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t-O Sentinel Star. Sunday. Decembers 1978 From 5-0 Bundy and volunteers were combing the miles of woods, bramble and swamp that surround Lake City. Helicopters equipped with infrared detection devices circled overhead. In Tallahassee, the sheriffs office received a call from the Jacksonville homicide squad.

The 14-year-old daughter of a policeman had identified Bundy as the man who had approached her in front of her junior high school the day before Leach disappeared. Chased by the girl's brother, the man had fled in a white van. The girl had scribbled the license plate number on a scrap of paper: 13D11300. That same van had been found the week before a few feet from where the orange Volkswagen used by Bundy had been stolen. That same van had been parked at the Lake City Holiday Inn.

Still without enough evidence for a murder indictment in the sorority killings, Katsaris chalked up 67 charges, including auto theft, forgery and burglary, against Bundy. Most of the credit cards had been lifted from pocketbooks. A dozen breakfasts at Uncle John's Pancake House and eight dinners at the Holiday Inn had been charged; at Dave's 10 Speed Drive, a bicycle. A bookstore had been hit for 18 dollars' worth of sailing manuals, the Tasty Pastry Bakery for eight dollars' worth of cookies, and Smoker's World for a pipe and lighter set worth $49.35, 65 cents under the $50 limit that requires the store owner to check the card. If convicted on all these charges, Bundy could be sentenced to 350 years in prison.

The search for Kimberly Leach continued. On March 14, a Florida state trooper found a $5 bill and a pile of cigarette butts in a clearing near Suwannee State Park. He scooped the butts into a Burger King bag and rushed them to the state crime lab in Tallahassee. A week later, the lab reported that the cigarette butts were similar to those found in the white van. Oak leaves and soil samples from the van indicated that it had been in the area bounded by the Suwannee and Withlacoochee rivers.

On April 7, trooper K.W. Robinson walked up to a Disqualification of judge might force new delay Although the Ted Bundy trial was scheduled to begirt Dec. 4, Bundy's motion-writing ability forced another delay. Bundy asked Rudd to remove himself from the case. Bundy claimed Rudd was prejudiced and said Rudd had held two private meetings with prosecutors to discuss the case.

Rudd refused to remove himself and Bundy asked the State Supreme Court to remove him. i Friday, the court disqualified Rudd, a Leon County circuit judge. In a unanimous ruling, the court said Rudd "exceeded the proper scope of his inquiry" in attempting to refute Bundy's charges that the judge was prejudiced against him. The court held that Rudd should not have refuted Bundy's charges because that led to an adversary relationship between the judge and the defendant. Rudd can either appoint another circuit court judge or give the job to Supreme Court Chief Justice Arthur England.

Bundy's trial had been scheduled to begin in January, but it is not clear now whether there will be any more delays or any additional motions from Bundy. And, Bundy has agreed to use a public defender to represent him, dropping his plan to be his own attorney. Michael Minerva has been named to represent Bundy. Bundy has now been in jail in Tallahassee 11 months. WANTED BY THE FBI IMERSUU HIGH! My'SOIR "You're a little off key.

Ken" Bundy tells him. "May be a frog in my throat," Katsaris says. "Yes," Bundy answers. "It's after the fly in your brain." Two days after the indictment, Bundy was arraigned. He stood with his arms crossed and refused to accept a second copy of the indictment.

He refused to acknowledge questions from the judge. Bundy was bound over for trial on Oct 3. Since the initial arrest in Pensacola, Millard Farmer, the director of Team Defense, had been fighting for permission to represent Bundy. Not a member of the Florida Bar, Farmer needed the approval of Leon County Judge John A. Rudd to handle the Tallahassee "Mr.

Farmer practices a frivolous kind of law that simply is not tolerated in this court." Rudd ruled on Aug. 4. "I have never before denied such a motion, but I am doing it now in Mr. Bundy's own best interest. This court simply cannot, and will not, allow these proceedings to become a bizarre circus where Mr.

Farmer can play ringmaster." "If I cannot have Mr. Farmer, I choose to represent' myself," Bundy said. One hundred twenty-seven witnesses and 300 prospective jurors were summoned to the Leon County Courthouse on the morning of Oct. 8. At 9 a.m., clad in a light blue shirt, a dark blue tie and a pin-stripe suit jacket with a smudge on the right shoulder, Ted Bundy entered through a side door.

He was surrounded by four armed deputies. Under his tan pants he wore a steel leg brace designed to lock if he tried to run. He dropped a red and white Michelob box stuffed with police records and court motions on the floor. Nodding to a row of reporters, he sat down alone at the defense table. His elbows resting on the table, Bundy clasped his hands and stared over at the three prosecutors.

