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  • The Stranger Beside Me

  • The Shocking True Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy
  • By: Ann Rule
  • Narrated by: Lorelei King
  • Length: 18 hrs and 29 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (674 ratings)

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The Stranger Beside Me

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Lorelei King
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Summary

Ann Rule was working on the biggest story of her career, tracking the trail of victims left by a brutal serial killer. Little did this future best-selling author know that the savage slayer she was hunting was the young man she counted among her closest friends.

Everyone's picture of a natural winner, Ted Bundy was a bright, charming, and handsome man with a promising future as an attorney. But on January 24, 1989 Bundy was executed for the murders of three young women - and had confessed to taking the lives of at least thirty-five more women from coast to coast. Ann Rule, who kept in constant contact with Bundy throughout the investigation, tells his story as no other person can, capturing the essence of his magnetic power, unholy compulsion, and demonic double life.

Available for the first time on audio, this shocking true story is an unforgettable listening experience. In an emotional reading, Rule tells us about Ted Bundy - the man she thought she really knew...the stranger beside her.

©2008 Ann Rule (P)2012 Simon & Schuster
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"As dramatic and chilling as a bedroom window shattering at midnight." ( The New York Times)

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Gripping, poignant tragic, well narrated.

This will keep you listening first of Anne Rules books what an author. Check out her catalogue.

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A great LONG listen

I heard about this from a true crime group om part of. It lived up to the hype. It's long so great for people like me who listen yo these things when cleaning and need a distraction. the writer was close the Ted so you get a new perspective on an old and well known true crime story

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So captivating

Did not want this book to end. I’ve watched and read many stories about ted but this was absolutely brilliant and different to all the others, constantly had this on while working, in gym, walking, driving and even to go sleep,

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fantastic

Though there is some language that doesn't date well, I cannot recommend this enough. Anne Rule's writing is honest, compassionate, and involving. It's easy to forget how familiar the ending to the story is, because the way it's told keeps the reader in the moment, a real lesson in wisdom and fallibility. Some descriptions are gut wrenching at times, but don't feel fetishised or gratuitous.

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buy it

I couldn't stop listening a overall insight into ted Bundy the good the bad and ugly. I had goose bumps

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Best true crime

Thoroughly enjoyed this book it’s a brilliant look at a complex murderer. Narration is good and honestly I couldn’t stop listening

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Interesting and shocking in parts.

Weĺl narrated. A horrifying incite into the mind and life of this serial killer who terrified and murdered women over decades.

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Captivating

Beautifully Narrated, methodical, orderly. interesting and informative. highly recommended read, will be reading more of this Authors books

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Well written and well read

A well balanced story of the infamous Ted Bundy. Lorelei King brings the story to life and her impersonation of Judge Cowart "Bless your heart." is amazing.

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Gripping, disturbing

Very well narrated and difficult to put down despite the disturbing content, I recommend it

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