A really frustrating narrative constantly interrupted any narrative flow and made outlandish declaratives. My sympathies for the poor reader. The author ad nauseam keeps referring to read his other books and opinions in the middle of so many sentences in chapter after chapter.
Seattle was a much smaller city then, the writer said he failed to visit the region for his first book, and LE didn’t really gear up until June when the father of a sorority sister, a newsman, started writing and publishing about Hawkins, (way too late for many) because of so little action or proper investigations.
Bundy was a stalker, thief, pedophile, a sadistic sociopathic, kidnapping, murdering necrophiliac. The Manson murders and family annihilation by a Fort Bragg physician were well publicized by this time, Missing women weren’t a priority,. Rule, who wrote lurid True Detective articles since 1969, didn’t bother to consult with victim family members and friends then. She was responsible for the ridiculous, run-on narrative he was charming. He liked sex with fly and maggot infested, decaying, putrefying heads of his victims. He mooched money from everyone, red flags constantly ignored by his girlfriend and members of LDS who even smuggled money into prison for him and failed to report his plan for jail escape. Many, many who met him knew he was a creep. He mooched off everyone.
There are better books, by better authors, written about these events, This author, who makes a living off other’s tragedy, will never get all of what so many people, in so many regions, experienced,. This was a monster whose brain was mis-wired from birth and who should have never been born..