Editing Ted Bundy (section)

== Arrest and first trial ==
[[File:Ted Bundy murder kit.JPG|right|thumb|upright=1|alt=The murder kit includes a sports bag, garbage bags, ski mask, nylon stocking with holes, flashlight, crowbar, an ice pick, and some gloves.|Items found in Bundy's Volkswagen, [[Utah]], 1975]]
On August 16, 1975, Bundy was arrested by [[Utah Highway Patrol]] officer Bob Hayward in [[West Valley City, Utah|Granger]], another Salt Lake City suburb.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.abc4.com/news/local-news/trooper-who-arrested-ted-bundy-dies-at-90/785699510 |title=Trooper who arrested Ted Bundy dies at 90 |date=August 9, 2017 |access-date=January 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190126164504/https://www.abc4.com/news/local-news/trooper-who-arrested-ted-bundy-dies-at-90/785699510 |archive-date=January 26, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> Hayward observed Bundy cruising a residential area in his Volkswagen Beetle during the pre-dawn hours, and fleeing at high speed after seeing the patrol car.<ref name="Gehrke2000" /> He also noticed that the Volkswagen's front passenger seat had been removed and placed on the rear seats. Searching the car, Hayward found a ski mask, a second mask fashioned from pantyhose, a crowbar, handcuffs, trash bags, a coil of rope, an [[ice pick]] and other items initially assumed to be burglary tools. Bundy explained that the ski mask was for skiing, he had found the handcuffs in a dumpster and the rest were common household items.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=98–99, 113–115}} However, Detective Jerry Thompson remembered a similar suspect and car description from the DaRonch kidnapping in November 1974, and Bundy's name from Kloepfer's phone call a month later. In a search of Bundy's apartment, police found a guide to Colorado ski resorts with a checkmark by the Wildwood Inn,{{sfn|Keppel|2005|p=71}} and a brochure that advertised the Viewmont High School play in Bountiful, where Kent had disappeared.{{sfn|Sullivan|2009|p=151}} Police did not have sufficient evidence to detain Bundy, so he was released on his own [[recognizance]]. Bundy later said that searchers missed a hidden collection of [[Instant camera|Polaroid]] photographs of his victims, which he destroyed after he was released.{{sfn|Nelson|1994|p=258}}

[[Salt Lake City Police Department|Salt Lake City police]] placed Bundy on 24-hour surveillance, and Thompson flew to Seattle with two other detectives to interview Kloepfer. She told them that in the year prior to Bundy's move to Utah, she had discovered objects that she "couldn't understand" in her house and in Bundy's apartment. These items included crutches, a bag of [[plaster of Paris]] that he admitted stealing from a medical supply house and a [[meat cleaver]] that was never used for cooking. Additional objects included surgical gloves, an Oriental knife in a wooden case that he kept in his glove compartment and a sack full of women's clothing.{{sfn|Rule|2000|p=167}} Bundy was perpetually in debt, and Kloepfer suspected that he had stolen almost everything of significant value that he possessed. When she confronted him over a new TV and stereo, he warned her, "If you tell anyone, I'll break your fucking neck."{{sfn|Kendall|1981|p=74}} She said Bundy became "very upset" whenever she considered cutting her hair, which was long and parted in the middle. She would sometimes awaken in the middle of the night to find him under the bed covers with a flashlight, examining her body. He kept a [[lug wrench]], taped halfway up the handle, in the trunk of her car—another Volkswagen Beetle, which he often borrowed—"for protection." The detectives confirmed that Bundy had not been with Kloepfer on any of the nights during which the Pacific Northwest victims had vanished, nor on the day Ott and Naslund were abducted from Lake Sammamish State Park.{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=187–194}} Shortly thereafter, Kloepfer was interviewed by Seattle homicide detective Kathy McChesney, and learned of the existence of Edwards and her brief engagement to Bundy around Christmas 1973.{{sfn|Kendall|1981|pp=96–100}}

