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FD.350 (Rev. 11-11-75) ; s -_« Lon ad (Mount Clipping in Space Below) GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (UPD — A manhunt for escaped murder suspect Theodore Bundy has ended, and authorities are depending on the public to notify them if Bundy is sighted. Bundy, 31, has been free at least four days, since he escaped from his cell in the Garfield County Jail in Glenwood Springs by. losing 30 pounds so he could slip through a aole in the ceiling. _ Officials said be escaped by pulling himself through a footsquare hole that had been cut to accommodate a light fixture. He inched 30 feet through an 18-inch-high crawlsnace dronned doum inta an un Le Se Maree MAW AEA GL unot- cupied jailer’s apartment and walked out the front door. 1The convicted kidnapper is considered dingerous. He is accused in the 197, slaying of a Michigan nurse in Colorade aid has been a suspect in the murders o: several other women in Colorado, Utah an California. he ran out of gas. The doctor said they drove the man to Thompson for gas, then returned him to his car. An ali-points bulletin remained in effect in ‘Utah, and the FBI in Denver said it was checking a report by a woman in Tacoma, Wash., Bundy’s hometown, who said she was chased by a man fitting Bundy's description. Bundy’s mother lives in Tacoma. apt. N.D. Hayward, chief of detectives for the Salt Lake County sherifi’s office, said local lawmen have received many reports claiming possible information about Bundy. He said all will be investi- gated, ‘“‘but it will take time. . Hayward said he doubts Bundy would return to Utah where he is known. The ejcapee was convicted in 1976 of the attempted kidnap two years earlier of Carol DaRonch, then 17, in the parking tot - of a Murray shopping mall. He was _ Colorado calls off search for At least 50 volunteers and officers searched the Glenwood Springs area after - Bundy was discovered missing about noon Saturday. Undersheriff Robert Hart said Bundy had escaped Friday night or Saturday morning. : The search was called off Mond i Hart. “ay "i “Members of the sheriff's posse had ¢ get back to work, so we decided to call it off and not call out the off-duty men,” said Hart. “I'll tell the men on duty to keep an extra watch, and we’ll just have to depend on the public to notify the authorities if they 88a comannha motehing. Dawa! Jdn--.n see som Sche Maiciing oundy § descrp- No trace of Bundy was found, although two doctors said Monday a hitchhiker\they helped near Thompson, Grand Coilnty, Utah, matched the description of Bundy. Dr. Dorr Burns of Grand Junct i, Colo., said he and his companion picked up a young man on U.S. 50 Saturday who said sentenced to 1-15 years in the Utah State Prison. He was sent te Colorado in 1977 to tate murder charges in connection with th death of the Michigan nurse who was killey in Aspen. Hayward said it wasn’t likely that the escapee would return to Utah with any thoughts of revenge. ‘‘His only interest might be to pass through.” : might be to pass thr Police agencies notified Miss DaRonc! and her family of the Bundy escape, but refused to say whether any protective surveillance had been provided. FBI agents said a federal warrant charging Gundy with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution for murder was bei prepared. a The only other lead investigators had the search for the former University of _ Utah jaw student was a scent dogs trailed See BUNDY on B-20 (__] Being Investigated Undicate page, name of Newspaper, city and 5 r= totes LalOe? P, | Ske UH eT Oe, Date: 47 3-78 Edition: eT Author: er Editor: Title: Ady Character: or oo Classification: SyP-6 Bes Submitting Office: La