The Seattle Police Department were becoming increasingly concerned about the disappearances. Buzzing with the adrenaline rush from the violence, Bundy proceeds to sexually assault the young dancer with such a brutal and sadistic vigour that it leaves the young girl unconscious for ten days along with permanent brain damage.įollowing this, just a month later Bundy breaks into another basement flat, this time that of the undergraduate Lynda Healy, who he proceeds to beat unconscious and then abduct.įrom here on young and attractive female students began to disappear with a worrying regularity.
On the night of 4th January 1974, Bundy, who is now a young law student studying at the University of Washington, breaks into the basement apartment of eighteen-year-old Karen Sparks and bludgeons the sleeping girl over the head with a metal pole. However, who could have possibly known that some twenty-seven years following his birth, this handsome young man would start killing and continue until his sadistic reign of terror is brought to an end. Over the years the book has undergone a number of revisions, as well as a film adaptation in 2003.īorn Theodore Robert Cowell on the 24th November 1946, when he was just five years of age, his mother married a young man named Johnny Bundy, and subsequently both her and Theodore adopted Bundy’s family name.
This book alone is what undoubtedly propelled Rule forwards as a true crime writer, and remains her most successful and highly-revered offerings to date.
First published back in August of 1980, ‘The Stranger Beside Me’ formed true crime author Ann Rule’s first publication uniquely written from both an autobiographical and biographical perspective.
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