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6A Fort Myers News-Press. Sunday. June 24. 1979 2A from Page 1A Bundy. 4 When they searched Lynda's bedroom, the evi- worn route that is used by hundreds of students every day.

It was the quiet Sunday of April 14. 1974. And the young man aroused no suspicion. After all, it certainly wasn't uncommon for young men to strike up conversations with coeds. Besides, be was handsome.

A short distance from the school's library, be asked a coed for help carrying his books. She'd be glad to help, the woman said, and as they walked toward his car, a distance of roughly 250 yards, he explained that his arm had been injured in a skiing accident After they reached the young man's car, they talked awhile, and then said their farewells. As she was leaving, the young woman noticed that the front seat in the young man's Volkswagen was missing. The encounter passed without incident Three days later, Susan Elaine Rancourt made plans to attend a meeting at her dormitory on how to become a dorm counselor. Taking such an interest in dorm life was entirely brown hair, which she parted in the middle, and told her roommate of the date she had for the concert As she was leaving.

Donna eased into a fuzzy black maxi coat that covered her bright red, green and orange blouse. She departed with a sense of excited anticipation, heading toward the concert ball that was just a 10-minute walk from her dorm. When she didn't come home that night, or the next night Donna's roommate thought little of it Both girls shared an easy going view of life. Perhaps she had decided on a brief excursion? An impulsive weekend trip wouldn't be out of character. But staying away a full week during a busy semester was a bit much.

And so, after seven days, someone reported Donna missing to the campus police at the small, liberal arts college. The investigators who searched her room were immediately suspicious: even a free spirit off on a lark would take her cosmetics, her backpack and her camera. Olympia, just 60 miles south of Seattle, is a city of 24,000 residents. While thousands of residents are reported missing each year in the state of Washington, when Donna vanished the police and the press in that region began to suspect something was amiss. The elusive and astonishing terror that would haunt the consciousness of the Pacific Northwest during the next two years surfaced routinely on March 21, 1974, in the Daily Olympian newspaper, which ran a small photograph that showed the petite, blue-eyed freshman with her gentle smile.

Beneath the mug shot was the phrase. "Donna Manson: Where is she?" That question has never been answered. The 'young man seemed to be having trouble. With a sling holding one injured arm, he obviously needed help carrying his school books. He kept dropping them.

He was making his way along a common pathway that slices through the small, secluded campus of Central Washington State College in Ellensburg, a well- dene was sketchy, but troublesome. Bloodstains soiled her beds beets. Her nightgown was hanging in the closet, but it was bloody around the neck. Her shoes and a change of clothes were missing, Someone else had come in from the cold that XC night in Seattle. Lynda was never again seen alive.

l'. io Spring was easing its first warmth over the tree-In lined campus of Evergreen State College in the capital in'i-city of Olympia, bringing a gentle feeling of rebirth to the casual world of college classes and self-discovery bad so intrigued Donna Gail Manson. Life was just beginning for Donna and at 19, her -r-i independent outlook (friends considered her some-A- thing of a free spirit) matched perfectly Evergreen' reputation for innovation, a place where she could -study the arcane field of alchemy. The day was March 12, 1974. And Donna had been looking forward to a nighttime jazz concert She was in i't.

good spirits that evening as she combed her long Bundy1 trial on coed killings begins Monday -tr. Jr. tl. OJ By RICK SPRATLING Associated Press Writer MIAMI Nearly 500 miles from the sedate Florida State University campus where two young women were battered to death 17 months ago, Theodore R. Bundy enters a Miami courtroom Monday to be tried for their murders.

Ironically, the most crucial evidence may lie behind the quick, disarming smile that Bundy, 32, often flashes in court. f. Bundy's own teeth will be the central issue. Using gruesome, oversize photo-. prosecutors hope to convince a jury that no teeth but Bundy's could have left the bite marks found on the body of 1 Lisa Levy, 20.

She and 21-year-old Margaret Bowman were bludgeoned and strangled as they slept at the Chi Omega Sorority House in Tallahassee, Jan. 15, 1968. One was raped. Miss Levy had been bitten on the breast and buttocks, investigators said. Two other women in the Chi Omega house and another in an off-campus apartment were beaten that same night but survived.

and brushed past a stranger who wore a ski mask and carried a club. Miss Neary apparently is the only person who got a look at the intruder that night and survived. Bundy comes to trial at odds with his own attorney, Michael Minerva. Bundy tried to fire Minerva earlier this month saying the defense attorney believes Bundy is guilty. Minerva then asked to be removed from the case.

Judge Cowart refused both motions and left Minerva on the job. The trial is striking in other ways, chiefly the paradox of Bundy himself. A quick-witted former law student and Republican party worker, he seems the embodiment of the all-American boy. Yet, the FBI has described him as wanted for questioning in 36 murders, a total that would constitute one of the nation's greatest mass killing sprees. Reporters looking into the case, however, have never been able to come up with that many murder investigations linked to Bundy.

And in many cases the link appears to be only that his movements coincided with a pattern of disappearances of young women. Bundy's case is of intense interest in western states, where police have termed him a target of investigations into a series of disappearences of young women. He has been charged with murder in Colorado and convicted of kidnapping in Utah. The "bite mark" evidence to be used here has never before been permitted in a Florida prosecution. Judge Cowart said.

It has been used in other states and some federal courts. Dr. Richard Souviron, a dentist from Coral Gables and the prosecution's chief expert in "forensic odontology," testified in pretrial hearings that Bundy's lower teeth are unique. In a jail-cell confrontation with a court reporter present, Souviron told Bundy: "Your teeth made that bite mark. That's it." The defense calls that a wild guess.

Dr. Duane T. Devore of the University of Maryland has testified in preliminary proceedings that the mark could have been made by Bundy but "not to the exclusion of everyone else." The other key witness will be Nita Neary, a Chi Omega member who entered the sorority house the night of the murders Bundy's trial was scheduled to begin in Tallahassee two weeks ago but was moved to Miami after Judge Edward Cowart decided that a fair jury could not be found in the city where the murders were committed. Bundy faces trial later on a charge of murdering 12-year-old Kimberly Leach in Lake City about 130 miles east of Tallahassee. In Miami, Bundy's trial is slated for the same courtroom where 15-year-old Ron-ny Zamora was convicted of murder in 1977.

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