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MIAMI (AP) — Theodore Bundy, the polite Republican party activist and law student, smiled at the crowd, winked at his mother, and waved goodby as he walked confidently out of the courtroom.It would have been difficult to guess he had just been convicted of savagely beating to death two Florida State University coeds and clubbing three others on Jan. 15, 1978.But the breezy manner was in character with the man whose good looks have drawn a following of fascinated women who willingly admit they like his “expressive, sensitive eyes.”Bundy, bom in a home for unwed mothers in Burlington, Vt., has become a well-known criminal in one of the most publicized trials in recent American history.Before his arrest in Pensacola, Fla. in July 27,1978, he had escaped from the Pitkin County Jail in Glen wood Springs, Colo., where he was charged with the murder of a 21-year-old Michigan nurse in Aspen.After his escape, the FBI put Bundy on its 10 Most Wanted list and said he was wanted for questioning in 36 sex slayings around the country.Officials also have charged Bundy with murder in the death of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach of I^ake City, Fla., who disappeared from her junior high school on Feb. 9, 1978. Her raped, bludgeoned body was found stuffed under the tin roof of a collasped hog shed.Bundy also faces a 15-year prison sentence in the 1975breezy, politekidnapping of a Salt I^ake City woman.Bundy was bom Theodore Robert Cowell on Nov. 24, 1946, at the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers in Burlington, Vt. As a child, he moved with his mother l»uise to Philadelphia and to Tacoma, where she married John Bundy in 1951. John Bundy adopted Ted. John and Louise had two other sons and two daughters.After attending junior high school and high school in Tacoma, he entered the University of Puget Sound in 1965. He transferred to the University of Washington the following school year. He then studied Chinese at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., in the summer of 1967.After quitting college, he worked at odd jobs. In April 1968, he worked as a volunteer in the unsuccessful campaign of a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Washington. Bundy also was Seattle chairman of theNew Maioritv for Rockefeller and worked on former Washington Gov. Dan Evans’ re-election campaign.In the summer of 1970, Bundy returned to the University of Washington and graduated in June 1972 with an A-minus average. After graduation, he worked for the King County Law and Justice Planning Commission, designing a program for dealing with habitual criminals.In September 1973, he enrolled at the Puget Sound Law School in Tacoma but dropped out in April 1974, two weeks before final exams. He enrolled at the University of Utah Law School after moving to Salt Lake City in Aug. 1974. It was there he was convicted of kidnapping Carol DaRonch.
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Walla Walla Union Bulletin
Walla Walla, Washington, US
Wed, Jul 25, 1979
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