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Law enforcement officials began an immediate search. : Bundy is charged with first-degrre murder in the death two years ago jf Cura Campbell, a Dearborn, Mich, who was vacationing in Aspen. . iss Campbell disappeared in sense, 1975, and her nude, frozen bedy was found a month later beside a rural road. During a pre-trial hearing last June, Bundy escaped from an empty Pitkin County courtroom through an open window and leaped two stories to the ground. He was the object of an intensive manhunt for almost six days before he was recaptured. Officials said Bundy was scheduleil to be transferred to Colorado Springs, where his trial had been moved oi a change of venue. Bundy is scheduled to go on trial Jan, 9. : Legal Action ‘District Judge George Lohr in Aspen hid granted Bundy’s request for a change of venue. Bundy had contended . hy could not get a fair trial in Aspen : - because of pre-trial publicity. Lohr said he chose Colorado Springs for the trial site because it is the home of El Paso District Attorney Bob Russel, who is prosecuting the Bundy ease along with his assistant Mil'on motion to prevent the death penalty from applying in the Bundy case. Lohr ruled the Colorado death penalty was unconstitutional and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. Russel has - appealed the decision to the Colorado Supreme Court. Hart said Bundy, 30, left blankets rotied up in his bed to make it look as though he were sleeping. Bundy had been extradited to Cel- orado from Utah, where he was servir aj-to-i5-year sentence for kidnapping: Salt Lake City girl in 1974, Officials Sail he, was disciplined for planning esitape while an inmate in the Utah ‘ Blakey \ Lohr had also granted a defenke State Prison. |