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I hear Ted Bundy
in so many different contexts.

I stay me, okay?

I've matured in the past year.

Believe me, I've grown
in the past year.

My only misgivings is that
I might never be in a position

to apply it,

you know, on the streets
where I'd like to apply it.

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♪♪

Welcome to
"How it Really Happened."

I'm Hill Harper.

Across the states
from January 1974

through February 1978,

young women were disappearing
and turning up dead,

their bodies found badly beaten
and sexually assaulted.

For years detectives in several
states searched for clues,

and despite limited
physical evidence,

each clue led them
back to one man,

a law student named Ted Bundy.

By the time he was captured
in Florida,

Bundy had been suspected
in dozens of murders,

including a brutal attack
on a sorority house in Florida,

but could investigators
prove Bundy was,

in fact, a serial killer?

Here's how it really happened.

♪♪

Man: From Washington State to
Oregon to Utah to Colorado

and now most recently
to Florida,

police have discovered
a pattern of rape/murders

which coincide with
Ted Bundy's movements

over the past five years.

Lynda Ann Healy,

Denise Naslund, Janice Ann Ott,

Georgeann Hawkins, x

and 18-year-old
Susan Rancourt.

Woman: When somebody is missing,
you imagine the worst things,

and it turns out
what happened to her

might have been worse
than what we imagined.

Man:
Some of them were never found.

Others were found -- beaten,
raped, strangled, nude.

It seemed probable that all
the crimes

have been committed
by the same man.

Woman: He was kind of tall,
very tanned,

very good looking,

and he came up to me
and asked me to help him

put his sailboat onto his car.

This guy identified himself
as Ted,

and they knew this person
drove a Volkswagen.

Woman: We received literally
thousands of tips

and, interestingly,
Ted Bundy was among them.

Man: People teased him
at the office and said,

"Say, your name's Ted
and you've got a Volkswagen."

And, of course, they were
teasing and laughing about it

because he seemed
like the least likely --

He was the boy next door.

I am not guilty.

I am not guilty of the charges

which have been
filed against me.

Bundy was this crafty, cunning,
you know,

attractive looking guy.

Woman: I loved talking to Ted

because he's a great,
talks about politics,

very well read,
very analytical.

He had a lot of influential
people that liked him

and believed in him.

He was making a name
for himself.

He had said at one point
he would like

to have been governor
of Washington State.

He had a bachelor's degree
in psychology.

He was in law school
at the University of Utah.

He even joined
the Mormon church.

People were saying,
you know, it couldn't be him.

The Ted Bundy we knew
was not a violent person.

Man: That was part of the enigma
of Ted Bundy,

that he could fool people.

Man: All throughout this,
Ted was saying, "I'm innocent,"

but we do have some things
coming up that says,

"No, he's not."

Man: They had seized
the Volkswagen

and vacuumed
the inside for evidence.

Man: FBI tests show the hair
found in Bundy's car

matched those of the girl
abducted in Murray,

the nurse murdered in Colorado,

and a Midvale girl who
had been raped and strangled.

That was the first
smoking-gun link

to link him
to these other killings.

Man:
In a Salt Lake City trial,

Bundy was convicted of trying
to kidnap Carol DaRonch.

Bundy was later extradited
to Colorado

to stand trial
for murder there.

He was looking for avenues
of escape.

Man: The defendant was
in the courtroom,

and the guy was at the door,

and the last time he looked,
the defendant was there

and the next time he looked,
he was gone.

Where did he go?
Tallahassee.

Man:
He was really under the radar

and nobody
recognized him in Florida.

Man: During the predawn hours
of January 15th,

the killer walked through
an unlocked door

at the Chi Omega sorority house

and brutally beat
four FSU coeds as they slept.

Woman: When he came into
the sorority house,

he came up the stars.

He had picked up
a piece of firewood.

Man: The women who were murdered
were 21-year-old Margaret Bowman

and 20-year-old Lisa Levy.

One was one raped
and bitten by the killer.

The attack was to Margaret first
and then Lisa,

and then he came into our room.

Man: Two girls were murdered,

two others were beaten badly.

There was blood everywhere.

And another woman in another
location was also beaten.

Woman: Bundy had pushed a chair
under my front door

so they had to kick it in
to be able to go in

and then that's where
they found me in my bedroom.

Man: The chief suspect,
Ted Bundy.

Man: He says, "Al, do you think
I really killed those girls

that they claim I did?"

