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.
Fifteen-year-old Tony Ciaglia had everything a teenager could want until
he suffered a horrific head injury at summer camp. When he emerged from
a coma, his right side was paralyzed, he had to relearn how to walk and
talk, and he needed 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.
Tony despaired as he found himself inescapably drawn into their violent
worlds of murder, rape, and torture--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 launched his own
searches for forgotten victims with clues provided by the killers
themselves.
The Serial Killer Whisperer takes readers into the minds of murderers
like never before, but it also tells the inspiring tale of a struggling
American family and a tormented young man who found healing and closure
in the most unlikely way--by connecting with monsters.