Judge Rudd, a man who has sentenced two people to death during his five years on the bench, took his seat. Bundy asked that the trial be delayed five months. The prosecution protested, reminding Rudd that Bundy had said just a week before that he was ready to go to trial. "I seem to get a bit overconfident, cocky, if you will, being locked in solitary day after day," Bundy said. "In reading the state's evidence I got a bit overconfident.

I didn't see anything there. Mr. Farmer said I better get down to business." Bundy held out the hem of his suit jacket. "Mr. Farmer gave me this coat yesterday," Bundy said.

"He said any time I get overconfident to think of him." "The defendant has done nothing, taken no dispositions, filed no motions," assistant state attorney Larry Simpson said. "He has done absolutely nothing except come in here and say he is unprepared. The good people of Leon County have been living with this thing for more than seven months. Witnesses and jurors have been summoned. "The fact is," Bundy said, "I'm on trial for my life.

A few vouchers, the passions of this county, will not stop me from exercising my right to organize a defense. Rudd stared down at Bundy, thinking the one word: appeal. The judge ran his hand once over his hair and called a five-minute recess. He returned 24 minutes later. "I am not convinced the defense acted in good faith," Rudd said.

"But to avoid the possibility of a retrial in event of conviction, this court is going contrary to its better instincts and judgment. This court is going to reset this trial for December 4, 1978." The radio says I've been arrested down there," Misner said, "How can I be in jail down there when I'm up in Tallahassee?" Yes, Misner told the police, his wallet had been stolen several weeks ago. Willing to follow up any possible lead, detective Don Patchen of the Tallahassee Police Department went to Pensacola and questioned the driver. "We dont even know who we're questioning," Patchen said as he gave up for the night. "All we know is that he's stolen some credit cards and he's done some strange things." "He is no more serious a suspect than others we have had," Katsaris said when the local press reported' that a suspect in the sorority murder case had been arrested.

The following evening the driver demanded to call his lawyer. An hour later, the detectives received a call from Millard Farmer, the Atlanta-based director of Team Defense, a nonprofit organization that spe-cializes in death penalty cases. Fanner offered to identify the driver if the detective agreed to withhold the information fromn the press until morning, giving his client time to notify his parents. "This is Ted Bundy," Farmer said. "So," a detective said.

"Write it down and run it through your computer," Farmer said. Two hours later, the computer at the Pensacola police headquarters reported that Ted Bundy was wanted for questioning in 836 murders. "Make it 38," a detective said as he read the printout. The detective immediately announced to the local press that a fingerprint check had identified the driver as "the mass sex murderer Ted Bundy." Tipped that Bundy had been living under the alias Chris Hagan at a rooming house called the Oak a few blocks from the Chi Omega house, detectives learned that Bundy had arrived in Tallahassee on Jan. 7, one week after his Colorado escape.

Interviewing the rooming-house residents, the detectives learned that Bundy had spent most of his nights drinking at Sherrod's, a disco next door to the-Chi Omega house. A 21-year-old cosmetology student named Frances Messier said that Bundy had treated her to a $37 dinner in a French restaurant steak topped by two bottles of Great Western champagne. After dinner, the two returned to Bundy's room and watched The Rockford Files on television. Before he dozed off, Bundy told her he owned a van and had a stack of credit cards, but little cash. Another resident, Keith Hargrove, said that he had seen Bundy run into the house about an hour after the murders occurred.

The next day, he saw Bundy wearing a blue ski cap and a brown jacket. "I knew that was what the killer was wearing," Hargrove said. "I almost called the police. Then I thought, 'It couldn't Chris was too disciplined. I thought the murderer would be spacing out or something.

Don Ramsey, another resident, recalled lending Bundy a copy of the Tallahassee Democrat on the morning of Feb. 11. On the front page was an article describing a psychological profile the FBI had done on the killer. "The man who strangled two Florida State Universi- ty coeds and severely beat three others was living in the Tallahassee area but was not a student," the article read. "He is likely living here still." A few hours later, Bundy placed a box of oatmeal cookies in front of Frances Messier's door and left Tallahassee.

On Sunday, four days after his arrest in Pensacola, Bundy was driven 200 miles east to Tallahassee and locked in an armor-plated cell on the second floor of the Leon County been talking eight, nine hours at a time," Katsaris said. "But he's talking around the FSU murders. He's smart, very smart. But we're changing the rules now. We've been playing his game until now.

