First published 2017
Ted Bundy walks through college campuses in the 1970s, charming young women with his good looks and easy smile. Born Theodore Robert Cowell in 1946, he has reinvented himself completely, adopting a new name and crafting a persona that masks something terrible underneath. Women trust him instinctively when he approaches with a fake cast on his arm, asking for help loading books into his car. But Ted harbors violent fantasies that grow stronger each day. Between 1974 and 1978, he travels across seven states, leaving a trail of missing women and unsolved murders. For over a decade, he denies everything, even as evidence mounts against him. Only when facing execution does he finally admit the truth about thirty victims. The real number may be much higher. Sullivan explores the mind of a man who could appear completely normal while planning acts of unthinkable violence, showing how Bundy manipulated everyone around him until the very end.
Genres: biography, historical-fiction, crime, psychological-thriller
Vibes: dark, emotional, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: deception, unreliable-narrator
Setting: United States
Period: 1970s
78 pages · Paperback · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Content warnings: graphic-violence, murder, violence