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Theodore Robert Bundy Case

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In this case, Theodore Robert Bundy a notorious American serial killer began his murderous rampage around 1970s. In 1974, witnesses saw a young man, who introduced himself as Ted, approach two young women at Seattle State Park and ask for help with his sailboat. They were never seen alive again and became his first known victims (Corner, 2017). Around this time, numerous women in the Seattle region and nearby Oregon disappeared. Stories circulated about some of the victims last being seen in the company of a young, dark-haired man known as "Ted." His killing spree spanned across seven states (Florida, Utah, Oregon, California, Idaho, Colorado and Washington) before being apprehended. He selected victims that were a 'carbon copy' of his former girlfriend Stephanie Brooks, …show more content…

Two of them were issued in 1986, only to be stayed while his appeals were heard in the courts. The final warrant was for the 1978 murder of Kimberly Leach, a 12-year-old Lake City, Florida, girl who was abducted, mutilated, slaughtered and whose body was dumped in an abandoned animal pen (Nordheimer, 1989). His trial related to the murder of Kimberly Leach commenced on 7 January 1980. Bundy decided against self-representation, and his defence counsel pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Bundy had lost all traces of his confident demeanour by this stage, and the volume of forensic evidence (evidence obtained by scientific methods such as ballistics, blood test, and DNA test and used in court. (US Legal. 2017)) and eyewitness testimony linking him to the crime convinced the jury to again return a guilty verdict (Crime + Investigation, 2017). After the governor signed a death warrant, Bundy filed a motion for postconviction relief under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850, which was denied. The Court affirmed and at the same time denied a petition for writ of habeas corpus( Latin term meaning "you have the

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