George Robert "Bob" Dekle Sr. (born May 23, 1948) is an American lawyer who was an Assistant State Attorney in Florida's Third Judicial Circuit from 1975 through 2005.

During this time, he served as lead prosecuting attorney in the 1980 Orlando murder trial of serial killer Ted Bundy, which ultimately delivered the death penalty that was carried out in 1989.

Dekle served as a Legal Skills Professor at Levin College of Law, University of Florida, from 2006 through June 2016.

In 7th or 8th grade, he skipped school to watch the closing arguments of a double murder trial in Lake Butler.

From 2006 through June 2016 he has been Legal Skills Professor at the University of Florida, Levin College of Law, overseeing the Prosecution Clinic.

In an interview in 2016, Dekle summarized the hardest lesson he learned as a trial lawyer:[2] [...] you should try your case, not fight opposing counsel.

and a lesson that he would like to pass on to new trial lawyers: You have a job to do as a prosecutor, and sometimes the people and incidents you deal with aren't very pretty.

But you should never lose sight of the fact that a prosecutor is a minister of justice, not a vigilante avenger.The trial of Ted Bundy in Orlando was the second murder trial of serial killer Bundy, who had previously been convicted and received two death sentences for two homicides in the Chi Omega proceedings in Miami in June 1979.

In his book The Last Murder: The Investigation, Prosecution, and Execution of Ted Bundy, published May 2011, Dekle conveys that a successful third conviction in the circumstantial evidence case was anything but certain.

He documents the enormous amount of work and preparation needed for the high-profile case, including the intricacies and complexities of investigation and prosecution, often across multiple states and jurisdictions.

), author of Trial Preparation for Prosecutors:[a]Dekle takes the reader "behind the scenes" to show that homicide investigations are arduous, unglamorous processes that can be sidetracked by both dead end leads and bureaucratic pettiness and that the resulting trials often experience unexpected legal and evidentiary potholes.

Bundy's eventual conviction is a testament to dogged hard work by Dekle, his fellow prosecutors and assisting law enforcement.

[5] The book is an "easy read" according to Lake City Reporter publisher Todd Wilson, while also a detailed historical chronicle of events.

Dekle credits numerous law enforcement agents, prosecutors, and investigators who worked closely on the case for contributing to its success.

He became an avid international postal chess player, including games of shogi,[7] and was an active member of NOST.

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