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Synopsis
RECONSTRUCTING SARA IS BEING TAKEN OUT OF CIRCULATION TO BE REWRITTEN BY A PROFESSIONAL WRITER WITH NEW AREAS OF INFORMATION ADDED. THE ORIGINAL VERSION WILL BE AVAILABLE TO PROFESSIONALS ONLY UPON REQUEST.
Reconstructing Sara is not a “story”. It is testimony. Anyone thinking of buying the book and expecting some dramatic recounting of events that reads like a story is going to be disappointed. Sara does not have the ability to do that even though she writes for a living. Her mind simply can’t function that way due to the severe trauma she sustained while under the control of Ted Bundy.
This book is a testimony of a series of interactions over a four year period between evolving serial killer Ted Bundy and Sara, who became a target of his at the age of 16 and who sustained an ongoing victim-Stockholm Syndrome induced “relationship” with him for the next four years, culminating in the death of one of her friends and resulting in a series of escalating and violent kidnappings that left her with brain damage –psychologically the brain damage was caused by severe stress and physically it was caused as a result of repeated physical injuries and concussions.
Sara is written in the fragmented, confused and repetitive order in which most of these events and the emotions that are associated to them still exist in her mind. It is a testament to how PTSD in a severe context presents to authorities and to family. Counseling cannot correct all of these symptoms as some are functional – they are a result of structural damage to her brain. What is remarkable about Sara’s story is that she survived the kidnappings and that she regained at least partial memory from the damaged area of her brain. Her memory fragments documented in emails over a fourteen year period and dating back to 2001 contain specific details of the Bundy case that were never publicly released. Her physical features, locations, travels and proximity to Bundy in high school and in college also line up to the case overall.
While law enforcement maintains online that they need information in the Bundy cases as well as in other cases to help with unsolved crimes associated to him, they refused to interview Sara or provide a case number or victim services for over 14 years and to this day refuse to acknowledge her as a victim. They have never provided her with a case number; nor a thorough investigation of her claims. She has never been given the opportunity to review and contribute to an investigation or to verify if information that is received by investigators is accurate. People in general have trouble remembering events that were that long ago – people who were severely traumatized like Sara have areas of memory that are negatively impacted missing or disjointed or yet, other memories are so sharp in detail it is s if the events occurred yesterday.
In 2014 and 2015, Sara received over 1000 pages of case files via the Freedom of Information Act and these files show that the case in WA was peppered with problems. Evidence was lost or misplaced, documents couldn’t be found in some instances, and witness statements were not factored in to the entire spectrum of the case in a consistent cohesive manner.
What happened to Sara, both with Ted Bundy and with law enforcement, needs to be publicly reviewed for there are many issues in here that span many levels of the justice system. Bullying, cover up of materials [moving them into sealed areas during the time Sara was coming forward], and deciding who gets access to the justice system and who doesn’t are not elements of a democracy. They do not represent what the justice system of the United States was intended to be.
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About the Author
Sara A Survivor is a pseudonym for the actual victim of Ted Bundy. She is writing the book under a pseudonym to protect her identity as she continues to move through the healing process as a survivor and tries to rebuild her life. The impact of the kidnappings and "relationship" with Ted developed through intimidation, stalking, rape and coercion, lasted nearly a lifetime. The memory loss of the events of that time period for so many decades delayed the healing; but she was lucky in that she survived. What happened to Sara may help others in similar situations.
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- PublisherGrass Butterfly Books
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 0974851035
- ISBN 13 9780974851037
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages362
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