Book Review
Title: Ted Bundy’s Murderous Mysteries: The Many Victims of America’s Most Infamous Serial Killer
Author: Kevin Sullivan
Genre: Non-Fiction
Rating: DNF
Review: I have been getting into a lot of true crime and non-fiction books about serial killers lately like Mindhunter so I was quite excited to find a book dedicated to Ted Bundy as I find he is a serial killer that confuses so many people. Each chapter of this book is dedicated to one of Bundy’s victims and the first is Lynda Ann Healy, on January 31st, 1974, Ted Bundy made the decision to enter a home at 5517 12th Street NE in Seattle for the purposes of abduction and murder. He was targeting a young woman who had seen earlier that night in a bar, and after finding her door unlocked he left planning to return later on that night. This first chapter is primarily made up of the witness statements from Joanne Testa, Monica Sutherland, Ginger Heath, and Karen Skaviem, all students at the University of Washington and all friends with Lynda. This chapter ends with a hypothetical situation on how Bundy’s abducted and killed Lynda, but so far I was impressed with the information being put in the book as it was just taken from actual documents or other works and there isn’t anything new being added at this point. I think I will give it a few more chapters before making my mind up on whether or not I am going to finish this book.
Chapter 2 focuses on Georgann Hawkins, most of the information about the timeline before she encountered Bundy comes from Duane Covey but at the time didn’t want to be put on record so this information came to the attention of the author much later. On the evening of June 11th, 1974, Georgann was a student at the University of Washington which seemed to be a common trend when Bundy targeted women. I had got halfway through chapter 2 and gave up, this book is literally a compilation of reports and statements from people at the time and generic comments from the author that add nothing of value to the mystery that is Ted Bundy. Other books I have read on the subject look at his home life, his brain functions, his interview tapes that he gave in prison and add either speculative or educational commentary on his motives for committing these crimes, however, this is simply a copy and paste job of every other book on the subject and I am not going to waste my time on time.
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