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John Wayne Gacy: The Dark Truth Behind the Killer Clown · The conspiracy

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Speaker 1: In the late 1970s, in a quiet suburb called Displains, Illinois,
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Speaker 1: concealed a nightmare. Behind the smile of a well-liked businessman
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Speaker 1: and part-time clown lurked a predator whose crimes would horrify
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Speaker 1: the nation. John Wayne Gacy wasn't just a trusted neighbor,
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Speaker 1: he was a serial killer who buried his victims beneath
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Speaker 1: his own And when investigators uncovered the truth, it shattered
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Speaker 1: the illusion of safety and redefined the face of evil.
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Speaker 1: This is a story of how a troubled child became
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Speaker 1: one of America's most infamous serial killers. And why his
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Speaker 1: legacy still haunts us today.
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Speaker 2: Known by all now as... The Killer Clown. Crime, conspiracy, cults,
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Speaker 2: serial killers, and murder. All things that I love to consume,
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Speaker 2: and I know you do too, you sick, beautiful, intellectually-minded freak.
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Speaker 2: And today, we are talking about just that monstrous POS person,
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Speaker 2: John Wayne Gacy. A lot of you recommended I do this,
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Speaker 2: so you get what you wish for. So without further ado,
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Speaker 2: let's unbuckle our seatbelts, go Mach 5 down the highway,
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Speaker 2: slam on the brakes, and bust through this windshield into
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Speaker 2: this killer clown case together. you John Wayne Gacy's early
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Speaker 2: life was marked by a tumultuous family dynamic and personal
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Speaker 2: struggles that would later shape his psychological development down the road.
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Speaker 2: Born on March 17th, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, Gacy was
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Speaker 2: the second of three children and the only son of
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Speaker 2: John Stanley Gacy and Marion Elaine Robinson. His father, a
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Speaker 2: World One veteran, struggled with alcoholism and subjected young John
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Speaker 2: to frequent verbal and physical abuse. And this abusive relationship
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Speaker 2: just set a precedent for the toxic dynamic that would
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Speaker 2: persist throughout Gacy's childhood and adolescence. And the paternal abuse
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Speaker 2: Gacy endured was not merely sporadic. It was a constant
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Speaker 2: presence in his formative years. Not a good example. His
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Speaker 2: father consistently belittled him and drew unfavorable comparisons between John
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Speaker 2: and his sisters. And this persistence of degradation had a
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Speaker 2: very profound impact on Gacy's self-esteem and his perception of masculinity.
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Speaker 2: And one particularly poignant incident occurred when Gacy was just
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Speaker 2: four years old. His father would beat him for accidentally
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Speaker 2: disarranging car engine components, an event that Gacy would recall
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Speaker 2: as one of his earliest childhood memories. This incident just
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Speaker 2: exemplified the harsh and unforgiving nature of his father's treatment,
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Speaker 2: which often centered around perceived failures and inadequacies. So just
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Speaker 2: the first ingredient in our serial killer stew, okay? Nature Nurture. Nurture, bad, bad.
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Speaker 2: But in contrast to his father's cruelty, Gacy's mother, Marion
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Speaker 2: Elaine Robinson, attempted to shield her son from the abuse.
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Speaker 2: So that's good, at least. However, this protective behavior inadvertently
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Speaker 2: fostered a deep-seated resentment in Gacy towards both his father
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Speaker 2: and expectations placed upon him. And the dichotomy between his
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Speaker 2: parents' treatment created a very complex emotional landscape for the
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Speaker 2: young Gacy, one that would influence his interpersonal relationship and
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Speaker 2: psychological development in the years to come. And Gacy's childhood
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Speaker 2: would be further complicated by a series of health issues.
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Speaker 2: He developed a heart condition that led to frequent hospitalizations,
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Speaker 2: and rather than his father offering him support, you know,
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Speaker 2: like a good dad does, his father just accused him
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Speaker 2: of feigning illness for attention, just deepening the rift between
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Speaker 2: the two. And this lack of paternal empathy during times
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Speaker 2: of physical vulnerability likely contributed to Gacy's feeling of isolation
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Speaker 2: and inadequacy. And the extent of Gacy's health problems became
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Speaker 2: more pronounced during his teenage years. Between the ages of
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Speaker 2: 14 and 18, he spent nearly a year in hospitals
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Speaker 2: due to unexplainable blackouts and a burst appendix. Kid had
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Speaker 2: it rough, you know, before he was an absolute monster
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Speaker 2: POS that deserves to be in hell. do feel bad
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Speaker 2: for the kid, you know? And these prolonged periods of
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Speaker 2: hospitalizations really affected his education and social development. So the
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Speaker 2: physical ailments combined with the emotional trauma of his home
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Speaker 2: life just created the perfect storm of psychological stress during
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Speaker 2: his formative years. And at the age 17, Gacy would
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Speaker 2: experience another traumatic event that would have a far-reaching consequence
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Speaker 2: for his psychological well-being. He would unfortunately be SA'd by
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Speaker 2: a family member. An experience he would actually never disclose
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Speaker 2: to his parents. So this, just combined with everything, all
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Speaker 2: the hospitalizations and all the treatment of his parents, was
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Speaker 2: just a recipe for disaster. Just another... ingredient in the
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Speaker 2: serial killer stew, if you will. But despite the abuse,
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Speaker 2: the medical issues, and the SA, Gacy actually managed to
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Speaker 2: maintain close relationships with his mother and his sisters, Karen
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Speaker 2: and Joanne. And these familial connections provided him with some
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Speaker 2: emotional support during his tumultuous childhood and adolescence. However, these
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Speaker 2: positive influences in his life would not outweigh the bad.
