Quincy Allen: A Conversation with Karen Conti

Killer Psyche

Wondery | Treefort Media

True Crime, Exhibit C

4.6 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong speaks with Karen Conti, John Wayne Gacy’s former appeals lawyer, to discuss the case of Quincy Allen. In 2002, Allen went on a deadly crime spree that claimed the lives of four people across two states. He pleaded guilty in both states, receiving a life sentence in one – but a death sentence in the other. His sentence was overturned in 2022 after it was found that Allen’s history of childhood abuse and mental illness were not considered by the sentencing judge – and, most recently, Allen was resentenced to life in prison instead. Candice and Karen discuss Allen’s background and the factors that led to a successful appeal in his case.

Karen's book, "Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy: Defending America’s Most Evil Serial Killer on Death Row" is out now and available on Amazon and most book retailers. To learn more about Karen and the book, please check out www.karenconti.com

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0:19.6	A listener note, this episode contains adult content and is not suitable for everyone.
0:25.0	Please be advised. On July 7th, 2002, 22 year old Quincy Allen picked up a sex worker in South Carolina and murdered her,
0:46.0	afterwards lighting her corpse on fire.
0:50.0	This was Allen's first kill, although just three days earlier he had shot an unhouseed man lying on a park bench to make sure the gun worked.
1:02.0	One month later, Alan got into an altercation with two female
1:06.4	patrons at the restaurant where he worked. One of their boyfriends arrived
1:11.2	with a friend and began an argument with Alan from inside the car.
1:16.6	Alan shot into the vehicle striking the friend who later died from his wounds. The boyfriend the boyfriend fled on foot to a nearby convenience door where he hid in a
1:29.1	freezer. Alan chased after him but was not able to find him.
1:35.0	So Alan went to the boyfriend's home and set it on fire.
1:41.0	Then he fled in his car driving hundreds of miles north. Four days later, on August
1:47.9	13th, Alan drove to North Carolina where he shot and killed two people at a gas station. He then
1:55.6	stole one of the victim's cars and fled the scene. As he was driving,
2:01.3	Alan called family members and threatened to kill them.
2:05.8	Police arrested him the next morning, August 14th, at a rest stop in Colorado City, Texas.
2:13.4	He immediately confessed to the killings.
2:16.7	When asked about his motivation for killing four people,
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