And I cried for all the victims that could not see this. University of Idaho murders compared to Ted Bundy murders - New York Post I was familiar with the name. Sheriff Ken Katsaris: Thesearch warrant for his mouth probably was the first in the nation'shistory. Ten minutes later, leaving the bathroom, Nelson noticed that the hall was suddenly dark. Until Bundy was captured, we stayed glued to the local news to get updates on the hunt for Margaret and Lisas killer. Kathy Kleiner: The defense asked 'Is this the man you saw attack you that night in your room at Chi Omega?" Cossin protested to NBC over "The Deliberate Stranger," a TV movie starring sex symbol Mark Harmon, for glamorizing Bundy and adding to the Bundy mystique. Chandler and Kleiner had not been Bundy's only victims in the Chi Omega house. Until they brought Margaret's body down in one of those horrible body bags, no one knew she was dead or that she had been dead more than an hour." Karen Chandler: That would have been unusual for Nita to see a man because no men were allowed upstairs in the sorority house . Items found in Ted Bundy's Volkswagon Beetle. Kleiner soon got married. Kim Leach never got to wear the Valentine's Day dress she had picked out. Kleiner says, "I am sure that tomorrow morning I will be a mess, but I am going to work as usual. I wonder what their lives could've been like, what they would've done. The case of Ted Bundy (photos) | CNN Courtesy of Kathy Kleiner Rubin, Mark Foley/AP/REX/Shutterstock Every now and then, Kathy Kleiner Rubin. The survivors were set to testify against Bundy, butthistime his life was intheirhands. Today, Kleiner, a pretty brunet, lives in Boca Raton, near Miami, never free from the pain in her jaw. [Photo: Police Handout] Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University. I didn't know if they were alive or deceased at the time. It was maybe around midnight. He then made his way down the hall and attacked Kathy Kleiner, and her roommate, Karen Chandler in their room, and later went a few blocks down and similarly bludgeoned dance student Cheryl Thomas. Around the time of his crimes out west, Bundy had attended college, and even law school. Kathy Kleiner says her first visit to Tallahassee in over 40 years was, in part, to thank former sheriff Ken Katsaris. As the news sunk in across the FSU community, Cheryl remained in the hospital, Karen recovered at her parents' home nearby, and Kathy went home to south Florida. Neary identified Bundy from a lineup. Many of them congregated in Diane Cossin's room until after midnight. "And they seemed so slow. You have to keep it going. At trial, Bundy again took an active role on his defense team. Lisa Little, Ruby Bedenbaugh and Sheri McKinley. Larry Simpson [demonstrating with a dental mold against the bite mark photo]: This is a photograph of the bite mark. She said her parents felt that her living at the sorority house was "much safer" than living in the universitys dormitories. "Being a Christian, it is very difficult to see him die, but if he ever got out I am convinced he would kill someone else again." Kathy Kleiner: When it happened, we got a call We had TV on and at that point, we saw the white flag that they hold and wave when someone has been electrocuted. Meta's "Twitter killer" app Threads is on its way. "I had the need to be taken care of. This January, like every January for the past four decades, I have thought about Margaret Bowman and Lisa Levy. Sheriff Ken Katsaris: I got a call from Colorado about an escaped criminal named Ted Bundy. ", NEWS REPORT: Serial killer Ted Bundy scheduled to die in Florida's electric chair at 7 o'clockThere was the atmosphere of a public hanging as hundreds of singing, chanting death penalty supporters gathered "bye bye Ted Bundy, goodbye.". "He had worn a hose over his face that had eye holes cut in and a knot tied at the top," she said, referring to pantyhose. Although they had the bitemark evidence, they had no one to match it to. Ted Bundy, left, listens the Leon County Sheriff Ken Katsaris reads the indictment against him. Infamous Serial Killers Ted Bundy Killings: A Timeline of His Twisted Reign of Terror The intelligent, engaging law student murdered at least 20 women in a spree that spanned the country until his. Her jaw had been broken; several of her teeth were found in her blood-soaked bedclothes. Investigative journalist Kevin Sullivan told "Snapped Notorious" that it "wasn't a well-planned attack" and Bundy "had taken a log from that yard and he was smashing them with that log. Bundy beat Bowman with a piece of firewood and strangled her. Thomas told ABC News that "being a rare survivor of Ted Bundy, it makes me feel like I have to represent those women who did not survive. I want to be sure that I keep going for them. Kathy Kleiner: In January of 1978, I was 20 years old. Let's read it. I want people to know no matter what they've gone through, that they too can do it. In her family, Kathy found happiness, and she