Posted on 07/27/2015 4:13:55 PM PDT by stylecouncilor
SEATTLE -- True crime writer Ann Rule, who wrote more than 30 books, including a profile of her former co-worker, serial killer Ted Bundy, has died at 83.
Rule died at Highline Medical Center, south of Seattle, at 10:30 p.m. Sunday, said Scott Thompson, a spokesman for CHI Franciscan Health. Rule's daughter, Leslie Rule, said on Facebook that her mother had many health issues, including congestive heart failure.
"My mom died peacefully last night," Leslie Rule wrote. "She got to see all of her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren."
Ann Rule's first book, "The Stranger Beside Me," profiled Bundy, whom she got to know while sharing the late shift at a Seattle suicide hotline. She has said she had a contract to write about an unknown serial killer before her co-worker was charged with the crimes.
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Wow. I used to read her books in high school. Don’t know why but I thought she was much younger than 83!
God bless her and keep her!
Loved her books and ran into her one time in a La Jolla, California store. Got to tell her how much I enjoyed her books.
What a shame! I enjoyed her crime compilation books. RIP. She had an exciting life.
Read pretty much every book she wrote. I will miss her. She’s the reason I made the midlife career switch I did.
I loved reading her books. It’s great lost.
Fans of Ann Rule were shocked to learn last spring that her two sons were charged with brutalizing her and defrauding her out of quite a bit of money. Her daughter, on the other hand, was very supportive and kept her mother’s fans updated daily on her condition on the True Crimes Facebook page.
RIP.
I had no idea she was that old. I’ve read quite a few of her books.
RIP.
Indeed. Always a good read.
May the angels sing her home
How sad! I didn’t know about that.
I grew up reading her books and reading about her sons bullying her trying to get money out of her got me mad. RIP Ann.
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