The Stranger Beside Me - The Shocking Insider Story of Ted Bundy

2001·9.46 MB·english

by  Ann Rule

After working alone with him on the late-night shift at a suicide hotline,
she became close friends with Ted Bundy, a handsome, whip-smart
psychology major about to attend law school. Soon the world would know
him as one of the most savage serial killers of our time. …
THE STRANGER BESIDE ME
The true-crime classic from #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING
AUTHOR ANN RULE
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killer in modern American history.”
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THE STRANGER
BESIDE ME
by
Ann Rule

Planet Ann Rule
Copyright © 2012 by Ann Rule
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I have been fortunate indeed to have had the support of many individuals
and organizations in writing this book. Without their help and emotional
backing, it would have been impossible, and I would like to thank them:
The Committee of Friends and Families of Victims of Violent Crimes and
Missing Persons; The Seattle Police Department Crimes Against Persons
Unit. The King County Police Department Major Crimes Unit; former
Sheriff Don Redmond of Thurston County. Lieutenant James Stovall of the
Salem, Oregon, Police Department. Gene Miller of the Miami Herald.
George Thurston of the Washington Post, Tony Polk of the Rocky Mountain
News. Rick Barry of the Tampa Tribune. Albert Govoni, editor of True
Detective. Jack Olsen. Yvonne E. W. Smith. Amelia Mills. Maureen and
Bill Woodcock. Dr. Peter J. Modde. And my children, Laura, Leslie, Andy,
and Mike, who gave up months of their mother’s companionship so that I
might write.
And tortures him now more, the more he sees
Of pleasure not for him ordained: then soon
Fierce hate he recollects, and all his thoughts
Of mischief, gratulating, thus excites:
“Thoughts, whither have ye led me? with what sweet
Compulsion thus transported to forget
What hither brought us? hate, not love, nor hope
Of Paradise for Hell, hope here to taste
Of pleasure, but all pleasure to destroy,
Save what is in destroying. other joy
To me is lost. …”
Paradise Lost: Book IX
(Lines 469-79)
Table of Contents
The Final Chapter
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Preface
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35