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Criminal

Pen & Paper

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.739.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2016

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

As a young woman in the 60s, Andy Austin talked her way into a job as a courtroom sketch artist in Chicago. She spent 43 years sketching everyone from disgraced governors to John Wayne Gacy, and says she only made someone look bad on purpose once. See Andy Austin's sketches, including the one she made of Phoebe, on our website http://thisiscriminal.com/episode-35-pen-paper-1-22-2016/. Her book, Rule 53: Capturing Hippies, Spies, Politicians, and Murderers in an American Courtroom, is available here or here.  Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. At Barclays, we're here for the land of football.

0:35.0

We're here for the Premier League.

0:38.0

And the Barclays Women's Super League.

0:41.0

We're here for the football chance for giving more girls a chance. We're

0:48.1

here for the grassroots and all the muddy booths. From schools to stadiums, we're here for it all.

0:55.0

Barclays, here for the land of football.

1:00.0

The murder trial of John Gacy did indeed get underway today with opening statements from the prosecution and the defense.

1:06.5

Vivian Rosenberg is covering the trial.

1:09.0

Security was tight at court today and some people coming in had more than a passing interest in the case.

1:14.5

Well, my feelings, I'd like to see them, you know, do something to him besides put him in a, you know,

1:19.7

institution. I'd like to see him be, well kill if I got my feelings to say.

1:26.0

Prosecutor Robert Egan described Gacy as rational, premeditated, and evil who killed his victims like

1:31.9

flies when they got in his way.

1:34.1

Carefully planned murders that resulted in bodies and bodies and bodies day after day after day.

1:41.5

Defense attorney Robert M Mata countered to the jury

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