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Speaker 2: It just gets bad. And as Gacy entered adulthood, the
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Speaker 2: effects of his troubled childhood began to manifest in complex
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Speaker 2: and disturbing ways. The manipulative tendencies and violent impulses that
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Speaker 2: would later characterize his criminal actions can be traced back
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Speaker 2: to these formative experiences. And Gacy's childhood would also shape
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Speaker 2: his interactions with authority figures and his desire for approval.
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Speaker 2: As he grew older, he developed a keen ability to
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Speaker 2: present a facade of normalcy to the outside world. a
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Speaker 2: skill that would later enable him to be able to
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Speaker 2: commit these crimes and get away with it for a
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Speaker 2: very long time. So in 1960, at the age of 18,
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Speaker 2: he ventured into the world of politics, where all good
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Speaker 2: people come from. I love politicians. Working as an assistant
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Speaker 2: precinct captain of a local Democratic Party candidate. And although
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Speaker 2: this sounds like a really cool, impressive job, it was
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Speaker 2: not met with approval from his father. Still, this guy
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Speaker 2: still can't get approval from his father. He just completely
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Speaker 2: dismissed his son's efforts by labeling him as a patsy.
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Speaker 2: And the criticism just further strained their already tumultuous relationship
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Speaker 2: and underscored the ongoing tension between Gacy and his father.
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Speaker 2: So at this point, seeking a change of scenery, Gacy
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Speaker 2: relocated to Las Vegas in 1962. And there he found
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Speaker 2: employment in an ambulance service before transitioning to a position
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Speaker 2: as a mortuary attendant. The irony is palpable. And it
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Speaker 2: was during this time at the mortuary that Gacy had
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Speaker 2: a disturbing encounter that would leave a lasting impact on
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Speaker 2: his psyche. He would come into contact with the deceased
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Speaker 2: body of a young teenage boy. And in a moment
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Speaker 2: of profound disturbance, he would embrace and caress the corpse.
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Speaker 2: And this experience left Gacy in a state of shock.
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Speaker 2: And pleasure. And may have been the pivotal moment in
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Speaker 2: the development of his later pathological behavior. And then upon
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Speaker 2: returning back to Chicago, Gacy demonstrated a drive of self-improvement
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Speaker 2: and professional advancement. Despite not having completed high school, he
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Speaker 2: enrolled in Northwestern Business College and successfully graduated in 1963.
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Speaker 2: And the achievement completely opened doors for him. It secured
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Speaker 2: management trainee position with the Nunn-Bush Shoe Company, where he
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Speaker 2: began to showcase his business abilities. In the year 1964,
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Speaker 2: Mark does a significant turning point in Gacy's life. He
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Speaker 2: married Marilyn Myers, a coworker of his, and relocated to Springfield, Illinois,
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Speaker 2: where he excelled both in his career and community involvement.
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Speaker 2: And rising through the ranks of the Springfield Jaycees, a
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Speaker 2: civic organization, Gacy would eventually be named the vice president
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Speaker 2: and would be recognized as being the the third most
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Speaker 2: outstanding Jaycee in Illinois. Whatever that means. So this period
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Speaker 2: of his life just exemplified Jaycee's ability to present a
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Speaker 2: facade of normalcy and success to the outside world. A
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Speaker 2: skill that would come in handy as he delved into
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Speaker 2: the world of killing. And it was during the time
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Speaker 2: that he was with the Jaycees, Gacy would experience another
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Speaker 2: pivotal moment in his sejual development. And this moment would
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Speaker 2: be a homosexual encounter with a colleague. And this event
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Speaker 2: would mark a significant point in Gacy's life as he
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Speaker 2: grappled with his sexual identity, a struggle that would just
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Speaker 2: continue to influence his actions in those years to come.
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Speaker 2: And I'm not at all saying that homosexuality led him
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Speaker 2: to do these things that he's about to do in
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Speaker 2: any way, shape, or form. Obviously. But him questioning his
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Speaker 2: sexual identity led him to confusing roadblocks in his already
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Speaker 2: very confusing mind and obviously odd fixation with dead bodies.
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Speaker 2: Glad we cleared that up. Let's continue. But Gacy's ability
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Speaker 2: to maintain a respectable public image while harboring deviant impulses
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Speaker 2: is a classic example of a psychological concept of masking
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Speaker 2: in sociopaths specifically. He became very well liked in his community,
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Speaker 2: hosting large summer parties that attracted hundreds of guests, including
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Speaker 2: politicians and business associates, and these social gatherings just reinforced
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Speaker 2: his image as a community-minded individual, a good guy, if
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Speaker 2: you will, all while concealing his growing criminal tendencies. However,
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Speaker 2: Gacy's carefully constructed facade began to crumble in 1968 when
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Speaker 2: he was arrested for essaying a teenage boy named Donald Voorhees.
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Speaker 2: So this incident would mark Gacy's first criminal conviction and
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Speaker 2: resulted in a 10-year prison sentence at the Anamosa State Penitentiary.
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Speaker 2: Despite the severity of the crime, Gacy served only 18
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Speaker 2: months before being released early for good behavior. That's crazy!
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Speaker 2: That's like One tenth, a little over one tenth of
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Speaker 2: the sentence. That's crazy. And it would be a decision
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Speaker 2: that would have tragic consequences for years to come. And
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Speaker 2: the impact of the conviction on Gacy's personal life was
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Speaker 2: immediate and severe. His marriage completely dissolved with the divorce
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Speaker 2: being finalized while he was still in college. Womp womp.
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Speaker 2: So this marked the end of Gacy's relationship with his
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Speaker 2: wife and children, whom he would actually never see again,
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Speaker 2: which is for the best. So the loss of his
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Speaker 2: family and his reputation in the community he worked so
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Speaker 2: hard to cultivate, likely just exacerbated Gacy's psychological instability. And
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Speaker 2: reports suggest that during the time that he was in prison,
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Speaker 2: Gacy's criminal tendencies continued to just manifest. I mean, the
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Speaker 2: guy was just surrounded by criminals. How could they not?
