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Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy

Defending America's Most Evil Serial Killer on Death Row

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Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy

By: Karen Conti
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John Wayne Gacy raped, tortured, and murdered 33 boys and young men, burying most of them in the crawlspace under his Chicago home. Karen Conti was in high school at the time watching the bodies being removed on the television news. Fourteen years pass. Through a twist of fate, Conti, now a young and inexperienced attorney, is called upon to handle Gacys final death row appeals. The serial killer soon becomes her most famous, difficult, and haunting client. Thirty years after Gacys execution, Conti looks back through the eyes of a seasoned professional on the legal and media circus that ensuedand her countless hours of detailed conversation with the killer clown. We hear for the first time about Gacys gruesome Body Book. Were there more victims? Conspirators involved in the murders? What secrets were buried with him? If one were to ask Conti How could you represent such a monster?, she would respond What you really want to know is, What was he like? This book answers that question. Abductions, Kidnapping & Missing Persons Murder True Crime Crime
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I have read many books on JWG so I am very familiar with his crimes and the ensuing trial. I have seen the author of this book on many documentaries and I have always found her to be very matter-of-fact and always walking the fine tightrope of compassion for the victims will also trying to be informative about the person that they represented.

This book illustrates perfectly the complexity of the relationship between a serial killer and their client even though their client was at the time the most notorious serial killer. The author paints very well how she came to end up representing JWG and also how she came to be practising law in the first place. The book is full of humour, compassion and in amongst all of that is a slightly impassioned plea against the death penalty her argument is very compelling. The narration of this book is excellent and is narrated by the author. You really do get a feel for what it was like to represent somebody so heinous. She talks about how the relationship albeit of a professional nature develops and how that relationship touches other people and that when it comes down to the final goodbye. It's not so easy to flick the switch or punch needle into a vein.

I really enjoyed the authors humour and candour about how difficult it was to represent this client and she also goes on to say that she still regularly gets a lot of hate mail decades after his death. I was very impressed with the balance that was struck about how representing him affected her life and those around her and how also that relationship impacted on the victims and also the family of JWG which to be honest with you I hadn't even considered. This book was an eye-opener to a very complex situation and I applaud the author for writing this book. This is not your average JWG book. It's more than that.

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