And what I said was,
"I don't know for sure,

but I think if you did,
you'll likely do it again."

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Woman:
Ted Bundy was under arrest,

suspected in both
the brutal killings

of the two sorority sisters,

as well as the middle school
student Kimberly Leach.

Man: 12-year-old
Kimberly Leach

vanished from school
in Lake City, Florida,

on February 9th.

I'd never heard the term
"serial killer" before.

She was a pretty little
12-year-old girl

who had just been elected to

the Valentine court
at her school.

Man: Once his picture appeared
in the paper,

some witnesses in Lake City
identified him

as being the man
who abducted Kimberly Leach.

I mean, two and two
added up to four,

and Ted looked like
he could be our guy.

But the challenge was that
they didn't have

all of the details of
Kimberly Leach's disappearance,

and didn't even know
where her body was.

Without those details
and without her remains,

it was going to be
very difficult to build a case.

Man: We had search parties all
out in the woods

in Columbia County
and Suwannee County

and going west, Madison County
towards Tallahassee.

We had to have the body.

Woman: Authorities caught
a break

when they discovered a van

near the Florida State
University campus.

We had a report from
two children in Jacksonville

that a man stopped
and asked a young girl,

"Could you help me?"

Her brother was not far behind.

He comes running up
and grabs his sister.

And little did Bundy know
but their father was

captain of the Duval County
homicide detectives.

Man: And they had been trained
well, so the young man

took down the tag number,
the make and the model.

When we got that information,
and we processed it we find out

that was a Florida State
University van,

and the van had been stolen.

It was found abandoned
in Tallahassee.

They treated it like a crime
scene from the very beginning.

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Man: When they vacuumed out
the van,

what they found was
pig droppings,

vegetation and dirt.

Forensic botanists analyzed
the debris found in the van.

Man: They had been searching
for her body with no success,

and so they came to me
and said,

"Here's some plant material
we found

on the undercarriage
of the vehicle.

Can you tell us anything
about that

to help us narrow
the search area?"

Man: The forensic botanists
told them

that the soil samples
and the leaves

and so forth come from along
the banks of the Suwannee River.

The pig droppings indicated

there was probably
some pig pens.

And that narrowed their search
area by over half,

and then the body was found
fairly soon after that.

Woman:
After a widespread search,

Kim's body was found
under a hog shed.

She was beaten
and sexually molested.

In order to prove Ted Bundy
guilty of killing Kim Leach,

we had to put
the two of 'em together.

We had to put Bundy
in that white van.

We had to put Kim Leach
in that white van.

Florida Department of Criminal
Law Enforcement

crime lab experts
are still busy sifting through

and analyzing evidence.

Man: When the FSU media center
van was recovered,

in the ashtray
there were cigarettes

that seemed to be crushed out
in, kind of, a unique twist,

and in the field
where Kim was ultimately found,

somebody had dumped
a vehicle ashtray.

Man: The theory was, well,
maybe after the body was dumped

that he cleaned out the car
and emptied the ashtray,

and the way the cigarette butts
were bent in the particular way

that they had been brushed out,

the same person smoked both of
those piles of cigarette butts.

Man: The crime lab made
the case for us.

There was no doubt about it.

The van had an unusual
shag carpet

in the back
on the floorboard of the van.

There were these unbelievable
cross-transfers from the carpet

to her clothing recovered
at the crime scene.

Man: And there was fiber from
Bundy's clothing

that was found at the dump site

and found on the carpet
in the van.

Man: What are the odds that
could happen

just as a matter of coincidence

if he were not,
in fact, the perpetrator?

Woman: Kimberly Leach vanished
February 9th.

Her body was found on April 7th.

Man: There seemed to be a pretty
massive trauma

to her throat area,
and bleeding.

Woman: Eyewitness news has
learned the prosecution

has evidence linking Bundy with
the knife

that could
have killed Kimberly Leach.

Two price stickers,
one on top of the other,

were found inside the white van.

They were traced to this hunting
supply store

on Jacksonville's west side.

Man: The proprietor picked Bundy
out as having purchased

that knife the day
before that he kidnapped Kim.

There was just one,
inescapable conclusion,

and that was that Bundy
was responsible for Kim's death

and abduction.

Step out, Mr. Bundy.

Ken read the indictment.

You told them that you were
gonna get me --

he said he was gonna get me.
Okay, you got the indictment.

It's all you're gonna get.

We are not going to lose

Theodore Robert Bundy,

I can assure you.

