Quotes from Ann Rule

The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.

If, as many people believe today, Ted Bundy took lives, he also saved lives. I know he did, because I was there when he did it.

MOST OF US have harbored a fantasy wherein we return to confront a lost first love, and, in that reunion, we have become better looking, thinner, richer, utterly desirable— so desirable that our lost love realizes instantly that he has made a terrible mistake.

As soon as he stopped, I poked him with my umbrella and said 'f— you!' and got out real fast.

felt that he just wanted somebody to keep a house clean for him and do the shopping and the cooking. He was always in the garage with his cars, working on them, doing something. All he wanted was food and sex, and that was it. Any time we did talk, it would end up in arguments.

He was all that mattered to him.

Crazy gets better; consciences don't grow back, and narcissists and histrionics never learn to give up center stage or their beloved mirrors.

Ted Bundy waving to the camera while the charges against him are being read. He told reporters, "I will be heard!

Strangely, while he was being continuously unfaithful himself, he expected—demanded—that she be totally loyal to him.

Although her parents didn't know it, Debra had gotten a prescription for birth control pills at Planned Parenthood when she was only ten.

lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client.

would be terrified that she would be found out. She could be so frightened, perhaps, that she might blurt out a confession. No one was leaning on her. To a burdened conscience, silence and solicitude can be more threatening than interrogation.

Recent research into the problem shows that three percent of all American males are considered antisocial, while only one percent of women are. Interestingly, little boys tend to show sociopathic traits early in childhood, while girls with antisocial personality disorders rarely exhibit symptoms before the onset of puberty.

It made natural headlines. Prostitutes being murdered suggested a titillating story. Moreover, citizens, living in nice safe houses, whose wives and daughters were never alone on the streets could be reassured.

DOUBLE DEATH FOR THE KIND PHILANTHROPISTS

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave. SONG OF SOLOMON 8:6

because the most terrible emotional anguish known to humans is not knowing.

The few detectives working the cases complained of the same things the "Ted" Task Force had hated: sitting in a stuffy, cramped office; sorting through mountains of paper, tips, and notes; trying to find the common denominators that might lead them to a suspect they could interrogate.

Reynolds was thirty-three and healthy and beautiful when she died on December 16, 1998.

But) a person grows up and becomes what he is due to the things that happen to him—and maybe he himself caused some of them and maybe other people caused others, and maybe his brain doesn't function just right.

There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.

When this you see, remember me, And bear me in your mind. Let all the world say what they may. Speak of me as you find Ã¢â'¬Â¦ —Elizabeth Diane Downs, 1983

Law enforcement personnel all over America are always among those first in line to aid in disasters.

The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose. —Francis Thompson