John Wayne Gacy (2011) (edit title/settings)

A. R. Muir edited the series & lists of John Wayne Gacy Saturday, March 2, 2013.

• Added this book in the series: True Crime: Insanity Defense (community list)

Eileen M edited the series & lists of John Wayne Gacy Saturday, December 1, 2012.

• Removed this book in the series: temp list (standard series)

Shelfari edited the series & lists of John Wayne Gacy Tuesday, November 27, 2012.

• Added this book in the series: True Crime: Serial Murder (community list)

Shelfari edited the memorable quotes of John Wayne Gacy Tuesday, November 27, 2012.

• Added a quotation: “Four hundred people tell ten friends that they were at a party at Gacy's house, and suddenly, four thousand people are talking about the guy, and so on, without the help of the press. From the highest reaches of Chicago politics, including the mayor and governor, to his neighbors and business associates, it seemed that nobody in the city had more that one degree of separation from this man.”Sam Amirante
• Added a quotation: “Nobody likes to be relentlessly vilified, especially when you know deep in your soul that the job you are doing is absolutely necessary to the adminstration of justice.”Sam Amirante
• Added a quotation: “I pounded on the locked front door of Gacy's house and peered into the diamond-shaped window at eye level. A face appeared that filled the window. It was a face I knew. Greg Bedoe, the seasoned Cook County investigator whom Terry Sullivan had attached to the unit early during the investigation, looked back at me. I will never forget the look on his face as long as I live. It was a look of sheer horror, the look of a man that has seen something gruesome, grotesque, unimaginable.”Sam Amirante
• Added a quotation: “My lawyers work for me. They cannot tell me what to do, who to talk to, or what I can talk about.”John Wayne Gacy
• Added a quotation: “The scene was like the filming of a movie. On a rare crisp, cloudless sunlit Thursday in December, four days before Christmas 1978, John Wayne Gacy breathed his last breath of free air.”Sam Amirante
• Added a quotation: “This time Mr. Gacy didn't have a key to the cuffs held between his his fingertips in the palm of his hand. This time it was Gacy that was...dumb and stupid.”Sam Amirante
• Added a quotation: “I had returned to the station after having visited Gacy's house -- quite the humbling experience -- and I was sitting with him, trying unsuccessfully to remind him of his constitutional right to remain silent. John thought he knew better, though. He thought he was smarter than people like Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, and Adams. He wasn't.”Sam Amirante

Shelfari edited the page settings of John Wayne Gacy Tuesday, November 27, 2012.

• Hid these sections: awards, organizations, settings, ridiculously simplified synopses, summary, table of contents, themes

Shelfari edited the glossary entries of John Wayne Gacy Tuesday, November 27, 2012.

• Added a term: TRO: Temporary Restraining Order
• marked the description of TRO as not a spoiler

Shelfari edited the errata of John Wayne Gacy Tuesday, November 27, 2012.

• One of the murder victims in this story is variously called "John Szyc" and "John Sync." His correct name is John Szyc, although he did pronounce his name "sync."

Shelfari edited the characters of John Wayne Gacy Tuesday, November 27, 2012.

• Added a character: Sam Amirante: A former public defender who had just started up his own private practice when this story began.
• marked the description of Sam Amirante as not a spoiler
• Added a character: David Cram: An employee of Gacy's and one of his two real friends
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• Added a character: Robby Piest: A 15-year-old pharmacy employee saving up to buy his first car
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• Added a character: Michael Rossi: One of Gacy's employees and one of his few real friends
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• Added a character: Bob Motta: A longstanding acquaintance and colleague of Sam's
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• Added a character: Jeff Rignall: So traumatized by his single encounter with Gacy that he threw up while testifying about it
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• Added a character: John Szyc: A former employee of Gacy's; he left half-completed tax forms on his kitchen table when he disappeared
• marked the description of John Szyc as not a spoiler
• Added a character: Greg Godzik: Worked for Gacy for a while
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• Added a character: Terry Sullivan: On the prosecution team in this case
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• Added a character: James Mazzara: Found floating face-down in the Des Plaines River not long before this story began
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• Added a character: Sam Stapleton: Only 14 when he disappeared
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• Added a character: Donita Gannon: The roommate of a young man who disappeared; the author used her as proof for the jury that in this case, nothing is what it seems to be
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• Added a character: Greg Bedoe: An investigator for the Cook County prosecutor's office
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• Added a character: William Kunkle: The author describes him minding his own business, playing solitaire in the middle of a bar brawl the night before the Gacy trial started
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• Added a character: John Wayne Gacy: The author was convinced that his behavior proved he was insane
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• Added a character: Jon Prestidge: Missing man
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• Added a character: John Butkovich: His parents had been trying for some time to get the police interested in the fact that he was missing
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• Added a character: Darrell Samson: Missing man
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• Added a character: Randall Reffett: 15 when he disappeared
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• Added a character: Frank Landigin: 19 when he disappeared
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• Added a character: David Talsma: 19 when he disappeared
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• Added a character: Bernard Carey: On the prosecution team
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• Added a character: Dr. Stein: On the investigative team, exhuming boys from the crawlspace
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• Added a character: Robert Egan: On the prosecution team
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• Added a character: Judge Garippo: In a stroke of inspiration, granted a change of venue but instead of moving the whole trial elsewhere, shipped in a jury from a neighboring county
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• Added a character: Mr. Amirante: After his car was vandalized by someone who called his son, the author, a fag for defending a fag like Gacy, reminded his son that he'd always wanted him to be a doctor -- not an attorney
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• Added a character: Ronald Geaver: On the Gacy jury
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• Added a character: Timothy O'Rourke: Missing Chicagoland man
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• Added a character: Russell Nelson: 21 when he disappeared
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• Added a character: Robert Winch: 16 when he disappeared
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• Added a character: Tommy Boling: 20 when he disappeared
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• Added a character: William Carroll: 16 when he disappeared
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• Added a character: Rick Johnston: 17 when he disappeared
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• Added a character: Michael Bonnin: 17 when he disappeared
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• Added a character: David Osborne: On the Gacy jury
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• Added a character: Ross Putnam: On the Gacy jury
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• Added a character: John Mowery: 19 when he disappeared
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• Added a character: Mabel Loundenback: On the Gacy jury
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• Added a character: Dean Johnson: On the Gacy jury
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• Added a character: Carole Gacy: Gacy's second wife
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• Added a character: Matthew Bowman: Found in the crawlspace under Gacy's house
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• Added a character: Robert Gilroy: 19 when he disappeared
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Shelfari edited the books with additional background information of John Wayne Gacy Tuesday, November 27, 2012.

• Added UNFINISHED NIGHTMARE: The Search for More Victims of John Wayne Gacy
• Added John Wayne Gacy
• Added JOHN WAYNE GACY Le clown tueur
• Added The I-57 Murderer: The Story of Henry Brisbon This book includes the story of how the killer who is the main character once attempted to kill John Gacy.
• marked the description of The I-57 Murderer: The Story of Henry Brisbon as not a spoiler
• Added My Life Among the Serial Killers includes an interview with Gacy's mom
• marked the description of My Life Among the Serial Killers as not a spoiler

Shelfari edited the books like this book of John Wayne Gacy Tuesday, November 27, 2012.

• Added Actual Innocence
• Added And the Sea Will Tell
• Added Guilty by Reason of Insanity