Your standard
medium-security life in a prison

is a fairly decent existence,
relatively speaking.

It's just creating your own
environment in here,

and not looking at the ceiling,
not looking at the wall,

and not thinking
about the outside

and not anguishing over the fact
that you've lost your freedom.

Man: We didn't get
the murder indictment

until we knew
we had good evidence.

The local newspaper sent
their attorney to my office

and said they wanted
to be present

when he was informed of
the charges.

They wanted to see
the expression on his face.

Step out, Mr. Bundy.

When he was taken out
of his cell, he had no idea why.

He came down,
the elevator door opened,

and he saw a camera there,
but he had no idea.

Step out, Mr. Bundy.

What do we have here, Ken?
Let's see.

Oh, it's an indictment.
All right.

Why don't you read it to me.

"Oh, what have you
got here, Ken?

Oh, what have you got?"

Let's read it.
Let's go.

I wish this arrogant loudmouth
would have kept his mouth shut

so Ken could have done his job.

Theodore Robert Bundy
you are charged indictment,

two counts burglary, two counts
murder in the first degree --

He walked in like
a banty rooster

in his blue jail suit

and he strutted around the room

while the sheriff was
reading this,

and he's kind of walking
a semicircle around the sheriff.

I'll plead not guilty
right now.

You're about up for election,
aren't you?

Mr. Bundy --
Just about got it, didn't you?

Mr. Bundy --
You told me that --

You told them
that you were going to get me.

He said he was going to get me.

Okay, you got
the indictment.

That's all you're going to get.

The jaw would set,

the, you know, the vein in
the neck would throb,

and you could see the --
the kind of steeliness

underneath him.

I've been kept in isolation
for six months,

I've been kept
away from the press,

I've been buried by you,

you've been talking
for six months,

I think it's my turn now.

I'll be heard.

That's one of the first times
I saw

Ted Bundy really mad.

Man: Police charged Bundy

not only with the murder
of the two coeds,

but with the killing
of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach.

Both cases were capital cases,

and a conviction could mean
the death penalty.

So, before the trials began,

the prosecutors came to
Ted Bundy and made him an offer:

if you plead guilty
to all the charges,

we will take the death penalty
off the table.

Man: Well, the plea bargain
came about from a feeling that,

you know, you're probably
not going to win both trials.

They understood that their cases
were not all that strong.

This is probably a better
decision than risking a trial.

He would be sentenced to
life in prison

with a minimum-mandatory service
of 75 years without parole.

Realize that this was
a circumstantial evidence case.

We could lose this case.

What I was mainly concerned
about here

was getting Mr. Bundy off
the streets forever.

Larry called me
and he asked me what I thought.

At that point, I think more than
anything you just want them

never to be able to hurt
anyone ever again.

A long plea form was developed

with eight or ten signature
lines on it,

including Mr. Bundy's,

and after it was signed

it was left
with him at the jail.

Prosecution had said,
"Now, listen, we want Mr. Bundy

to simply confess
to the murders.

If he does anything other
than that, the deal is off."

Man: When he came to court
the next morning,

he had torn the section
of the plea form

with his name on it off.

Man: Mr. Bundy stood up

and started criticizing
everybody he could think of.

Man: He attacked his lawyers
and said,

"Well, your honor,
before I enter this plea,

I want to dismiss my lawyers

because they don't believe
in my innocence."

Man: I looked at the prosecutor
from Lake City,

and he looked at me,
and we stood up and said,

"That's it, it's over."

We're wasting our time
to go through the charade

of a plea now.

Woman:
With the plea bargain now dead,

both cases would go to trial.

Man: You going to
represent yourself,

or you going to get
another attorney?

I'm staying with the man I know
best right now, and that's me.

I just remember fixating
on Bundy

and looking him in the eyes.

I felt, like,
sick to my stomach.

I know that there's a lot
of police ego on the line.

I think it's a terribly
dangerous mentality

to try to pin something
on somebody who they might --

They believe
there's a possibility

that they couldn't have done it.

And as long as they
believe that,

they're not going to find
the right man.

Man: Ted, he sent a couple
letters to me from prison.

"Why aren't the police looking
in this direction for that crime

because anybody can see
that that's how it happened."

I think there was still
this apprehension of

is he the right person,
or could there be more people?

I still wasn't sure it was him.

Let's get all the facts,

because I don't want
to go through this again

if it's the wrong person.

