Murder of Kimberly Leach

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Kimberly Diane Leach (October 28, 1965 – February 9, 1978) was a 12-year-old American student in the seventh grade who was kidnapped from her school and subsequently murdered by serial killer Ted Bundy (November 24, 1946 – January 24, 1989) on February 9, 1978, in Lake City, Florida. Her remains were found on April 7, approximately 30 mi (48 km) west of Lake City. Only weeks before Leach's murder, Bundy escaped from jail in Aspen while awaiting a murder trial and fled to Florida. On the day of Leach's disappearance, multiple eyewitnesses came forward and claimed they saw a white van circling around the school, and that they saw an adult man leading a young girl to the van and driving off. Bundy was arrested six days later in Pensacola for driving a stolen car and attempting to evade a police officer, and was quickly connected to Leach's disappearance. Her mummified remains were discovered nearly two months later in an abandoned hog shed approximately 30 mi (48 km) west of Lake City. In...

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