on august 16, 1975, bundy was arrested for not stopping his car when ordered to by a police officer. when they searched his car they found a ski mask, a crowbar, handcuffs, trash bags, and other items that they thought he must have been using to burglarize houses. the police then noticed that his car was the car the girl who escaped had told them about. bundy was sentenced on march 1, 1976, to fifteen years in prison for kidnapping her. bundy escaped from the police twice in 1977 before he could be sentenced for the murders he had committed. by early 1978 he had made his way to florida where he killed two more women and injured three others. after that he murdered a 12-year-old girl called kimberley leach. she was the last girl murdered by bundy before he was stopped by a police officer on february 15, 1978.