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Analysis Of The Stranger Beside Me By Ann Rule

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The stranger beside me was written by Ann Rule and was published in 1980. Ann Rule is a true crime written who was born October 22nd 1931 and died at age 83 in July 26th 2015. This book is about her time working on a late night shift at a suicide hotline service in her adopted homeland in Seattle, with a co-worker, Ted Bundy.
Ann Rule was a police officer in Seattle. Her job at the police department consisted of documenting all the homicide cases. She has four children and was on the verge of being divorced. Around this period she started to volunteer at a ‘suicide crisis hotline’ in Capitol Hill. She had then became friends with a young man named, Ted Bundy, who was her colleague. After every shift, Ted would walk Ann to her car to ensure …show more content…

Ann was to the first to turn in Ted’s name as a likely suspect after she had seen a sketch and had heard a description of the vehicle that had been reported. Although many people had noticed the similarities between the suspect and Ted Bundy they still ended up taking it as a joke.
However, even though Ann was the one to turn his name in, she still maintained their friendship and after his trail she still refused to believe it was actually him who had committed all those crimes. Years throughout his jail time, Rule still kept in contact with him and sent him money, still hoping that it would all be a big mix-up.
Nearer to the middle of the book, it comes to a point in Bundy’s life where it describes his first imprisonment for crimes he had committed in Colorado and Utah. He managed to break out of prison twice however, the horrific crimes he had committed in Florida such as the murder of 12 year old Kimberly Leach, would lead to him being executed. Ann’s narratives of Bundy’s escapes are written in a sinister way which can also come across as darkly amusing in some parts. Ann retells the scenes like a police report but spices it up in little details from eye witness accounts and the lives of the victims to create a chilling effect. She goes into effective detail about the Chi Omega Murders, the sexual assault at an apartment nearby on that exact night and the murder of Kimberly

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