Boys enter the house : the victims of John Wayne Gacy and the lives they left behind / David Nelson.
"As investigators brought out the bagged remains of several dozen young men from a small Chicago ranch home and paraded them in front of a crowd of TV reporters and spectators, attention quickly turned to the owner of the house. John Gacy was an upstanding citizen, active in local politics and charities, famous for his themed parties and appearances as Pogo the Clown. But in the winter of 1978-79, he became known as one of many so-called "sex murderers" who had begun gaining notoriety in the random brutality of the 1970s. As public interest grew rapidly, victims became footnotes and statistics, lives lost not just to violence, but to history."--Amazon.
Record details
- ISBN: 1641604867
- ISBN: 9781641604864
- Physical Description: xi, 323 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press Incorporated, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-323). |
Formatted Contents Note: | The Greyhound bus boy -- The poor side of town -- Class of 1973 -- All happy families -- Silly love songs -- In the company of homosexuals --The runaways -- Summerdale avenue -- Light and concrete -- The gallery of grief -- Boys coming home -- Remember me always -- Coda disco inferno. |
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Subject: | Gacy, John Wayne. Serial murders > Illinois > Chicago > Case studies. Murderers > Illinois > Biography. Murder > Illinois > Chicago > Case studies. Male prostitution > Illinois > Chicago. Murder victims > Illinois > Chicago > History > 20th century. Chicago (Ill.) > History > 20th century. Chicago (Ill.) |
Genre: | Biographies. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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North Kansas City Public Library | 364.1523 NELSON 2021 (Text) | 0001002386959 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
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Boys Enter the House : The Victims of John Wayne Gacy and the Lives They Left Behind
"Here is a work that emphasizes the full view of the lives of those young people that Gacy took. . . . It is essentially the Gacy story in reverse. Victims first." --Jeff Coen, author of Murder in Canaryville As investigators brought out the bagged remains of several dozen young men from a small Chicago ranch home and paraded them in front of a crowd of TV reporters and spectators, attention quickly turned to the owner of the house. John Gacy was an upstanding citizen, active in local politics and charities, famous for his themed parties and appearances as Pogo the Clown. But in the winter of 1978-79, he became known as one of many so-called "sex murderers" who had begun gaining notoriety in the random brutality of the 1970s. As public interest grew rapidly, victims became footnotes and statistics, lives lost not just to violence, but to history. Through the testimony of siblings, parents, friends, lovers, and other witnesses close to the case, Boys Enter the House retraces the footsteps of these victims as they make their way to the doorstep of the Gacy house itself.