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There was incredible sexual confusion for both of them.вЂќД«oth are in prison. вЂњThey talked about sex all the time, but they never were satisfied.

вЂњThe police described Doug and Carol as oversexed, but if anything they were undersexed,вЂќ Farr said. Soon Bundy was riding with Clark as he cruised for real victims.

In one fantasy, the two of them captured a woman and kept her locked up in a castle. вЂњCarol told me she was a mousy little person and her experiences with Doug were the most amazing adventure she had ever been in,вЂќ Farr said.Д«undy testified that Clark-always a smooth talker in bed-used fantasies to introduce the idea of committing violence. Court records showed she had spent time in a halfway house for battered women. He has a beautiful, slightly European-speaking voice.вЂќДЇarr interviewed several women who said Clark was an incredibly passionate lover but would get more and more abusive over time.ДЇor Bundy, who told Farr she had been seduced by her father at 14 and had left a husband who beat her, Clark was exciting. He sprinkles Shakespeare through his conversation and uses French phrases. HeвЂ™s incredibly well read, and a little pretentious about it. вЂњDoug Clark is incredibly smooth,вЂќ Farr said. One, from prep school many years before, said she still loved him. His allure was such that several ex-girlfriends testified for him at the trial. вЂњHe was very good at murmuring in womenвЂ™s ears in country bars and getting them to sleep with him and give him a place to stay,вЂќ Farr said. вЂњHow could they commit these crimes? She explains that.вЂќД¬lark, nice-looking and prep-school educated, met Bundy in the Little Nashville bar on Sherman Way in North Hollywood. вЂњShe does an excellent job of presenting what goes on in the minds of these people,вЂќ said Joseph F. But FarrвЂ™s book also is psychologically rich. The reader knows that the ice cream truck outside BundyвЂ™s Van Nuys apartment blared вЂњYankee Doodle,вЂќ and that Clark played the board game Battleship with BundyвЂ™s two children the first night he stayed there. After you leave you have the feeling somethingвЂ™s been done to you.вЂќДЇarrвЂ™s book, вЂњThe Sunset Murders,вЂќ came out in April, and the publisher has ordered a second printing. вЂњI made the mistake of spending too long a time with Doug and Carol. вЂњI had a terrible time sleeping afterward,вЂќ Farr said. вЂњCrimes like these reverberate outward,вЂќ she said, вЂњand the circle keeps getting bigger and bigger.вЂќДЄlso unsettling were the jailhouse interviews with Bundy and Clark. Now I feel very emotional about it.вЂќДЇarr was surprised and saddened by the number of people who had been affected: scores of friends and relatives of the victims and the killers. I was fascinated by violence in movies and books. вЂњI used to look at violence in almost an intellectual way. вЂњOnce you come into contact with this kind of material, you can never look at the world in the same way again,вЂќ Farr said.

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Then, in 1989, she revived the Sunset murders project and got an advance from a publisher, Pocket Books hardcover division.ДЇor the next two years she steeped herself in the story of Carol Bundy and Doug Clark, tracking down those involved, interviewing more than 80 people, reading police reports and twice plowing through 52 volumes of trial transcripts.

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She did a stint on the staff of TV Guide. Farr spent three years as West Coast arts editor for WomenвЂ™s Wear Daily. Farr didnвЂ™t want to write a book until all the evidence was presented and the verdicts were in. She considered the case interesting enough for a book, and continued researching.Д«ut the trial was slow to start. I wanted to know what had brought this woman described as an average Valley housewife to the point of being a criminal.вЂќДЇarr, who lives in Van Nuys, did a story on the murders for Los Angeles magazine. вЂњIt was fascinating to me that a woman could be involved in something so brutal. вЂњI was riveted by the story,вЂќ said Farr, 50, a magazine writer at the time. At the trial, it came out that she had bought him two guns. Bundy also said Clark had sex with several of the bodies.Д«undy told Farr she had taken pride in her manвЂ™s actions. Bundy told Farr it was a way he could achieve orgasm, an assertion confirmed during testimony by a nightclub dancer who had talked to Clark.

Clark was accused of shooting or stabbing some of the victims during sex acts. Most of the bodies were dumped in the San Fernando Valley. They were called the Sunset murders, because many of the victims were runaways or prostitutes picked up on Sunset Boulevard.

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