In this fascinating & profoundly chilling account, Detective Kim Mager,a real-life version of Clarice Starling, reveals how she closed in onand brokeone of Ohios 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 were Grates extensive recorded confessionsall extracted by one woman: Detective Kim Mager.
As an experienced specialist in sex offenses, Detective Mager was one of the officers assigned to Grates case upon his arrest. Grate immediately latched onto her, repeatedly demanding to speak to her and presumably convinced that he could somehow exercise his power over her in much the same way that hed overpowered and controlled his female victims.
He was wrong.
Over a period of eight days, Mager conducted one interview after another, risking her life by sitting alone in the interview room with a malevolent predator. Using brilliant psychological strategy in a lethal game of wits, Mager successfully elicited his damning confessions to five murders, kidnapping, and multiple sexual assaults of women across Ohio.
Deeply personal and shocking,A Hunger to Killtakes readers behind the scenes of one of the most appalling criminal cases in American history from the woman who stopped his murderous rampage in collaboration withNew York Timesbestselling author Lisa Pulitzer.
DetectiveKIM MAGERis a 30-year law enforcement officer who retired from the Ashland City Police in 2022. Mager works for a prosecutor's office and still holds a law enforcement commission. Mager specializes in sex offenses, violent crime, and child abuse and has investigated over 2,000 cases. She has a BA from Ashland University and graduated ToplCˆ
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