11/17/2023 0 Comments Clown serial killer![]() ![]() Although Kim was two years older, Rob and she had dated occasionally. Rob was a fifteen-year-old sophomore at Maine West High School, and he’d worked at the pharmacy since the previous summer. Rob Piest, whose parka Kim had on, was now midway through his after-school shift at Nisson’s. While she was working at the cash register she had borrowed the coat to protect her from the drafts at the front door. After a moment’s thought, she stuck it in a pocket of the parka she was wearing. Kim logged the order number in the record book and tore off the receipt. Inside Nisson’s, you smelled the usual drugstore aroma of candies and scented notions, while your ears absorbed the recurring thunder of jets. Across busy Touhy Avenue lay the northern perimeter of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Among its neighbors were a 7-Eleven, a Gold Medal Restaurant, and a liquor store. Its glass front was papered with signs advertising sale items. Nisson’s was in a nondescript, one-story building in a small shopping center. When Kim, one of several teenagers working at Nisson Pharmacy in Des Plaines, Illinois, had used a brief lull in customer traffic to process her order. ![]() They were prints she planned to give to her sister for Christmas, now just two weeks away. But these were her own photographs, which she could easily identify when they came back from the lab. Had it been a customer’s order, she simply would have given that person the stub from the envelope. Kim Byers couldn’t decide what to do with the photo receipt. “You will learn more in this book about the daily activities of a police department than you will from any number of Ed McBain novels or episodes of Hill Street Blues.” - The Charleston News & Courier Read more for true crime addicts” - Publishers Weekly “As with a good mystery story, to the very end of Killer Clown we find ourselves still rooting for good to triumph over evil, yet fearing that the dice may be loaded the other way.” - Chicago Tribune “An unnerving true crime story of murder, terror, and justice.” - Dallas Morning News This updated edition features new revelations that have emerged using DNA evidence to confirm the identities of additional victims-and sixteen pages of dramatic photos. Reconstructing the investigation-from records of violence in Gacy's past, to the gruesome discovery of twenty-nine corpses of abused boys in Gacy's crawlspace and four others found in the nearby river-Sullivan's shocking eyewitness account takes you where few true crime books ever go: inside the heart of a serial murder investigation and trial. Few could imagine what lay buried beneath his house of horrors-until a teenaged boy disappeared before Christmas in 1978, leading prosecutor Terry Sullivan on the greatest manhunt of his career. But few people could see the cruel monster beneath the colorful clown makeup that John Gacy wore to entertain children in his Chicago suburb. And one of the most sadistic serial killers of all time. The “chilling” story of America's most notorious serial killer by the man who helped catch him-now updated with the latest DNA findings ( Nashville Banner). ![]()
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