The One Thing Ted Bundy Left Behind at Chi Omega That He Couldn't Take Back

He took everything else — the weapon, the mask, the evidence of entry. But he left a bite mark on Lisa Levy's body, and a forensic dentist in a Miami courtroom would match it to the defendant's teeth.

Hidden Killers w/ Tony Brueski

Jun 03, 2026

Three in the morning. January 15, 1978. Nita Neary, a member of the Chi Omega sorority at Florida State University, has been dropped off by a date in front of the chapter house on West Jefferson Street. She turns her key in the front door, steps into the dark foyer, and stops.

She hears something upstairs. A thump. Then footsteps. Then a small sound from one of the rooms that does not sound like a person sleeping.

She looks up the staircase.

A man is coming down it.

He is crouched. He is wearing a stocking mask. He has a dark knit cap pulled low on his head. He is carrying a piece of wood — what investigators will later identify as an oak log — in one hand. He sees her.

He bolts past her, out the front door, into the dark.

Nita Neary will be the only living person who sees him leave that house.

Nita Neary did not scream. She did not run out the door after him. She ran upstairs. She woke up another sister, Nancy Dowdy. They turned on the lights in the upstairs hallway. They opened the first bedroom door. The second. The third. They found Karen Chandler in the hallway, crawling. They found Kathy Kleiner sitting up in bed, her jaw broken, blood everywhere. They found Margaret Bowman. They found Lisa Levy. Then they called the police, and they sat on the floor of the upstairs hallway holding each other until the Tallahassee Police Department arrived, minutes later.

This is the fourth conversation in Ted Bundy: History’s Hidden Killers. It is about a state that had never heard of him, and the three weeks it took for the country to find him again, and what those three weeks cost.

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