Man: Police charged Bundy

not only with the murder of
the two coeds,

but with the killing
of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach,

who vanished from school
in Lake City, Florida,

on February 9th.

Man: The Tallahassee case was
deemed to be weaker

from a prosecution standpoint
than the Lake City case.

Well, there's always
a measure of doubt,

because the evidence
was questionable.

Man: Not only did we not have
Mr. Bundy's fingerprints

in the crime scenes,

but we had unidentified
fingerprints,

even to this day,
in those crime scenes.

Man: There were two bite marks
which, of course,

was the principal
evidence in this case.

But there really wasn't,
except for the bite marks,

the kind of definitive
physical evidence

that we hoped we had had.

I always felt confident that we
had the right person charged.

What I wasn't confident of
is what the jury's reaction

to a circumstantial-evidence
case like this would be.

Police in both jurisdictions
were very busy

gathering the evidence that they
needed to build these cases

and also making sure
that Ted Bundy,

a two-time prison escapee,
remained behind bars.

Man: Once he jumped out
of a courthouse window,

the other time
he crawled through

a foot-wide light fixture.

The real measure of a man
in prison,

as far as escape goes,

is the difference
between hitting that fence

and not hitting that fence,

between getting shot at
and not getting shot at,

and having the guts to do it

and not having the guts
to do it.

Man: Bundy told prison officials
here, "Don't take it personally,

but if I can escape
from this prison, I will."

Man: The story was, was that he
would run in place,

preparing for that moment when
somebody slipped

and he could get away.

He takes opportunities
wherever they exist to escape,

so you have to eliminate
the opportunities.

Man: Will he be in a cell
with anyone else here?

No. He'll be by himself
in a self-contained cell,

completely surrounded
with armored plate.

Man: He wanted me to take him

to the Florida State University
law library

so that he could work
in the law library.

My answer to that was,
"Yeah, right."

Woman: But Bundy was not
going down without a fight.

He took the sheriff to court,

claiming that his civil rights
were being violated.

Katsaris: He sued me.

There's a lawsuit, Ted Bundy
versus sheriff Ken Katsaris.

I had to offer better lighting.

Interestingly enough,
I gave him better lighting

and he took me back to court

and said the light
was too bright.

He wanted access
to outdoor activity.

I was ordered to give him

one hour, three times a week,
outside.

I had my tactical unit officer

stationed at the corners
of the building.

They had a scoped high-powered
rifle and a canine.

We were not going to lose
Theodore Robert Bundy,

I can assure you.

Man: It has been nearly a year
since law student

and former
political campaign worker

Ted Bundy was accused
of the brutal slayings

of two Florida State coeds.

Ted Bundy, once again, decided
to act in his own defense.

Man:
You going to represent yourself,

or you going to get
another attorney?

I'm staying with the man I know
best right now, and that's me.

Florida is one of seven states
in the United States

that allows
pretrial depositions,

sworn testimony
before the trial starts.

Man: While Mr. Bundy was
representing himself,

he wanted to take depositions
from the witnesses,

and I had the witnesses
come to the jail

and let Mr. Bundy take
their depositions.

Woman: It was bizarre.

We went into this classroom,

and I had lawyers
on both sides of me

and there's guards,
and he comes in and sits down,

and he starts
asking me questions.

Woman: Bundy sat on one end
and I sat at the other end.

I just remember fixating
on Bundy

and looking him in the eyes.

I felt, like,
sick to my stomach.

Woman: I'm sure if he had moved
a muscle,

they would have been on him
like syrup on French toast.

Woman: Some of the questions
that he was asking --

he did have a familiarity
with the house

that someone else
would not have had.

There were no maps of the house,

there were no diagrams
that existed anywhere,

and men were not allowed on
the second floor,

so, his familiarity, and the way
he asked questions,

I was convinced he had been
in the house.

I was totally convinced.

I know what's there and I
know what isn't there.

I've seen the files,
and I've heard the reports,

and, Lord knows, I'm the first
and foremost person

that has the personal
intimate knowledge

that it couldn't be me,
that it's not me,

that I'm innocent.

Let's just wait, and let's just
let it come out in court,

and I'll lay my money on me.

Good afternoon, Miss Gibson,
my name's Ted Bundy,

and I'm the defendant in
the case, and I'm just here

to introduce myself.

Woman: I can remember feeling
very angry, sad.

He is the absolute opposite

of what you would picture
to be a monster.

In this case,
everything is unbelievable.