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Speaker 2: He allegedly even tried to hire a hitman to eliminate
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Speaker 2: his accuser, who was Donald Voorhees, the teenage boy, though
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Speaker 2: his plan luckily and ultimately failed. And the incident just
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Speaker 2: provides insights into Gacy's growing disregard for human life and
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Speaker 2: his own willingness to resort to extreme measures to protect himself.
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Speaker 2: So upon his release from prison in 1970, John Wayne
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Speaker 2: Gacy returned to Chicago, where he initially resided with his mother.
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Speaker 2: And this marked the beginning of a period of remarkable
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Speaker 2: success and public acclaim for Gacy despite his criminal history,
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Speaker 2: which is crazy. In 1971, he established PDM Contractors, a
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Speaker 2: construction business that quickly flourished. And Gacy's entrepreneurship and charisma
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Speaker 2: allowed him to build a respectable reputation within his community,
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Speaker 2: effectively concealing his very dark impulses. And as he began
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Speaker 2: to become more financially stable, he could purchase a home
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Speaker 2: in Des Plaines, Illinois, or Des Plaines, Illinois for the French.
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Speaker 2: You're welcome. And the year 1972 proved to be a
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Speaker 2: very pivotal point for Gacy. He married Carol Hoff, a
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Speaker 2: divorcee with two daughters, further solidifying his image as a
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Speaker 2: reformed upstanding citizen, which like looking at it now, he
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Speaker 2: absolutely just did that for the image. I imagine he
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Speaker 2: didn't give a flying shit about anybody that was around him.
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Speaker 2: He just used people. And Gacy would immerse himself into
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Speaker 2: community activities, volunteering for political campaigns, and performing as Pogo
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Speaker 2: the Clown, the thing of nightmares, at local events. And
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Speaker 2: his involvement in these pursuits served to reinforce his public
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Speaker 2: persona as a benevolent and civic-minded individual. But alas, he
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Speaker 2: was a sick-minded individual. But that picture of him as
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Speaker 2: a clown is... locked in my nightmares. But in 1972,
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Speaker 2: he would finally start to crumble into his violent tendencies.
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Speaker 2: He would commit his first murder. And the victim was
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Speaker 2: Timothy McCoy, a 16-year-old hitchhiker whom Gacy had picked up
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Speaker 2: at the bus station. Gacy would lure McCoy to his
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Speaker 2: home under the pretense of offering him a place to
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Speaker 2: stay for the night. And in the early hours of
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Speaker 2: the morning, Gacy would stab McCoy to death in his kitchen.
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Speaker 2: And later, Gacy would claim that he killed him in self-defense,
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Speaker 2: asserting that McCoy had attacked him with a knife. And
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Speaker 2: this incident, however, marked the beginning of Gacy's killing spree,
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Speaker 2: which would continue for the next six years. years. And
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Speaker 2: the second murder would take place around January 1974, and
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Speaker 2: this victim remains unidentified. All we know is that the
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Speaker 2: person was strangled and placed in Gacy's closet before being
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Speaker 2: moved to the crawlspace after the body began to decompose.
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Speaker 2: And all of this specific information was given as testimony
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Speaker 2: by Gacy himself. And the third victim, John Butkovic, would
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Speaker 2: be 18 years old at the time of his disappearance
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Speaker 2: on July 31st, 1975. And John had been working for
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Speaker 2: John Wayne Gacy since the age of 16. And shortly
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Speaker 2: before his disappearance, Gacy and Butkovic were having money issues.
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Speaker 2: And on July 30th, John and three friends went to
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Speaker 2: Gacy's home, threatening to beat Gacy up if he didn't
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Speaker 2: pay John the $ 300 that he was owed. Just beat
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Speaker 2: him up. beat him up, get some baseball bats, beat
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Speaker 2: him up. But instead of paying him, Gacy let the
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Speaker 2: four boys smoke weed and drink beers at his house.
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Speaker 2: And after a while, the boys left, and eventually, later
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Speaker 2: that day, Gacy encountered John, waving him down at his car.
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Speaker 2: And following this interaction, Gacy convinced John to get into
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Speaker 2: his car, and he would take him back to his home.
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Speaker 2: And as soon as the two men would enter the home,
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Speaker 2: John B. began to yell at Gacy, demanding his check,
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Speaker 2: because beers and weed didn't cut it. And Gacy would
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Speaker 2: then do his his later on M.O. and he would
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Speaker 2: cuff John B. with handcuffs and he would tell him
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Speaker 2: once he calmed down he would take the cuffs off. However,
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Speaker 2: John B. began to threaten Gacy saying that if Gacy
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Speaker 2: cut the cuffs off him he would kill him. And
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Speaker 2: from there his fate was sealed. Gacy would make John
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Speaker 2: sit on his chest and he would lay next to
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Speaker 2: him and eventually he would just strangle him. And Gacy
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Speaker 2: would plan on stashing his body in the crawlspace and
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Speaker 2: but his family came home, forcing him to bury John B.
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Speaker 2: under the garage. And following his disappearance, the Butkovits pushed
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Speaker 2: for police to investigate Gacy further, but nothing was ever done, unfortunately.
