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LocationOakland
Call NoTRUE CRIME GRATE
TitleA hunger to kill : a serial killer, a determined detective, and the quest for a confession that changed a small town forever / Kim Mager with Lisa Pulitzer.
AuthorMager, Kim, author.
Barcode529281
CollectionNF True Crime
Summary"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 were Grate's extensive recorded confessions-all extracted by one woman: Detective Kim Mager. As an experienced specialist in sex offenses, Detective Mager was one of the officers assigned to Grate's 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 he'd 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 Kill takes 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 with New York Times bestselling author Lisa Pulitzer"-- Provided by publisher.
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Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9781250274885 : $30.00
International Standard Book Number 1250274885 : $30.00
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 364.152/30977129 23/eng/20240515
Personal Name Mager, Kim, author.
Title Statement A hunger to kill : a serial killer, a determined detective, and the quest for a confession that changed a small town forever / Kim Mager with Lisa Pulitzer.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : St. Martin's Press, 2024.
Physical Description x, 310 p. illustrations ; Hardcover 22 cm
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume nc rdacarrier
Formatted Contents Note The abduction -- Fair week -- Jane Doe -- Alone in a room with evil -- A confession -- Father knows best -- A ticking clock -- A body in the woods -- Jesus loves me -- House of horrors -- Discarded like trash -- State route -- A narrow escape -- "The Lord is our rock" -- Murdered over magazines -- A dangerous demonstration -- "What the Hell were you two thinking?" -- "The Devil's good-looking, too" -- Friday night lights -- The Grate deceiver -- Jailhouse informant -- The trial.
Summary, Etc. "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 were Grate's extensive recorded confessions-all extracted by one woman: Detective Kim Mager. As an experienced specialist in sex offenses, Detective Mager was one of the officers assigned to Grate's 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 he'd 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 Kill takes 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 with New York Times bestselling author Lisa Pulitzer"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject-Personal Name Grate, Shawn, 1976-
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Serial murders Ohio.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Murder Investigation Ohio Ashland.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Serial murderers Ohio.
Added Entry, Personal Name Pulitzer, Lisa, author.