Ted Bundy

After his final appeals were rejected, Bundy was executed at Florida State Prison at 7:16 a.m. on 24 January 1989.

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Bundy was found guilty of Kimberly Leach's murder, and Judge Wallace Jopling sentenced him to death, adding a third capital sentence to the two already imposed in the Chi Omega case.

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Kimberly Leach, aged 12, disappeared from her school in Lake City on 9 February 1978. Bundy was arrested near Pensacola on 14 February; Leach's body was found in April, and Bundy was subsequently charged and convicted of her murder.

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Several death warrants were signed and then stayed while Bundy's appeals were considered. In 1988, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals notably rejected a request for a new trial in the Kimberly Leach case.

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A Miami jury found Bundy guilty of two counts of first-degree murder, three counts of attempted first-degree murder and two burglaries linked to the Tallahassee attacks.

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Following the Chi Omega verdict, Bundy was sentenced to death for the murders of Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman.

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After fleeing to Florida, Bundy attacked several women in Tallahassee. Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman were killed at the Chi Omega sorority house, and other women were seriously assaulted.

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While serving his Utah sentence, Bundy was charged in Colorado with murdering Caryn Campbell, a nurse who had disappeared while staying near Aspen.

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During a preliminary hearing in Aspen, Bundy, left alone in a room, escaped through a second-floor window. He was recaptured a few days later after an extensive search.

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Bundy created an opening in the ceiling of his cell, reached the jailer's quarters and escaped from the Colorado jail. This second escape enabled him to reach Florida.

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Bundy was found guilty in Utah of kidnapping and assaulting a teenage girl who had managed to escape, and was sentenced to a term of up to fifteen years.

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Carol DaRonch survived a kidnapping attempt after a man posing as a police officer lured her into a car. She subsequently identified Bundy; the case led to his first major conviction.

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