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Ted Bundy is like many criminals who are on Death Row, they were evil and all of a sudden they find God when they're on the brink of execution. It was said that Ted Bundy gave his life to Christ before his execution.
I have never heard this. Perhaps like many death row inmates, he was visited by a prison chaplain. I don't know. Never heard this story.
I have never heard this. Perhaps like many death row inmates, he was visited by a prison chaplain. I don't know. Never heard this story.
Yea, he was interviewed by Dr. James Dobson, a well known Christian psychologist while awaiting execution. He stated how he became addicted to pornography, which led to him committing those murders.
Her real name is Diane Marjorie Jean Edwards. Not sure what ever happened to her; I can’t seem to find her. I’ve read this book twice. I’ve read every book Ann Rule has written, along with countless other true crime books. Read my first one when I was 13. My dad was a police officer and got me hooked! True crime, specifically serial killers, fascinate me!
Backs away slowly while thinking "just smile and nod and look for the exit."
......... I find no value in reading about some sadistic nasty killer who is rotting in hell I pray .
For me, that's what I do from time to time.
Usually when I read such stuff, such books, it's just rather an exercise, scan mode, in absorbing the knowledge for my mental data base. I don't think, don't recall if such books have shaken me much. Now, on the other hand, a book on child abuse where the parent would take a favorite toy and break it, piece by piece, did have me stop reading and looking up at the sky as I "smoothed" nerve pathways.
The thing is that when it's a mental data base entry, it is not so much about them being sadistic (which is rather how a lot of the paper backs are written), but what their triggers, approaches, methods, and so forth were.
If it's an assignment, like The Green River Killer, then of course, I am reading the book in detail and not in scan mode.
Which, for this thread, is how I might have read the book, scan mode, in question if I did read it. I recall more reading the prison interviews than any other book about him.
Finally, at least once I have read such a book to report back to the kin of the victims to let them know how their loved ones are depicted.
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Yes! I have been fascinated and terrified by Ted Bundy since I heard about him in the 1970s. I think what terrifies me the most is that he was smart and handsome. He didn't look like a dirt bag, the way many serial murderers do. He targeted 1970s college girls with long straight hair, parted in the middle. I fit that description.
Bottom line - if I'd had an encounter with Bundy, I may well have been charmed by him, and gotten into his tan VW Beetle. And never emerged alive.
So yes, Ted Bundy scares the snot out of me. The first book I read about him was "Stranger Beside Me". I think it ranks among Ann Rule's best true crime books. Another good one by Rule is "Small Sacrifices", which is about convicted child murderer, Diane Downs.
I read it quite a while ago, but I do remember that it was chilling. I remember Rule wondering if the amount of people he saved on the suicide hotline equaled the amount that he killed.
What a paradox!
If you are interested in Bundy, an even better book about him is "Only Living Witness". Don't get me wrong, "Stranger Beside Me" is an excellent book about Bundy. However, the other one was even more disturbing.
Really, everything about Bundy is terrifying and disturbing.
You might also be interested in the movie that was made about 20 years ago, staring Mark Harmon.
Also, you may be aware that they are making a new movie about Bundy which will feature Zach Efron.
Just on a parallel course to all of this, something I learned in my intelligence days, to question, "Why is this person interested in me? What brought them to seek me out?".
It makes it the pits for dating, but.......
Another thing about Bundy that one has to appreciate (from one of the books I read) was the time period. Women were out on their own, much more than what they had been before. It was an age of independence and as such, (now more of my viewpoint), there were more factors in the prey profile that he could exploit.
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Another thing about Bundy that one has to appreciate (from one of the books I read) was the time period. Women were out on their own, much more than what they had been before. It was an age of independence and as such, (now more of my viewpoint), there were more factors in the prey profile that he could exploit.
It was also more common back then for people to hitchhike and get rides with strangers. I remember in the 70s, it wasn't unusual to see someone on the road or highway with their thumb up, trying to get a ride. This is far less common these days.
I think recent technology (cameras everywhere, cell phones) has made it somewhat easier to find and catch serial killers.
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