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FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63) (Mount Clipping in Space Below) Theodore R. Bundy, 29, took the stand in his own defense today and denied he had any- thing to do with the attempted kidnaping of a teen-age girl at the Fashion Place Mall Nov. 8, 1974. ‘ Bundy, a second-year law student at the University of Utah from Tacoma, Wash., is charged with aggravated kid- naping of Carol DaRonch, now 19. He told Third District Judge Stewart M. Hanson Jr. that he was not at the mall that night and didn’t have any contact with Miss DaRonch. On the kidnap date; he went shopping at Cottonwood Mall - and his small foreign car broke down on Highland Drive, Bundy said. He spent most of the day getting it repaired at a service station and went home about 5 or 5:30 p.m. and had dinner. ; *T recall going out later that night to start the car and it wouldn’t work,” he said. Bundy indicated that. to the best of his recollection, he used his pickup truck to go toa movie at Trolley Square and later to a nearby pub, getting home about “I’m not trying to fool any- body,” he said. ‘“‘It’s hard to think back that far.” He said he reconstructed some of the ‘events that day by going: through records and notes and searching checkbooks. . Bundy, in answer to ques- tions from his attorney, John O’Connell, said he had never owned a handgun and hadn’t had a police badge ‘“‘since I was a kid.” Both items were used in ‘the kidnap attempt of Miss DaRonch. He said he did not have a mustache in the fall of 1974, but did have a pair of handcuffs which he found at the Salt Lake City dump, after taking some junk there from an apartment for his landlord. He said he didn’t have a key for them and never used them. Bundy was questioned about” “his arrest Aug. 16, 1975, by a Utah Highway Patrol trooper about 2:30 a.m. in a Granger residential area. He said he had gone there after work because it was a hot night and he wanted to go for a drive and ‘texplore an area I hadn’t been in before.” He said he parked on a side . ke arijua- 11:50 p.m. He then phoned agi | street to smoke some marijua friend in Seattle, he said. a — a fact, he admitted concealing trom pulice and his | own lawyer after his arrest. F RCHED SEFRALIZED pa Ll e- (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) ne, a1 ca Be! TAA DY Try 4 He _ y 37 ATR TART grey yim Date: 2/294 /79% Author: Editor: Title®"0O% at pal] thot niet, tends sors Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: 7% wT nm T ’ re nore | Being Investigated . V7 “({L> > -3Y ~ INDEXED. es a PL reersy LU aor (eT PRim mand bAw Cl Ly: ih %