Welcome back to
"How it Really Happened."

I'm Hill Harper.

In the summer of 1979,
after being suspected

in multiple murders
across the United States,

Ted Bundy stands trial
for the brutal attacks

at Florida State University.

The trial was televised
and the country was riveted.

Ted Bundy acted
as his own attorney,

and no one was prepared
for the circus that followed.

Man: Security guards checking
for concealed weapons

outside the courtroom
tell the story that this is

no ordinary murder trial;
the case of Ted Bundy,

a man suspected of murdering
two Florida State coeds

and beating three others.

Woman:
Complete and utter shock,

we still don't believe it.

It just can't be.

Our son is the best son
in the world.

Man: The women who were murdered

were 21-year-old
Margaret Bowman

and 20-year-old Lisa Levy.

My family has lived
with horror, sorrow and pain.

It's an emotional pain
so deep it becomes physical.

Woman: That's Margaret.

That's a beautiful
picture.

Yeah, she was a pretty girl.

I think of Lisa and Margaret
a lot.

Margaret was, I believe,
an art history major,

and she wanted to be
a curator at a museum.

Lisa was that
girl next door, fun,

always had a smile
on her face.

It upset me that
he took that away.

♪♪

Hello, and welcome
to the State of Florida

versus Theodore Robert Bundy.

Please be seated.
Court will come to order.

The 500-mile change of venue
from Tallahassee to Miami

did nothing to lesson
all of the hoopla

surrounding the trial.

It was going to be
televised live,

gavel to gavel,
one of the first of its kind.

Man: It was crazy.
The TV trucks were all over.

I'd never been in a circus
like that in my life.

The Bundy trial has drawn
a lot of attention

partly because
of who he is,

a mysterious, former law student
with a charming air in court --

It was the weird celebrity
that he fostered in a way.

He loved it.
He was basking in the attention.

I screened the mail at the jail.

There were a lot of love letters
and proposals of marriages

to Ted Bundy,
which was bizarre.

As strange as it may sound,

there were groupies
that followed him

from courthouse to courthouse.

His adoring fans.

He just doesn't look like
the type to kill somebody.

I noticed that most
of the people

that were in there were women.

Man: What is unusual to see is
that many of the onlookers

are women, young women,
contemporaries

of the Florida State
sorority sisters

who were assaulted in their beds
a year and a half ago.

So we started interviewing
these young women,

and, you know, you could see
by their eyes

they were just fascinated
by the lurid details,

the savagery of the crimes.

Woman:
Every time he turns around,

I kind of get that feeling,

oh, no, you know,
he's going to get me next.

But yet you're fascinated
by him?

Very, very.

[ Bundy chuckling ]

Man: There was one woman, and I
don't think she missed a day.

She sat right there
on the front row,

and she would alternately
make moon eyes at Bundy

and stare daggers
at Carole Boone.

Carole Boone believes Bundy
is completely innocent.

Some have called
her his girlfriend.

She prefers to be known as
just a close, personal friend.

Let me put it this way, I don't
think that Ted belongs in jail.

Man: Carole Boone says she first
met Ted Bundy five years ago

when they worked
in the same office

in Seattle, Washington.

Since that time
she has followed him,

helping him prepare
his legal cases from Utah

where he was convicted
of kidnapping

a young woman, to Colorado,

where he's suspected
of murdering another,

and, finally, now to Florida.

Man: She had an explanation,
or an answer,

for every circumstance
in every case;

what was wrong about it,

identifications had been coerced
or were inaccurate,

the physical evidence
didn't hold up.

I don't think they had reason
to charge Ted Bundy with murder.

Man: For the first time,
jurors in

the Theodore Bundy murder trial

were brought in to hear --

From the two crime scenes

where two Florida State
sorority sisters

were strangled to death
and three others brutally beaten

with a club the morning
of January 15th, 1978.

He had picked up
a piece of firewood,

and he attacked Margaret.

He attacked Lisa Levy.

He used pantyhose,
strangled her,

bit her, did other things,

and then came into our room.

Man: When police officer
Oscar Brannon took the stand,

he described the first victim
who was discovered,

Karen Chandler.

Officer Brannon said
it was shortly afterwards

that the bodies of the two
murdered coeds were found.

One of the young women
had a stocking

wrapped tightly
around her throat.

Man: He strangled her with
a pair of pantyhose

that he had brought with him.

Now, we know that because
the brand of pantyhose

was not one either
used by Margaret

or any of the young women
in the Chi Omega sorority house.

