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Killer Connection Article Reading Questions. Ann Rule, author found out her “handsome coworker was Ted Bundy, a serial killer. He worked with her at the Seattle Crisis Clinic two nights a week for a year. Thank goodness she wasn’t his type. Her dog knew he was bad.
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Killer Connection ArticleReading Questions • Ann Rule, author found out her “handsome coworker was Ted Bundy, a serial killer. He worked with her at the Seattle Crisis Clinic two nights a week for a year. • Thank goodness she wasn’t his type. • Her dog knew he was bad.
Killer Connection ArticleReading Questions • The first murderer Ann met was a woman in her grandfather’s jail who was accused of fatally shooting her husband (killed him) • Ann had to stop being a cop because she failed the civil service medical exam due to her nearsightedness. So she became a writer.
Killer Connection ArticleReading Questions • Ted Bundy killed a total of at least 36 women. • Bundy said to add one digit to that number but never clarified where to add it. • Was the total number 37 or 136 or 360? He took it to his grave.
Killer Connection ArticleReading Questions • Ann wanted to get into the minds of psychopaths. • Ted Bundy wrote Ann letters from jail but never actually admitted to the murders although he once told her he planned to escape for two and a half years. • She continued writing books on serial killers.
Killer Connection ArticleReading Questions • Diane Downs, who was pregnant when she was on trial, was accused of killing one of her own children. • After David Brown’s wife died, he believed a ghost was awakening him and his mistress (16 year old sister of his dead wife)
Killer Connection ArticleReading Questions • Dr. Pignataro used arsenic from ant traps to poison his wife similar to poisoning in two of her books he had read. • Next book was set aside for the Green River Killer. • Most victims were runaways and teenagers who turned to life on the street for survival. This took place around Seattle, Washington.
Killer Connection ArticleReading Questions • Ann had a feeling she had seen him rather in line at a supermarket or sitting next to him in a restaurant. • Ann’s daughter first noticed a man at book signings. She said he never buys books but just leans against the wall and stares at Ann. • It turned out that he was the Green River Killer at a book signing.
Killer Connection ArticleReading Questions • During Gary Ridgeway’s interrogation, he kept mentioning Ann Rule’s name when discussing how he committed the murders • When Ann Rule writes her books, she is speaking for the victims who can no longer speak for themselves.
