Reviews tagging 'Child death'

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan

22 reviews

madisonjordan5693's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Murder, Child death, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Animal death, Religious bigotry, and Animal cruelty

kbennettj's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Suicide, Death, Gun violence, Stalking, Child death, Violence, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Murder, Sexual assault, Animal cruelty, Antisemitism, Animal death, Confinement, Torture, Rape, and Sexual violence

sarahhsullyy's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Blood, Child abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Torture, Murder, Suicide, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Rape, Body horror, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Mental illness, Violence, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, Gore, and Grief

Minor: Pregnancy, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Abortion, Drug abuse, Mass/school shootings, Vomit, and Drug use

chloeve's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Self harm, Gun violence, Animal cruelty, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Violence, Torture, Rape, Child death, Blood, Animal death, Suicide, and Death

missworld2006's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide, Blood, Child death, Death, Gore, Kidnapping, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Rape, Violence, Sexual violence, Stalking, and Torture

jess_stewart71's review against another edition

dark informative sad medium-paced

4.0

Well-written true crime, doesn't glorify the killer and does give attention to the victims as human beings.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Stalking, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Suicide, Sexual assault, Animal death, Child death, Kidnapping, and Murder

librarymouse's review against another edition

challenging dark informative fast-paced

4.0

Unsettling, well researched, and well written.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Alcoholism, Animal death, Antisemitism, Child death, Confinement, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual violence, Stalking, Torture, Animal cruelty, Blood, Death, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Racism, Violence, Hate crime, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Suicide

Minor: Pregnancy

voilajean's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Violence, Rape, Torture, Alcoholism, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, Religious bigotry, Suicide, Stalking, Addiction, Animal death, Blood, Death, Drug use, Animal cruelty, Child death, Infidelity, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual assault

ahbmacgregor's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

1.75

Starts out strong with the search for the killer, and has a compassionate approach to the victim. Unfortunately, once the killer was found, it becomes slow, with not much concrete information revealed. In the end,

it's hard to tell, based just on the given information, whether Keyes was actually a serial murderer. Considering we don't even have strong evidence in the book of any other murder aside from Samantha Koenig beyond Keyes's confessions, and Keyes was constantly lying, it's hard to take his word for fact.

There's also a considerable amount of reverence for some shady law enforcement interrogation techniques and practices given by the author, which is wild considering how incompetent law enforcement is throughout the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Blood

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Child death

elinec's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Suicide, Stalking, Violence, Murder, Kidnapping, and Torture

Moderate: Drug use and Child death