The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule

Author:Ann Rule [Rule, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Murder, True Crime, Law, Fiction, Criminals & Outlaws, Legal History, Criminals, Theodore Robert, Biography & Autobiography, Criminals - United States - Biography, General, Murderers, Bundy, Bundy; Theodore Robert
ISBN: 9780451164933
Google: -sF3PwAACAAJ
Publisher: New American Library
Published: 1980-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

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THE STRANGER BESIDE ME

"eye witness" in Aspen was of no consequence since she had picked out his picture a full year after the Campbell disappearance.

Although Ted's extradition arraignment on November 24, 1976 had drawn a flock of reporters, he was not the most famous prisoner in the Utah State Prison that week. It was a fellow convict-Gary Gilmore-a convicted murderer with a death wish, who made the cover of Newsweek on November 29th. Compared to Gary Gilmore, Ted was decidedly second string news. It would not always be so.

Gilmore was an habitual criminal who had shot two young men during robberies, and he had a kind of bitter mystique about him. He too was involved in a doomed romance with a woman who seemed as bedazzled and driven as Ted's Meg was. The tragic child-woman, Nicole Barrett, who had entered into an abortive suicide pact with Gary Gilmore, reminded me of Meg in her obsession with her lover-but Ted apparently saw no correlation at all between his romance and Gilmore's and detested the other man for his manipulation of Nicole. He had studied Gary and Nicole when they met in the visitors' area.

"The Gilmore situation grows curiouser and curiouser. Have seen him on occasion in the visiting room with Nicole. I'll never forget the deep love and anguish in her eyes. Gilmore, however, is misguided, unstable, and selfish . . . The media preys on this Romeo and Juliet saga. Tragic. Irreconcilable."

Nor did Ted have anything good to say about Gilmore's legal advisors.

Ted had little time to ruminate on the "saga" of Gary and Nicole; he was busy reviewing and indexing 700 pages of testimony from the DaRonch trial, and, at the same time, studying Colorado criminal law. After reviewing the Utah trial, he could not see how the judge could have found him guilty, and he was sure that there would be no guilty verdict in Colorado.

"I feel like a general conducting a battle, not General Custer either,"

he wrote enthusiastically. "Legally, I am on very solid ground!"

Ted never failed to comment on what was happening back in my world, even if it meant only a sentence or two at the end of his letters. This time, he wrote:

THE STRANGER BESIDE ME

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