![[Sullivan, Kevin]のThe Trail of Ted Bundy: Digging Up The Untold Stories (English Edition)](https://images-fe.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51JrKK8IiKL._SY346_.jpg)
If you haven't read any other books about Bundy, do NOT begin here. The information provided is very specific and detailed. To truly appreciate the contents of this short companion piece to the author's earlier book, you must go back to books like The Stranger Beside Me, by the late Ann Rule, who knew Bundy personally, I would also highly recommend The Phantom Prince: My Life With Ted Bundy, by Elizabeth Kendall (known as Liz). It is no longer in print, but there are copies still available through private sellers here on Amazon. She and Bundy for all intents and purposes virtually lived together throughout his killing spree in Washington State and they were still involved during his time in Utah. Through her eyes you will see the public/private side of Bundy that he wanted to portray. He was manipulative, always in control of the relationship, and he lived off of her money. At the same time he was killing, he was playing with Liz's young daughter and treating their threesome like a family, cooking for them, taking Liz on an expensive long weekend in Canada, charming the socks off of her parents, proposing marriage and then backing out time after time. He depended on women his entire life, and he hated women as much as he needed them. Liz Kendall went to the police because she was scared that the man she loved and wanted desperately to marry was a serial killer. She called Utah authorities as well, when he moved to Salt Lake to attend law school and she started reading and hearing about the same kinds of missing women stories that she read about in Washington. I think for a beginner and for the informed, her book completes the entire picture. I apologize for rhapsodizing Ms, Kendall's book, but I really feel very strongly that her book, and Ms. Rule's book are excellent depictions of the times and of Ted, painting the general picture. I believe you need those books under your belt so that highly detailed books like this one (and the original that this one references) will be more easily understood, and the incredible amount of detail this writer has accumulated through interviews with witnesses, detectives and investigators, transcripts of psychological testing in Utah, and transcripts of meetings with Bundy on death row shortly before his death warrant was to be affected, in Stark, Florida, fill in so many details and gaps for people who have studied this most well known serial killer in America. The transcripts of those tapes, largely known as "The Confession Interviews", brings about as true of a reckoning as it is possible to get from a sociopath. He finally began to confess because his appellate process had run its course in Florida. He wanted to confess to his other murders in Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Washington State and Oregon, perhaps California as well. All of the investigators from these states believe the victim count to be much higher. After his death, one of his lawyers broke silence and in an interview stated that Bundy told him about 100 and he believed him. Nevertheless, Ted only did these confessions to try to arrange a deal with any of these other states' Governors or Atty Generals to stop his execution. Obviously that didn't work, but in this book you can read quite a good sample of what he said to state and federal investigators in the last couple weeks of his life.
The author talks about visiting many of the places where Bundy lived and where he stayed along his way to Florida, as well as where he most likely laid in wait for his intended victims. I confess that at this late date, with many of these places no longer existing, the author spends too much time describing them. He also tends to drift into strange observations of his own, such as "feeling leftover negative energy" near a particular house, and how he felt when standing in the "exact" places where Ted picked out and grabbed two coeds at Lake Sammamish in one day in Washington State. The author uses words like monster, evil, crazed. All the adjectives you expect to see in thriller fiction books, or cheap and poorly written true crime books. I'm not sure if he's just using these words to try to up the emotional ante, or what, but again it seems odd like the trips to all the "monuments" whether they were houses, campuses, resorts, or a beach. It just seemed to me to be very counterproductive to the wealth of factual information vs personal observations and feelings. There are also so many references to his first book about Bundy, along with teasers in the form of, "here's a little of the whole that's in my original Bundy book", that frankly I found to be not only distracting, but annoying in a way, like a door to door salesman or an infomercial. The kind that say, "But wait! There's more!" It was very off-putting to me. Those personal memories of places visited and how he felt when he was there, and the pushing of his more expensive original book that has been re-released before when new information has been uncovered, are the reasons I gave this 4 stars. If you are a stickler for well edited and proofread material, this one will also get under your skin a little bit, but then again I've been seeing a lot of that in Kindle Books, some that I've already read a few times in hardback are really sloppy in Kindle.
Nevertheless, the original book and this companion piece are crammed with specific witness accounts, transcripts of letters written by Bundy, investigators' reports, psych evals, hair and trace evidence, and parts of the confession transcripts. Once you are familiar with the general story as it is laid out in the earliest books about Ted Bundy, if you want to really get a better handle on the timing of events, and answers to a lot of the questions left hanging for so many years, here is your go to author.
