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Praise for Pete Earley
“Before we had schools of journalism, there was a straightforward task called
reporting that took you where you had not been and told you what you had
not known.... [Earley] gives the reader reporting at its very finest.”
—Los Angeles Times
“[Earley] offers a glimpse into the criminal mind.”
—The New York Times
“Earley is a fair-minded reporter who apparently decided that his own feelings
were irrelevant to the story. There is a purity to this kind of journalism, one
that bestows an honor on the fact-seeking reader.”
—The Washington Post
“[A] fascinating white-knuckle tour of hell, brilliantly reported.”
—Kirkus Reviews, on THE HOT HOUSE
“An unusually penetrating portrait of the banality of evil, of a psychology that
usually defies intimate understanding.”
—The New York Times, on FAMILY OF SPIES
From New York Times bestselling author Pete Earley—the strange but true
story of how a young man’s devastating brain injury gave him the unique
ability to connect with the world’s most terrifying criminals.
F
ifteen-year-old Tony Ciaglia had everything a teenager wants—good grades,
good athletic skills, and good friends— until he suffered a horrific head injury
at summer camp. Pronounced clinically dead three times by helicopter
paramedics before he reached a hospital, Ciaglia lapsed into a coma. When he
emerged his right side was paralyzed and he had to relearn how to walk, talk,
and even how to eat. His brain damage also required him to take countless
pills to control his emotions.
Abandoned and shunned by his friends, he began writing to serial killers on
a whim and discovered that the same traumatic brain injury that made him an
outcast to his peers now enabled him to connect emotionally with notorious
murderers. Soon many of America’s most dangerous psychopaths were
revealing to him heinous details about their crimes-even those they’d never
been convicted of. The killers opened up to him, trusted him, and called him a
“best friend.”
But there was a price. As Tony found himself being drawn deeper and
deeper into their violent worlds of murder, rape, and torture, he was pushed to
the brink of despair and, at times, forced to question his own sanity—until he
found a way to use his gift. Asked by investigators from the National Center
for Missing and Exploited Children to aid in solving a murder, Tony began
launching his own personal searches for forgotten victims, with clues often
provided to him voluntarily by the killers themselves.
The Serial Killer Whisperer
takes readers into the minds of murderers as
never before-straight from a killer’s thoughts to paper. It is also an inspiring
tale of an American family whose idyllic life is shattered by a terrible accident,
and how healing and closure came to a tormented man in the most unlikely
way— by connecting with monsters.
PETE EARLEY
is the author of three New York Times bestsellers. He has won an Edgar Award
for Best Fact Crime and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2007. He lives in
Fairfax, Virginia.
www.peteearley.com
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