Ann Rule was born on October 22, 1935, in Lowell, Michigan. She was born as Ann Stackhouse. Ann Rule’s introduction to true crime story writing reads like a very interesting story in itself.

He developed a love for true crime stories by reading True Detective and after this he decided to start writing. In 1969, a publisher decided to try her out on a story when an opening opened up in Northwest. Her first story was accepted, but she was told to take a male pseudonym because it was believed that readers would not believe a woman knew anything about police investigations despite having a brief stint as a police officer with the Department. Seattle Police. He then started writing for True Detective as Andy Stack and the name was chosen from his maiden name which is Stackhouse, people used to call his father, Stack and Andy is from his son’s name which is Andy Stack Rule.

After trying herself by writing articles for a few magazines, including Master Detective, Inside Detective, Front Page Detective and Office Detective, she was invited to start writing under her own name, which she declined because she was concerned about her safety and the of his family. by then she was a single mother raising four children. During that time, she also decided to add a two-year bachelor’s degree in police science to her bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington. At the time, she was just writing articles and then she found the topic that would ease her transition from writing articles to books.

It was 1974 when several attractive young women began to disappear in the Pacific Northwest. She decided to start investigating this story and at the time the case was still unsolved. As time passed, it became clear that the killer was Ted Bundy, a friend of Ann Rule and a previous colleague on a suicide hotline at the King County Crisis Clinic. From there came the book, The Stranger Beside Me, which is about Ted Bundy, the serial killer. This book started her career as a writer of true crime books.

One of her latest books, which she has described as the only book that has paid all the bills, is called Small Sacrifices, which is about mother Diane Downs, who tried to kill her three children because the man she was chasing didn’t want children. . She only managed to kill her only daughter, Cheryl, but left one paralyzed from the waist down and the other paralyzed on one side of her body.

Ann Rule was also part of the task force that created Vi-Cap, which is a computerized tracking system designed to identify serial killers. Since then, she has written many true crime books and now she also teaches seminars for law enforcement groups. She prefers to write about cases that are not reported very prominently in the media, which she refers to as sleeper cases.