Full name: John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster

Authors: Sam L. Amirante, Danny Broderick Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: True crime, Non Fiction, Biographies, Mystery, Crime Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781616082482 1616082488

"Sam, could you do me a favor?" Thus begins a story that has now become part of America's true crime hall of fame. It is a gory, grotesque tale befitting a Stephen King novel. It is also a David and Goliath saga--the story of a young lawyer fresh from the Public Defender's Office whose first client in private practice turns out to be the worst serial killer in our nation's history. Sam Amirante had just opened his first law practice when he got a phone call from his friend John Wayne Gacy, a well-known and well-liked community figure. Gacy was upset about what he called "police harassment" and asked Amirante for help. With the police following his every move in connection with the disappearance of a local teenager, Gacy eventually gives a drunken, dramatic, early morning confession--to his new lawyer. Gacy is eventually charged with murder and Amirante suddenly becomes the defense attorney for one of American's most disturbing serial killers. It is his first case. This is a gripping narrative that reenacts the gruesome killings and the famous trial that shocked a nation. Similar books: Angel of Darkness by Dennis McDougal The Search for the Green River Killer by Carlton Smith House of Secrets by Lowell Cauffiel Death Sentence by Jerry Bledsoe And Never Let Her Go by Ann Rule Everything She Ever Wanted by Ann Rule The I-5 Killer by Ann Rule Murder in Greenwich by Mark Fuhrman Before He Wakes by Jerry Bledsoe Lust Killer by Ann Rule Worth More Dead by Ann Rule Charmer by Jack Olsen Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder by Ann Rule Without Pity by Ann Rule No Regrets by Ann Rule The Good Nurse by Charles Graeber Mafia Prince by Phil Leonetti The Iceman by Anthony Bruno The Night Stalker by Philip Carlo The Man in the Rockefeller Suit by Mark Seal