The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
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Publisher Description
Utterly unique in its astonishing intimacy, as jarringly frightening as when it first appeared, Ann Rule's The Stranger Beside Me defies our expectation that we would surely know if a monster lived among us, worked alongside of us, appeared as one of us. With a slow chill that intensifies with each heart-pounding page, Rule describes her dawning awareness that Ted Bundy, her sensitive coworker on a crisis hotline, was one of the most prolific serial killers in America. He would confess to killing at least thirty-six young women from coast to coast, and was eventually executed for three of those cases. Drawing from their correspondence that endured until shortly before Bundy's death, and striking a seamless balance between her deeply personal perspective and her role as a crime reporter on the hunt for a savage serial killer -- the brilliant and charismatic Bundy, the man she thought she knew -- Rule changed the course of true-crime literature with this unforgettable chronicle.
Customer Reviews
Did Pornography Lead Ted Bundy to Serial Murder?
I was interested in this book because I remember a late night documentary show suggesting “snuff porn” led Ted Bundy into serial murder. After reading this memoir Ann Rule wrote from knowing Ted Bundy I think he was a master manipulator. Porn factored in to a number of things that I didn’t know about Ted.
I think Ted had murdered 10 women by the time he volunteered at the Seattle Crisis Center for people about to commit suicide. Ted saved a lot of lives. He even swam to save a kid from drowning. It is disturbing to think what his motives were for volunteering at the Seattle Crisis Center.