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...long time the name of the game was survival--we were treading water, and we didn't know if we were going to drown. But we came out of the Hudson River, and now we're doing the crawl, not the backstroke...
...questioned him about the disappearance of a local 15-year-old named Robert Piest, Gacy began jabbering about a seven-year career of murder, of picking up boys and young men, forcing them to perform sexual acts and then strangling them. Police discovered 26 bodies in a 40-ft. crawl space beneath his house, one body under his dining room and two buried in his backyard. Four more bodies, including Piest's, were dumped in the Des Plaines River...
...Terry Sullivan placed photographs of the 22 identified victims on a wooden easel and described each one in detail. The next day, Chief Prosecutor William Kunkle snatched up the photos and stalked over to a wooden hatch that had been brought into the courtroom; it had once covered the crawl space under the Gacy house. "Show the same sympathy and pity this man showed when he took these lives," Kunkle told the jury. With that, he flung the photos through the opening of the hatch. Gasps filled the courtroom...
Cars driven by boiling drivers roll on dusty highways across brown and barren land, from one barren city to another. They crawl on the yawning landscape of I-90, looking to flatten turtles or to veer toward hitchhikers to "pump their blood a bit." They roll on the flatlands of South Dakota, the no-man's-land of the hitchhiker who ducks the graceful parabola of a flying bottle and faces a more than likely prospect of a night on the prairie...
...They were simply laboring under the effects of massive doses of Thorazine...The guards liked it better for them to crawl under a bench or lie on a bench rather than to have them stiffleggedly joggling around the ward, tongues protruding from drooling mouths. The ones under the benches were out from under foot and did not bump into other patients and cause disturbances. They did not talk, so they were not difficult to understand. They were out...As soon as a man started causing trouble, the guards started giving medication...