The Stranger Beside Me

So I knew Bundy was on death row.

I'd read three or four books about his case.

And...

Whoever killed my coworkers had seemingly vanished into thin air.

His social persona was so well curated.

He presented as, like you said, a normal person.

One of his friends was quoted in one of the earlier books as saying, he was one of us.

We didn't think of him as any different.

A huge deal at the time.

And then you have Ann Rule's The Stranger Beside Me in 1980.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

That is true

Let's talk about Ann Rule's The Stranger Beside Me

Okay, so the circumstances of this 1980 book are entirely unique in the history of the genre.

I mean, we all know the broad strokes of Bundy's crimes ac-across the Pacific Northwest and beyond