Verdict on a mass murderer
The flat voice of the court clerk filled the hushed courtroom of Chicago's venerable Criminal Court House. "We, the jury, find the defendant John Gacy guilty of the murder of . . ."—and then she would add a name. Twenty-two times she repeated that litany and then, because the other victims still had not been identified, she began adding numbers—eleven in all. Frowning slightly, the chunky, moon-faced defendant sat slumped in his chair. Moments earlier, walking into the courtroom, he had turned to his two gloomy attorneys. "Cheer up,...
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