A Light in the Dark, Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi
A Light in the Dark, Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi
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A Light in the Dark
Surviving More Than Ted Bundy

Author: Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Kathy Kleiner Rubin

Narrator: Roxana Ortega

Unabridged: 10 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/03/2023

Synopsis

When Kathy Kleiner survived Ted Bundy’s attack to testify against him, the news media swarmed the courthouse. Young women sat in the courtroom and fawned at him from a distance, staring Kathy down. Within a year, one of the serial killer’s friends published a book about him, describing him as intelligent and crafty. She made his victims seem naive and stupid, as if they could have prevented their murders. But, several, like Kathy, were attacked in their beds as they slept soundly. Others were startled or attacked from behind. And many witnesses, particularly those who saw him in the hours before he killed, found him alarming and odd. And yet, the legend of the charming serial killer persisted.

The truth is, Ted Bundy wasn’t a charming serial killer. He was a nightmare. The truth is, the victims weren’t seduced to their deaths. We’ve been missing the full story all this time. The book ends with brief biographies of the women and girls murdered by this monster. Their stories have always been reduced to an afterthought that lingers behind the Bundy legend. In telling her story, Kathy Kleiner Rubin hopes to shine a light on their stories too.

About Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi

Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi is the author of Ugly Prey and has contributed to the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Baltimore Sun, Detroit Free Press, Miami Herald, Seattle Times, and Crain's Chicago Business. She has taught courses in media history, media criticism, and journalism and is a frequent guest lecturer in graduate and undergraduate media courses. She lives in Oak Park, Illinois.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sharon on November 04, 2024

I listened to A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy on audiobook. It is superbly narrated by Roxana Ortega. The author, Kathy Kleiner Rubin, was brutally attacked in 1978 while asleep at the Chi Omega house at Florida State University. Over 45 years later, Rubin wrote her memoir to desc......more

Goodreads review by Hannah on February 28, 2025

This book was surprising. Like millions of people, I believed all the mythologically sensationalized accounts of who Ted Bundy was, what modus operandi he employed, and what his victims were like. This book dispels all of it. He was not charming. He was not smart. He was not motivated by anything bu......more

Goodreads review by *TUDOR^QUEEN* on September 16, 2023

4 Stars I was never into the True Crime genre, but was intrigued after watching an Amazon documentary called "Falling for a Killer" about Ted Bundy and his former fiancee Elizabeth Kendall. From there I read the excellent Ann Rule authored biography "The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking In......more

Goodreads review by Valerity (Val) on September 10, 2023

After getting burned out by so many Bundy books, this is a refreshing change from the typical. It’s long overdue to hear about things from the victim’s perspective and the author does so quite well. This was a page turner for me, and I liked reading about the author’s experiences.......more

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