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Boys Enter the House

The Victims of John Wayne Gacy and the Lives They Left Behind

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Boys Enter the House

By: David Nelson
Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
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"Here is a work that emphasizes the full view of the lives of those young people that Gacy took.... It is essentially the Gacy story in reverse. Victims first.” (Jeff Coen, author of Murder in Canaryville)

As investigators brought out the bagged remains of several dozen young men from a small Chicago ranch home and paraded them in front of a crowd of TV reporters and spectators, attention quickly turned to the owner of the house. John Gacy was an upstanding citizen, active in local politics and charities, famous for his themed parties and appearances as Pogo the Clown.

But in the winter of 1978-79, he became known as one of many so-called “sex murderers” who had begun gaining notoriety in the random brutality of the 1970s. As public interest grew rapidly, victims became footnotes and statistics, lives lost not just to violence but to history.

Through the testimony of siblings, parents, friends, lovers, and other witnesses close to the case, Boys Enter the House retraces the footsteps of these victims as they make their way to the doorstep of the Gacy house itself.

©2021 David B. Nelson (P)2021 Recorded Books True Crime Serial Killers Murder Biographies & Memoirs
Victim-focused Narrative • Informative Content • Detailed Victim Stories • Comprehensive Historical Context

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Very sad true story! It was a random recommendation AI generated. I enjoy true crime stories and I’ve only enjoy a few in my life. This one’s a good one, folks! Thank you!

Great AI recommendation!!! Thanks

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I really love this book. I grew up in uptown as well in Chicago, but I was about five or six years old doing these incidents. But growing up, I’ve always heard stories of some of the victims in uptown from people in the neighborhood. So this book was very informative to me.

The storytelling about the victims.

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If you follow true crime and know about Gacy, but want to know more about the boys and young men he murdered, I think you will like this book.

A great book about the victims of John Gacy

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When it come to serial killers wond forget about the lives and families of the victims. This book tells the story of the lives of the victims and the families that kept searching for them, and eventually had to keep living without them. There are trigger warning so please read those and check in with yourself before reading. Otherwise my only gripe with this book is that it isn't in chronological order and jumps around a lot. The reader is warned about this in the beginning so it wasn't a surprise when it happened.

A voice for the dead

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If you are looking for just a book about Gacy this isn’t the book for you. This is a book about the 60s-70s and the people that lived in it. Each family history is gone into detail and was fascinating. The narrator was excellent. You could hear the righteous indignation in his voice at appropriate times.

10/10 Narrator

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