Florida had no Ted Bundy file. Florida had no idea he was coming.
He arrived in Tallahassee on January 8, 1978, under the name Chris Hagen, with stolen credit cards and a room at a boarding house six blocks from the Chi Omega sorority at Florida State University. He spent a week at the disco next door. Sorority sisters reportedly noticed a man staring at them from the bar. Nobody thought anything of it.
January 15, 3:00 AM. Nita Neary, returning from a date, sees a masked man on the stairs carrying an oak log. He runs. She runs upstairs. Margaret Bowman, twenty-one. Lisa Levy, twenty. Both killed. Kathy Kleiner and Karen Chandler, both severely injured. Then four blocks to Dunwoody Street — Cheryl Thomas, twenty-one, attacked in her apartment, deafened for life. A neighbor heard the noise and called police.
Tallahassee had a crime scene nobody had ever seen before. The investigators photographed the bite mark on Lisa Levy. They did not yet know whose teeth made it.
Three weeks later, he approached a fourteen-year-old girl in Jacksonville. Her brother wrote his plate on his palm and called it in. The next morning, twelve-year-old Kimberly Leach walked across a school yard to get her purse and was seen speaking to a man near a white van. She was not seen alive again.
February 15, 1:34 AM. Pensacola. Officer David Lee ran a stolen plate on an orange VW. The driver fought. Two warning shots. The most wanted man in America was in a Pensacola holding cell, and nobody knew it until he said his own name two days later.
This is the fourth of five conversations in Ted Bundy: History's Hidden Killers. The three weeks he was anonymous again — and what they cost.
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