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Speaker 2: Which brings us to our next victim, which was Daryl Sampson,
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Speaker 2: who disappeared on April 6th, 1976. Now we're in a
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Speaker 2: shorter cool-down period time, which tends to happen with a
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Speaker 2: lot of serial killers. We have that really long one,
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Speaker 2: and then it slowly gets shorter and shorter because they
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Speaker 2: get more and more impatient and more and more addicted
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Speaker 2: to what they're doing. But at the age of 18,
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Speaker 2: Daryl Sampson was invited into Gacy's home under the pretense
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Speaker 2: of a construction job, but shortly after would be murdered
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Speaker 2: by Gacy. Initially, it was believed that Daryl disappeared by
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Speaker 2: running away, but after police entered Gacy's home, his body
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Speaker 2: was found missing. underneath the dining room. This is obviously
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Speaker 2: later on after they actually found out Gacy was a
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Speaker 2: serial killer. But until they found that out, everyone thought
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Speaker 2: that he just ran away. And the next victim, Randall Reffet,
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Speaker 2: age 15, disappeared on May 14th 1976 so now we're
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Speaker 2: only like a month cooldown period and he would also
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Speaker 2: be discovered under the crawlspace of Gacy's home during the
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Speaker 2: police investigation after Gacy was caught and his body would
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Speaker 2: be identified via x-ray and his cause of death would
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Speaker 2: be a stab wound. And the next victim Samuel Stapleton
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Speaker 2: was only 14 years old at the time of his disappearance.
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Speaker 2: On May 13th 1976 Samuel had just finished spending time
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Speaker 2: at his sister's house and and decided to walk back
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Speaker 2: before his curfew. However, he would never make it home
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Speaker 2: and was reported missing the next day. And his body
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Speaker 2: would also be discovered under the crawl space of Gacy's
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Speaker 2: home and identified by x-ray of his head that included
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Speaker 2: his teeth. And his body was also found with a
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Speaker 2: metal bracelet that his family and friends later identified as his.
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Speaker 2: And this bracelet was actually used in charging Gacy with
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Speaker 2: the death during his trial. And next there was Michael
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Speaker 2: Lawrence Bonin, who disappeared on June 3rd, 1976 at the
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Speaker 2: age of 17. He was taken while traveling from Chicago
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Speaker 2: to Waukegan and his cause of death was strangulation via ligature.
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Speaker 2: And his body was exhumed from beneath Gacy's spare bedroom.
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Speaker 2: And next there was William Billy Carroll Jr., who was
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Speaker 2: known to be kind of a troublemaker around town. According
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Speaker 2: to his father, William, quote unquote, when Billy was 14
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Speaker 2: or 15, he was caught with a 38 Smith &
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Speaker 2: Wesson automatic pistol. According to what I've learned from some
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Speaker 2: of his friends, he'd shoot it at people just to
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Speaker 2: scare them. He used to like to watch them run. However,
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Speaker 2: on his oldest brother's birthday, June 13th, 1976, 16-year-old William
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Speaker 2: disappeared and was later discovered and identified in a shallow
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Speaker 2: grave in the crawlspace of Gacy's home via dental records
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Speaker 2: on March 17th. 1979. And then there was James Jimmy Hankinson,
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Speaker 2: who was actually recently identified on July 19th, 2017 via
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Speaker 2: DNA match to his family, previously known as Body 24.
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Speaker 2: Hankinson disappeared on August 5th, 1976 at the age of 16.
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Speaker 2: And on the day he disappeared, Jimmy called his mother
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Speaker 2: to let her know that he had arrived in Chicago
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Speaker 2: after traveling from Minnesota from his home. And once Gacy
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Speaker 2: was arrested, James' mother contacted the police stating that her
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Speaker 2: son might be one of the unidentified victims. However, at
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Speaker 2: the time, the police could only use dental records to
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Speaker 2: identify bodies, and James' mother just happened to not have any.
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Speaker 2: And it wasn't until his nephew told his father and
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Speaker 2: aunt to submit their DNA to the Chicago PD and
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Speaker 2: that his body was then successfully identified. And the next
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Speaker 2: victim would be Rick Johnson, aged 17, and he disappeared
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Speaker 2: on June 8th, 1976. So all of these murders are
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Speaker 2: happening very, very close together. And he would disappear after
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Speaker 2: his mother dropped him off at a concert. Not much
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Speaker 2: is known about how Gacy and Rick met. However, we
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Speaker 2: know that Rick died on August 6th, 1976, and his
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Speaker 2: body was found inside the crawl space buried over top
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Speaker 2: of the body of James Hackinson. So at this point,
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Speaker 2: he's just stacking bodies on top of each other under
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Speaker 2: his floorboards while his family is living in the same home.
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Speaker 2: And just going about his life how he always does
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Speaker 2: with being a clown and then having his construction company,
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Speaker 2: a construction company in which he found a lot of
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Speaker 2: his victims. He would just tell them that they could
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Speaker 2: have a job and then he'd have them over and
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Speaker 2: then he'd do relatively the same thing over and over
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Speaker 2: again you know either getting them drunk or handcuffing them
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Speaker 2: promising them jobs it's just just sick and the fact
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Speaker 2: that it took so long for them to find it
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Speaker 2: was just And then there is the next victim, Gregory Godzik.
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Speaker 2: And there's little known about the disappearance of Gregory. All
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Speaker 2: we know is that he went missing on December 11th, 1976.
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Speaker 2: And he was exhumed from the crawlspace of Gacy's home.
