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On New Year’s Eve, 1977, Ted Bundy escaped from the Garfield County Jail in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. He removed a light fixture in his cell’s ceiling, crawled through the rafters, descended through the jailer’s closet— then walked out the front door.
A few days later, FBI agents interviewed David Sands, a 14-year-old local who had previously been incarcerated in the juvenile cell directly next to Bundy’s. In the subsequent investigation report, David recalled his interactions with the accused murderer and the ignored warnings he’d shared with Colorado authorities days before Bundy’s escape.
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“After he arrived at the Garfield County Jail on December 6, David Sands noticed a hole in the wall beneath the bottom bunk of his cell. The second night he was in jail, Bundy passed a cigarette through the hole and whispered, "Hey Dave, how's it going?” Bundy asked Sands what he was in jail for, and told him he was in jail for murder, that they accused him of killing a nurse in Aspen, but he didn’t do it.
Bundy shared that he hadn’t been on the streets for a couple of years, wanted female companionship, and asked about good places in town to pick up girls. Bundy also talked about escape, asking where would be the best place to hide out from the cops and where he could find a getaway car. Every night during his incarceration, Sands would lie in his bunk and talk to Bundy through the hole.
At about 3am on December 18, Sands was up late reading when he heard strange noises in the ceiling above his bunk. Sands was positive this was Bundy, and it sounded like he was scraping off some welding. After listening for some time, Sands knocked on their shared wall. The scraping stopped, but for about five minutes, it sounded like Bundy was shuffling books and straightening up his cell.
When Bundy finally got to the hole, Sands asked what he was doing and if he’d found a way out, as he was certainly making a lot of racket. Bundy laughed and said, “Yeah, there's no way out of this place.” After that, Sands often heard Bundy turn on his shower before the scraping noise started, and the water would run for hours each night while everyone else was asleep.
Ten days before the escape, Sands told his social worker that he’d heard Bundy in the ceiling and was likely planning an escape that way. He expressed fears that Bundy would be successful and seek him out, as he’d recently been released and the boy had told him where he lived. The social worker immediately informed Sands’ probation officer, who contacted a sheriff’s deputy stationed at the jail.
Deputy Moreno passed the information to Sheriff Hogue. The Sheriff then directed the Jailer, Robert Morrison, to inspect Bundy’s cell while he was away at court in Aspen. Morrison checked the light fixture, found it loose, and saw what appeared to be newspapers poking out. Morrison then got a flashlight and went up into the rafters and found a blanket, Seattle Times newspapers, a Pepsi can, and some cigarette butts. Morrison told the Sheriff of his findings and was told just to leave it, as he’d have someone take care of it.
Sheriff Hogue then directed Deputy Moreno to call a welder. Her phone call went unanswered, so she left a message. The welder never called back, and Bundy’s cell was never inspected again…”
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Footage courtesy KUTV News. Read the full escape report on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/second-escape-76607354 nSo5kWzClLg |