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‘“If you want to be a man,” he says, “you need to start by putting a bitch in her place.”

I try to pull away, but he's stronger. “Let go.”

“And if you want to take your father's advice, you should probably start with your mother. Don't tell me you haven't thought about it.”’

Jesus Christ

‘Each victim was restrained and forced to listen to the same audio recording, detailing what lay ahead for her in the coming weeks: what she would be subjected to, the rules, and punishment for disobeying. Slaughter claimed to believe that this would help “break” them, and make them more compliant.’

So gross

“...Her name in every document is Jane Doe, which is fitting—I don't remember much about that day, but I do remember that she had big, beautiful doe eyes. Dad hadn't gotten the chance to take them out yet.”

Oh lord

‘Dad says, “For what it's worth, you were so good at hurting people.”

I close my eyes. I can't look at him. I can't do this.

“You were a natural. God, if you'd just kept our little secret, I could have taught you everything. I could have helped you get away with anything.”’

Barely into this book and it's already unhinged omg

“From the ages of nineteen to forty, my father, Graham Nathaniel Slaughter, kidnapped, tortured, and killed fifty-one women and girls across Virginia and the greater Washington, DC, area. In the early days, it was nothing fancy. Run-of-the-mill brutalizations in his college apartment. But by the time I was born, he'd fashioned a prison out of a waterfront penthouse...”

What in the Dahmer

So hyped