Museum
Orange County Regional History Center
Beaux Arts courthouse turned museum, once site of a headline murder trial, now telling fourteen thousand years of local history.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Orange County Regional History Center in Orlando opens in January 1980, when Ted Bundy walked into this courthouse to represent himself at his own murder trial for the killing of twelve-year-old Kimberly Leach. You'll hear how the month-long trial turned into a media circus, why the actual courtroom no longer stands, and the mystery of a carved name found where records say Bundy never set foot. The guide then traces the building's own history, from architect Murry King's unfinished courthouse to its second life as a museum of Central Florida's past.
This audio guide was created using AI.