leaned on them for support as Bundy's appeals finally ran out. Investigators discovered Bundy had used a wood log to bludgeon the sorority sisters. Catch up on the Oxygen App. The media was fascinated by the then-suspected serial killer, and Bundy remains a fascination more than 30 years after he was executed. Karen Chandler: I think he was acting as the lawyer that he always wanted to be Since I didn't remember anything about the attack, I think that was helpful. Following the FSU trial, Bundy was also found guilty of murdering 12-year-old Kimberly Leach, and received another death sentence. You know I'm nota violent person.". Two months later, he kidnapped teen girl, Nancy Wilcox, 16, in Holladay, Utah. "Obviously, I didn't think that was possible. Bundy is accused in the bludgeoning deaths of two Chi Omega sorority sisters, Jan. 15, 1978, in Tallahassee. A week later when she returned to the room to collect belongings, "I saw the blood on everything, even the ceiling." thatexperience helped me a lot. / CBS News. Kimberly Leach disappeared from Lake City, over an hour away her body later found by a nearby park. "I remember sitting on the sofa with my fiance and crying, and wailing, and crying, and feeling that Lisa and Margaret were finally at peace," she said. Sheriff Ken Katsaris: his charm, his wit, his intelligence, his charisma, everything about him made him different than all the other serial killers. "Cheryl, you were attacked.". You can't do this!" He started confessing to murders. Male friends slept outside their rooms while the killer remained at large. Ted Bundy went on trial for the Chi Omega homicides and assaults in June 1979. As January 1978 stretched on, police were stumped. Cheryl Thomas assault. Kathy Kleiner: Saturday, January 14th I walked home and I got in the sorority. Ted Bundy often lured unsuspecting victims into his Volkswagen Beetle [Photo: Police Handout]While still in the Northwest area, Bundy continued his murderous spree, killingDonna Gail Manson, Susan Elaine Rancourt, Roberta Kathleen Parks, Brenda Carol Ball, and Georgann Hawkins. It was discovered when Bundy was pulled over by an. Kathy Kleiner: That type of evil that encompassed me that night I couldn't wrap my head around it. He beat two others over the head with a log. Karen Chandler: Maybe I had been in my room for a day or two And my parents were afraid of what was going to be on the TV. Margaret and Lisa would now be in their late 50s or early 60s, probably in the prime of their careers, likely married with grown children and perhaps grandchildren. The door was ajar and, in her half sleep, Cossin noticed later that the hall light clicked off. She said the attack left nearly every bone in her face broken. This time though, Bundy got a lot further, eventually ending up in northern Florida. ", Sullivan told ABC News that after Bundy disappeared, "Detectives said, 'He's going to kill again. And Florida State was just a safe place to be. The sorority house looks so different it doesn't bother me like I thought it would it's OK to be here. Democrat Reubin Askew had been governor for seven years and would be followed in 1979 by another Democrat, Bob Graham. And no more in the news or anything. Blood soaked Cossin's bathrobe as she cradled her dying friend whom she had known since junior high. Bundy murdered the young girl and left her body near Suwannee State Park. Kathy's very special, and you could tell she was very special back then. So, my dad said, "before we turn the TV, I need to tell you something." Aslead prosecutor, LarrySimpsonfelt pressure to make sure Bundy was put away forever. He beat and sexually assaulted four female students as they were sleeping, and two of them died as a result of the attacks. Pensacola police had pulled over a Volkswagen Beetle that was driving slowly. I relied heavily on my friends during those scary days, and I learned to value them even more. Gunman in Bulletproof Vest Fires at Random on Philadelphia Streets, Killing 5, Mummified Girl Found in Closet Was Abandoned There by Mom Months Earlier, Teen Shoots 8-Year-Old Brother With Gun Belonging to His Cop Father. Theodore Robert Bundy ( n Cowell; November 24, 1946 - January 24, 1989) was an American serial killer who kidnapped, raped and murdered dozens of young women and girls during the 1970s and possibly earlier. They knew that this would be a discreet place to leave them and perhaps murder them.". CHERYL THOMAS [in court]: I had five skull fractures and multiple contusions on my head . Kathy Kleiner: Life totally changed for me. They told me it was at the Chi Omega house I was stunned, Sheriff Ken Katsaris: Before I could get myself settled into criminal investigator Ken Katsaris, as my role as sheriff. Check out never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! Her gray tombstone is in the shape of a valentine. Thomas said that a few days later, she woke up in a hospital with her parents nearby. Scott Rubin: I felt energy from Kathy right away