John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster: Defending a Monster: The True Story of the Lawyer Who Defended One of the Most Evil Serial Killers in History

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The first of these was 18-year-old Robert Gilroy, the son of a Chicago police sergeant, last seen alive on September 15. That same day, Gacy's wife petitioned for divorce, requesting she be awarded the couple's home and property, sole custody of their two children, and alimony. Gacy contended that, although he had "some knowledge" of five of the murders (those of McCoy, Butkovich, Godzik, Szyc and Piest), the other 28 murders had been committed by employees who had keys to his house while he was away on business trips. During specific cross-examination relating to the torture, Rignall vomited and was excused from further testimony.

Recent identification efforts Facial reconstructions of the unidentified victims, released to the media in 1980. One Chicago detective who wouldn’t be named said there was “overwhelming evidence Gacy worked with an accomplice. While initially denying any involvement, Schroeder soon confessed to assaulting Voorhees, indicating he had done so at Gacy's request. Criminal Justice: Sheriff's Officials Seeking More Victims of Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy Want to Excavate Chicago Backyard".

Body 10, buried beneath the entrance to Gacy's home, [112] remains unidentified; he is estimated to have been between 17 and 21 years old and between 5 ft 7 in and 5 ft 11 in (170 and 180 cm). Gacy later estimated that between the ages of 14 and 18, he had spent almost a year in hospital; he attributed the decline of his grades to missing school.

He informed detectives that in the summer of 1977, at Gacy's behest, he had spread ten bags of lime in the crawl space of Gacy's house. Lieutenant Joseph Kozenczak, whose son attended Maine West High School like Piest, chose to investigate Gacy further. When Gacy had confessed to police, he claimed to be relaying the crimes of Jack, who detested homosexuality and viewed male prostitutes as "weak, stupid and degraded scum". Cram also informed investigators in this interview Gacy had allowed him to retain a driver's license belonging to a DeVry University student he found in Gacy's garage in approximately February 1977 so he could engage in underage drinking.The next day, Cram and Gacy had several drinks to celebrate his 19th birthday, with Gacy dressed as Pogo. Shortly after Gacy's arrest, Bundy's family had contacted his dentist in the hope of submitting his dental records for comparison with the unidentified bodies, but the records had been destroyed after his dentist had retired. In 1973, Gacy and a teenage employee traveled to Florida to view a property Gacy had purchased; while there, Gacy raped the employee in their hotel room.

ISBN 10: 0312977565ISBN 13: 9780312977566 + Stolen in the Night: The True Story of a Family's Murder, a Kidnapping and the Child Who Survived. Operations were suspended due to the Chicago Blizzard of 1979, but resumed in March despite Gacy's insistence that all the buried victims had been found.

Ignoring his lawyers' advice regarding his scheduled appointment, Gacy left to attend to his business. In January 1979, he had planned to conceal the corpses even further by covering the entire crawl space with concrete.