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Journal Entry 1 by sarradee from Dallas, Texas USA on Thursday, September 01, 2005
 From Publishers Weekly
This is the absorbing and disturbing story of John Wayne Gacy, the suburban Chicago businessman sentenced to death in 1980 for the murders of 33 young boys, most of whose bodies were buried in the crawlspace under his home. Cahill, aided in his research by TV reporter Ewing, recreates Gacy's unhappy childhood with a violent father; his seemingly respectable life as a successful contractor and civic leader; and his five-year spree as a murderer who raped and tortured his victims. The book is told mainly from the vantage of the homosexual Gacy, a "creature of lies, internal contradictions, misrepresentations, and false idealism," who claims utter confusion over the crimes. Jurors dismissed an insanity plea, finding Gacy complex, antisocial and rational. Cahill includes graphic accounts of torture and sexual acts.
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Journal Entry 2 by sarradee from Dallas, Texas USA on Monday, October 16, 2006
What a creepy person. I know this accounting is biased because one can't help disliking a person who kills 30 other people and buries them under his house (and rightly so) but the author did a good job at trying to not interject too much of his personal feelings. Gacy is a very unsympathetic character, very judgemental, very crafty and self-serving as I'd imagined he would be. Very interesting to read an in-depth character study including lots of material taken from interviews and trial documents that was prettied up into prose.
Going to Giz-Angel who chose it in a SSS on the relays.
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Journal Entry 6 by Giz-angel from Greenwich, Greater London United Kingdom on Sunday, January 20, 2008
Gosh this was a seriously creepy read. I found it very interesting to read an account that was based on Gacy's own words and opinions, and how he tried to justify his actions, making himself out to be a victim...how everyone else was to blame for him killing 33 people.
I don't remember the case myself despite it happening within my lifetime - I was young and I suppose it being in the US it didn't have as much impact on me as other crimes closer to home. But I had heard some things about Gacy - and now I have read this I did a bit of research and discovered he was put to death by lethal injection on 10th May 1994, and to this day 8 of his victims remain unidentified.
Superficially I guess his crimes could be compare to those of Dennis Nilsen who killed 15 + young men in London between 78 and 83. He could be released on licence this year as he was sentenced to life but this makes him eligible for parole in 2008. Another scary thought.
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