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Kathy would soon need that Newfound confidence the survivors were set to testify against Bundy but this time his
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life was in their hands to know I was going to have to testify um I think I just needed to
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build up my resolve and know that this was going to happen and be prepared as much as I could for it we locked eyes
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once again and I stared at him I think I always knew that I was going to have to testify in
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court if it went to [Music] trial CER going on the fourth floor get away from here you know you're not
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supposed to be here excuse me there was a total media circus we'll be standing by prosecuting
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attorney l defy and it was the first major case that actually was broadcast live evaluating it as it was actually
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going down in the courtroom only one camera fixed on a tripod tapes the courtroom proceedings his 20 television
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Crews from around the country have been covering the trial get a front row seat you can get
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it all there I think Mr Bunny was playing to the cameras Robert my name is T he got a real kick out of it
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at trial Bundy again took an active role on his defense team Z it's on this motion by participating in
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his own defense Bundy and his attorneys hoped to convince the jury that he was intelligent articulate and innocent a
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victim of circumstances Bundy had a lot of interaction with the judge he argued his own motions as good as a lawyer
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could I think a defendant young women packed the courtroom every day to to see the star
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defendant every time he turns around I kind of get that feeling no no you know he's going to get me
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next as lead prosecutor Larry Simpson felt pressure at or near the cause of death to make sure Bundy was put away
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forever the cases out west were not particularly strong cases we know we needed to finish the
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job in Florida the survivors felt that pressure too as Cheryl Karen and Kathy each took
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the stand I felt it was important for the jury to see a real person who had been
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subjected to what Ted Bundy did I had um five skull fractures and multiple contusions in my
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head it was just my mission to tell my story and I just really didn't want to look at him didn't want to talk to him
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didn't want anything to do with him the defense asked is this the man you saw attack you that night in your room
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at Kai Omega and I had to say I don't know because I never saw his face I wanted to help put the nail in
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that coffin to put him away to help the other girls who couldn't do it I couldn't help and she was weaving in
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though the survivors couldn't ident ify Bundy from that night someone else could sorority sister
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Nita nearer do you recall the man that you saw at the door of Kyle Mega house on
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the morning of January 15 1978 yes I do would you point him out for us please man in the dark suit with the red
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TI perhaps the prosecution most damning evidence was that bite mark left on one of the victims this is a photograph of
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the bite mark and as you can see there's a ruler in place and this is what the forensic dentist did in court they made
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the marks you can actually place this model right on the photograph and you've got it coming in like this laying down
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and then he turned his head slightly and did it again it fits like a glove but bitemark
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analysis was a new and relatively uncertain science and the ever smiling Bundy seemed confident as the trial came
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to a close of course I was worried when it went to the jury but I knew in my heart
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and by the evidence that was there that he's the one that actually murdered my friends
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the jury was out a little less than 7 hours and returned to Verdi agre the jury I'm the defendant guilty is charged
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the verdict that was guilty as charged on all counts he was convicted and now whatever
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sentence he got couldn't be bad enough as far as I was concerned it is ironic that he ended up in Florida because we
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were a very active death penalty state is hereby imposed the death penalty he was sentenced to death on my
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birthday I don't believe the death penalty should be a willy-nilly kind of thing but if he had gotten out there
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were women that were going to die I have no doubt in my mind following the FSU trial Bundy was
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also found guilty of murdering 12-year-old Kimberly leech and received another death sentence after the trial
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was over I felt that it was just going to be all over and no more in the news or or anything but that didn't happen it
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was probably just crazy for me to think [Music] that as Bundy sat on death row his
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notoriety only grew books and TV programs came out focusing on his good looks and
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charm instead of rejecting it Kathy decided to embrace it I read as much as I could about Ted Bundy watched all his
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movies because I think by learning about him it has helped me move forward because I wanted to just disassociate
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myself so that he wasn't part of me anymore in 1981 3 years after the attacks Cathy had a son Michael I didn't
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want him to know that I had been scared that I had been attacked I just wanted to be a normal mom with a normal
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kid one night I was putting him to bed and he looked up at me and he touched my face and he said Mommy what happened to
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your face right there and I told him that a bad man came into my house one night and had hurt me
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you just don't grasp it at a young age you don't really get it but you kind of do and it you just feel like you know
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I'm not going to let anybody hurt [Music] you I felt that it was important to keep
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her safe she was such a loving person How could somebody do that too sorry and I think in his mind he he
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always carried that that it could happen again and would I be there you know to help my
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