By Sonya Padgett
Tony Ciaglia talks to serial killers.
He even calls some of them — Joseph R. Metheny, Ken Bianchi, David Gore, the late Arthur Shawcross — his friends. Ciaglia, 34, knows that may horrify you. He knows you probably wonder how or why he would befriend convicted killers who brutalized, raped, murdered, tortured and even cannibalized dozens of victims.
But when Ciaglia started writing to serial killers in 2006, he was desperate. He felt a level of depression, despair and rage that few would understand. So he reached out to those who might. In the process, he changed his own life.
A book, "The Serial Killer Whisperer" (Touchstone, $24.99) by Pete Earley, about Ciaglia and his correspondence with serial killers, hits store shelves Tuesday. It details the reasons why Ciaglia started writing to his prison pen pals and the friendships he forged with three: Shawcross, Metheny and Gore.
NBC has purchased the rights to Ciaglia’s story.
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