The Killer That Haunted My Adolescence

Dan Savage on John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and a scarier killer than either of them.by Dan SavageActually, there were several killers.My most vivid memory from freshman year of high school is standing at the front of a drugstore reading the Chicago Sun-Times. It was the winter of 1978, and I was 14 years old. Day after day after day, pictures of boys shared the front page with a mug shot of a heavyset middle-aged man with a bad haircut. The boys looked like classmates I had crushes on. They