The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule Hardcover Copyright 1980 1st ED Ex Library

Description: Acceptable Ex library Hardcover 1st Edition Copyright 1980. Usual library damages, as pictured. The murders began in Seattle, not far from where Ann Rule lived. One by one, young women began to disappear. Sometimes the bodies were found strangled or sexually mutilated. The killer seemed to choose only those who were gifted and beautiful. It was a pattern without clues. Ann Rule, a crime reporter and former policewoman, had access to every aspect of the investigation. She also had two teen-aged daughters, and she had talked with the families of the victims. Then, one panic-ridden Sunday when two girls disappeared from a crowded state park, it was learned that the police were searching for a man named "Ted." Ann Rule began to wonder: was it a coincidence that her friend Ted Bundy's car was the same color and model as "Ted's"? And didn't the missing women all bear an eerie physical resemblance to the woman who had been Ted Bundy's fiance and had left him? But no, Ted Bundy was a good friend, a brilliant law student, a "winner" by anyone's definition. Today Ted Bundy is in prison in Florida, convicted of killing two women and a twelve-year-old girl there. Police say the list of his victims may number thirty-eight, and perhaps many more, in Washington, Utah, Colorado, and Florida. Ann Rule has stayed in touch with him by phone, letters, and visits, and in this book, she tells the fascinating story of the investigations that tracked Bundy down and of his dramatic escapes from jail. "I have known Ted Bundy for ten years," she writes. "He was to me like the younger brother I had lost.... There can be no happy ending, but I have tried to explain what made Ted run, his good side, and the bleak compulsion that destroyed him."

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