That is how Karen Conti recalls her first encounter with Gacy. It was October 1993 and he was locked on death row in the Menard Correctional Center in downstate Chester, Illinois.
Karen Conti attorney and author of the book “Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy” photographed in Chicago, May 23, 2024. She was a kid, really, the 28-year-old attorney Karen Conti when she came face-to-face with the serial killer John Wayne Gacy and this is what she saw: “His face was ashen, splotchy and bloated. A dimpled chin and several beneath it were wedged against his blue prison-issue shirt.
Happily remarried, she was compelled during the quiet of the pandemic to revisit her time with Gacy and now that, and much more, is packed onto the 250-some pages between the covers of her surprisingly compelling book, “Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy: Defending America’s Most Evil Serial Killer on Death Row.”
I stood in a crowd of stunned and curious neighbors, cops, a couple other reporters, medical technicians and others, many of them crying and all, it goes without saying, trying to grasp this particular manifestation of evil., 29 in the house and four others nearby. Gacy went on trial, he was quickly convicted and sentenced to death. Even before that came, the foundation of his “immortality” had begun to form.
In that same story, I reviewed Brian Dennehy as Gacy in “To Catch a Killer.” I wrote that it was a “fine, tense and surprisingly reserved film … not the sordid, blood-stained romp that many might have expected.” Of Dennehy I wrote, “ riveting. More physically imposing than the real killer, he has menace written across his crooked smile.
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