Don't Look Behind You: Ann Rule's Crime Files #15

Don't Look Behind You: Ann Rule's Crime Files #15

<B>I€LL BE WATCHING YOU</B> <br><br>Walking home on a dark night, you hear footsteps coming up behind you. As they get closer, your heart pounds harder. Who is closing in with dangerous intent€"a total stranger? Or someone you know and trust? The answer is as simple as turning around, but don€t look behind you . . . <I>run</I>. Ann Rule, who shared her own nerve-jangling account of unknowingly befriending sadistic sociopath Ted Bundy in <I>The Stranger Beside Me, </I>chronicles other fateful encounters with the hidden predators among us in this riveting collection, fifteenth in the bestselling series drawn from her personal files. First in line is a stunning case that spanned thirty years and took a determined detective to four states€"ending, finally, in Alaska€"where he unraveled not one but two murders. A second case appears to begin and end with the hunt for the Green River Killer, focusing on a Washington State man who was once cleared as a suspect in that deadly chain of homicides. But the millionaire property owner believed he had successfully buried his own murderous past and the awful truth behind his young wife€s disappearance. She vanished soon after she left for a day at the Seattle World€s Fair, and her three small children grew up believing their mother had abandoned them. But one amazing witness remained€"the missing woman€s best friend, who heard her last words in a frantic phone call€"€œHe€s coming!€€"before the line went dead. Only since Robert Hansen€s suicide has the monster within been revealed. In another true story, a petite woman went to a tavern, looking only for conversation and fun. Instead, she met violent death in the form of a seven-foot man who had seemed shy and harmless. You€ll feel a chill as you uncover these and numerous other cases of unfortunate victims who made one tragic mistake: trusting the wrong person€"even someone they€d known intimately, or <I>thought </I>they knew.