Colorado newsroom finds photos of 1970s serial killer Ted Bundy in old safe

The photos were miraculously saved after the paper’s new owner ordered non-digital photos to be destroyed.

In this April 26, 1979, file photo, Ted Bundy leans back in his chair in the courtroom before his trial in Tallahassee, Fla. One of the most notorious serial killers in American history, Bundy is believed to have killed at least 30 young women across the United States in the 1970s. Bundy was one of the hundreds of fugitives who have appeared on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. (AP Photo/Mark Foley, File)

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado newsroom has found several photos of serial killer Ted Bundy from the 1970s.

The Post-Independent reports a local locksmith volunteered to open an old safe last week. The photos show Ted Bundy captured by police after he escaped from Garfield and Pitkin County jails in 1977 and police escorting him out of a court.

Newsroom employees had been using the safe as a table.

Bundy was known as a kidnapper, rapist, burglar and necrophile who killed many girls and women during the 1970s.

The newsroom says the photos survived despite a new owner’s order to dispose non-digital photos by being locked in the safe. By chance, the safe was not thrown out when the newsroom was moved to its current office in 2011.

Information from: Post Independent, http://www.postindependent.com/