内容紹介
"Despite the abundance of books available on Ted Bundy, holes remain in his story. Bundy expert Kevin Sullivan has done the painstaking work of filling some in and offering credible notions for those for which information might always be elusive. An important addition to true crime studies."--Katherine Ramsland, bestselling author of Psychopath and The Mind of a Murderer
Within the pages of THE TRAIL OF TED BUNDY:Digging Up the Untold Stories, you’ll hear the voices - many for the first time - of some of Ted Bundy’s friends, as they bring to light the secrets of what is was like to know him while he was actively involved in murder. The stories of his victims are here as well, as told by their friends, including the information and anecdotes that didn’t make it into the investigative files and are being published here for the first time. Two of the former detectives who worked with author Kevin Sullivan during the writing of his widely-acclaimed book, THE BUNDY MURDERS, return to aid readers in fully understanding Bundy’s murderous career; it’s ripple-effect impact on those who came into contact with him in one way or another, and dispelling commonly held myths.
THE TRAIL OF TED BUNDY is a journey back in time, to when Ted Bundy was killing young woman and girls in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. It’s told by those who knew him, and you’ll hear their revealing stories, many being voiced and put to print for the very first time. The friends of the victims are here as well, and they too share their insights about the victims, and some of what they tell here had been held back from the investigators, such was their commitment to their deceased friends. It’s also the story of those who hunted Bundy; those who guarded him, and those who otherwise were a part of this strange case one way or another.
From the book:
“Anyone today visiting the house where Lynda Ann Healy lived with her friends, as I did in July 2015, will find it in a very nice neighborhood that is well maintained; perhaps better maintained now than in 1974. Standing in front of the structure, there is no obvious reminder that evil once invaded this dwelling in the middle of the night. Just off to the right of the front door, on the side of the house, is the door leading to the basement. It was through this door that Bundy would carry Lynda out into the chilly night air.
As I walked up the steps my mind was riveted on that night. I thought of Bundy, and how he also had walked up these steps before slowly turning the doorknob that cold evening to see if it was unlocked. Having already written The Bundy Murders, I was well aware of what transpired there, and, at such a moment, it all becomes so very real. Indeed, in my view, the Lynda Healy abduction is the strangest of his career, and I don’t ever expect to hear of one more bizarre, either from the past or in the future.”
Within the pages of THE TRAIL OF TED BUNDY:Digging Up the Untold Stories, you’ll hear the voices - many for the first time - of some of Ted Bundy’s friends, as they bring to light the secrets of what is was like to know him while he was actively involved in murder. The stories of his victims are here as well, as told by their friends, including the information and anecdotes that didn’t make it into the investigative files and are being published here for the first time. Two of the former detectives who worked with author Kevin Sullivan during the writing of his widely-acclaimed book, THE BUNDY MURDERS, return to aid readers in fully understanding Bundy’s murderous career; it’s ripple-effect impact on those who came into contact with him in one way or another, and dispelling commonly held myths.
THE TRAIL OF TED BUNDY is a journey back in time, to when Ted Bundy was killing young woman and girls in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. It’s told by those who knew him, and you’ll hear their revealing stories, many being voiced and put to print for the very first time. The friends of the victims are here as well, and they too share their insights about the victims, and some of what they tell here had been held back from the investigators, such was their commitment to their deceased friends. It’s also the story of those who hunted Bundy; those who guarded him, and those who otherwise were a part of this strange case one way or another.
From the book:
“Anyone today visiting the house where Lynda Ann Healy lived with her friends, as I did in July 2015, will find it in a very nice neighborhood that is well maintained; perhaps better maintained now than in 1974. Standing in front of the structure, there is no obvious reminder that evil once invaded this dwelling in the middle of the night. Just off to the right of the front door, on the side of the house, is the door leading to the basement. It was through this door that Bundy would carry Lynda out into the chilly night air.
As I walked up the steps my mind was riveted on that night. I thought of Bundy, and how he also had walked up these steps before slowly turning the doorknob that cold evening to see if it was unlocked. Having already written The Bundy Murders, I was well aware of what transpired there, and, at such a moment, it all becomes so very real. Indeed, in my view, the Lynda Healy abduction is the strangest of his career, and I don’t ever expect to hear of one more bizarre, either from the past or in the future.”
レビュー
"Despite the multitude of books about Bundy, The Bundy Murders offers fresh material and ideas about Bundy's predatory movements. Well researched and highly recommended, for Bundy scholars and true crime fans alike."-Katherine Ramsland, author of The Human Predator and The Devil's Dozen 'Insightful, well researched, and well written...highly recommend[ed] for any true crime reader, or any reader wanting to know more about Bundy or about deviant personalities. In fact, this book should be required reading for any student of psychology or criminal law.'-Psychotic State.com 'Unearths new and horrifying evidence of other murders and graphic new details about the most notorious and fascinating serial killer of all time...provides the most in-depth examination of the killer and his murders ever conducted...a must-read for all true crime fans.'-Dan Zupansky, author of Trophy Kill: The Shall We Dance Murder and host of True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History 'The Bundy Murders is scholarly and yet, at the same time, compelling and mesmerizing. Couldn't put it down. This is crime writing at its very best!'-Gary C. King, author of The Murder of Meredith Kercher and Rage
