TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) - Thirty years after the execution of serial killer Ted Bundy, his name is re-emerging in pop culture.
With a new Netflix docu-series and a movie coming out, the story of his horrific murders is resurfacing.
WTXL ABC 27's Jada Williams was live Friday morning to share a story of two people who played a big role in putting an end to Bundy's crimes.
Kathy Kleiner and Larry Simpson both played crucial roles - the victim of his crimes and the prosecutor in his court case.
Now both are reflecting on the serial killer 30 years later.
"When I woke up, I saw the shadow of someone standing over me with his hand raised up with a club in it," said Kathy Kleiner, a freshman at FSU.
Kleiner had just settled into her bed in the Chi Omega sorority house on Jan. 15, 1978.
She never expected to have a brush with death at the hands of serial killer Ted Bundy.
"I remember I saw it coming down on me and it hit my face," she said.
Bundy attacked Kleiner and her roommate after fatally attacking two of her sorority sisters.
"They were literally almost killed. They were very fortunate. Both of them."
Only sparing their lives when car headlights risked exposing him.
"The Theodore Bundy-Chi Omage case that I prosecuted, it was a circumstantial evidence case."
Larry Simpson says that night provided one of the most important pieces of evidence.
"Whenever you look at the [movie trailer clip with the] sketch and you look at Mr. Bundy, it's almost identical."
And now, 30 years after Bundy's death, his name is re-emerging with a new Netflix docu-series and a new movie.
Kleiner and Simpson both say the story re-emerging is actually important.
"You've always got to be ever vigilant and protecting yourself wherever you are and whatever you're doing."
Kleiner returned home after the attack, and says her parents did their best to protect her until the trial.
"He was sitting in his typical stance, with his hand on his chin and his typical look and I remember looking straight at him as he looked straight at me."
Kleiner's jaw was broken, her tongue nearly bitten off, but she says it couldn't compare to the emotional trauma he caused.
"He scared me in a way that made me want to throw up."
Kleiner is now working to help out other people that have faced abuse.
"Everyday you take a step and one day you put it behind you."
Kleiner added the experience intially made her afraid of every man.
But, determined to not let Bundy win, she took a job in a lumber mill and quit when she felt like she had overcome her fear.
