Ann Rule

Ahnimus
Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
edited November 2007 in All Encompassing Trip
Anyone ever read Ann Rule?

My mother studied criminology and worked as a matron for the police. She sent me three books by Ann Rule (true-crime author). I've just started casually reading "Most Dangerous Killers: Without pity".

It's interesting stuff.

Ann Rule was a friend and colleague of Ted Bundy at the Seattle, Washington Crisis line before it was revealed that he was a serial murderer.
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    oh yes i have a littlestack of ann rule's books.

    and never let her go
    the lust killers
    the stranger beside me     (about bundy)
    a rose for her grave
    the I-5 killer
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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    catefrances wrote:
    oh yes i have a littlestack of ann rule's books.

    and never let her go
    the lust killers
    the stranger beside me     (about bundy)
    a rose for her grave
    the I-5 killer

    Cool, my mother sent me the I5 killer too. She has all the books apparently. She was way more into crime study than I have been, probably where I got it from to begin with.

    Good stuff, I just made it through the first story in the book and I liked it. It was short and to the point, these are the facts, you decide what happened. I like that.
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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    i felt the i-5 killer was kinda mediocre, but the one about ted bundy is amazing.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Cool, my mother sent me the I5 killer too. She has all the books apparently. She was way more into crime study than I have been, probably where I got it from to begin with.

    Good stuff, I just made it through the first story in the book and I liked it. It was short and to the point, these are the facts, you decide what happened. I like that.

    i went through a major crime period. what depravities people are capable of never ceases to amaze me.

    ryan you should read the last victim by jason moss. his interest in serial killers came from his mum and he actually spoke to several of them in prison and corresponded with them. john wayne gacy, manson, dahmer. sadly he ended up suiciding.
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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    soulsinging wrote:
    i felt the i-5 killer was kinda mediocre, but the one about ted bundy is amazing.

    I don't think I got that one. I might check it out though.
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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    catefrances wrote:
    i went through a major crime period. what depravities people are capable of never ceases to amaze me.

    ryan you should read the last victim by jason moss. his interest in serial killers came from his mum and he actually spoke to several of them in prison and corresponded with them. john wayne gacy, manson, dahmer. sadly he ended up suiciding.

    I'll see if my mother has read it, it sounds interesting. Thanks :)
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    I'm familiar with her but I have yet to read her books.
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Ahnimus wrote:
    I'll see if my mother has read it, it sounds interesting. Thanks :)

    here's another 2 to check out:

    riverman by robert keppel and william j. birnes

    this ones about investigating the green river killings and how bundy insinuated his way into the investigation to buy himself some more time.


    shot in the heart by mikal gilmore.

    about mikal's brother gary gilmore. also the subject of mailer's the executioner's song
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  • prism
    prism Posts: 2,440
    yeah, i've read a few of Ann Rule's books

    The Stranger Beside Me
    The I-5 Killer
    Small Sacrifices
    Bitter Harvest
    Everything She Ever Wanted
    A Rose for Her Grave
    You Belong to Me
    A Fever in the Heart
    In the Name of Love
    The End Of The Dream
    A Rage to Kill


    I haven't read any of her newer books over the last few years. it kinda gets to be too creepy to keep reading about the crimes she writes about. like so creepy it's almost enough that if you live in the PNW you'll never want to leave your own front porch ever again :eek:
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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    prism wrote:
    yeah, i've read a few of Ann Rule's books

    The Stranger Beside Me
    The I-5 Killer
    Small Sacrifices
    Bitter Harvest
    Everything She Ever Wanted
    A Rose for Her Grave
    You Belong to Me
    A Fever in the Heart
    In the Name of Love
    The End Of The Dream
    A Rage to Kill


    I haven't read any of her newer books over the last few years. it kinda gets to be too creepy to keep reading about the crimes she writes about. like so creepy it's almost enough that if you live in the PNW you'll never want to leave your own front porch ever again :eek:

    What's a PNW? Washington area?

    There sure is a lot of incidences of homicide in that region, but that might just be a result of population density.
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Ahnimus wrote:
    What's a PNW? Washington area?

    There sure is a lot of incidences of homicide in that region, but that might just be a result of population density.

