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Who knew that over thirteen years after Bundy's death there would be a break in the case? While browsing around today I found out that on March 8 a man named William E. Cosden, Jr., was arrested for the murder of supposed Bundy victim Kathy Devine. DNA evidence preserved from Devine's 1973 murder linked Cosden, who was serving a prison sentence from a 1976 rape conviction, to Devine. Investigators should be commended for continuing the pursuit of Devine's killer through all these years when it would have been easy to chalk the killing up to Bundy and be done with it. I guess ol' Ted wasn't totally untrustworthy, he refused to admit to Devine's killing during the marathon confession sessions in his final days.
William Cosden, Jr., was found guilty of murder in the killing of Kathy Devine with a judge's recommendation that he never be released. He was currently serving a 48 year sentence for rape and had been placed in a mental hospital after the 1967 murder of another woman but was released in time to kill Devine in 1973. I'm thinking this guy's had enough chances.
This is not exactly earth shattering news, but I take what I can get. The apartment where Bundy stayed in Tallahassee in 1978, then named The Oaks, burned almost to the ground on December 3. The three-story house was apparently already abandoned because of an accidental fire over a year ago. This fire was apparently setm perhaps purposefully, by unknown transients who had been living in the house.