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Fruitless search ends for prison escapeeEscapee convicted of Michigan kidnappingGLKNWOOD SPRINGS. Colo. iUPU A manhunt for escaped murder suspect Ted Bundy has ended, and authorities are depending on the public to notify them if Bundy is sightedthe pole, onsumers22.17.0.ed treat-juries suf r slid into n Marshall ed on its iondaverschner.guilty in Tict Court of driving of liquor pay $155 ed Dec. 30Dvke. 7, in a car Loveless, to Albion tal for after the ?d on a d and hit ClarenceBundy, 31, has been free atleast four davs, since he*escaped from his cell in theGarfield Countv Jail in►Glenwood Springs by losing 30 pounds so he could slip through a hole in the ceilingOfficials said he escaped by pulling himself through a foot square hole that had been cut to accomodate a light fixture He inched 30 feet through an 18 i n c h high c r a w 1 s p a c e, dropped down into an unoccupied jailer’s apartment and walked out the front doorIndian navy begins searchThe convicted kidnapper is considered dangerous. He is accused in the 1975 slaying of Caryn Campbell, a Dearborn, Mich., who was vacationing in Coloardo. and has been a suspect in the murders of several other women in Colorado, Utah and Califor niaAt least 50 volunteers and officers searched the Glenwood Springs area afterBundy was discovered•missing about noon Saturday. Undersheriff Robert Hart said Bundy had escaped* vridav night or Saturday morningThe search was called offMondav. said Hart.%“Members of the sheriff’s posse had to get back to work, so we decided to call it off and not call out the off dtltv men,” said Hart. “I’ll tell the men on duty to keep an extra watch, and well just have to depend on the public to notify the authorities if thev see someone matching Bundy’s description.”No trace of Rundv was%found, although two doctors said Monday a hitchhiker they helped near Thompson, Utah, fit the description of BundyDr. Dorr Burns of Grand Junction. Colo . said he and his doctor companion picked up a young man on U.S. 50 Saturday who said he ran out of gas The doctor said they drove the man to Thompson, Utah, for gas. then returned the man to his carAn all-points bulletin remained in effect in Utah.and the FBI in Denver said it was checking a report by a woman in Tacoma, Wash., who said she was chased by a man fitting Bundy’s description Bundy's mother lives in TacomaFBI agents said a federal warrant charging Bundy with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution for murder was being prepared. Bundy was to go to trial on first-degree murder charges in Colorado Springs, beginning next Monday in Campbell’s death.The only other lead investigators had in the search for the former Utah law student was a scent dogs trailed to the hot springs pool in Glenwood Springs, Colo., but the scent vanished at thesiteHart said Bundy apparently planned the escape shortly after arriving at the jail in from the Aspen jail because of an escape last summer. He leaped from a second story courtroom window during a hearing recess, but was recaptured in six days Bundy was granted a change of venue in his murder trial because of pre-trialpublicity.The former Washingtonstate resident has been transferred to Colorado fromthe Utah State Prison, wherehe was serving a 1-15 year sentence for kidnapping a young woman from a Salt Lake City shopping center in1974.HMMii A MTIIEATRlWALT DISNEY’SA
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Marshall Evening Chronicle
Marshall, Michigan, US
Tue, Jan 03, 1978
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