A change of jails might make a difference. We'll establish when we'll talk to him and under what conditions. We'll let him sit in his cell and think." "Ken (Katsaris) figured if we locked him up tight With two feet of concrete and four inches of steel all around him, he'd break and make Ken a hero," one deputy said later. "All these people had tried to break Ted Bundy, but Ken was going to be the one. They only let him out once the first month.

They took him to the roof in chains and told him to go ahead and exercise. He couldn't have picked his own nose in those chains." On Monday, Feb. 20, an anonymous caller told Tallahassee television station WCTV that Ted Bundy had spent the night of Feb. 8 at the Lake City Holiday Inn. This, the caller reminded the station, was the night before a 12-year-old named Kimberly Leach had disappeared from Lake City Junior High School.

Contacted by WCTV, Columbia County deputies rushed to the Holiday Inn on U.S. Highway 90 and determined that a man answering Bundy's description had checked into the hotel at 8:45 p.m., paying with one of the stolen credit cards later found on Bundy. Kimberly Leach case At about the same time, Kimberly Leach walked out of her first-period class. She had forgotten her purse In homeroom. Quickly retrieving it, she headed back through the complex of buildings.

After the deputies confirmed that Bundy had spent the night at the Holiday Inn, they rejoined the search for Leach. Almost 200 deputies, highway patrolmen THEODORE RODOU BUNDY United PrMi UMwational Associated Pr Bundy smiles on way to courtroom. The FBI placed Bundy on its list of 10 most wanted fugitives February 10. YAMAHA ADVENT BOSE BANG AND OLUFSEN SANSUI LUX VQD cdd'G IB ofl 0 In more ways than one You Can't Beat The System In Match the CR-420 with the Yamaha YP-211 turntable and Ortofon cartridge. Top it all off with a pair of the more ways than one The chal lenge has been made.

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Then he spotted an exposed bone sticking through a pullover jersey. "That's not ail I see." Fingerprints confirmed that the decomposing body was Kimberly Leach. On May 3, Bundy's request that he be allowed to talk to the press was denied. "Fact, speculation, characterization and impression have combined to give Theodore Bundy a mystique of sorts," Judge Charles Minor said. "He enjoys a name identification in this area of Florida at least equal to that of Florida's most important personages." Bundy's only contact with the outside world remained the postal service.

Each morning, the jail warden walked into Bundy's cell with a fistful of letters. As Bundy watched, the warden read through correspondence "to ensure there aren't any escape plans." The warden's favorites are the letters from a former Seattle girlfriend named Carole Anne Boone. "Oh dearest Theodore," Boone wrote Bundy in March "I hope you are feeling as well as you know how. Nice to know you love and need me." On July 20, Bundy was indicted by the Columbia County Grand Jury for the murder of Kimberly Leach. Trial was eventually set for March "12, 1979, before Judge Wallace Joplin.

Katsaris was getting nervous. His deputies had retraced the entire investigation of the sorority murders with no result. "We still don't have one bit of solid evidence," Katsaris told a friend. "I got nothing. It'll come down to that dentist.

The dentist. Dr. Richard Souviron of Coral Gables was at the NASA space laboratory in New Mexico. Using a computer designed to study satellite pictures, Souviron compared dental impressions taken of Bundy with photographs of the bite marks on Margaret Bowman Since Bundy's arrest, reporters had been forbidden to enter the Leon County Jail building. But on July 27, Katsaris invited a reporter, a photographer and a television crew into the first-floor booking room.

Souviron had reported a match, and the Leon County Grand Jury had indicted Ted Bundy for the first-degree murders of Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman. "Step out, Mr. Bundy," Katsaris said when the elevator door opened. Clad in gray prison coveralls and white slippers, Bundy strode into the room. The television lights fiicked on.

The 13 investigators who had worked on the case lined up behind Katsaris like a choir. The sheriff pulled a piece of paper from the inside pocket of his jacket. "What do we have here, Ken?" Bundy asked. "Let's see, it's an indictment. He told me he was going to get me," Bundy said, turning to the reporters.

"Okay, then, you got an indictment. That's all you're going to get." Turning to the television camera, Katsaris read the charges like a speech. Bundy read over his shoulder, smiling. "I'll plead not guilty right now," Bundy said, raising his right hand. "Can I talk to the reporters?" "No," Katsaris said, handing Bundy the indictment.

As he stepped back into the elevator, Bundy tore the paper in half and let it flutter to the floor. "You never know what you'll have in the way of a reaction when you charge Katsaris said to the reporters. The reaction of Tallahassee's policemen to "Ken's floor show" was clear. A deputy photocopied a series of photographs of Katsaris reading the charges and whipped off a three-panel cartoon. One sergeant now carries a copy of the cartoon in his wallet.

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