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Speaker 2: And investigators were able to place Greg in Gacy's home
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Speaker 2: because his wallet and some of his other belongings were
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Speaker 2: found there. And at age 19, John Sick had recently
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Speaker 2: moved to Chicago and was eager to start a life. However,
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Speaker 2: he went missing January 20th, 1977. And later during police investigation,
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Speaker 2: he would also be found in Gacy's crawl space. And
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Speaker 2: then there was John Prestige, age 20, who had come
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Speaker 2: to Chicago to visit a friend and eventually stayed after
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Speaker 2: finding work with a Chicago contractor. And he would be
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Speaker 2: last seen on March 15th, 1977. And his body would
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Speaker 2: also be found in the crawl space. And I know
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Speaker 2: I'm saying, you know, victim one after another after, another,
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Speaker 2: but I think it's important to speak on all of
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Speaker 2: the victims. As shocking and as sickening as it is,
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Speaker 2: I don't want to breeze past any of them. So
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Speaker 2: next we have Matthew Bowman, who was last seen by
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Speaker 2: his mother at a suburban train station and reported missing
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Speaker 2: by his sister July 5th, 1977. And other than his
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Speaker 2: body being found under the crawl space, not much is
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Speaker 2: known about how he came into contact with Gacy or
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Speaker 2: how he died. And then there was Robert Gilroy, the
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Speaker 2: son of a Chicago police sergeant. And he had actually
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Speaker 2: grown up just four blocks from where Gacy lived, but
20:22
Speaker 2: investigators couldn't link any evidence as to whether that played
20:25
Speaker 2: a factor in his disappearance or death. And Robert was
20:28
Speaker 2: last seen September 15th, 1997. And unfortunately, his body would
20:32
Speaker 2: also be found under the crawlspace at the age of 18.
20:35
Speaker 2: And then there was John Morey, who at age 19
20:38
Speaker 2: completed an intense 18 month Marine training and enjoyed his
20:42
Speaker 2: time in Chicago with friends and family. And on the
20:44
Speaker 2: night of September 25th, 1977, he stopped by his family
20:48
Speaker 2: member's house and informed them that he was going out. However,
20:52
Speaker 2: according to his roommate who worked for Gacy's construction company,
20:56
Speaker 2: his dog had been run over. And this claim would
20:58
Speaker 2: be corroborated by his girlfriend who claimed that the last
21:01
Speaker 2: time the two had talked had been on the phone
21:03
Speaker 2: that night when Marui went missing. And following this incident,
21:06
Speaker 2: Marui would never be seen again. And when investigating his disappearance,
21:10
Speaker 2: his roommate was very adamant about not calling his missing roommate.
21:13
Speaker 2: Which some believe meant that he knew that Gacy was
21:16
Speaker 2: responsible for Marui's disappearance. Because that is very strange. And
21:20
Speaker 2: when investigators ended up digging up Gacy's mass grave, John
21:24
Speaker 2: Mowry's body was among the deceased in the crawl space.
21:26
Speaker 2: And among the many items that were discovered in Gacy's home,
21:29
Speaker 2: Mowry's brown suede jacket was found and used as evidence
21:33
Speaker 2: to prosecute Gacy during his trial. And next would be
21:36
Speaker 2: Russell Nelson, who disappeared on October 17th, 1977. After traveling
21:40
Speaker 2: to Chicago with a friend to work for a contractor
21:43
Speaker 2: within Chicago metro area. And investigators would never figure out
21:46
Speaker 2: whether that contractor that Russell worked for was Gacy or not.
21:49
Speaker 2: or not. And his body would be recovered from Gacy's crawlspace,
21:53
Speaker 2: and he would be 21 at the time of his death.
21:55
Speaker 2: Next would be Robert Winch, who was the son of
21:58
Speaker 2: a physics professor at Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he would live
22:01
Speaker 2: for most of his life, and then he would move
22:03
Speaker 2: to Chicago at the age of 16. And while in Michigan,
22:06
Speaker 2: he was kind of known for running away from his
22:08
Speaker 2: foster home. So when he disappeared on November 11th, 1977,
22:11
Speaker 2: it wasn't that surprising. And he would be last seen
22:15
Speaker 2: eating at a McDonald's with a friend after being dropped
22:17
Speaker 2: off by his girlfriend. And while at McDonald's, he would
22:20
Speaker 2: be approached by John Wayne Gacy, offering him a contracting job.
22:24
Speaker 2: And he left the McDonald's with Gacy and was never
22:26
Speaker 2: seen again. And while investigators would later search Gacy's home,
22:30
Speaker 2: they would find his tiger's eye belt. Then there was
22:32
Speaker 2: Tommy Bowling, who was 20 years old at the time
22:35
Speaker 2: he disappeared on November 18th, 1977. And at the time,
22:38
Speaker 2: he was struggling with drugs and had a wife, and
22:40
Speaker 2: a three-year-old son. And his body would be recovered under
22:43
Speaker 2: Gacy's Crawl Space as well. And the body of David
22:45
Speaker 2: Tolsma would also be found in Gacy's Crawl Space and
22:49
Speaker 2: was identified by x-rays on his left arm on what
22:52
Speaker 2: would have been his 21st birthday. And his father reported
22:55
Speaker 2: him missing on December 14th, 1977. And next is William
22:59
Speaker 2: Wayne Kindred, a 19-year-old resident of 511 West Melrose Street, Chicago.
23:05
Speaker 2: And he was last seen near Diversity and Broadway, where
23:08
Speaker 2: police believed John W. Gacy picked him up. And Kindred's girlfriend,
23:11
Speaker 2: Mary Jo Paulus, had been searching for him tirelessly since
23:15
Speaker 2: his disappearance. But his body would be later found under
23:18
Speaker 2: Gacy's house in December 1978 and was identified through dental
23:22
Speaker 2: records provided by his mother. And then there would be
23:24
Speaker 2: Tim O'Rourke's body, who was actually recovered from Illinois River
23:28
Speaker 2: and was identified through fingerprints. And when his body was found,
23:31
Speaker 2: he was completely naked. And he disappeared sometime in mid-June 1978,
23:35
Speaker 2: and his age was unknown. So clearly something happened during
23:39
Speaker 2: that encounter where Gacy maybe couldn't get him back to
23:42
Speaker 2: his home or... Some sort of ordeal happened where he
23:45
Speaker 2: had to kill him on the spot and then throw
23:47
Speaker 2: him into the river. And then the body of Frank
23:49
Speaker 2: William Landigan was discovered naked in the Des Planes River
23:52
Speaker 2: in Will County on November 12th, 1978. And he was
23:56
Speaker 2: later linked to Gacy after his driver's license was found
23:59
Speaker 2: in Gacy's home. And then 20-year-old James Mazzara was found
24:03
Speaker 2: three miles away from Timothy O'Rourke in the Des Planes
24:07
Speaker 2: River on December 28th, 1978. And not much is known
24:10
Speaker 2: about when Gacy came into contact with James, or when
24:13
Speaker 2: the first meeting was, or even when he went missing,
24:16
Speaker 2: but he was found nonetheless. Clearly, Gacy found a new
24:19
Speaker 2: dumping ground because he had so many bodies under his house.
