“That one mother who goes on television all the time, who thinks I should be given 33 injections, I think she ought to take 33 Valiums and go lay down…. If her Marine son was so great, then what the hell did he run away from home all the time?”

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Referring to Delores Nieder, mother of Gacy victim John Mowrey. Interview with Gacy from prison. This five-part series originally aired on the CBS 2 News in Chicago at 10PM on May 11-15, 1992.

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