Title: The Stranger Beside Me Pdf The Twentieth Anniversary Edition
Author: Ann Rule
Published Date: 2000
Page: 456
Not long ago, true crime writer Ann Rule recalls lying on an operating table. The anesthesiologist leaned over before putting her to sleep. "Ann," the anesthesiologist said softly, "tell me, what was Ted Bundy really like?" Despite meeting Florida's electric chair in 1989, the subject of Rule's bestselling book continues to haunt her. Rule and Bundy were friends. They met in 1971 at a Seattle crisis clinic, where they shared the late shift answering a suicide hotline. Their subsequent conversations, meetings, and letters spanned the rest of Bundy's life as he evolved into one of the century's most notorious serial killers. It's been 20 years since Rule first penned this chilling account. But the story--and her 2000 update--will still have readers reaching for their Xanax. No gratuitous gore here; just the basic, bone-chilling evidence. In fact, like a protective mother shielding us from horrors too awful to mention, Rule seems to avoid delving too deeply into crime scene descriptions. She devotes one paragraph in her new afterword to her discovery that Bundy engaged in necrophilia and returned to the scenes of his crimes to "line dead lips and eyes with garish makeup and to put blush on pale cheeks." She tells readers that John Hinckley, who shot Ronald Reagan, and David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam Killer, traded prison correspondences with Bundy. And she hints that Bundy's insatiable killer instincts may have started when he was a 14-year-old paperboy. (Ann Marie Burr, an 8-year-old girl on his route, mysteriously disappeared in the middle of the night and has never been found.) The skimpy update is over too soon, leaving readers wanting more and offering further proof of the public's never-ending fascination with serial killers. --Jodi Mailander Farrell As dramatic and chilling as a bedroom window shattering at midnight. -- The New York Times
"As dramatic and chilling as a bedroom window shattering at midnight." ―New York Times
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.
Thirty-five years after it was first published, The Stranger Beside Me remains a gripping, explosive true-crime classic.
Ann Rule RULES!!! Ann Rule was an exceptional writer who I just know was born to write this book, and others like it. She gives a chilling account of what it was like to have actually known Ted Bundy, to have worked alongside him, and then to have gone through the absolutely harrowing ordeal of discovering he was one of the most prolific serial killers of all time. I felt like I was living right alongside her. A very compelling book, with fascinating details and great honesty. A must read for crime buffs and students of human nature. EXCELLENT!!!I Rate This Book Five Depressing Stars I am not going to attempt to summarize this book when so many others have reviewed it before me. However, Ann Rule has done an exceptional job of covering her experiences with Ted Bundy as a co-worker and as one who corresponded with Mr. Bundy through numerous letters after he left the state of Washington. Sadly, Mr. Bundy often appealed to the goodness in others in getting them to help him when he appeared handicapped with a cast on an arm or a leg prior to killing them. Ted Bundy is the classic example of how it has become impossible to trust even the most sincere person who has a desire to help another individual. Ted Bundy has shown there is no stereotypical individual as to what a serial killer should look like. The book is 456 pages long, but it certainly makes for gripping reading. I would not, however, want to read another book on Ted Bundy. This one was enough.Nighmare Material Great book, but definitely have something "feelgood" close by after you read this!Ann Rule walks you through these crimes in an "and you were there" sort of way. She was there for part of it. In a bizarre twist of circumstance, she actually knew Ted Bundy as a co-worker when they sat side by side, taking calls at a crisis hotline.This book is partially an examination of the author's own feelings about how someone she grew to be fairly good friends with, someone she came to believe was a caring, sensitive, intelligent individual with a world of potential before him, could act with such cold, calculating cruelty.One of the court appointed psychiatrists that examines Bundy pinpoints the problem, diagnosing him as having antisocial disorder, which used to be known as being psychopathic. According to this expert, people with this disorder are masters at hiding the problem in their day to day lives, making it hard to catch, and impossible to cure.Many more things are revealed in this book, and if you have the kind of morbid curiosity that I have, you'll find this book well worth your time.
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