John Wayne Gacy’s death row lawyer believes serial killer murdered dozens more
John Wayne Gacy murdered more than 33 victims, but his lawyer believes the “killer clown” did not act alone. Karen Conti was a fledgling lawyer in the early 1990s, representing the most notorious serial killers of the time in their final appeals from 1993 until his execution by lethal injection on May 4, 1994. Gacy […]
John Wayne Gacy’s lawyer ‘wanted to look evil in the eye,’ believes more victims
In the early 1990s, Karen Conti, a fledgling lawyer, was asked to represent John Wayne Gacy, but she accepted the case because she “wanted to appear evil in people’s eyes.” Conti, a fierce opponent of the death penalty, became the only female lawyer on the death row defense team and spent hours meeting with “killer […]