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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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Sam Amirante had been a practicing lawyer for several years, but he had just started his own private practice when a guy he knew from his political precinct called him asking for a favor. John Wayne Gacy, a Democratic Party precinct captain and small business owner, was being followed around and harassed by the police in their little Chicago suburb, and wanted Sam to look into it. Something about a missing teenager.

Personally, I wanted a bit more of the crime(s) in my true crime book rather than the law and the trial, you know? The only redeeming quality to this book is the authors open mindedness regarding homosexuality. That it is not a choice, but a defect in the body / brain wiring. Ie Right person wrong body. Sadly, that is the only thing I found redeeming about this book. Amirante, a former assistant public defender who represented Gacy as his first private client, agreed that the secret to Gacy’s success lay largely in his unctuous charm developed over years as the son of a harsh, verbally abusive father and later refined as a successful shoe salesman.I think he was being absolutely self-destructive and in the good side of him — the very limited good side of him that was left — clearly wanted to be caught,” Amirante said. “He was sabotaging himself.”

Netflix released Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes on April 20, 2022. Featuring interviews with people involved with the case and archival audio footage from Gacy’s incarceration, it is the second entry in Netflix's Conversations with a Killer documentary series, the fi rst of which focused on serial killer Ted Bundy. Quotes Bettiker recalls being given the responsibility of going over an endless number of missing persons reports from agencies across the state. That's precisely what Judge Sam L. Amirante has done with John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster. Sure he tells us the basics of the Gacy killings, sure he talks a bit about the Gacy he knew, but mostly Amirante is telling us what it was like to be him as he "defended the monster." Admittedly, many of the things he relates about himself are damn interesting, but too much of his book is spinning a myth about his own awesomeness (though he wouldn't be so crass as to say that explicitly) or lecturing us on the "greatness" of the US legal system: its nobility, its idealism, its importance, hell ... its preeminence. Too much bla bla bla for my taste. He ONLY does this to "show how wrong an original perception could be" after making sure you know he "wasn't interested in embarrassing this poor little woman, or man, or whatever". This chapter closes with Donita Gannon leaving the courtroom and him writing "That woman had stood there at the outset of her testimony with her hand on a bible and sworn to god that she would tell the truth, when, in fact, she was living a lie".

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The police ended up looking kind of foolish,” in the wake of the Gacy case, a University of Louisville criminologist told the Tribune in 1994 after Gacy’s execution. The criminologist, Robert C. Crouse, called Gacy “the No. 1 event” that changed how police departments operate.

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