Robert Hayward — a Utah Highway Patrol trooper who took a wrong turn and stumbled upon a suspicious Volkswagen Beetle that happened to be carrying one of the most notorious killers in America history, Ted Bundy — died Sunday at his home in West Valley City. He was 90.
Hayward was a state trooper for 33 years and retired as a captain in 1986. His most memorable arrest, and what he called his best police work, came at 3 a.m. on Aug. 16, 1975.
According to an account Hayward later gave to the Associated Press in 2000, he was sitting in his cruiser, finishing paperwork, outside his own home in the suburban-Salt Lake City community then called Granger.