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John Wayne Gacy, raped, tortured, and murdered 33 boys and young men, bearing most of them in the crawl space under his Chicago home.

Karen Conte was in high school at the time

watching the bodies being removed on the television news.

Fourteen years pass.

Through a twist of fate, Conte, now a young and inexperienced attorney,

is called upon to handle Gacy's final death row appeals.

The serial killer soon becomes her most famous, difficult, and haunting client.

30 years after Gacy's execution, Conte looks back through the eyes of a seasoned professional

on the legal and media circus that ensued, and her countless hours of detailed conversation with the killer

clown.

We hear for the first time about Gacy's gruesome bodybook. Were there more victims, conspirators involved in the

murders? What secrets were buried with him? If one were to ask Conte, how could you represent such a monster?

She would respond, what you really want to know is, what was he like?

This book answered. want to know is, what was he like?

This book answers that question.

The book that we're featuring this evening

is Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy, defending America's most evil serial killer on death row,

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