S19 Ep49: Killing Time With John Wayne Gacy w/Karen Conti
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🗓️ 23 April 2024
⏱️ 154 minutes
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Summary
Karen Conti’s quest to end capital punishment for all, including notorious serial killer John Wayne Gacy, changed her life forever.
Conti was the only woman involved in 14 years of Gacy’s appeals —and she was one of the only people who knew what he was really like because he divulged secrets to her that he never did with anyone else.
In Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy: Defending America’s Most Evil Serial Killer on Death Row, Conti recalls how, as a young and inexperienced attorney, she spent seven months representing Gacy in his final death row appeals. On Today's TCT, We talk about the relationship between Karen, her husband and Gacy, her upbringing, and why she is adamantly against the death penalty, even in the case of a killer like John Wayne Gacy.
Get your copy of "Killing Time With John Wayne Gacy" here: https://bit.ly/4d9nL2o
Learn more about Karen here: https://www.karenconti.com/
Karen in the media! Check out her You Tube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3JGKBZ_icvghymozAu76eg
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| 0:00.0 | And then. Welcome to the best in True Crime Podcasting. This is True Crime Tuesday. I'm your host |
| 0:26.9 | Tim Dennis. Folks, what can I say? There's that white whale that sits out there and every once in a while you got to reach out and see if you can get it. |
| 0:35.2 | And today we got it. |
| 0:37.0 | We have an unusual show for you today folks. |
| 0:40.0 | We have a show that I think we've been trying to get since our inception in 2013 |
| 0:46.2 | a show that is not the show you think we're gonna have today. I'll preface it that |
| 0:58.6 | We are going to talk today about the serial killer of all serial killers, John Wayne Gacy, but on the way you think we're going to talk about it. We have an unusual |
| 1:02.4 | guest today folks. We have |
| 1:04.7 | defense attorney Karen Conte with us today. She's got a brand new book out there |
| 1:10.4 | folks. This book is called Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy defending |
| 1:14.8 | America's most evil serial killer on death row. Now you may say oh that sounds |
| 1:21.2 | good Tim. Boy are we going going to get the scoop today? |
| 1:25.0 | Well, we'll get the scoop, trust me, you're going to get the scoop today. |
| 1:28.0 | But this book is so much more than that, folks. |
| 1:31.0 | It's so much more than that. This book does delve quite deeply |
| 1:36.3 | into who John Wayne Gacy is, but it also delves into who Karen Conte is. |
| 1:43.4 | And I want to stress something to you folks. |
| 1:45.6 | A lot of times there's a story within a story. |
| 1:48.4 | And sometimes that story is so rich and so good that it takes you into a different place. |
| 1:56.0 | The other thing we're going to tell Vintu today is a subject that I really find fascinating |
| 2:01.8 | and that is, is the death penalty the penalty that we should be |
| 2:07.8 | enforcing in America now Karen brings us up in the book and I find this subject fascinating as well. |
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