A hunger to kill: a serial killer, a determined detective, and the quest for a confession that changed a small town forever

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"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"--
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True crime stories
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A hunger to kill : a serial killer, a determined detective, and the quest for a confession that changed a small town forever
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A hunger to kill
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a serial killer, a determined detective, and the quest for a confession that changed a small town forever
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