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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yep. We love your unbelievable stories, the things that you
go what that can't be true, but they actually we
got Kathy on this morning. Good morning, Kathy, what's your
unbelievable tile?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Good morning. I was attacked by the serial killer Ted Bundy.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
WHOA, Kathy, you sound so joyous.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
It's a time in my life and I've walked through
it and passed it, so I'm good taking care of
talking about it because that actually helps to heal me.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
What happened.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I was in a sorority house. I was at Florida
State University. I had joined a sorority house and that
night I was staying in the door sorority house and
my room was on the second floor, and our curtains
are open at night. But in the middle of the night,
there was someone that was standing outside our back door
(00:48):
in the dark. He picked up a piece of wood
that was standing next to the back door stair. The
back door wasn't shut completely, so he walked through and
up the stairwell. Their room that he came to. This
person opened the door and killed Margaret Bowman. He strangled
her and clubbed her. The second door he went to
(01:10):
was Lisa Levi he strangled her and killed her. The
next room he came into was my room. I was
asleep in my bed and I heard the door of
our bedroom door rush and it hit the carpet it
was sliding across, and that made a noise enough for
me to wake up a little bit. It wasn't a
loud noise, it was just a noise that woke me up.
(01:31):
In our bedroom, it was about the size of a
regular dormitory, but between our beds it wasn't very very
much space. We had a small footlocker, like a little chest,
and we had things on that that are plants and books.
So this person, when he rushed open the door and
I heard the carpet, he tripped and made a big
noise over this little footlocker because he couldn't see it.
(01:53):
And as he did that, I'm awake now, and I'm
looking up, and I see a silhouette. I see someone
stand in the dark next to my bed. He started
to raise his arm up over his head, and I
could see that he had something in his hand, and
it was that piece of log that he had picked
up that he had killed Margaret with and Lisa with.
(02:14):
And he came down and he slammed it on my
face so hard it broke my jaw in three places,
and my jaw was just hanging on to the joint.
It split my cheek open from my nose over to
my ear, and it was just flapped open. He could
see the inside of my mouth. I also had my
jaw splintered so bad that they eventually had to use
(02:36):
a wire to close it up. So I'm in my
bed now, in this state of misbelief and hurt. He
went across the room because he heard my roommatester, so
he went across the room and hit her with that
same club, and she started to fight him. That I
always I was also awake, and I was yelling and
screaming my head off, but I was only making gurgling
(02:58):
sounds because of all this blood in my mouth. So
he walked back over to my side of the room,
and I had laid there and made myself into the
smallest little ball I could, and I hid myself under
my sheets because I thought if he couldn't see me,
he wouldn't kill me. And I know this next blow
was going to kill me. So as I looked up
(03:19):
under my sheets, and this little bitty ball I see
him raise his arm up again with that club. But
just then the room thought real light. A car was
coming home and was in that back parking lot that
we faced, was bringing someone home from a date that night,
So why the light shone up in our room? It
was really bright. He thought he was either seen by
(03:40):
the car coming in or seen by me. And he
stood there and he was real antsy and just didn't
know what to do. So he turned around and left
our room and left the rody ouse, down the stairs
and out through the front floor, and then in my
room he got all blacked again. I couldn't see anything.
The car had turned around the parking lot, and my
(04:00):
room was black again, and I'm yelling laying there and
I just don't know what's happening. It hurts so bad.
It hurt the It was just like fire and knives
in my face. And I touched my face and it
was warm, and it was just nothing I could explain.
In the horror of the moment, I passed out. And
(04:22):
after a while I woke up and there was a
police officer next to my bed and he was standing
next to me, and I looked up and everything was
so confusing to me. I knew I was gonna be
okay because there was a police officer. The paramedics came
and they tended to my wounds, and they were taking
me on a stretcher down the front staircase and out
those big wooden doors, and it was cold. It was
(04:45):
so cold out, and I had one of those little
reflective blankets on me, so when I was taken out,
it was weird. And all the fire truck lights and
the peasecar lights and the ambulance lights, they were all squirreling,
and I could feel walk the talk isn't the place
talking to each other and it sounded like a lot
of chatter, And for a minute I thought I was
at a carnival because the lights and the noise. I
(05:09):
looked down and I could see the midway of the
carnival and people walking around, and those people, you know, squawking,
come to my booth and hit a ball, and it
just was so bright in my mind for those few
moments of a Halucia's nation. Then they took me into
the ambulance and my police officer came with me, and
(05:29):
then we went to the er.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Kathy when in all of this, because in this moment, obviously,
and he said, you knew that you were okay because
there was a police officer and then you were in
the ambulance and you've gone to the er. Yes, but
when did you know? Not only have I survived something horrible,
but I have survived a serial killer who has confessed
to thirty murders, but his three victim title is unknown.
