What an incredible and fascinating piece of nonfiction.
Both touching and terrifying, The Serial Killer Whisperer is a book with some serious re-read value. This novel is able to bring on a strange and unique combination of feelings I never thought possible of a true crime book!
Let’s get right to it, shall we?
Synopsis
Tony Ciaglia was a normal teenage boy until a tragic jet ski accident left him in a coma. Tony woke up to a nightmare, as he suffered an extreme brain injury and his right side was paralyzed. Having to re-learn to walk and speak left him abandoned by most of his friends, and to make matters worse, Tony was now experiencing unpredictable emotional ups and downs that were barely able to be controlled with medication.
Feeling alone, confused, and snubbed by his friends, Tony began writing some of the most notorious serial killers. Soon he discovers that the brain injury he suffered, which left him shunned by his friends, is what will enable him to emotionally connect with America’s most dangerous psychopaths.
It wasn’t long before these serial killers were confiding in Tony; detailing all of their worst crimes to him, some of which had never even been solved.
As Tony started to relate and understand these killers more and more, he found himself being drawn to their world of rape, murder, and torture; until Tony realized he had a chance to turn the situation, and his life, around.
Tony begins working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to help solve a murder, and launches his own investigations into forgotten victims using clues provided by his killer friends themselves.
(Full title: The Serial Killer Whisperer: How One Man’s Tragedy Helped Unlock the Deadliest Secrets of the World’s Most Terrifying Killers, by Pete Earley)
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