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Based On True Story | Serial Killer
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Best Edited Episode from a Television MiniSeries | 1987 | Lori Jane
Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television | 1987 | Mark
Best Casting for TV Miniseries | 1987 | Melinda
Best Television Feature or Miniseries | 1987 | Hesper
According to Ann Rule, in an updated edition of her nonfiction bestseller "The Stranger Beside Me," the real Ted Bundy started to receive hundreds more love letters per day after The Deliberate Stranger (1986) first aired on NBC. Rule concluded that many of the women were actually writing to Mark Harmon, or imagining that Bundy looked and acted more like Harmon than Bundy did in reality.
The movie premiered on TV when Ted Bundy was still on death row, appealing his case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Bundy refused to watch the movie.
In real life, Ted Bundy continued to claim he was innocent until shortly before his execution in 1989. Bundy provided details of the murders even as he was walked to the electric chair.
Robert Hays was the first choice for the lead role. Hays rejected the role due to moral issues with the script, and out of respect for the victims' families.
Mrs. Ritcher is based on Ann Rule, author of "The Stranger Beside Me". She and Ted Bundy worked together at a Crisis Center, where (as in the movie) he listened compassionately to her marital problems. She remained his supporter until the Florida trials, but still kept in touch.
"Ted Bundy: Ted Bundy wants something out of all this. Maybe he doesn't deserve it, but I gotta take care of survival."
"Ted Bundy: You're just grasping at straws. Just straws, Jerry. Jerry Thompson: What kind of game are you playing? Ted Bundy: You keep at it. Maybe if you find enough straws you can put the broom together."
