Memoir
A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever
2024·320 pages
A detective recounts eliciting confessions from an Ohio serial killer in this chilling, graphic true-crime account.
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A detective recounts eliciting confessions from an Ohio serial killer in this chilling, graphic true-crime account.
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In this fascinating & profoundly chilling account, Detective Kim Mager, a real-life version of Clarice Starling, reveals how she closed in on—and broke—one of Ohio’s most infamous serial killers. On September 13, 2016, in the small town of Ashland, Ohio, emergency dispatchers received a 911 call from a terrified woman who claimed to be kidnapped. The man holding her hostage was Shawn Grate, a serial killer whom the press later dubbed “The Ladykiller.” A key to his conviction and death sentence w...
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Detailed confessions of sexual assaults and control of female victims
Violence & gore
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Graphic murder confessions; torture, killing, and body recovery details
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Cigarettes and coffee offered during interrogations
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Abuse & suffering
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Central serial rape, kidnapping, torture, and murder of women
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