24:23
Speaker 2: And the next victim is Robert Piest, a 15-year-old in
24:26
Speaker 2: Des Planes, Illinois, who disappeared on December 11th, 1978. And
24:30
Speaker 2: he was last seen in Nissan Pharmacy, where he worked,
24:33
Speaker 2: telling his mother that he was going to meet a
24:35
Speaker 2: contractor for a potential job. We all know where he's going.
24:39
Speaker 2: Obviously identified later, the contractor being John Wayne Gacy. And
24:42
Speaker 2: when Robert obviously didn't return home, his family reported him missing.
24:45
Speaker 2: And his disappearance triggered an investigation that ultimately led to
24:49
Speaker 2: Gacy's arrest. And Robert's body would be found April 9th, 1979,
24:53
Speaker 2: in the Desplantes River. And Robert's blue nylon jacket was
24:57
Speaker 2: found inside Gacy's home, linking his death date. And all
25:01
Speaker 2: of those victims that we just covered are all the
25:03
Speaker 2: ones that have been successfully identified. To this day, there
25:07
Speaker 2: are still seven unidentified victims that police are working diligently
25:11
Speaker 2: to identify. There were eight unidentified victims found as well
25:15
Speaker 2: at his property. DNA from the scene was unable to
25:18
Speaker 2: be extracted from them, and they just continued to be unnamed.
25:21
Speaker 2: But Gacy's ability to maintain a double life during this
25:25
Speaker 2: period was remarkable. He continued to be an active member
25:28
Speaker 2: of his community, hosting large parties and participating in local politics,
25:33
Speaker 2: and his construction business was thriving during this whole time,
25:36
Speaker 2: providing him with both financial stability and a means to
25:39
Speaker 2: access potential victims. And the contrast between Gacy's public persona
25:43
Speaker 2: and his private actions was very stark, illustrating his capacity
25:48
Speaker 2: for manipulation and deception. And as years progressed, Gacy's crimes
25:52
Speaker 2: became increasingly brazen. He began to take greater risks, sometimes
25:56
Speaker 2: committing murders while other people were present in his home.
25:59
Speaker 2: And this escalation and risk-taking behavior would just ultimately contribute
26:03
Speaker 2: to his downfall. And despite his efforts to conceal his crimes,
26:07
Speaker 2: suspicion began to arise within his immediate circle. His second wife,
26:11
Speaker 2: Carol Huff, reported finding wallets belonging to young men in
26:15
Speaker 2: their home and noticing a peculiar odor emanating from the
26:19
Speaker 2: crawl space. How the fuck could you not smell like 20,
26:26
Speaker 2: 30 bodies under your floorboards? I'm assuming she had her
26:30
Speaker 2: nose cauterized or something. I don't even, I don't, I
26:32
Speaker 2: don't understand how you could just be like, It's probably nothing.
26:40
Speaker 2: It's probably just, probably just, I forgot to do the
26:42
Speaker 2: laundry or something. I don't know. I don't even know
26:44
Speaker 2: how Gacy would play that off. Like he would just
26:47
Speaker 2: say that he was, I don't know, refusing to shower
26:50
Speaker 2: for years and just blaming it on his own disgusting
26:52
Speaker 2: body odor or something. I don't know. I don't know.
26:55
Speaker 2: I don't understand how that's even possible, but. I digress.
27:00
Speaker 2: But it says that every time she brought it up,
27:03
Speaker 2: Gacy would just somehow explain it away. So I can't
27:07
Speaker 2: think of anything else. He's like, oh, there's mold in
27:09
Speaker 2: the walls. And she's like, shouldn't we move? And he's like, no,
27:12
Speaker 2: we can't. So the turning point came in December, 1978,
27:16
Speaker 2: when the disappearance of 15-year-old Robert Piest was linked to Gacy.
27:20
Speaker 2: Piest had last been seen at the pharmacy where Gacy
27:22
Speaker 2: had been working. and witnesses reported that Gacy had offered
27:25
Speaker 2: him a job. And this disappearance would trigger a much
27:28
Speaker 2: more thorough investigation into Gacy's activities, ultimately leading to the
27:32
Speaker 2: discovery of the horrific extent of his crimes. So the
27:35
Speaker 2: disappearance of Robert on December 11th, 1978, marked the beginning
27:39
Speaker 2: of the end for John Wayne Gacy, the killer clown.
27:42
Speaker 2: So police would obviously go to Gacy's home and the
27:45
Speaker 2: police would scrutinize Gacy. And they would uncover a series
27:48
Speaker 2: of suspicious items that raised alarms, to say the least.
27:52
Speaker 2: And these included items belonging to missing young men, as
27:55
Speaker 2: well as peculiar objects that seemed out of place in
27:58
Speaker 2: a suburban household. And the mounting evidence against Gacy led
28:03
Speaker 2: to the implementation of round-the-clock surveillance on his residence. So
28:08
Speaker 2: under the weight of constant police scrutiny, Gacy's behavior became
28:12
Speaker 2: increasingly erratic. His attempts to maintain the facade of normalcy
28:16
Speaker 2: began to crumble as the pressure intensified. And on December 21, 1978,
28:20
Speaker 2: the investigation reached a critical turning point when Gacy, unable
28:25
Speaker 2: to withstand the mounting pressure, made a shocking confession to police.
