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Podcast: True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History
Episode: KILLING TIME WITH JOHN WAYNE GACY-Karen Conti
Description: John Wayne Gacy raped, tortured, and murdered 33 boys and young men, burying most of them in the crawlspace under his Chicago home. Karen Conti was in high school at the time watching the bodies being removed on the television news.Fourteen years pass. Through a twist of fate, Conti, now a young and inexperienced attorney, is called upon to handle Gacy’s final death row appeals. The serial killer soon becomes her most famous, difficult, and haunting client.Thirty years after Gacy’s execution, Conti looks back through the eyes of a seasoned prof...