(05:53):
And it was actually Ted Bundy who had done this too.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I had to leave Tallahauser right away and was blown
back to Miami to recuperate. And there was a couple
of weeks until they made an arrest, which was Ted Bundy.
He was in Florida trying to leave the state of
Florida out through Pensacola and into the state of Alabama.
He was stopped on a traffic violation, and so when
(06:16):
they figured out that he was Ted Bundy, they took
him back to Tallahassee to go into the Leon prison.
And I'm in my house in Miami and I'm trying
to get better, And when they said they had someone arrested,
in my mind, I thought, I'm sure it's not him,
you know, I'm sure they'll have a lot of people arrested.
But That's when I found out was Ted Bundy, and
(06:37):
I did not know his history. I did not know
he was a serial killer, and he killed so many
young women and just took them away from this world
so soon that I couldn't even comprehend feeling that way.
But I knew I was going to get better. I
knew I wasn't going to sit in Miami and just
not communicate. So I called the Authrority a couple of
(07:00):
times and friends at FSU, and I never got calls back.
And I know everyone's living their life and doing their thing,
but I would have loved to talk to someone and
hear them say it wasn't my fault, that I did
nothing wrong, and I needed them to say that, but
I didn't hear it.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Kathy, you are amazing and I can only tell and
suggest to people to go and get your book. What
a story of survival. Thank you so very much for
joining us this morning.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Thank you, and the name of the book is a
Light in the dark, surviving more than Ted Bundy.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Kathy Klina Ruben, thank you very much for your time.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Thank you so much for letting me talk with you.
Have a good day.
Yep. We love your unbelievable stories, the things that you
go what that can't be true, but they actually we
got Kathy on this morning. Good morning, Kathy, what's your
unbelievable tile?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Good morning. I was attacked by the serial killer Ted Bundy.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
WHOA, Kathy, you sound so joyous.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
It's a time in my life and I've walked through
it and passed it, so I'm good taking care of
talking about it because that actually helps to heal me.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
What happened.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I was in a sorority house. I was at Florida
State University. I had joined a sorority house and that
night I was staying in the door sorority house and
my room was on the second floor, and our curtains
are open at night. But in the middle of the night,
there was someone that was standing outside our back door
(00:48):
in the dark. He picked up a piece of wood
that was standing next to the back door stair. The
back door wasn't shut completely, so he walked through and
up the stairwell. Their room that he came to. This
person opened the door and killed Margaret Bowman. He strangled
her and clubbed her. The second door he went to
(01:10):
was Lisa Levi he strangled her and killed her. The
next room he came into was my room. I was
asleep in my bed and I heard the door of
our bedroom door rush and it hit the carpet it
was sliding across, and that made a noise enough for
me to wake up a little bit. It wasn't a
loud noise, it was just a noise that woke me up.
(01:31):
In our bedroom, it was about the size of a
regular dormitory, but between our beds it wasn't very very
much space. We had a small footlocker, like a little chest,
and we had things on that that are plants and books.
So this person, when he rushed open the door and
I heard the carpet, he tripped and made a big
noise over this little footlocker because he couldn't see it.
(01:53):
And as he did that, I'm awake now, and I'm
looking up, and I see a silhouette. I see someone
stand in the dark next to my bed. He started
to raise his arm up over his head, and I
could see that he had something in his hand, and
it was that piece of log that he had picked
up that he had killed Margaret with and Lisa with.
(02:14):
And he came down and he slammed it on my
face so hard it broke my jaw in three places,
and my jaw was just hanging on to the joint.
