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Eventually, in 1975, at [[Murray, Utah]], one of Ted's intended victims, Tina Gabler, escapes from his moving car after she overpowered him and rescued by another driver. Two months later, based on Tina's description of his car, Ted is stopped by a [[Utah Highway Patrol]] officer and arrested. In Ted's trunk, the [[Utah Department of Public Safety|state police]] find his rape kit, and Tina testifies against Ted despite his denial. After convicted for his crimes against Tina, authorities are alerted about Ted and soon determined that he is the [[serial killer]] they are looking for after investigating him further. When visited by his girlfriend, Lee, in the Garfield County Jail in [[Glenwood Springs, Colorado]], Ted admits to her that charges are being brought against him for multiple murders, but stresses the fact that lacking hard evidence, however, and that he will never be convicted; at this point, Lee realizes Ted is guilty, and she leaves him.

In 1977, Ted asks to represent himself at his trial and is granted access to the [[Pitkin County Courthouse]]'s law library. He promptly escapes by jumping from an upper story window. He is arrested again six days later by a female police officer (who hates Ted for his misogyny) after an attempted auto theft at [[Aspen Mountain (Colorado)|Aspen Mountain]] and return to prison. Months later, after intimated with his visiting lover Betty (who naively believes his innocence), he escapes yet again after Christmas and becomes one of the [[FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives]]. In 1978, upon settling in [[Tallahassee, Florida]], Ted continues his murder spree. This time he assaults four women in [[Florida State University]]'s [[Chi Omega]] sorority house and kills two of them, leading to him being labeled "The Campus Killer." Over a month later, Ted rapes and murders the twelve-year old Suzanne Bruster, which he regrets. Four days later, on February 12, Ted is arrested by a patrolman from the [[Pensacola Police Department]] for [[driving under the influence]] before recognizing him.

Ted is tried at the [[Miami-Dade County, Florida|Dade County]] Circuit Court for his killing sprees in the state, and [[Capital punishment in Florida|sentenced to capital punishment in accordance with the State of Florida]] in the [[electric chair]] at [[Florida State Prison]], where measures being made to prevent another escape. Over eleven years, he endures appalling [[prison abuse]]s while waiting for his execution and is condemned worldwide. After exhausting all appeal avenues, Ted tries [[plea bargain]], expecting to be [[pardon]]ed if he confesses his crimes, but Ted exposes how warped his mind is, prompting the Florida governor [[Bob Martinez]] to sign the [[execution warrant]] to allow Ted's ruling to proceed, sealing his fate. Despairing, Ted undergoes [[anticipatory grief]] over his plight include fearing [[Hell]]. After resisting futility, Ted makes a summation as a message to his loved ones (who have severed their ties with him), which everyone ignores out of spite. He is executed in front of his victims' vengeful families in the morning of January 24, 1989; the executioner is unmasked to be a young woman who eerily matches Ted's victims' profiles and savors of killing him before leaving. Revelers rejoice of finally ridding Ted, but lunatics (including women) mourn him, remembering him as a diabolical satyr. As Lee watches news coverage of the execution with her husband (who disgusts Ted for his past with her), she wonders, "Who was Ted Bundy?"