The Fraud of the Future: Financial Abuse of the Elderly

hen best-selling true-crime writer Ann Rule died earlier this week, it was hard to miss the irony that, at the time of her death, she was embroiled in a true-crime drama of her very own. No, no one in her life was revealed to be a serial killer, like her former co-worker Ted Bundy, whom she wrote about in her first and best-known crime tale, The Stranger Beside Me. In fact, it wasn’t murder at all.