THE STRANGER BESIDE ME - The true-crime classic from #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ANN RULE“A shattering story … carefully investigated, written with compassion but also with professional objectivity.” —Seattle TimesIn 1971, the year Rule met Bundy, she was a forty year old plumpish mother of four, nearing dvorce. She had been a policewoman and studied abnormal psychology and police science at University. Rule was now forging a career as a freelance writer, writing true crime stories for True Detective Magazine. She volunteered two nights a week on the crisis hotlines at Seattle’s Crisis Clinic, where twenty five year old Bundy, a psychology student, was also volunteering to gain work experience. They formed an almost instant rapport and became close friends. They lost contact for a while in late 1973 after he stopped working at the clinic, but maintained their friendship over the years through intermittent periods of contact...THE STRANGER BESIDE ME - The true-crime classic from #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ANN RULE“A shattering story … carefully investigated, written with compassion but also with professional objectivity.” —Seattle Times