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With your host, journalist and author, Dan Zufanski.

Good evening. From her small town Michigan roots to becoming a New York Times best-selling author,

Anne Rule's life journey is as fascinating as the cases she covered.

Discover how she revolutionized crime writing, influenced FBI profiling,

and Rule's fateful encounter with a murderer at just nine years old. Go behind the scenes of

rules' most infamous cases, including Ted Bundy, The Stranger Beside Me, Randy Woodfield, the I-5 killer,

and Diane Downs, small sacrifices, and explore her personal insights into the murderers

and Rule and Jagger both studied. Featuring Never Before revealed true crime cases,

jaw-dropping interviews,

and the little-known story of Rule's time

as a sex decoy for the Seattle Vice Squad.

This book also delves into the extraordinary

three-decade friendship between Anne Rule and Jagger, with exclusive letters

from notorious killers and an inside look at Diane Downs' chilling correspondence with Manson

murderer Susan Atkins and I-5 killer Randy Woodfield.

Author Anne Jagger and I discuss Anne Rule's fateful journey to become the undisputed

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