Bundy jumped out of this second-story
window at the front of the Pitkin County
Courthouse this morning he was scheduled
for a court appearance and apparently
had been locked into the law library by
sheriff's deputies while attorneys were
arguing a motion to strike the death
penalty witnesses say he left in a hurry
however nobody saw him open the window
and he escaped clean in an unknown
direction at both ends of town the
Sheriff's Department put up roadblocks
and searched each vehicle leaving the
town of Aspen as of late this afternoon
Bundy was still missing but a court
clerk said they'd arrested nine people
on warrants and confiscated 200 pounds
of marijuana all day long County Sheriff
dick keenest was been circling over the
wooded hills and a helicopter looking
for the suspected rapist killer but with
no success Ted Bundy a Washington State
resident was convicted last year of the
kidnap assault of a young woman from
Salt Lake City
he's also the prime suspect in a series
of murders of young women in Washington
State as well as the suspect in a murder
case here in Aspen
this is Ward Lucas reporting from Aspen
ever since yesterday morning when
suspected killer Ted Bundy jumped from a
second-story window of the Pitkin County
Courthouse the news releases have talked
about the thorough house-to-house
searches being conducted throughout
Aspen but the news releases are mostly
fiction despite some surveillance along
the roads and occasional air
surveillance from a police helicopter
most of the Aspen remains unsearched
late this afternoon we talked to several
of the searchers who told us they were
quitting and discussed
they said they joined up at 8:00 this
morning and as of 2:30 this afternoon
had spent less than an hour actually
going house-to-house talking to
homeowners Ted Bundy according to Mike
Fischer chief investigator for the DA's
office
is a dangerous man and folks just don't
seem to realize it Fischer is one of the
most agitated men in Aspen right now he
refused to comment for our cameras but
he directed a few obscenities in the
direction of the sheriff's department
and said the sheriff was criminally
negligent for allowing Bundy to escape
he added that we could quote him
meanwhile life goes on as usual and
Aspen
single unasur TEDWomen walked the
streets presumably unconcerned they
apparently don't know or don't care that
Ted Bundy is a chief suspect in the
murders of at least
18 possibly 30 young women in four
states each of those women disappeared
without a trace
frequently from well-traveled areas just
like downtown Aspen the only trace of
many of those women was a pile of skulls
no other bones just skulls found on the
side of a deserted mountain slope in
Washington State
this is Ward Lucas for nine news
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