Synopsis
Ann Rule's compelling account of the case of serial killer Ted Bundy has become a classic in the true crime category. Rule's account of Bundy's crimes, her insightful rendering of the psychology of a killer, and the dramatic police search for the man named "Ted" gains even more interest when it is revealed, to her and to her readers, that she actually knew Bundy years earlier. They had worked together in Seattle at a crisis clinic, where they became, for a time, good friends. Bundy was executed in 1989; Rule is now one of the top true crime writers in America.
In 1967, Ann Rule worked late nights at a suicide-counseling hotline in Seattle, Washington. One of her coworkers was a charming young man named Ted Bundy--a man who would go on to become one of the country's most infamous serial killers. At the time, Bundy was insecure and introverted, but during several skiing trips, their romance flourished and she was, she believes, his first sexual encounter. However, she felt he was immature and tended to lie, and she after moving back to California she ended he relationship. He continued to write her, and when they met again several years later, their romance briefly flared up again--there was even talk of marriage. Little did Rule know that Bundy had already begun a string of gruesome murders across the country. In her best-selling true-crime account, Rule reveals her intimate encounters with a psychotic monster, and provides a portrait of a killer that perhaps only she is qualified to tell.
In the updated version of her bestselling true-crime account, Ann Rule suggests that Ted Bundy may have killed when he was still a child: a missing 8-year-old girl lived on his newspaper delivery route.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 2000-09-01 | | Edition Description: | Anniversary |
| Size | | Length: | 456 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 29.6 oz |
Publisher's Note
Ted Bundy was handsome, charming, a brilliant law student, and on the verge of a dazzling career. On January 24, 1989, he was executed for the murders of three young women, having confessed to taking the lives of at least thirty-five more. This is the story of one of the most fascinating killers in American history--of his magnetic power, his bleak compulsion, his double life, his string of helpless victims. It is also the story of Ann Rule, a writer working on the biggest story of her life, tracking down a brutal mass murderer. Little did she realize that the "Ted" the police were seeking was the same Ted who worked with her at a Seattle crisis clinic, a man who had become her close friend and confidant. As she began to put the evidence together, a terrifying picture emerged of the man she thought she knew. Twenty years after it was first published, The Stranger Beside Me remains a gripping, explosive true-crime classic. 8 pages of photographs.
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