Rachel Sharp

So she was snatched from her school on February 9th, 1978.

And then is still on the run.

Absolutely.

I mean, also, he actually was on the run twice.

So he escaped from jail twice before even getting to Florida.

So the first time he was actually even on law enforcement's radar was actually just a few days after Laura Amy's murder.

He attacked a woman called Carol Duranche.

And he basically botched a kidnapping.

And it was through her help that after she managed to escape, she was able to help police identify him.

And he was charged with kidnapping.

He was charged and convicted and was serving just a one to 15 year sentence.

when he was being transferred to Colorado to face charges for a murder in Colorado of a nurse, Karen Campbell, when he then managed to escape by jumping out of a window of a law library at a courthouse and going on the run.

so bizarre he you know ran up into the mountains he hid there for several days then he was captured he was back behind bars again in colorado then he managed to escape a second time in december 1977 and as you say it was just two weeks after that that he then ended up all the way in florida

committing these awful murders at the Chi Omega sorority house, fleeing yet again, and then killing 12-year-old Kimberly Leach.

So this was just so many missteps, so many missed opportunities to get this man behind bars.

And that's only, you know, when he was actually on police's radar.

Like, how many more times was it before that as well?

Yeah, so I mean, he actually ended up going through several trials.

One of the most high profile being the trial around the murders and attacks at the sorority house.

And during that and during some of his early trials, he actually chose to represent himself.