28:30
Speaker 2: He admitted to killing at least 30 men, quote unquote.
28:34
Speaker 2: A revelation that stunned even the most seasoned investigators. Because
28:38
Speaker 2: everybody around Gacy, they thought he was the coolest guy.
28:42
Speaker 2: So nice, very professional, you know, very successful, great family.
28:47
Speaker 2: How could this guy be a murderer? It basically shook Chicago.
28:51
Speaker 2: Then there was the grim task of excavating Gacy's property,
28:55
Speaker 2: which began on December 22nd. And over the course of
28:59
Speaker 2: the week, forensic teams meticulously searched the crawlspace beneath Gacy's home,
29:03
Speaker 2: uncovering a horrifying scene, as you already know. And the
29:07
Speaker 2: excavation revealed dozens of decomposing bodies, confirming the extent of
29:12
Speaker 2: Gacy's murderous spree. And the process of recovering and identifying
29:15
Speaker 2: the remains was painstaking and emotionally taxing for all involved.
29:19
Speaker 2: And if we take a look at this house, it
29:21
Speaker 2: is just truly haunting. Investigators dug into his yard and
29:25
Speaker 2: realized just how many of his victims he was literally
29:28
Speaker 2: standing above at all times, which I'm sure was just
29:32
Speaker 2: a weird fucking pleasure treasure trove for him It is sick.
29:37
Speaker 2: Just a sick bastard. I fucking hate this guy. It's
29:40
Speaker 2: just sick. Especially with his family living on that in
29:43
Speaker 2: the house too. Ugh. makes me sick. And he lived
29:47
Speaker 2: at 8213 West Somerdale Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. And this place
29:52
Speaker 2: became a burial site for all the victims I listed.
29:56
Speaker 2: So when investigating his home, the crawlspace housed 26 bodies
30:01
Speaker 2: beneath it. And they also found a body under the
30:03
Speaker 2: garage and one in the yard. And I mean, at
30:06
Speaker 2: this point, he was literally collecting them. Not only killing
30:10
Speaker 2: them in his home, but burying them in his home.
30:12
Speaker 2: It's like he had this possession over these bodies. It
30:15
Speaker 2: was just sick. And despite the extensive efforts of forensic
30:20
Speaker 2: experts and law enforcement, several of Gacy's victims remain unidentified,
30:24
Speaker 2: as we said. And this tragic reality underscored the far
30:27
Speaker 2: reaching impact of his crimes and the challenges faced by
30:29
Speaker 2: investigators in bringing closure to the afflicted families. And the
30:33
Speaker 2: magnitude of Gacy's crimes became fully apparent when he was
30:37
Speaker 2: formally charged with 33 counts of murder, one of the
30:41
Speaker 2: highest numbers in the United States criminal history. And the trial,
30:44
Speaker 2: which began in 1980, captivated the nation and shed light
30:48
Speaker 2: on the dark underbelly of a seemingly ordinary suburban life.
30:53
Speaker 2: Gacy's defense team attempted to mount an insanity plea, which
30:57
Speaker 2: is insanity, arguing that their client was not in control
31:00
Speaker 2: of his actions at the time of the murders. However,
31:03
Speaker 2: the strategy quickly unraveled as expert testimony consistently ruled that
31:07
Speaker 2: Gacy was sane and fully aware of the nature of
31:09
Speaker 2: his consequences of his actions. I mean, you're talking about
31:12
Speaker 2: a guy that could, like, fully function and have a
31:15
Speaker 2: full business, own a business, run a business, have a family,
31:20
Speaker 2: be well-liked by everyone around them, like, have nothing seemingly
31:24
Speaker 2: mentally wrong with them, and then they try to get
31:26
Speaker 2: the insanity plea. It's just, it just, it just makes
31:29
Speaker 2: me hate defense attorneys. I don't hate them all, but
31:31
Speaker 2: I mean, let's not get into that, but they should
31:34
Speaker 2: kind of be in jail too. Anyway, Gacy's attorney, that is.
31:37
Speaker 2: And the prosecution presented a mountain of physical evidence and
31:41
Speaker 2: testimony that painted a clear picture of Gacy's methodical and
31:45
Speaker 2: calculated approach to his crimes, because every One of these
31:48
Speaker 2: crimes was so thought out and premeditated, like you couldn't
31:52
Speaker 2: argue it. And the jury, having heard weeks of gruesome
31:55
Speaker 2: testimony and examined the overwhelming evidence, required less than two
32:00
Speaker 2: hours of deliberation to reach their verdict. And on March 13th, 1980,
32:05
Speaker 2: John Wayne Gacy was found guilty on all counts and
32:08
Speaker 2: sentenced to death. for his heinous crimes, whether you agree
32:12
Speaker 2: with that or not. I'm not upset about it. And
32:13
Speaker 2: following his conviction, Gacy spent the next 14 years on
32:17
Speaker 2: death row. So he had to rot a little bit,
32:19
Speaker 2: which I also like. And during this time, he granted
32:21
Speaker 2: numerous interviews, maintaining his innocence in later years, despite his
32:25
Speaker 2: earlier confessions. So the guy just wanted attention, because he's
32:28
Speaker 2: a little attention whore. He's a little... creepy clown attention
32:31
Speaker 2: whore bitch. And it's weird to see some of the
32:34
Speaker 2: interviews because it has him having all the documents of
32:37
Speaker 2: his known victims and being able to look at them
32:40
Speaker 2: and also in confident state that he has no recollection
32:43
Speaker 2: of any of them when you know, when you know
32:45
Speaker 2: he remembers every single one of their faces and everything
32:47
Speaker 2: that he did to them. It's just, he has a
32:49
Speaker 2: very punchable face during his interviews. But the final chapter
32:53
Speaker 2: of John Wayne Gacy's life unfolded on May 10th, 1994,
32:57
Speaker 2: when he was executed by lethal injection. Womp womp. And
33:00
Speaker 2: witnesses to the execution reported a disturbing scene describing what
33:05
Speaker 2: appeared to be a botched procedure, which I just call karma.
