Friends of Ted Bundy’s final victim remember the school girl, 12, who was last of his 30 victims

EXCLUSIVE: Friends of Ted Bundy’s final victim remember the school girl, 12, who was abducted from school and killed by the serial killer days before he was taken down for 30 murders

  • Lisa Little, Sheri Roberts McKinley and Ruby Bedenbaugh will appear on 20/20 Friday night to speak about their friend Kimberly Leach 
  • Leach was just 12 when she was abducted by Bundy from her school in Lake Viw, Florida on February 9, 1978 
  • It wasjust six days later that Bundy as arrested during a traffic stop near the Alabma state line
  • He would later confess to killing thirty people 

Friends of the Florida school girl who was the last known victim of serial killer Ted Bundy are speaking out in a new interview that will air Friday on 20/20. 

Lisa Little, Sheri Roberts McKinley and Ruby Bedenbaugh say that Kimberly Leach was like a ‘sister’ to them growing up in Lake City.

That sisterhood all changed on February 9, 1978 when Bundy abducted Kimberly from the girls’ junior high school, with her remain later found at the Suwannee River State Park, almost 50 miles away.

He was arrested less than a week later after being pulled over near the Florida and Alabama state line, having killed at least 30 victims over the course of his four-year killing spree.

Family and friends of those victims along with some of Bundy’s survivors will tell their stories when 20/20 airs at 9pm Friday night on ABC.

 

‘I would like people to focus on the memory of Kim, who was the angel to our lives,’ says McKinley.

Bedenbaugh also notes how the murder ‘changed our lifestyles.’ 

Little agreed with that assessment, saying: ‘Having Ted Bundy rob me of a good friend, i wonder what she would be like today.’ 

She then adds: ‘She was more than just our friend, she was our sister.’ 

FBI Special agent Bill Hagmaier, who interviewed Bundy on death row for over 200 hours; Ray Crew, one of the first Florida State University police officers to arrive at the Chi Omega crime scene; Ken Katsaris, former sheriff of Leon County, Florida, who helped connect Bundy to the Chi Omega murders; and Kathleen McChesney, former Washington State detective who worked on the Bundy case will also appar on 20/20 this week.

McChesney is not the only member of w enforcement who will speak on the special, with Robert Keppel, the former detective who took Bundy’s detailed confession about the murder of Georgeann Hawkins, also appearing on the episode.

Larry Simpson, lead Florida prosecutor who put Bundy behind bars will appear as well as John Henry Browne, one of Bundy’s defense attorneys.

And surviving Bundy victims Kathy Kleiner, Karen Chandler and Cheryl Thomas will also speak out about their experiences dodging death with the serial killer.



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