Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 MG> Ed Hulett -> Ross Sauer wrote:

 EH>> Bundy grew up in Tacoma and Seattle Washington. Not Georgia. He
 MG> started
 EH>> his career in crime while attending the University of Washington and
 EH>> there was no such thing as DNA evidence back then. By the time the
 EH>> authorities found out it was Bundy, he had fled the state. He was then
 EH>> arrested in Nevada or Arizona and was let go for some reason. By the
 EH>> time he ended up in Florida DNA evidence was being used.

 MG> Actually Bundy was convicted on forensic evidence, to be sure, but it
 MG> wasn't DNA (they weren't yet accepting it as provable evidence yet.

Ah yes, it's been a while and I don't keep trivia like that in my head.

 MG> He was convicted because of a bite mark on the butt of his youngest (known)
 MG> victim.

Now, it comes back... not that I really want it to.

 MG> A guy like Bundy, I doubt we'll ever know just how many girls he
 MG> actually did kill. It's not as if he confessed to any of them. Ann Rule
 MG> (famed true crime author) got her start in true crime by working on the
 MG> same emergency hot line as Bundy. Her book The Stranger Beside Me is a
 MG> fascinating telling of his tale, I recommend it highly. :)

Yes, I remember hearing about that. I'm not into true crime. It's bad
enough hearing about it the first time.

Ed

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