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I have read all the books about Ted Bundy but I really enjoyed this one. Dark Tide is about Ted's growing up and living with his cousin, Edna Cowell. She remembers having fun with him while living in Puget Sound, near Seattle Washington. She only recalls a couple of times that she saw Ted's dark side.
EadieB One while he was dancing with a friend of Edna's she saw his pupil's turning black as he was smiling down looking at who he was dancing with. She also witnessed his smoking of pot which turned him into a wild, crazy person dancing on a coffee table. These times were scary and not typical of her cousin. Her father even wrote to the prosecutor to be kind to him while he was incarcerated. 4mo
EadieB The family believed that he was being wrongly prosecuted until the police showed them proof that he murdered so many of the women. He even hid their bodies where he and his cousin John, Edna's brother, went hiking in the mountains. Edna wrote many letters to Bundy asking him to tell the police all that he knew. She shared the letters and pictures of Bundy in the book. 4mo
EadieB They kept the secret that they were related to Bundy for 50 years but finally they started to admit that they were related. Edna decided to finally tell her story and wrote Dark Tide. If you like true crime then you will love this book. It goes to show that you never get to know a person even after growing up with them. Even their daughter, Anna, lives with the knowledge that she has a serial killer as a relative. Highly recommended! 4mo
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TheSpineView Sounds interesting. 👍📖📚 4mo
dabbe I was in Chi Omega sorority at U of A back in the early 80s (Bundy murdered women at the Chi Omega house at FSU). Since those murders, we all were required to sleep together on one huge sleeping porch for our safety. I've read quite a few book on him, too. Horrifying. 😱 4mo
Suet624 I‘m fascinated by him as well but I just can‘t bring myself to read anything about him. 4mo
DieAReader 🥳Awesome! #Stacked 4mo
EadieB @dabbe How scary! That‘s after he escaped from prison and went to Florida, 4mo
dabbe @EadieB Yep. We got the big lecture about how to stay safe and to never sleep in our rooms (we all had one day bed in each room). That's what got me interested in real crime nonfiction. 4mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4mo
perfectsinner Nice, adding to the tbr 4mo
EadieB @dabbe That's interesting! 4mo