- Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Heavy Metal Magazine; Reissue edition (27 Sep 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0786014229
- ISBN-13: 978-0786014224
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.4 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 667,830 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This has got to be , one of the most boring true crime stories i have ever read!
Too much of the book is focused on the surveillence of Gacey , and not enough on the actual crime and the trial .
I was very disappointed with this book , and wouldn't recommend it to anyone
Too much of the book is focused on the surveillence of Gacey , and not enough on the actual crime and the trial .
I was very disappointed with this book , and wouldn't recommend it to anyone
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Just before Christmas time of 1978 Rob Piest disappeared from his job at a drugstore, never to be seen alive again. This disappearance began an interest into a local businessman, John Wayne Gacy, known as a model citizen and a hospital volunteer clown. Interest in Gacy soon had the police suspicious enough of this Jaycee member to begin digging a little deeper. What the police investigation revealed bit by bit, was a sadistic maniac who tortured and killed 33 young boys, and then calmly disposed of their bodies-many of them underneath the crawl space of his own home. The book follows the policemen involved through their frustration,as with mounting horror they begin to realise the depth of the crimes that Gacy has committed. It takes you right up to and including Gacy's trial and the verdict. Was Gacy insane, mentally imbalanced or just pure evil and anti-normal? I would recommend anyone who is interested in true crime to read this book. It is well worth the purchase price.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This covers the whole topic of John-Wayne Gacy and his crimes, but unfortunately this is ruined by three-quarters of the book being given over to a continual prose on the police surveillance operation. It does unintentionally perhaps make you realise just how inept the US police force are. I would have preferred something by Colin Wilson on the subject if he had written about it. Lets hear the facts and a diagnosis and in-depth look at Gacy's mind, but not 300 pages of police records on the 2-days of surveillance before they accidentally found the bodies.
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Bought this book for my nephew and he is thrilled with it. He got it Christmas Day and had read most of it by Boxing Day !!!! Can't wait to borrow it now from him. !!! Read more
Published 4 months ago by shady
Slow at times but thought provoking and shocking!
People familiar with the case know the shocking true story of John
Wayne Gacy who was known to Chicago as a model citizen who played
clown to hospitalised children,own... Read more
Wayne Gacy who was known to Chicago as a model citizen who played
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Published 14 months ago by Mr. A. J. Ralph
John gacy is a real sicko - good story though!
The killer clown is a story known all around the world, He's just so devious and cunning but his murder spree does to come to an end thank god. Read more
Published on 10 Jan 2010 by Jason Duckworth
Finally a book about John Wayne Gacy!
I had been searching for a John Wayne Gacy book for a while and all appeared to be deleted but finally this one came along. Read more
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