In September, Bundy sold his Volkswagen Beetle to a Midvale teenager.{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=226–227}} Utah police immediately [[Vehicle impoundment|impounded]] the vehicle, and [[FBI]] technicians dismantled and searched it. Hairs were discovered matching samples obtained from Campbell's body.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=188}} Later, they also identified hair strands "microscopically indistinguishable" from those of Smith and DaRonch.{{sfn|Rule|2000|p=250}} FBI lab specialist Robert Neill concluded that the presence of hair strands in one car matching three different victims who had never met one another would be "a coincidence of mind-boggling rarity."{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=189–191}}

On October 2, detectives put Bundy into a lineup. DaRonch immediately identified him as "Officer Roseland," and witnesses from Bountiful recognized him as the stranger at the Viewmont High School auditorium.{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=178–179}} There was insufficient evidence to link him to Kent, whose body had not yet been found,<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.wired.com/story/dna-crime-solving-is-still-new-yet-it-may-have-gone-too-far/|title=DNA Crime-Solving Is Still New, Yet It May Have Gone Too Far|last=Molteni|first=Megan|date=March 14, 2019|magazine=Wired|access-date=March 15, 2019|issn=1059-1028|archive-date=April 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402202456/https://www.wired.com/story/dna-crime-solving-is-still-new-yet-it-may-have-gone-too-far/|url-status=live}}</ref> but more than enough evidence to charge him with aggravated kidnapping and attempted criminal assault in the DaRonch case. Bundy denied knowing DaRonch but had no [[alibi]], and was freed on $15,000 [[bail]], paid by his parents,{{sfn|Foreman|1992|p=24}} and spent most of the time between [[indictment]] and trial in Seattle, living in Kloepfer's house. Seattle police had insufficient evidence to charge him in the Pacific Northwest murders but kept him under close surveillance. "When Ted and I stepped out on the porch to go somewhere," Kloepfer wrote, "so many unmarked police cars started up that it sounded like the beginning of the [[Indy 500]]."{{sfn|Kendall|1981|pp=119–120}}

In November, the three principal Bundy investigators—Jerry Thompson from Utah, Robert Keppel from Washington and Michael Fisher from Colorado—met in [[Aspen, Colorado]], and exchanged information with thirty detectives and [[prosecutor]]s from five states.{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=213–215}} While officials left the meeting (later referred to as the Aspen Summit) convinced that Bundy was the murderer they sought, they agreed that more hard evidence would be needed before he could be charged with any of the killings.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=163–165}}

In February 1976, Bundy stood trial for the DaRonch kidnapping. On the advice of his attorney, John O'Connell, he waived his right to a jury due to the negative publicity surrounding the case. After a four-day [[bench trial]] and a weekend of deliberation, Judge Stewart Hanson Jr. found Bundy guilty of kidnapping and assault.<ref name=jsbigokdn>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uqQqAAAAIBAJ&pg=5192%2C9704 |work=Deseret News |location=(Salt Lake City, Utah) |title=Judge says Bundy is guilty of kidnaping |date=March 1, 1976 |page=A1 |access-date=October 15, 2020 |archive-date=May 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230530021800/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uqQqAAAAIBAJ&pg=5192,9704 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{sfn|Kendall|1981|pp=140–141}}{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=205}} In June, he was sentenced to one to 15 years in the [[Utah State Prison]].{{sfn|Foreman|1992|p=24}} In October, Bundy was found hiding in bushes in the prison yard carrying an "escape kit"—road maps, airline schedules and a [[Social Security (United States)|Social Security]] card—and spent several weeks in [[solitary confinement]].{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=265–267}} Later that month, Colorado authorities charged him with Campbell's murder. After a period of resistance, he waived [[extradition]] proceedings and was transferred to Aspen in January 1977.{{sfn|Rule|1989|p=219}}{{sfn|Foreman|1992|p=25}}