About this title: Ann Rule was a writer working on the biggest story of her life, tracking down a brutal mass-murderer. Little did she know that the young man who was her close friend was the savage slayer she was hunting. Ted Bundy was everyone's picture of a natural 'winner' - handsome, charming, brilliant in law school, successful with women, on the verge of a dazzling career. On January 24, 1989 Ted Bundy was executed for the murders of three young women; he subsequently confessed to taking the lives of a least thirty-five more young women, coast to coast. This is his story - the story of his magnetic ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New American Library
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780451164933ISBN:0451164938
Description: Grade: C. Catalog: Non-Fiction Crime Synopsis: Editions vary. 298 pages. Ted Bundy was everyone's picture of a natural 'winner'-handsome, charming, brilliant in law school, successful with women, ... read more
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"Still the most famous - and possibly the best - of the true crime genre, featuring Ted Bundy as the poster boy for America's obsession with serial killers. Rule's book stands out for a number of reasons. She knew Bundy, worked alongside him in a crisis center, and although she was a former policewoman with a real talent for researching sociopaths, Bundy was so intelligent, so charming, so seemingly "normal," that Rule never once suspected his darkness. Her fluid writing style and talent for conveying the facts without sensationalizing them, makes the book even more chilling in its rendering of everyday people unaware of the killer right next to them. To this day, I have a heightened awareness of the "tricks of the trade" some serial killers use to lure victims. The man with the cast who needs help carrying something, the man with crutches who keeps dropping an item, the passenger door handles removed from the inside of a car, the overly charming man who needs directions. Bundy's story is a too common one these days of the neighbor everyone liked and thought couldn't possibly have preyed upon the good intentions of unsuspecting women...until he tells the police where all the bodies are hidden (or in Bundy's case, a small fraction of the potential bodies). A must-read for anyone interested in the darkness our society can spawn."
"For obvious reasons, this book freaked me out. One night, Kevin was gone late and I was home reading this book in the dark. I was a bit scared. It was interesting to read how Ted Bundy had such two different lives, how colleagues joked with him that he was "Ted" the serial killer (never imagining that he was really the man), and how our childhood experiences/love experiences can have such a profound affect on us. At one point I was almost sick to my stomach from the details and the enormity of destruction Ted Bundy caused. I felt the book was a bit wordy and repeated itself at times but it gave a good insight of what little they can figure out of Ted Bundy."
"Crime is a fascinating subject. Most crimes have a motive or the person who commits the crime a motivation. What is so incredible about this book is that the author knows the subject and with her background in law enforcement, tells the story of Ted Bundy with such honesty, clarity and bravery that she explains a serial killer. Before reading this book, I had looked for books to explain this type of behavior. What makes a person commit these crimes? What happened? Why? Ann Rule clearly and conscisely goes through the entire tragedy of Ted Bundy. She knew him and was friends with him and yet did not "know" him. This is an incredible read."
"Ann Rule's "The Stranger Beside Me" is probably the most frightening of all the accounts of Ted Bundy's murderous career. Why? Because Rule was a former policewoman, she considered Ted Bundy a co-worker and friend and never saw the sociopathic personality lurking behind his charming facade. As a society, I think we want to believe that we can easily spot those Bundys, Dahmers, Gacys . . . and Rule's book emphasizes the fact that we cannot. Those monsters blend in sometimes seamlessly with the rest of us. Rule's book does a huge service to Bundy's victims by recognizing them as more than just "Bundy victims". Reading about their dreams, their goals and their daily lives makes the horror of their deaths sting even more. Rule's sadness over the story comes through in nearly every page - - sadness at the loss of lives and sadness over what Bundy's life could have been and what he could have offered had he not been so consumed by murder. Having known Bundy before he became infamous as a serial killer, Rule gives insight into Bundy's personality and character, from his childhood, through his adolescence into his political and legal aspirations, all the while fostering a murderous rage toward women. An insightful book, one that makes you check and doublecheck your windows and doors and pray that you never cross the path of someone like Bundy. Definitely one of Rule's best books. Highly recommended."
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