Surviving Ted Bundy: How Kathy Kleiner Found The Light

The FOX True Crime Podcast w/ Emily Compagno

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True Crime

4.8 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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For collegiate women, joining a sorority offers the possibility of philanthropy, sisterhood, and community. This was especially true at Florida State University, where the young women of Chi Omega had a strong bond with one another. Nights at the sorority house often felt like a slumber party, as girls gathered together to gossip, paint each other's nails, and borrow clothes. However, that sacred sense of safety and community was broken one January night in 1978, when a monster attacked. Author and motivational speaker Kathy Kleiner shares the story of how she survived an attack from Ted Bundy at the Chi Omega sorority house and discusses the impact the nightmare had on her life. Later, she describes testifying at Bundy's trial and coming face-to-face with the murderer who killed her friends. In her book, A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy, Kathy Kleiner details how she survived lupus, Ted Bundy, an armed robbery, and even breast cancer. She spreads her message of hope and light to others dealing with trauma. Follow Emily on Instagram: @realemilycompagno If you have a story or topic we should feature on the FOX True Crime Podcast, send us an email at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.3	For many collegiate women, Greek life provides the opportunity for sisterhood, philanthropy, and community.
0:41.1	When Kathy Kleiner enrolled at Florida State University as a freshman in 1977, she was excited to join a sorority.
0:48.8	After finishing the rush process, she pledged to the Chi Omega sorority and was thrilled to be surrounded by so many new sisters.
0:57.0	Every night felt like a sleepover in the Chi Omega House.
1:00.0	Kathy and her friends would gather in each other's rooms, borrow clothes, paint each other's
1:05.0	nails, and plan out their weekend fun.
1:07.0	The sorority house was a place that provided a sense of community, sisterhood, and security.
1:13.6	But one night, that sacred sense of safety, was shattered.
1:18.7	On the night of January 14, 1978, Kathy lay asleep in her bed, only to be awoken by the sound of her bedroom door opening, and a thud upon her floor.
1:33.8	As her eyes opened, she saw a dark figure hovering above her, his arm raised over his head.
1:40.8	Suddenly, his arm came crashing down, and he slammed a piece of oak firewood onto Kathy's
1:47.0	face.
1:48.4	Her jaw joints were broken, her cheek ripped open, her tongue almost completely severed.
1:55.2	The monster who carried out that nightmarish attack was Ted Bundy.
1:59.8	I'm Emily Campano, and this is the Fox True Crime podcast. Both Kathy and her roommate Karen were two victims of Ted Bundy who survived his horrific attack at the Chi Omega House.
2:39.0	However, they lost two sorority sisters that night.
2:43.0	Ted Bundy bludgeoned and strangled 21-year-old Margaret Bowman and 20-year-old Lisa Levy while they were sleeping.
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