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Rule, Ann
Born 22 October 1935, Lowell, Michigan
Also writes under: Andy Stack
Daughter of Chester R. and Sophie Hansen Stackhouse; married Bill Rule (divorced); children: Leslie, Laura, Andy, Mike, Bruce
During her childhood, Ann Rule's family moved around frequently as her father's coaching career dictated. Her mother, a schoolteacher, taught the developmentally disabled. From the age of ten, Rule spent summers visiting her grandparents in Stanton, Michigan. Whiling away the hours at the Montcalm County Jail, where her grandfather was sheriff, she got to know the inmates at the same time as she watched her grandfather solve crimes based on what seemed the slightest of physical evidence. She wondered why Viola, the nice woman who taught her to crochet, was about to go on trial for murder, and was fascinated at what an investigator could glean from bits of clothing and blood.
At the University of Washington, Rule majored in creative writing and minored in psychology, criminology, and penology. With her grandfather and an uncle both sheriffs, another uncle a medical
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Ann Rule
American true crime author (1931–2015)
Ann Rae Rule (néeStackhouse; October 22, 1931 – July 26, 2015) was an American author of true crime books and articles. She is best known for The Stranger Beside Me (1980), about the serial killerTed Bundy, with whom Rule worked and whom she considered a friend, but was later revealed to be a murderer. Rule wrote over 30 true crime books, including Small Sacrifices, about Oregonchild murdererDiane Downs. Many of Rule's books center on murder cases that occurred in the Pacific Northwest and her adopted home state of Washington.[1]
Early life and education
Ann Rae Stackhouse was born on October 22, 1931, in Lowell, Michigan.[2][3] She was one of two children of Sophie Marie (Hansen) and Chester R. Stackhouse. Her mother was a teacher, specializing in developmentally disabled children, and her father was a football and track and field coach.[4] As Rule did during young adulthood, her family members had careers in law enforcement. Rule's grandfather and uncle were sheriffs i
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