Blondie's Debbie Harry on This Day in History

 

This day in history: Debbie Harry, the lead singer of the 1970's band Blondie was born on this day in 1945. Did you know: Debbie Harry was almost one of Ted Bundy's first victims but managed to get away?

"According to Interview Magazine, she previously revealed the time she met the famous killer back in 1972, and how she managed to escape his grasp. ‘It was in the early 70s and I was trying to get across town at two or three o’clock in the morning,’ she said. 'This little car kept coming around and offering me a ride. I said no but I finally took it because I couldn’t get a cab.' The star went on to describe the interior of the car and claimed it had been completely stripped, as well as there being no door handles." Source

"By sheer luck, Harry managed to flee after Bundy saw her reaching her arm through a crack in the window. He took a turn so fast that the passenger door flung open. Harry jumped out and fled to safety. Years later, Harry saw Bundy’s face plastered across the cover Newsweek after his execution in Florida. She realized he was the same man who offered her a ride." Source

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True Crime Queen, Ann Rule, on This Day in History

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This Day in History: The Queen of True Crime, Ann Rule, was born on this day in 1931. In the early 1970's Rule worked alongside Ted Bundy at a Suicide Hotline (crisis call center), and even though she was ten years older and a mother, they had a friendship for quite a few years. She turned this relationship into a best-selling book about Ted Bundy called The Stranger Beside Me. This book would come to be a landmark book in the True Crime genre alongside books such as Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song, Truman Capote's In Cold Blood; and the best-selling true crime book of all time, Helter Skelter, by the lead Manson family prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry.

Another popular book by Rule was the 1987 work, Small Sacrifices, which tells the story of Diane Downs, an Oregon woman who in May 1983 murdered her daughter and attempted to murder her other two children. The book was filmed for television in 1989, with Farrah Fawcett in an Emmy-nominated and Peabody-cited performance.

In 2006, Associated Content stated that since 2000, the genre of writing that was growing the fastest was true crime. The majority of readers of true crime books are women. Other true crime authors of note are M. William Phelps (Murder in the Heartland), Joe McGinniss (Fatal Vision), Erik Larson (The Devil in the White City), Jack Olsen (Son, A Psychopath and His Victims), Gregg Olsen (Starvation Heights), Jon Krakauer (Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith) and Joseph Wambaugh (The Blooding).

Ann Rule passed away in 2015, but before she died she was terrorized by her sons. "Bestselling true crime author Ann Rule was bilked out of more than $100,000 by two of her sons, one of whom demanded money while she 'cowered in her wheelchair,' authorities said. Michael Rule, 51, has been charged with theft in the first degree and forgery, for allegedly writing himself $103,628 in checks from his mother's bank account, according to charging documents. Andrew Rule, 54, was accused of coercing his mother into giving him $23,327 and was charged with first-degree theft." Source

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