    PNW = pacific north west. :)
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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    catefrances wrote:
    PNW = pacific north west. :)

    I should have guessed that since I grew up in the pacific northwest. Specifically Powell River and Victoria, B.C. I guess, I've never seen it as an acronym before.
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  • vedderfan10
    vedderfan10 Posts: 2,497
    Ahnimus wrote:
    I should have guessed that since I grew up in the pacific northwest. Specifically Powell River and Victoria, B.C. I guess, I've never seen it as an acronym before.

    Did not know you lived in Victoria at one time....I live near there - and grew up here too...

    I used to just LOVE Ann Rule books! But I don't think I've read one since 2000. "Bitter Harvest" was the last one I read - and thought it was quite facinating...One I really got the creeps over was "Dead by Sunset". Everytime we go to Oregon, I think about that story...and I have no idea why...Small Sacrifices...that gives you a lot of insight into the mind of a psychopath/sociopath...I can't remember if she was psychotic or not...

    What's weird is that my dad turns out to be an Ann Rule fan - I didn't know that for the longest time...anyway, he has all my books...

    Cool thread!

    Has anyone ever read Perfect Victim about the couple who kept a girl in a box under their bed - for years....? That was REALLY disturbing!
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  • prism
    prism Posts: 2,440
    Vedderfan10 wrote:
    Did not know you lived in Victoria at one time....I live near there - and grew up here too...

    I used to just LOVE Ann Rule books! But I don't think I've read one since 2000. "Bitter Harvest" was the last one I read - and thought it was quite facinating...One I really got the creeps over was "Dead by Sunset". Everytime we go to Oregon, I think about that story...and I have no idea why...Small Sacrifices...that gives you a lot of insight into the mind of a psychopath/sociopath...I can't remember if she was psychotic or not...

    What's weird is that my dad turns out to be an Ann Rule fan - I didn't know that for the longest time...anyway, he has all my books...

    Cool thread!

    Has anyone ever read Perfect Victim about the couple who kept a girl in a box under their bed - for years....? That was REALLY disturbing!

    lived in Victoria at one time *raises hand*


    i forgot all about about Dead By Sunset.....I read that one too
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  • prism
    prism Posts: 2,440
    Ahnimus wrote:
    What's a PNW? Washington area?

    There sure is a lot of incidences of homicide in that region, but that might just be a result of population density.

    psycho nuts in washington ;)


    it doesn't have anything to do with population density...if that were the case the entire east coast would be crawling with serial killers....if i had to guess i would say that it has much more to do with lots of wooded areas to hide the bodies in the PNW
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    prism wrote:
    psycho nuts in washington ;)


    it doesn't have anything to do with population density...if that were the case the entire east coast would be crawling with serial killers....if i had to guess i would say that it has much more to do with lots of wooded areas to hide the bodies in the PNW

    and perhaps a more transient population? truckers, loggers... your garden variety nutjobs. not to mention the type of industries that attract such creatures giving them the opprtunity and victim base to commit their crimes. :)
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  • prism
    prism Posts: 2,440
    catefrances wrote:
    and perhaps a more transient population? truckers, loggers... your garden variety nutjobs. not to mention the type of industries that attract such creatures giving them the opprtunity and victim base to commit their crimes. :)


    dammit cate, now i'm scared to leave my house ever again :p


    the one serial killer that i've ever seen personally (I stood behind him in the check out line at the Rite-Aid) didn't kill anyone around here. as a matter of fact he and his cohort(that my daughter went to high school with here) went to my hometown and the surrounding area 3000 miles away from here to do most of their killing. I'm dead serious. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltway_sniper_attacks
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    prism wrote:
    dammit cate, now i'm scared to leave my house ever again :p


    the one serial killer that i've ever seen personally (I stood behind him in the check out line at the Rite-Aid) didn't kill anyone around here. as a matter of fact he and his cohort(that my daughter went to high school with here) went to my hometown and the surrounding area 3000 miles away from here to do most of their killing. I'm dead serious. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltway_sniper_attacks

    just carry a big knife. :D
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  • prism
    prism Posts: 2,440
    catefrances wrote:
    just carry a big knife. :D

    good idea...I'll start carrying a machete around with me...you know, just to blend in with the other garden-variety nutjobs :cool: :D
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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    I have no fear of killers.
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