Name a famous serial killer.
There’s a good chance that one of the first names that came to your mind was Ted Bundy.
Over a period of years, mostly in the 1970’s, Ted Bundy killed at least 30 people that we know of, but probably more.
Finally, in 1979, the charismatic 33-year-old was caught, tried, and convicted in Florida.
He spent the next eight years in prison, as appeal after appeal went through the courts. Then, in 1987, he met the woman who would be his last lawyer: Polly Nelson.
A freshly minted lawyer with a big Washington law firm, Nelson was chosen to do some pro bono work – it turned out, it was the Bundy case.
For the next two years, Nelson worked on his case, trying to find some way to keep him off death row.
Bundy was executed in 1989, however, and five years later, I met Polly Nelson, when she wrote a book about the case.
So here now, from 1994, Polly Nelson.
Attorney Poly Nelson is 69 now.
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