A Light in the Dark

Surviving More than Ted Bundy

Kathy Kleiner Rubin, Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi

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Chicago Review Press
03 October 2023

Biography: general; Memoirs; True crime; True stories of heroism, endurance & survival; Gender studies: women

THE FIRST BOOK BY A CONFIRMED SURVIVOR OF TED BUNDY, AND THE ONLY MEMOIR TO CHALLENGE THE POPULAR NARRATIVE OF BUNDY AS A HANDSOME KILLER WHO CHARMED HIS VICTIMS INTO TRUSTING HIM

In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as Ted Bundy stalked nearby.

He grabbed an oak log from a stack of firewood, slipped through a back door with a broken padlock, and headed upstairs.

He began twisting doorknobs. Room 9 was open, and he quietly and quickly killed one of my sleeping sorority sisters. Across the hall, he found another unlocked door and murdered again. Then, he turned the knob to my bedroom and found it was open. I remember the attack vividly. Bundy bashed me once in the head with the log and then attacked my roommate. He heard me moaning and came to finish me off. He never let his victims live. But he stopped suddenly when a bright light filled the room. He fled the sorority house and the light disappeared.

Bundy wasn't my first brush with death, and he wasn't my last. I've long been a survivor. I was born into a Cuban American family in 1957 in Florida. I had a happy childhood until I received my first death sentence at the age of thirteen. Physicians weren't sure why I was always so exhausted and running a low-grade fever. The prognosis was grim after my left kidney started to fail. Then, a physician from Cuba saved my life with a surprise diagnosis-lupus-and treatment plan: chemotherapy. I endured chemotherapy again in my early thirties when I was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer.

This is my story of surviving three death sentences and finding love and happiness along the way. I was saved by a bright light, and I hope my story is one for people who are experiencing their own dark times. I am a victim, but I am also a survivor, and I want to speak up for all the women and girls whom Bundy murdered.

He has become a legend, and our voices have been muted or ignored. It's time we were heard.

By: Kathy Kleiner Rubin, Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi
Imprint: Chicago Review Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 598g
ISBN: 9781641608688
ISBN 10: 1641608684
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 03 October 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kathy Kleiner Rubinis a sought-after motivational speaker who specializes in survivor impact. Since 2018, Kleiner Rubin has been sharing her story with audiences eager to hear of her courage and survival. Shehas spoken to universities, law enforcement agencies, forensic nursing organizations, and true crime conventions. Kleiner Rubin has given dozens of interviews to the country's top news agencies including CBS News, 48 Hours, 20/20, USA Today, CNN, and Newsweek. She has also been interviewed inVanity Fair,Cosmopolitan, andPeople. Kleiner Rubin lives in South Florida with her husband and dog. Emilie Le Beau Lucchesiis the author ofUgly PreyandThis Is Really War. She is a regular contributor toDiscovermagazine and her work has appeared intheNew York Times,Chicago Tribune,Atlantic, andthe nation's other top newspapers. She lives in the Chicago area with her husband and three dogs.

Reviews for A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy

"""A Light in the Dark puts the story of unimaginable crime exactly where it belongs: with the victims, not the monster. Kathy Kleiner Rubin bears witness and speaks for those who cannot. Unflinching, resolute, and above all compassionate, Rubin and Lucchesi give us a powerful story about the resilience of the human soul."" --Arnie Bernstein, author of Bath Massacre: America's First School Bombing and other books"