Further media on Mia Zapata:

The Gits: The Band The Music The Legacy

Further reading on Ted Bundy:

The Stranger Beside Me: The Twentieth Anniversary Edition

Info:

Mia Zapata was a you bright punk rock singer in Seattle grunge/punk scene. She started out a college student in Ohio when she and three friends decide to form the punk band they would call the Gits and relocate to Seattle. Mia was well connected and greatly loved in the community and was credited with being the Hub of many social circles, and as a performer she was known to be energetic and full of life.

On July 7, 1993 in the early hours of 2am Zapata left a Tavern and went to see a friend who lived in an apartment building two blocks away, this was the last time she was seen alive.

At 3:30 am her body was found at an intersection in Seattles Central District, she had been beaten, raped, and strangled. As she had no identification her at the time, she was not identified until the medical examiner, who was a fan of the band and had been to their concerts, recognized her.

In 2003, Jesus Mezquia was arrested and charged in connection with the case based on DNA evidence they collected from saliva found on Mia’s body. Mezquia had a history of violence especially toward woman, including domestic abuse, assault, battery, and burglary.

It is believed he saw Mia leave the bar, and followed her the short distance before pulling her into his car and attacking her. Knowing that she wore a headset that covered her ears fully, she would not have heard him come upon her until it was too late.

Her death created a lot of fear within the Seattle community and she became a sort of martyr for the feminist’s cause.

Then it was go big or go home….

Ted Bundy, almost everyone knows about good ole hunky Ted. However if you don’t, Ann Rule is the only way to go, as most people know she also worked with Ted at a suicide hot line! A serial killer working at a suicide hotline! can you imagine!!

Bundy has confessed to murdering 30 women between 1974 and 1978, there are also 5 women who were able to survive his attacks. Bundy was put in jail and was able escape and he even represented himself during his court cases, because as we know he was a true sociopath.

But in the end Bundy was convicted of all counts and sentenced to death and on January 24, 1989 he died in the electric chair.

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