Un tueur si proche - Ann Rule et Ted Bundy

The debut novel by Ann Rule, the future queen of true crime, "A Killer Near" tells the story of her unusual friendship with Ted Bundy, the serial killer who terrorized America in the 1970s. When she met Ted Bundy in the early 1970s at a crisis center where she worked part-time, Ann Rule was a 40-year-old former police officer trying to make it as an investigative journalist specializing in true crime. In the meantime, she published articles under a pseudonym in popular magazines like Detective to support herself as a divorced mother. Bundy, on the other hand, was a charming, attentive, and witty young man who aspired to be a lawyer. Ann became his friend, until he stopped contacting her for several months. When he reappeared in her life, it was as a suspect in several kidnapping and murder cases. Although she was one of the first people to identify his composite sketch, Ann couldn't believe he was guilty. The shock of his arrest spurred her to write a book, A Killer So Close, the first book she published under her own name.