That victim survived. A month later, Bundy broke into Lynda Ann Healy's room, beat her unconscious, dressed her, kidnapped her, and then took her to a location where he killed her and sexually assaulted her. Several other young women fell victim to Bundy while he was in Washington. Sometimes he faked an injury, specifically a broken arm or a broken leg, to get the women close enough to him to kidnap. When Bundy moved to Utah for law school in 1974, the disappearances in Washington stopped and a string of kidnappings, rapes and murders began in Idaho, Utah, and Colorado. While he used a variety of means to kill the women, most of them were bludgeoned to death.
In August 1975, Bundy was arrested when a police officer noticed several disturbing items during a routine traffic stop. They could not get sufficient evidence to charge him, but began building a case against him. After Bundy sold his car, the police impounded it and found physical evidence tying Bundy to some of his victims. In 1976, Bundy was found guilty of kidnapping Carol DaRonch, and then charged with the
He escaped from his murder trial during the preliminary hearing, jumping out of a window of the courthouse. He was caught after his escape, but escaped again, stole a car, and fled to
Florida. After one week in Florida, Bundy went on a crime spree, assaulting 4 girls within 15 minutes at a sorority house, killing two and injuring the other two, then leaving the sorority house and breaking into an apartment to assault a fifth woman. Less than a month later, Bundy kidnapped a 12-year-old victim. Bundy faced trial for the sorority house murders in June 1979. Forensic bite mark evidence linked him to the crimes. He was found guilty of both
crimes and sentenced to the
death penalty for both crimes. Six months later, Bundy was tried for another murder and again sentenced to death, and it was this death penalty, for the murder of Kimberly Leach, that…