Man: Some of the first witnesses
who are expected

to testify this week
are Chi Omega coeds

who were there
when the killings occurred.

You know, I just prayed
mightily ahead of time

that I would be calm
and that I'd be -- not react.

Knowing, of course,
that he would probably

take some kind of pleasure
in scaring people or scaring us.

The only time I was
really nervous was walking in.

Man: When the two who survived
were brought in to testify,

first Karen Chandler
and then Kathy Kleiner,

both said they had
no recollection

of what had happened to them.

Woman: At that point,
Bundy was his --

serving as his own lawyer,

and then he got up
and asked me questions.

"Did you see my face?"

You know, "How did you know
it was me?"

Man: Cheryl Ann Thomas
told the court,

she only remembers coming home
after a night of disco dancing,

going to bed, and then
waking up in the hospital.

I had five skull fractures

and multiple contusions
in my head,

and I had a broken jaw
and my left shoulder

was pulled out of joint.

It was odd because he was
right across from me,

and he looked at me
as if he didn't know me at all.

It's unbelievable.

Man: Judge Cowart has said he
expects the trial

to last from 30 to 45 days.

Man: I don't think I really
had made up my mind

until about halfway
through the trial

when, during
the courtroom recess,

I came face-to-face
with Bundy himself,

and that encounter
was unbelievable.

His eyes turned like
laser beams.

It was sheer hostility --

anger, hostility,

viciousness
that I saw in that face.

He took his mask off
at that moment,

and I saw something that
you never saw in the courtroom.

That told me he was a killer.

Since he was co-counsel,

he could decide what direction
the defense would go.

I mean, I could get up here

and examine every single witness
for the defense.

No question in my mind
that I can do it.

I felt like that was just about
the worst thing

that anybody
could have ever done.

You can't help
but become an advocate

for yourself when you're
so involved in the case.

I'm being a good defense
attorney,

and I'm not, you know, I'm not
pretending I'm an attorney,

but I felt it was right.

I wanted to get involved.

Man: The prosecuting attorneys
have told the jurors

that they believe one man,

on the morning
of January 15th, 1978,

walked into the Florida State
Chi Omega house,

strangled two young coeds,
brutally beat two others

and then struck again
four blocks away,

nearly killing
a fifth young woman.

That man, the prosecutors say,
is the defendant,

Theodore Bundy.

Due to the television coverage,

key players in this case
were becoming household names.

One of them was Nita Neary,
a prosecution witness,

who said that she saw
Ted Bundy

leaving that sorority house
just minutes after the attacks.

Man: Could you describe the man
that you saw at the door?

Had a very prominent nose,
a straight bridge.

It almost came to a point.

It was slightly dark complected.

And is that man
in the courtroom today?

Yes, he is.

Would you point him out for us,
please?

Man: That morning that
the murders occurred,

she sat down with an artist

and described the person
that she saw,

and this was at a time
before anybody in Tallahassee

had ever heard of Mr. Bundy,

so it was not a sketch
that had been influenced

in any way
by pretrial publicity

or media coverage
or anything else like that.

Man: The defense, however,
says the eyewitness,

Nita Neary, caught only
a fleeting glimpse of the man,

and they argue
that her story is unreliable.

She had very little time
to see the person,

different than what
she described,

because after his arrest,
he was on video.

He was on TV.

He was in the newspapers
all the time.

He became a very
well-known face,

so for her to sit in a trial
and say,

"Yeah, that's the guy,"
not surprising.

Step up in the witness box
and raise your right hand.

Woman: The defense would also
attack the testimony of

Dr. Richard Souviron,
the forensic dentist

who says that the bite marks
left on victim Lisa Levy

were definitely
matched by Ted Bundy.

Man: I had a board
and I pointed out

all the areas of comparison.

His teeth and this and this
and this,

and then the jury took
the one-to-one photographs

and the models.

Man: We as reporters, you know,
were spellbound just sitting

there watching
these graphics of flesh

that had been macerated,
and Bundy's teeth.

Man: The prosecution
asked Souviron

if he could scientifically
match up

the teeth marks
with Bundy's teeth.

Souviron: There's no question

that the teeth fit
the bite mark.

They made the mark.

Man: Prosecuting attorneys claim
that Bundy's teeth

perfectly match
those bite marks;

the defense told
the jurors otherwise.

There's a lot of mouths
in the world.

A lot of people have similar
type bites.

