Its being called the most intriguing unsolved series of crimes since Jack the Ripper and she's been offered the chance to turn her articles into a book. Whats captivating Anns attention now is a string of brutal murdersmissing-women cases that have stretched from Utah to Seattle. She has a daughter, a fulfilling life, and a good friend in a man named Ted Bundy (Golden Globe nominee Billy Campbell, Once and Again), a handsome and intelligent charmer whos just been accepted into law school in Utah. To make ends meet, she indulges in another obsession writing true-crime stories.
Bundy eventually confessed to killing at least thirty-six women across the country.įorty years after its initial publication, The Stranger Beside Me remains a gripping, intimate, and unforgettable true-crime classic, “as dramatic and chilling as a bedroom window shattering at midnight” ( New York Times).Ann Rule (Emmy and Golden Globe winner Barbara Hershey, Beaches) is an ex-cop working the suicide hotlines in Seattle. As she put the evidence together, a terrifying picture emerged of the man she thought she knew-his magnetic power, his bleak compulsion, his double life, and, most of all, his string of helpless victims. But she had no idea that the “Ted” the police were seeking was the same Ted who had become her close friend and confidant. Three years later, eight young women disappeared in seven months, and Rule began tracking a brutal mass murderer. In 1971, while working the late-shift at a Seattle crisis clinic, true-crime writer Ann Rule struck up a friendship with a sensitive, charismatic young coworker: Ted Bundy. A new edition of the iconic, best-selling account of America’s most fascinating serial killer, “perhaps the most unnerving true-crime book ever published” (Victoria Beale, The New Yorker), with a foreword by Georgia Hardstark.
0 kommentar(er)
