Summary of M. William Phelps's I'll Be Watching You

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#1 There are some who see this man as a predator. Nothing more. They see him as nothing more than a middle-aged man sitting at a bar having a beer. But there are others who see him as a predator who cannot stop thoughts of killing and rendering women unconscious.

#2 The author was watching the woman, who was dressed in a very provocative manner, and was infatuated with her. He wanted to talk to her, but he knew he couldn’t. His motive was clear: she fit perfectly into an assortment of prey he had collected while he was in prison from 1988 to 1999.

#3 He had decided to talk to her. He was waiting for her to leave so he could follow her. It felt right.

#4 He had grown up in Berlin. The suburbs. The sticks. It was strange and humiliating, he thought, being back in the same house where it all began forty-something years ago. He had a few regular prostitutes he met at the bar in Hartford. He liked to treat himself once in a while.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822543263

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

There are some who see this man as a predator. Nothing more. They see him as nothing more than a middle-aged man sitting at a bar having a beer. But there are others who see him as a predator who cannot stop thoughts of killing and rendering women unconscious.

#2

The author was watching the woman, who was dressed in a very provocative manner, and was infatuated with her. He wanted to talk to her, but he knew he couldn’t. His motive was clear: she fit perfectly into an assortment of prey he had collected while he was in prison from 1988 to 1999.

#3

He had decided to talk to her. He was waiting for her to leave so he could follow her. It felt right.

#4

He had grown up in Berlin. The suburbs. The sticks. It was strange and humiliating, he thought, being back in the same house where it all began forty-something years ago. He had a few regular prostitutes he met at the bar in Hartford. He liked to treat himself once in a while.

#5

He has no family or friends in Hartford. No work contacts. But here he is, bellied up to the bar at Kenney’s, on Capitol Avenue, mixing it up with the regulars, watching his favorite baseball team on the big screen, playing pool, and eating his favorite meal: tuna salad with extra Russian dressing.

#6

The fact is, no one really knows Ted Bundy. He harbors secrets, sick thoughts that have perverted his mind since the second and third grade. He admires the famous serial killer Theodore Robert Cowell.

#7

There is a sexually cruel past that includes one homicide, an aggravated sexual assault, and attempted murder. The person sitting on the bar stool staring at her can't see or feel that past.

#8

In 2001, the fall air was warm and humid, but it was still late summer. As he sat in Kenney’s watching her, he was fantasizing about strangling her until the white light approached.

#9

The author follows the woman he’s been watching as she leaves the bar. He walks outside and turns left, heading towards his car. It is late, and very dark. He is among the creatures, but also one of them.

#10

The killer gets a sexual thrill from taking a life, and he can’t explain it. It is a way to satisfy a craving that can never be completely satisfied. He follows the woman in the bar because he chose her.

#11

He would obsess over the killings, studying Bundy’s modus operandi and Teddy Boy’s signature way of killing. He would compare himself to Bundy, and be angry that he had never learned from Bundy’s few faults.

#12

He needed to get her alone, out into the gloom of the city. This must be fun for him: the hunt, the stalking part of it. He needed to strangle her until life departed from her body, while staring into her eyes.

#13

On September 9, 2001, Christina Mallon was attacked outside Kenney’s Restaurant on Capitol Avenue. She had no idea that, of course, he had chosen her. She had been through a lot in life, but she was terrified.

#14

In 2010, a woman named Christina was attacked on the street by a man who told her not to report the incident to the police. She didn’t, and the police never found the man. In 2017, she read an article about a woman named Carmen Rodriguez who had been reported missing at the same time as Christina.

#15

The end of the serial killer’s path began in New Jersey, with the biggest mistake of his murder career, when he met a woman one night at a bar. She underestimated him, and he killed her.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Mary Ellen made it out of her marriage alive, with her two daughters. She was a Catholic, and she believed that when you loved someone enough, you could overcome any problem.

#2

In the 1950s, north of Newark, west of White Plains, Fair Lawn, New Jersey, grew rapidly. By the 1960s, Fair Lawn would soar fourfold, from a meager nine thousand residents to almost forty thousand in twenty years.

#3