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Title: Buried Dreams : Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer INSIDE by Tim Cahill ISBN: 0-553-05115-6 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 February, 1986 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (10 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Borderline propaganda
Comment: I have read a considerable amount of true crime including almost all available material on John Wayne Gacy. I finally obtained a copy of Tim Cahill's out-of-print Buried Dreams, and I was terribly disappointed after reading it. The definitive book on Gacy is Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders by Terry Sullivan (with Peter T. Maiken), one of the Illinois prosecutors responsible for securing murder convictions against Gacy. Cahill's book, which was published several years after Sullivan's and used material supplied by investigative reporter Russ Ewing, not only fails to shed any new light on the case but also comes close to outright plagiarism of Killer Clown.
Cahill does provide extensive details on John Wayne Gacy's life as a young boy and as an adolescent, but even the new revelations are only of passing interest. His writing style is somewhat of a "stream of consciousness", which isn't inappropriate in this case nor in this genre; yet it lends an air of imprecision to the book that isn't welcome. We want to know what John Wayne Gacy was thinking; we don't want to have to guess at it.
Alas, law enforcement and the rest of us have been guessing for years, and though this book is subtitled "Inside the mind of a serial killer", it doesn't come close to delivering. When he discusses the police investigation, Cahill comes just a hair's width away from plagiarizing Sullivan's Killer Clown. If you've read Killer Clown, you can see that Cahill simply took whole chunks of that book and rewrote them slightly before inserting them into his own book.
The final blow to this book's credibility is Cahill's presentation of "Gacy's own words." Sadly, Cahill only refers in passing to Gacy's multiple witnessed statements to the Des Plaines Police Department immediately after his arrest in December 1978. Instead, he uses Gacy's words from prison in the 1980s, where Gacy had begun to deny almost all knowledge of the crimes and insisted that he was only guilty "of running an unlicensed cemetary." It is borderline propaganda and it only confirms what we already know: that Gacy was a sociopath who loved manipulating people, including authors.
Save yourself the trouble of searching for a copy of Buried Dreams and buy Sullivan's book instead. You'll learn a whole lot more than you would reading Buried Dreams and you won't miss anything, either. And if you really want to know how Gacy thinks, read Robert Ressler's excellent books on serial killers.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the Best in Print!
Comment: I read this book years ago and I've never forgotten it. Flawless writing and thorough research puts this book miles ahead of Killer Clown:The John Wayne Gacy Murders by Terry Sullivan which is written with a to the point, cheap, sleazy flair.(like those awful Pinnacle True crime books with their hack writers) What makes this book so much better is it doesn't rely on cheap shocks and sordid discriptions to get it's point across and has a much more thorough account of what took place both before, during and after the murders. I felt at the end I knew more about Mr. Gacy than I ever really wanted to know...Truly Sick and bloodcurdling! If this book interests you try a few of these: The Man with Candy-Jack Olsen, Freed to Kill:The True Story of Serial Murderer Larry Eyler-Gera Lind Kolarik,Wayne Klatt, Angel of Darkness-Dennis McDougal they are really good! and really scary!
Rating: 5
Summary: from the crawl space
Comment: It's 8 in the morning and im down here in the crawl space digging. i cant stand the smell and the people around here are begining to complain. "it's the sump pipe, besty.i'll take care of it soon." is my patten answer, but really... i dont care. As i bury my lastest prey (boy, it's getting easier every time), i say to my self " Jhon Gacy is a winner! I am the man!" The bodies bruied under the crawl are my trophies! See dad i'am a winner!If i could only get rid of the smell. anyway, im digging and then the doorbell rings. Great another puck asking about when he'll be paid or a copper asking about some kid...maybe the kid im burying now. i dust my pants off after leaving the crawl space and answer the door. "MR. Morgan, here is your package." the ups guy says. At that moment i realize that i just put down the best book i've every read about Jhon Gacy. this book is the best to date. After reading this book, you will have a deep understanding of a sick man and a understanding of how/why he commited these horriable crime---as if you witness them yourself. a real tour de force!!!
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Title: Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders by Terry Sullivan, Peter T. Maiken ISBN: 0786014229 Publisher: Pinnacle Books Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The Man Who Killed Boys : The John Wayne Gacy, Jr. Story by Clifford L. Linedecker ISBN: 0312952287 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Night Stalker by Phillip Carlo, Philip Carlo ISBN: 0786013621 Publisher: Pinnacle Books Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The Last Victim : A True-Life Journey into the Mind of the Serial Killer by Jason Moss, Jeffrey Kottler ISBN: 0446608270 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story : An American Nightmare by Donald A. Davis ISBN: 0312928408 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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