And there's obviously something
wrong with the observations

made by the state's
odontologist.

Our contention all along,
your honor,

has been that they have taken
my teeth

and twisted them every
which way but loose to fit.

Woman: Ted Bundy was not shy

about sharing his opinions
in court,

especially when he got
to play the role

of his own defense attorney.

Man:
The defendant Theodore Bundy,

dressed in a tweed coat
and a Seattle Mariners t-shirt,

became the attorney today acting
directly in his own defense.

Man: Bundy's team probably would
have preferred to have him

tried in absentia,

with Bundy not even there,

because Bundy was a headache
to them.

Certainly, I could -- I mean,
I could get up here

and -- and examine every single
witness for the defense.

There's no question in my mind
that I can do it.

Since he was co-counsel,
he could decide

what direction
the defense would go.

We were unable to make
decisions independent of him.

He, through the force
of his personality,

kind of controlled
how things went.

Man: Bundy has said
he feels impelled

to take a leading role
in his own defense.

It is not known what his own
attorneys think of this,

but there is no evidence
as yet

they are trying to dissuade him
from taking the floor.

Woman: Most of Ted Bundy's time
in the courtroom

was spent conferring
with his co-counsel,

but he decided to take the lead

when the time came to
cross-examine the police officer

about what exactly he saw

when he responded to
the Chi Omega murder scene,

and that move may have cost
the defense this case.

Man: I called, to the stand,
one of the first officers

on the scene of the Chi Omega
house that morning.

You know, just kind of a basic
overview of what he found

whenever he first got there.

Man: And I was to question
that officer.

As I stand up,
Ted stands up beside me

and reaches for the file,

but now I'm acting like
this is what was planned.

Man: At one point when
a university police officer

was on the stand, Bundy himself,
not his attorneys,

did the cross-examining.

The first victim you saw --

And he asked a few
peremptory questions,

and then he says, "describe in
great detail what you saw

when you pulled
back the covers."

And I felt like that was just
about the worst thing

that anybody could have
ever done.

Man: I remember that
cross-examination,

and it seemed, sort of, weirdly
like time almost stopped

and he was --

It was a way for him
to get to relive those crimes.

It was offensive.

Man: You have to understand,
at that point,

Mr. Bundy
had vehemently denied

any involvement
in any of this stuff.

It was
very disheartening.

Incredibly disheartening.

Man: It was exactly
three hours ago

that Judge Edward Cowart
gave the case to the jury.

They are now deliberating
behind closed doors.

Bundy has said in court that
he expects to win this case.

Last night he told
two reporters --

What we see going on here today,

is something that I have
no responsibility for.

♪♪

Man: Just 6 1/2 hours
after Judge Edward Cowart

handed the case to the jury,

the 12-member panel
returned with a verdict.

Man: Are you confident that
he will be acquitted here?

I hope he will be acquitted.

I can't say I'm confident,

but I believe he should be
on the basis of the nonevidence.

Man: Ladies and gentlemen
of the jury,

have you reached a verdict?

Yes, we have.

The jury was out, I want to say,
a little over six hours

before they returned
the verdict,

and nobody knew what
the answer was going to be.

Either you get a not guilty,
or you get a guilty.

There's really nothing
in between.

Feel you're going to
win this case?

I believe we will, yes.

We were thinking that
the appropriate

verdict was not guilty.

Woman: We, the jury,
find the defendant,

Theodore Robert Bundy,

guilty as charged,

so say we all.

Woman: Bundy said he was hopeful
and optimistic

jurors would see things his way.

They did not.

After years of being suspected
in more than a dozen deaths,

Ted Bundy was now
a convicted murderer.

Man: And there was a kind
of a collective

gasp in the courtroom,

but I think it was one
of largely of resolution.

Man: All guilty verdicts
on all of the counts,

it was just
a huge sigh of relief.

We're very satisfied with what
verdict we did get in this case.

We couldn't have expected it
to be any better than it was.

The verdict came through
and it was like a relief.

Man:
What was your first reaction

when you heard that verdict?

Thank God, it's over.

It was kind of a deep sigh

and a terrible feeling
for Margaret and Lisa.

It was like,
they can't see this,

and they can't go on.

I never had any doubt,
almost from the beginning,

that was gut, and, of course,
you don't go to court with gut.

That's why we worked so hard
on the case.

He was so arrogant.

He thought he was smarter than
everybody else

and probably figured that,
you know,

we would never be able
to convict him.

