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It's been 30 years since Ted Bundy was executed by electrocution. Over five years, he mercilessly and viciously killed innocent women across the U.S., striking terror in communities from the Northwest corridor to Florida. One of the most prolific serial killers in American history, Bundy is returning to the national consciousness three decades after he was executed, and we reflect on the 30 lives, and possibly many more, he violently stole. The author's expose, based on first-hand conversations with the killer himself, remains the granddaddy Bundy book of them all - even inspiring a hit miniseries, starring Mark Harmon, that riveted America for weeks. Between 1974 and 1978 a series of brutal sex slayings claimed the lives of nearly forty innocent young women and left a trail of blood that stretched from Seattle, Washington to Tallahassee, Florida...a trail that seemed to lead to Ted Bundy. But Theodore Robert Bundy is an unlikely-looking murderer. A handsome, articulate former law student, Bundy looks more like a candidate for public office than for Death Row. But in July 1979, 32-year-old Bundy was sentenced to the electric chair for bludgeoning to death two Florida coeds. And Bundy is suspected by police of being responsible for as many as 36 murders, spanning four years and four states. Larsen, who knew Ted Bundy well before he ever fell under suspicion for murder - when Bundy was a rising star in Washington State politics helping to re-elect Governor Daniel Evans - interviewed Bundy extensively in writing the definitive account of his story. In 1975, when Bundy was released on bail after his first arrest - a kidnapping charge in Utah - it was Larsen who met him at the door of the police headquarters and spend the day with him, and Larsen who lent Bundy his car after dinner so he could go out on the town that night, catching himself on the verge of parting joke - Ted, I'd just as soon not read in the morning paper that some girl mysteriously disappeared in a Gremlin In this book, the author brings his masterful reporting and writing skills to bear on one of the most chilling, true crime stories in U.S. history. From the moment the first young woman disappears under mysterious circumstances, you are caught up in a cumulatively tense and gripping drama. He has captured it all: the anguish of the parents, the frustration of the police, the horror of discovery, the growing suspicions and mounting evidence pointing to all-American Ted, the drama of his arrest, his incredible escapes - one from prison, one from a courthouse - his recaptures and the sensational, televised Florida murder trial at which Bundy conducted his own defense. And through it all, the enigmatic figure of Ted Bundy - the deliberate stranger - known by the author as well as he will ever be known by any person.

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