After escaping once already Bundy was moved to the Garfield County jail. In the months that he spent in jail he began to loose weight. Bundy carved an opening that was in the ceiling of his cell wider than it was so that he could fit through, and he arranged some law books and pillows to make it look like there was a body in his bed. On 30 Dec 1977 Bundy escaped for a second time by crawling through ceiling ducting coming down into one of the jailer’s apartments, who wasn’t there, put on civilian clothes and escaped into the night. Only this time his escape would include a violent rampage.
After escaping he boarded a flight to Chicago, took a train to Ann Arbor, Michigan, drove south to Atlanta and got on a bus to Tallahassee, Florida. It was in Florida where Bundy killed his final known victims, Margaret Bowman, 21, Lisa Levy, 20, and Kimberly Leach, 12.
On Jan 15 1978 at 3am Bundy broke into the Chi Omega sorority house in Tallahassee. He fatally attacked Bowman and Levy, bludgeoning them with firewood and strangling them with stockings. He also brutally attacked Kathy Kleiner and Karen Ann Chandler while they slept at the Chi Omega house, but they survived.
Authorities were about three weeks into their investigation of the Chi Omega sorority house attacks when word came that a child had disappeared in a town about 90 miles east. Leach, a 7th grader in Lake City, Florida, had gone missing in the middle of the school day on Feb 9 1978.
Bundy would remain on the run until Feb 15 1978. His capture will be the topic of our next post.
It was not until about 2 months after Bundy was captured that Leach’s body was found. She had been assaulted and murdered and placed in a small shed in a wooded area behind Suwannee River State Park.