Woman:
It just was a relief to me.

He was off the streets.

He would still
be killing people.

Man: Throughout the clerk's
reading of the verdict,

Bundy showed little reaction.

Bundy: I didn't show any emotion
because, you know,

what am I supposed to do?

Am I going to jump up
on the table?

Am I going to scream?
That's what I felt like doing.

I heard my mother crying.

Louise: Needless to say, I think
the jury is totally wrong.

It's just impossible.

It's wrong.
We'll appeal it.

It's just --
what else can I say?

She was so sincere and so strong
in her defense of her son.

You know, she said he couldn't
have done it,

couldn't have done it.

Bundy: I'm innocent of
the charges

of which I've been convicted.

Man: The defendant's mother
sat quietly later remarking that

she would have liked to have,
"wringed the prosecutor's neck."

One week later, court
reconvened for sentencing.

The overwhelming public
sentiment is that

everyone wanted
Ted Bundy to die.

Man: Give him
the same amount of mercy

that he gave Lisa Levy
and Margaret Bowman --

which was absolutely none.

Man: It required a majority
of the jurors

to recommend the death penalty

in order for it
to be a death penalty verdict.

This court has hereby imposed
the death penalty

upon the defendant,
Theodore Robert Bundy.

Man: Today, at age 32,
Theodore Robert Bundy

stood in a Florida courtroom
and listened to a judge describe

his pending death
in the Florida electric chair.

Justice is a funny thing.

What kind of justice do you pay
for killing all those women?

I don't think that there's
any such thing as justice.

I would say that when he was
sentenced to death,

my gut feeling was, he'll never
hurt anyone ever again.

♪♪

Woman: Ted Bundy was already
looking at the death penalty

when he faced another
possible death penalty

for the murder
of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach.

She was the middle school
student who was abducted

right outside of her school

just three weeks after
the Chi Omega murders.

Man: Ted was completely
disinterested

in the Lake City case.

The pressure that he put on us

and the defense in
the Tallahassee case was gone.

He was there.
He didn't want to do anything.

He just, whatever happens,
happens.

From a trial standpoint,
that case was much stronger.

Man:
When he kidnapped Kim Leach,

there was these unbelievable
cross-transfers from the carpet

from the FSU media center van
to her clothing

recovered
at the crime scene.

We had fibers from
the blue blazer that he wore

on Kim's clothing;

fibers from Kim's clothing
on the blue blazer.

It was just such a strong,
conclusive chain

of circumstances.

Woman: After three weeks of
testimony from both eyewitnesses

and experts, the jury
came back with a verdict.

Woman: We, the jury,
find the defendant,

Theodore Robert Bundy, guilty
of murder in the first degree.

Man: He was guilty on all counts
and the sentence was death.

It is the sentence
of this court that you,

Theodore Robert Bundy,
be sentenced to death

for the murder of
Kimberly Diane Leach.

When they recommended death
and that decision was announced,

Bundy screamed at them
in the courtroom.

Man: Ted Bundy sits
on Florida's death row.

I think I stand about as much
chance of dying

in front of a firing squad
or in a gas chamber

as you do being killed
in a plane flight home,

because it's not
going to happen.

Man: His lawyers claim Bundy
is mentally incompetent

and therefore cannot be
executed under Florida law.

It's time to end it now.
He took their life.

Shouldn't he give his?

I kept thinking of
Margaret and Lisa,

how their lives would have been,
could have been wonderful,

and it upset me
that he took that away.

And he kept getting stays.

Different judges gave him
stays for a number of years.

The U.S. appellate court ruling
marks the second time

Florida has tried to execute
Ted Bundy,

and the second time
it's been blocked.

Woman: I was just feeling,

"Well, the judges
that give him stays

should have their daughter
date him."

Woman: Ted realized that
he had information

that law enforcement wanted.

Man: That's when
we received the call

that he wanted to talk to us.

Man: Bundy has spent
the past few days

confessing to up to 20 murders
in several states.

We have enough information to
know that it was pure evil.

Man: Now he was bargaining
for his life.

But he also threatened to
withhold information.

Ted Bundy was now a resident of
Florida's death row.

Despite being convicted of
three murders

and suspected in dozens more,

he continued to proclaim
his innocence.

Then, after nearly ten years
of appeals,

Ted Bundy began to talk.

His death row confessions,
next time,

oh "How it Really Happened."

I'm Hill Harper.
Thanks for watching.