Ted Bundy smirks for the cameras after being informed of his indictment by a grand jury in Florida in 1978. Bundy confessed to 30 homicides, but the true total remains unknown.
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Kimberly Leach, 12, a victim of serial killer Ted Bundy, was abducted from her junior high school in Lake City, Florida.
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A classmate says goodbye to Kimberly Leach on April 13, 1978.
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Carol DaRonch testifies at a pre-sentencing
hearing for convicted murderer Ted Bundy on July 28, 1979. Bundy was convicted of kidnapping DaRonch from a Salt Lake City suburb in 1974.
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Florida State University student Margaret Bowman, 21, was a murder victim of Ted Bundy in 1978.
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Two young women break down in tears outside a memorial service for their slain sorority sisters, Jan. 16, 1978, in Tallahassee, Florida. The service came just one day after Margaret Bowman and Lisa Levy were beaten to death in their Chi Omega house.
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Florida Highway Patrolmen and patrol recruits comb the area behind the Florida State University Chi Omega sorority house on Jan. 18, 1978, in Tallahassee.
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Ted Bundy gestures as he presents a motion before Circuit Judge Edward Cowart, as Bundy’s murder trial got underway in Miami on Monday, June 25, 1979. Bundy was charged with clubbing two young women to death in a sorority house in Tallahassee.
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Ted Bundy smiles as he huddles with Margaret Good, a member of his defense team, during the jury selection portion of Bundy’s murder trial, July 6, 1979, in Miami.
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Tallahassee police Sgt. Howard Winkler shows a photograph of murder victim Lisa Levy, who was murdered Jan. 15, 1978, in Tallahassee, to the jury during the Ted Bundy murder trial.
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Richard Stephens, a technician for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, shows the jury a pair of pantyhose made into a mask and found at the house of Tallahassee ballet dancer Cheryl Thomas in Miami. Thomas was beaten the same night of the Chi Omega murders.
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Serial killer Ted Bundy stares at photographers during the second day of jury selection in his murder trial in Miami, Fla., on June 27, 1979. Bundy was accused in the bludgeoning deaths of two Chi Omega sorority sisters in Tallahassee.
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Carole Bundy, wife of serial killer Ted Bundy, in 1979.
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Ted Bundy leans on the Leon County jail wall as an indictment charging him with the murders of two Florida State University students at the Chi Omega house is read on July 27, 1978.
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Louise Bundy, mother of Ted Bundy, winces with a pained expression outside the Miami courtroom where her son was found guilty on all counts in the murders of two Chi Omega sorority sisters, July 24, 1979.
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George Johnson hawks tee shirts outside the gate of Florida State Prison, Jan. 23, 1989 in anticipation of the execution of Ted Bundy.
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Florida State University’s Chi Phi fraternity celebrates the execution of Ted Bundy with a large banner that says, “Watch Ted Fry, See Ted Die!” Bundy attacked five women and killed two Chi Omega students on the campus in 1978.
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Television crews gather in anticipation of Ted Bundy’s execution, Jan. 23, 1989, in Starke, Florida.
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A tearful Ted Bundy discusses his views of violence and sex during a taped interview with Dr. James Dobson in Florida, Jan. 23, 1989.
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A white hearse leaves Florida State Prison containing the body of Ted Bundy, who was electrocuted in Florida’s electric chair, on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 1989, in Starke, Florida.
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The body of Ted Bundy after his execution at 7:16 a.m. on Jan. 24, 1989. Bundy was executed for the murder of Kimberly Leach of Lake City, Florida.
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