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1980 book reviews on serial killer Ted Bundy
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1980 book reviews on serial killer Ted Bundy

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THE BOOK REVIEW section of the Los Angeles Times, Sept. 14, 1980

  • Ted Bundy - notorious American killer

The top of page 6 has a banner heading: "Trying to make sense of a mannerly mass-murderer" with photo of Bundy in custody. These are book reviews by Andy Weinberger on two books relating to the notorious serial killer Ted Bundy. (see images) 
I suspect this to be an extremely rare item because there was really no reason to save it at the time.
Complete Book Review section only with 16 pages, tabloid size, nice condition.

Background: This September 14, 1980 issue of the Los Angeles Times Book Review is a remarkable historical relic, capturing the exact cultural baseline moment when two foundational true-crime classics—Ann Rule’s The Stranger Beside Me and Richard W. Larsen’s Bundy: The Deliberate Stranger—were evaluated side by side as groundbreaking new releases. Critic and future bookseller Andy Weinberger provided an early contemporary window into the public’s chilling realization of Ted Bundy’s dual identity, offering raw, real-time insight before Rule’s book became a genre-defining masterpiece or Larsen’s investigative account was adapted into the iconic 1986 TV miniseries. Complete, original Sunday LA Times literary supplements from this specific era are exceptionally rare in the collector's market.

Category: The 20th Century
Price
$33
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.