Conversations With a Killer (Singles Classic)

Conversations With a Killer (Singles Classic)

On March 12, 1980, John Wayne Gacy was convicted in Chicago of killing thirty-three boys. The murders took place between 1972 and 1978, when he was caught and arrested. No one else in America has ever been convicted of killing so many people. Twenty-seven of the bodies were buried in a crawl space beneath the house where Gacy lived, in a neighborhood out by Oâ€™Hare Airport. About many of the murders there was a suggestion of sexual torture. Twenty-one of the murders were committed before Illinois had enacted a death penalty, and for those Gacy was sentenced to twenty-one terms of life in prison. For the others, he was sentenced to death. He is to be killed on the tenth of May.

Published just a month before Gacyâ€™s execution, Alec Wilkinsonâ€™s Conversations With a Killer presents a chilling portrait of one of Americaâ€™s most heinous killers as he sits on death row and maintains his innocence. At once too close for comfort and impossible to put down, Conversations With a Killer is a must-read for true crime fans.

Conversations with a Killer was originally published in The New Yorker, April 18, 1994.

Cover design by Adil Dara.
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-07-18
Format Kindle eBook

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