The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule

This is my favorite book about Ted Bundy.  Ann Rule does a great job of showing who the victims were - the reader feels their loss.  Ann Rule was a former police officer turned true crime writer who had an advantage other authors did not have: she knew Ted Bundy personally.  In fact, they were friends.  It seems strange that she could be friends with a serial killer - but she does an excellent job of showing all the sides of Ted Bundy.  She does not glamorize him the way some authors (and TV movies) have.  She shows both his charm that allowed him to lure his victims AND the monster who killed so many women.  This is a must-read.

She's been identified by several different pseudonyms, but Elizabeth Kendall was Ted Bundy's longtime girlfriend in Seattle.  She dated, and pretty much lived with, Ted Bundy for years.  She has a unique perspective to the side of Ted Bundy that's different from Ted Bundy, serial killer.  I always wonder, "How can someone date or be married to a serial killer and not KNOW they're a serial killer?" Elizabeth Kendall had her suspicions, and actually called the police several times because she suspected the "Ted" killing girls in the Seattle area, and later Utah, was "her" Ted!  Interesting perspective, and worth the read.  This book does not have many details about the murders, the forensic evidence or his victims.  It focuses on Liz's perspective as his girlfriend.