Name: Cheryl Thomas, ?? years-old.
Attacked: Jan 14, 1978 Tallahassee Florida.

Cheryl is a tall, slim girl with long dark hair and dark eyes, very pretty and rather shy. Cheryl, a dance student, had gone out and after staying to have tea at her date's, she returned home around 1:30 am. She turned on the tv, made something to eat and fed her new kitten. Her neighbors and friends who lived next door, arrived home and shouted teasingly through the wall for her to turn down the tv. She turned out the kitchen light, waited for the kitty to follow her, and went to bed. Later she awoke to a sound, decided it was the kitten on the kitchen window sill and drifted back to sleep.

Her neighbor, Debbie, woke around 4 am to a strange hammering sound. She slept on a mattress on the floor and felt the whole house vibrate from the thumps. She shook her roommate awake and they listened in fear until there was silence. Then they heard Cheryl moaning and whimpering. They weren't sure whether it was from a bad dream or not, so Debbie snuck to the phone and quietly called her boyfriend and asked what they should do. He told her it was probably nothing, but she felt there was something horribly wrong.

The girls had a security check they'd made up a while before that. They were always to answer the phone no matter what, no matter what time. If they didnt, then something was wrong. They called Cheryl's room til it rang 5 times, and Debbie's roommate said loudly, "Call the police...NOW!" As they were reaching the police, they heard a great crash from Cheryls apartment, as if someone was running and crashing through the kitchen. Debbie and her roommate were shocked to see a dozen police cars at their house within 4 minutes of their call.

They had no idea what had gone on at Chi Omega. Cheryl was found lying diagonally across her bed, barely conscious, whimpering and writhing in pain. Her face was turning purple with bruises, it was swollen and she had several serious head wounds. She suffered the worst injuries on that night. Her skull was fractured in 5 places, causing permanent hearing loss in her left ear. Her left shoulder was dislocated, her jaw was broken, and her 8th cranial nerve was so damaged that she would never have normal equilibrium.

She wasnt released from the hospital for a month. If the girls hadn't shouted about calling the police, one can only guess what an uninteruppted Ted Bundy would have finished doing to Cheryl Thomas.