when we first saw each other It was just her smile and she really looked in your eyes, and but happy eyes all that together just was like "boom.". I'm going to go ahead and stay home and study tonight. After his arrest, reporters learned that Bundy -- one of the FBI's 10 Most Wanted and sought for questioning in more than 30 murders -- had lived at the Oaks, a rooming house just a few blocks from the Chi Omega house. In the 1970s, Bundy is believed to have killed dozens of women across the western United States. He opened his mouth, said, "Do what you have to do, Ken. Former Leon County Sheriff Ken Katsaris, who helped investigate the Tallahassee murders, said he'd spoken to authorities out West who'd given him Bundy's name. It took nine years from Bundy's sentencing . There were the lights from the police cars and the ambulance. And as I see him raise his arm up, this bright light shone into our room. Larry Simpson: We crafted a search warrant to use to search Mr. Bundy's mouth and obtain models of his teeth to compare against the bite mark impression that was left. Police were forced to let Bundy go due to a lack of sufficient evidence. In the early morning ofJanuary 15, 1978, Bundy carried out one of his most brutal attacks at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University inTallahassee. Nonetheless, Bundy took the young girl from a school playground, raped and killed her, then dumped her at a state park inSuwannee County. "Please don't kill me. Karen Chandler [crying]: I can't imagine how horrible that was for their parents and it was very hard because I really couldn't express my grief and my sorrow to their families. She had just had her braces removed and, somehow, I feel that she felt the pain was the braces. In that Volkswagen, they found dozens of IDs and credit cards that had been stolen from around Tallahassee in the weeks before. A timeline of the case, The Suzanne Morphew Case: Nothing Is What It Seems, Gabby Petito-Brian Laundrie case: The full story of their deaths. The Chi Omega house In the early morning hours of Jan. 15, 1978, sometime between 3 a.m. and 3:15 a.m., an intruder -- later identified as Bundy -- broke into the Chi Omega house, carrying some sort of wooden club. Editors Note: Nancy Graces experts for this episode Crime Stories include serial killer historianPeter Vronksy, author of Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present, and formerSVU detective Steven Lampley, author of Outside Your Door a collection of stories and cases from his police career. It was that close.". Kathy Kleiner's jaw was broken in three places. I mean if they couldn't tell you who did it, how could they tell you who didn't do it? I sent an investigator there. Sheriff Ken Katsaris: He got a real kick out ofit. Bundy backed out at the last minute. In February 1974, Bundy kidnapped Linda Ann Healy from her basement bedroom in King County, Washington. In late 1977, he escaped from jail. "They (police) really wanted me to be able to identify who had attacked me because it would [have] helped them out tremendously. AfterBundy fled the Chi Omega house, he made his wayto the apartment of student Cheryl Thomas a few blocks away. So, I went to his cell one evening, I told him he's coming with me. Theodore Bundy, the suspect in the rape-murder cases of at least 36 young women in California, Bundy was on the FBI's 10 most-wanted list. Sheriff Ken Katsaris: We were confident going to the grand jury with the evidence we had. "No one told us anything," she says. So now I had to be wired shut for additional nine weeks. "I asked her (Chandler), you know, what had happened. "What happened to us was like coffee stains on a linen tablecloth, to be washed away," says Cossin. Sheriff Ken Katsaris: He typically was organized. Cheryl Thomas, a dance major at Florida State University who lived off campus, suffered severe head injuries in the attack. When he entered Chandler's bedroom, he found Kleiner. Two months later, after a large scale search, the Leach girl's partially decomposed body was located in a wooded area near the Suwanee River, Suwanee County, Florida. Bundy did not receive a public memorial after his death. Fear of the unknown attacker pervaded the area, until news broke of an arrest in Pensacola. Karen Chandler: I think before, Tallahassee and FSU was a cocoon. Maybe a little bit before midnight. And he said, "Mommy what happened to your face right there?" I can't believe it! During pretrial maneuvering, they had to face Bundy, the man who had killed their friends, as he challenged their depositions. it was just a great time. It was the last time she saw Bowman alive. Replied the defendant: "You're welcome." So went the testimony in the bizarre murder trial of Theodore Robert Bundy, 32, on charges that in January 1978 he bludgeoned to death two Chi Omega sorority sisters at Florida State University in Tallahassee and seriously injured three other coeds.

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