Police Had Ted Bundy's Name in 1974. Here's How He Kept Getting Away

In 1974, young women were disappearing across Washington, and a man calling himself "Ted" was seen at Lake Sammamish with his arm in a sling and a tan Volkswagen Beetle. Tips naming Ted Bundy came in from his own girlfriend, a co-worker, a professor and even true crime writer Ann Rule. He was arrested in Utah, convicted of kidnapping Carol DaRonch, the woman who got away, and then escaped from custody twice in Colorado: out of a courthouse window in Aspen, and through the ceiling of the Glenwood Springs jail. In the end, he wasn't stopped by a manhunt, but by one Pensacola officer running a license plate. This is the full story in one video: Seattle, the tips that named him, Utah, both Colorado escapes, Chi Omega, Kimberly Leach, the Pensacola arrest, the first nationally televised trial, and the end. Should the Colorado officials who let him escape twice share some of the blame? Yes or no. Tell me in the comments. Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:33 Seattle, 1974 01:48 The tips that named him 02:27 Utah and the woman who got away 03:53 Colorado: out the courthouse window 05:19 Glenwood Springs: the hole in the ceiling 06:45 Florida: Chi Omega 07:41 Pensacola: one plate check 08:18 Miami: the televised trial 08:55 Confessions and the end We remember: Lynda Ann Healy, Donna Manson, Susan Rancourt, Roberta Kathleen Parks, Brenda Ball, Georgann Hawkins, Janice Ott, Denise Naslund, Nancy Wilcox, Melissa Smith, Laura Aime, Debra Kent, Caryn Campbell, Julie Cunningham, Denise Oliverson, Lisa Levy, Margaret Bowman, Kimberly Leach, and the many others. Karen Chandler, Kathy Kleiner, Cheryl Thomas and Carol DaRonch survived. Sources FBI Records: The Vault, Theodore Robert Bundy files (vault.fbi.gov/ted-bundy) FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives history (#360, added Feb 10, 1978) Robert D. Keppel, The Riverman Ann Rule, The Stranger Beside Me Elizabeth Kendall (Kloepfer), The Phantom Prince Stephen G. Michaud & Hugh Aynesworth, The Only Living Witness Florida Supreme Court, Bundy v. State, 455 So.2d 330 (1984) and 471 So.2d 9 (1985) The New York Times, "Bundy Is Put to Death in Florida" (Jan 25, 1989) Aspen Times / Glenwood Springs Post Independent retrospectives on the 1977 escapes Wikipedia, "Ted Bundy" (timeline cross-check) Footage and photos: KUTV 2 news (1977); Colorado TV news (June and Dec 1977); Miami TV news (1979), used under fair use for commentary and education; Florida Dept. of Corrections; FBI; State Archives of Florida (Donn Dughi); victims' photos as published by their families in 1974/1978 newspapers; Wikimedia Commons and Flickr (CC BY / CC BY-SA: Daniel Case, Spicypepper999, claralieu, greyloch, DCTWINKIE5500, dbking, PrisonInsight.com). Stock footage: Pexels. Factual true crime made to remember the victims. No graphic content. No crime-scene images. #TedBundy #TrueCrime #TrueCrimeStory #ColdCase #Documentary