33:08
Speaker 2: The chemicals used in the lethal injection process reportedly caused
33:12
Speaker 2: Gacy to experience prolonged suffering, raising questions about the humanness
33:17
Speaker 2: of the execution method, which, you know, is fair. You know,
33:20
Speaker 2: I mean, he's a monster, that doesn't mean We, the
33:23
Speaker 2: innocent people, need to be monsters. But maybe it was
33:27
Speaker 2: an accident. And if it was an accident, listen, who
33:29
Speaker 2: the f * * * cares? You know, he killed
33:32
Speaker 2: 33 people. In his final moments, though, Gacy remained defiant
33:36
Speaker 2: and unrepentant. Which just makes it... Like, I just don't
33:42
Speaker 2: feel bad for him. I don't feel bad for him. Like,
33:43
Speaker 2: even a little bit. And his last words would be, quote-unquote,
33:48
Speaker 2: Kiss my ass. Well. Karma kissed yours, you piece of shit.
33:54
Speaker 2: But it was just his final act of contempt towards
33:57
Speaker 2: society and his victims, revealing that even in death he
34:01
Speaker 2: showed no remorse for his actions. And now he's just
34:04
Speaker 2: rotting in the deepest depths of hell, burning every second
34:10
Speaker 2: of every day and every night. And I sleep well
34:13
Speaker 2: at night knowing that, but I digress. Gacy's psychological profile
34:17
Speaker 2: revealed a complex tapestry of disorders and motivations. Cause I
34:22
Speaker 2: do like to get into that. Like how, how the
34:24
Speaker 2: hell does somebody become this? How do people commit these
34:29
Speaker 2: crimes and just go about their lives like nothing ever happened?
34:31
Speaker 2: His behavior exhibited strong narcissistic personality traits evident in his
34:36
Speaker 2: manipulation of both the police and media throughout the investigation
34:40
Speaker 2: and the trial. And this narcissism was even further exemplified
34:43
Speaker 2: by his lack of remorse as he shows no empathy
34:46
Speaker 2: for his victims and even mocked their families at some points.
34:49
Speaker 2: And the question of whether Gacy suffered from dissociative identity
34:53
Speaker 2: disorder or DID remained contentious as he inconsistently claimed to
34:57
Speaker 2: have multiple personalities at various points during and after the trial.
35:01
Speaker 2: I feel like that was just the defense trying to
35:03
Speaker 2: say that he was insane and this was just like
35:06
Speaker 2: a way of trying to manipulate the jury, which is just,
35:09
Speaker 2: you're not fooling me, buddy. You're dead. Who am I
35:11
Speaker 2: talking to? Not you, because you're down there. Anyway, and
35:14
Speaker 2: the motivations behind Gacy's crimes were just multifaceted, extending beyond
35:18
Speaker 2: mere Sejual gratification, his actions were deeply rooted in a
35:22
Speaker 2: desire for power and control. And the act of his
35:25
Speaker 2: victims begging for their lives before killing them served to
35:28
Speaker 2: reinforce his sense of dominance. Something that he didn't have
35:31
Speaker 2: as a child when his father was dominating him, which
35:35
Speaker 2: I do think coincides. with how he went about killing people.
35:38
Speaker 2: But this need for control may have also stemmed from
35:41
Speaker 2: his internal conflicts, particularly regarding his sexuality as well, which
35:45
Speaker 2: I'm sure is a factor. And despite being married twice,
35:48
Speaker 2: Gacy primarily targeted young men, leading some experts to theorize
35:53
Speaker 2: that he struggled with repressed homosexual urges which may have
35:56
Speaker 2: fueled his rage and violent tendencies. And the Gacy case
35:59
Speaker 2: also led to significant reforms in law enforcement procedures, particularly
36:03
Speaker 2: handling cases of missing persons. The removal of the 72
36:07
Speaker 2: hour waiting period for reporting missing children was incorporated into
36:11
Speaker 2: the Missing Child Recovery Act of 1984, ultimately contributing to
36:15
Speaker 2: the establishment of the Amber Alert System, which again, just
36:20
Speaker 2: a positive out of something so huge and negative. But
36:23
Speaker 2: a 72 hour waiting period is Like even back then,
36:29
Speaker 2: like that, I can't even, what? Like I know a
36:30
Speaker 2: lot of kids ran away, but my lord. My lord.
36:33
Speaker 2: But Gacy's crimes had a lasting impact on criminal profiling techniques,
36:38
Speaker 2: highlighting the importance of understanding the psychological profiles of serial killers.
36:43
Speaker 2: And the FBI and other law enforcement agencies have since
36:46
Speaker 2: developed more sophisticated methods of identifying and tracking potential serial offenders.
36:51
Speaker 2: And these advancements draw on insights gained from analyzing Gacy's
36:55
Speaker 2: behavior and his modus operandi, or MO, contributing to the
36:59
Speaker 2: evolution of investigative practices in the field of criminal psychology.
37:03
Speaker 2: But all in all, giant piece of shit that I
37:09
Speaker 2: am glad is not breathing the same oxygen as all
37:12
Speaker 2: you beautiful babies. All my beautiful babies. I just want
37:15
Speaker 2: you to be safe. I want you to be safe
37:17
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37:19
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37:23
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