SEATTLE (AP) â 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 age 83.
Scott Thompson, a spokesman for CHI Franciscan Health, said Rule died at
Highline Medical Center at 10:30 p.m. Sunday. Rule's daughter, Leslie Rule, said
on Facebook that her mother had many health issues, including congestive heart
failure.
Rule's first book, "The Stranger Beside Me," profiled Bundy, whom Ann Rule got
to know while sharing the late shift at a Seattle suicide hotline.
Rule, who went to work briefly at the Seattle Police Department when she was
21, began writing for magazines like "True Detective" in 1969. A biography
on her author website says she has published more than 1,400 articles, mostly
on criminal cases.
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