It split my cheek open from my nose over to
my ear, and it was just flapped open. He could
see the inside of my mouth. I also had my
jaw splintered so bad that they eventually had to use
(02:36):
a wire to close it up. So I'm in my
bed now, in this state of misbelief and hurt. He
went across the room because he heard my roommatester, so
he went across the room and hit her with that
same club, and she started to fight him. That I
always I was also awake, and I was yelling and
screaming my head off, but I was only making gurgling
(02:58):
sounds because of all this blood in my mouth. So
he walked back over to my side of the room,
and I had laid there and made myself into the
smallest little ball I could, and I hid myself under
my sheets because I thought if he couldn't see me,
he wouldn't kill me. And I know this next blow
was going to kill me. So as I looked up
(03:19):
under my sheets, and this little bitty ball I see
him raise his arm up again with that club. But
just then the room thought real light. A car was
coming home and was in that back parking lot that
we faced, was bringing someone home from a date that night,
So why the light shone up in our room? It
was really bright. He thought he was either seen by
(03:40):
the car coming in or seen by me. And he
stood there and he was real antsy and just didn't
know what to do. So he turned around and left
our room and left the rody ouse, down the stairs
and out through the front floor, and then in my
room he got all blacked again. I couldn't see anything.
The car had turned around the parking lot, and my
(04:00):
room was black again, and I'm yelling laying there and
I just don't know what's happening. It hurts so bad.
It hurt the It was just like fire and knives
in my face. And I touched my face and it
was warm, and it was just nothing I could explain.
In the horror of the moment, I passed out. And
(04:22):
after a while I woke up and there was a
police officer next to my bed and he was standing
next to me, and I looked up and everything was
so confusing to me. I knew I was gonna be
okay because there was a police officer. The paramedics came
and they tended to my wounds, and they were taking
me on a stretcher down the front staircase and out
those big wooden doors, and it was cold. It was
(04:45):
so cold out, and I had one of those little
reflective blankets on me, so when I was taken out,
it was weird. And all the fire truck lights and
the peasecar lights and the ambulance lights, they were all squirreling,
and I could feel walk the talk isn't the place
talking to each other and it sounded like a lot
of chatter, And for a minute I thought I was
at a carnival because the lights and the noise. I
(05:09):
looked down and I could see the midway of the
carnival and people walking around, and those people, you know, squawking,
come to my booth and hit a ball, and it
just was so bright in my mind for those few
moments of a Halucia's nation. Then they took me into
the ambulance and my police officer came with me, and
(05:29):
then we went to the er.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Kathy when in all of this, because in this moment, obviously,
and he said, you knew that you were okay because
there was a police officer and then you were in
the ambulance and you've gone to the er. Yes, but
when did you know? Not only have I survived something horrible,
but I have survived a serial killer who has confessed
to thirty murders, but his three victim title is unknown.
(05:53):
And it was actually Ted Bundy who had done this too.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I had to leave Tallahauser right away and was blown
back to Miami to recuperate. And there was a couple
of weeks until they made an arrest, which was Ted Bundy.
He was in Florida trying to leave the state of
Florida out through Pensacola and into the state of Alabama.
He was stopped on a traffic violation, and so when
(06:16):
they figured out that he was Ted Bundy, they took
him back to Tallahassee to go into the Leon prison.
And I'm in my house in Miami and I'm trying
to get better, And when they said they had someone arrested,
in my mind, I thought, I'm sure it's not him,
you know, I'm sure they'll have a lot of people arrested.
But That's when I found out was Ted Bundy, and
(06:37):
I did not know his history. I did not know
he was a serial killer, and he killed so many
young women and just took them away from this world
so soon that I couldn't even comprehend feeling that way.
But I knew I was going to get better. I
knew I wasn't going to sit in Miami and just
not communicate. So I called the Authrority a couple of
(07:00):
times and friends at FSU, and I never got calls back.
And I know everyone's living their life and doing their thing,
but I would have loved to talk to someone and
hear them say it wasn't my fault, that I did
nothing wrong, and I needed them to say that, but
I didn't hear it.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Kathy, you are amazing and I can only tell and
suggest to people to go and get your book. What
a story of survival. Thank you so very much for
joining us this morning.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Thank you, and the name of the book is a
Light in the dark, surviving more than Ted Bundy.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Kathy Klina Ruben, thank you very much for your time.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Thank you so much for letting me talk with you.
Have a good day.
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