FSU Chi Omega Sorority House

661 W Jefferson St, Tallahassee, FL 32304

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Quick Facts

Killer(s): Ted Bundy,

Victim(s): Margaret Bowman,Lisa Levy,

Written by: Jewls Krueger

About This Location:

In the early hours of January 15, 1978—one week after his arrival in Tallahassee—Ted Bundy entered FSU's Chi Omega sorority house through a rear door with a faulty locking mechanism. Beginning at about 2:45 a.m. he bludgeoned Margaret Bowman, 21, with a piece of oak firewood as she slept, then garroted her with a nylon stocking. He then entered the bedroom of 20-year-old Lisa Levy and beat her unconscious, strangled her, tore one of her nipples, bit deeply into her left buttock, and sexually assaulted her with a hair mist bottle. In an adjoining bedroom he attacked Kathy Kleiner, breaking her jaw and deeply lacerating her shoulder; and Karen Chandler, who suffered a concussion, broken jaw, loss of teeth, and a crushed finger. Chandler and Kleiner survived the attack; Kleiner later attributed their survival to automobile headlights illuminating the interior of their room and frightening away the attacker. Tallahassee detectives later determined that the four attacks took place in a total of less than 15 minutes, within earshot of more than 30 witnesses who heard nothing. After leaving the sorority house, Bundy broke into a basement apartment eight blocks away and attacked FSU student Cheryl Thomas, dislocating her shoulder and fracturing her jaw and skull in five places. She was left with permanent deafness, and equilibrium damage that ended her dance career. On Thomas' bed, police found a semen stain and a pantyhose "mask" containing two hairs "similar to Bundy's in class and characteristic".

-Description from Wikipedia

Finding the Location

The Chi Omega house is located near the FSU campus in Tallahasee, just across W. Jefferson St. from the campus' parking lot #111.

The sorority house has been recently renovated and repainted, and looks rather different than the photos that appear in the papers from Bundy's crimes. The home is now a deep gray color with large white columns at the main entrance. Large XΩ letters are mounted above the ominous red front door.