Notes of Von Drehle’s conversation with Jerry Blair & draft version of Michael Mello’s essay “On Metaphors, Mirrors, and Murders: Theodore Bundy and the Rule of Law”
I am sharing on Internet Archive a pdf file from the Von Drehle Papers, courtesy M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University at Albany , State University of New York . This pdf file contains notes of Von Drehle’s conversation with Jerry Blair, about how Blair prosecuted the Leach case, and about his impressions after having witnessed Bundy's execution, and also a draft of Michael Mello’s essay “On Metaphors, Mirrors, and Murders: Theodore Bundy and the Rule of Law”. https://archive.org/details/jerry-blair-mello Michael Mello was a criminal and constitutional law professor, and consulted with Bundy’s lawyers and with Bundy himself, personally. When Florida Gov. Bob Martinez signed a death warrant for Bundy on Jan. 17, 1989, scheduling his death by electric chair seven days later, Bundy’s attorney James Coleman headed down to Florida to get appeals started, and he and Mello began a series of telephone discussions. Mel...