The Man Who Killed Boys: The John Wayne Gacy Story by Clifford Linedecker [FIRST EDITION / 1980]

The Man Who Killed Boys: The John Wayne Gacy Jr. Story by Clifford L. Linedecker 

FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [1980] ST. MARTIN'S PRESS

Rare 1st printing.  Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition. 

Dust jacket is excellent with light shelf wear; unclipped with price in tact on front panel. 

Book itself looks and reads like new.   Incredibly minor trace of foxing along top edge [see last photo.]  Beautiful copy. 

A true story of horror and mass murder in a Chicago suburb...

Successful businessman, community benefactor, good friend and neighbor-- and perverted mass murderer.

Over a period of three years, John Wayne Gacy, Jr. sexually tortured and murdered 33 boys. His friends and neighbors in his unassuming Illinois community never suspected a thing. Gacy was a Jekyll-and-Hyde figure, leading an outwardly normal life, but secretly brutalizing dozens of young men in a hidden lair, and concealing their bodies under the floorboards of his suburban home.

Through extensive personal interviews with those who knew Gacy, veteran true-crime scribe Clifford L. Linedecker takes us on a shocking ride through Gacy's life, delving deep into the man's troubled past, recounting his appalling series of murders, and recreating the drama of his trial-- The Man Who Killed Boys reveals stark terror set amid the daily lives of an ordinary community.