March 10, 2026
Best of Season 1: "THE KILLER CLOWN: JOHN WAYNE GACY'S 33 VICTIMS - PART 1"
Reid Carter presents Part 1 of a two-part series on John Wayne Gacy, timed with Peacock's new series "Devil in Disguise." Gacy was a successful Chicago contractor, Democratic precinct captain, and community pillar who dressed as Pogo the Clown for children's parties. He was also one of America's most prolific serial killers. Between 1972-1978, he murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men, burying 29 in the crawl space under his suburban home. December 1978: 15-year-old Robert Piest disappeared after meeting Gacy about a job. That investigation finally exposed the horror beneath Gacy's house.
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Callaroga Shark Media, Good morning, I'm Read Carter. Saturday, October eighteenth,
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twenty twenty five. Peacock just released Devil in Disguise, a
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new series about John Wayne Gacy, the killer Clown, one
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of America's most prolific serial killers, thirty three victims, twenty
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nine bodies buried in the crawl space under his suburban
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Chicago home. This weekend, we're doing a two part special
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on Gaysey. Today, his double life, his victims, and the
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investigation that finally exposed him. Tomorrow, the trial, death row,
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his execution, and the legacy of the man who created
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the killer clown trope in American horror. John Wayne Gacy
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was a pillar of his community. Successful contractor, democratic precinct captain,
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hosted elaborate street parties for hundreds of neighbors, performed as
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Pogo the clown at children's hospitals and charity events, photographed
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with First Lady Rosalind Carter. Respected businessman, good neighbor, family man,
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and at night he was hunting teenage boys, luring them
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to his house with promises of construction work, torturing them,
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murdering them, burying their bodies in the dirt crawl space
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under his ranch house at eight two one three West
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Summerdale Avenue in unincorporated Norwood Park Township, Illinois. For six
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years between nineteen seventy two and nineteen seventy eight, John
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Wayne Gacy operated with impunity. Police mentioned him multiple times,
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victims families reported their sons missing after being seen with Gaysey,
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but nobody connected the dots. Nobody searched his house, Nobody
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looked under the floorboards until December nineteen seventy eight, when
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fifteen year old Robert Peaste told his mother he was
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meeting a contractor about a summer job. That contractor was
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John Wayne Gacy. Robert never came home, and when police
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finally searched Gaysey's house, they found a chamber of horrors,
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a crawl space filled with decomposing bodies, limes spread over
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corpses to mask the smell. Twenty nine victims buried in
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neat Rose. Four more dumped in the Desplains River when
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he ran out of space. I'm reed, Carter, this is
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celebrity trials today. The killer clown, John Wayne Gacy, thirty
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three victims, six years of murder, and the investigation that
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finally stopped him. John Wayne Gaysey was born March seventeenth,
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nineteen forty two, in Chicago. Father was an abusive alcoholic
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who beat him regularly and called him a sissy. Gaysey
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desperately sought his father's approval but never received it. Classic
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psychological setup for what came later. Need for control, desire
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to prove masculinity, hatred of weakness. But young Gaysey appeared normal, friendly, outgoing,
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joined the Boy Scouts, active in his school. By age eighteen,
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he was working in politics, volunteering for Democratic candidates, attending rallies,
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making connections. He loved politics, loved being seen as important.
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Nineteen sixty four, Gaysey married Marlyn Myers. She was the
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daughter of a successful Kentucky businessman who owned KFC franchises.
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Gaysey moved to Waterloo, Iowa, to work in his father
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in law's business. Became a manager, had two children with Marlyn.
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Joined the j CS the Junior Chamber of Commerce, became
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vice president of his chapter. He was mister community Service,
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mister civic. Everyone loved John. Nineteen sixty eight, everything collapsed.
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Gaysey was charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy, the
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son of a j c's colleague. Gaysey had lured the
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boy to his house, given him alcohol, and attacked him.
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When the boy reported it, Gasey paid another teenager to
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intimidate him into not testifying. December nineteen sixty eight, Gaysey
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was convicted of sodomy and sentenced to ten years at
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the Iowa State Reformatory in Animosa. Marlyn divorced him. He
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lost everything. His father died during his imprisonment, meaning Gaysey
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never got the approval he'd spent his life seeking. But
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in prison, Gaysey was a model inmate, worked as a cook,
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joined the prison jace's chapter. Got early parole after serving
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eighteen months. Released June nineteen seventy, returned to Chicago, moved
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in with his mother, started rebuilding. Nineteen seventy one, Gaysey
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started PDM contractorsinting, decorating and maintenance, small remodeling business. He
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was good at it, hard working, reliable, built a solid reputation.
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Hired teenage boys as workers, paid them well, taught them
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construction skills, acted like a mentor. Nineteen seventy two, Gaysey
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bought a ranch house at eight two one three West
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Summerdale Avenue, single story home with a basement and crawl space,
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perfect for a contractor who needed storage. He lived there
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alone after separating from his second wife. That house became
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his killing ground, but publicly Gaysey was thriving. PDM Contractors grew.
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He joined Democratic Party politics again, became a precinct captain,
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organized elaborate street parties for his neighborhood. The annual summer
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party attracted hundreds. Gaysey would grill food, provide entertainment, spend
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thousands of dollars, being the generous neighbor. And he created
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Pogo the Clown, designed the costume himself, clown makeup with
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sharp angles in instead of rounded. Pogo had a creepy edge.
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Party fundraisers got photographed with politicians. May nineteen seventy eight,
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met First Lady Rosalind Carter at a Democratic event. She
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signed a photo to John Gasey best wishes Rosalind Carter.
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That photo would later become infamous. Everyone who knew Gaysey
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described him the same way. Generous, hard working, helpful, good neighbor.
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Yes he drank too much sometimes, Yes he bragged constantly
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about his connections. Yes he could be aggressive and controlling
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with his workers, but overall, solid guy, pillar of the community.
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beneath his living room, about the teenage boys who'd accepted
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construction jobs and never made it home. John Wayne Gacy's
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greatest skill wasn't construction, It was de excep He fooled everyone.
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Police questioned him multiple times about missing boys. He'd explain
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they ran away or moved on to other jobs, or
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were unreliable teenagers, and police believed him because why wouldn't they.
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He was a respected businessman, Democratic Precinct Captain Pogo the Clown.
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How could he be a murderer? At least thirty three victims,
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that's the confirmed number. Gaysey himself claimed there were more.
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Some bodies were never identified, some boys he killed but
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couldn't remember details. The true number might be higher. Gaysey's
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hunting ground, Chicago's Greyhound bus station. Teenage runaways, boys from
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troubled homes, kids who'd run away and wouldn't be immediately missed.
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He'd offer them work PDM contractors is hiring, need reliable guys,
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pays well. Or he'd offer shelter. You can crash at
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my place until you get on your feet. Other victims
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boys he employed at PDM, Teenagers he met through community events,
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young men he encountered at gay bars, friends of his
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workers who came by the house. Anyone vulnerable, anyone trusting,
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anyone who believed John Gasey was who he appeared to be.
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The pattern.
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Lure them to eight two one three West Summerdale, offer
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alcohol or marijuana, get them relaxed, then overpower them. Gaysey
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was large, over two hundred pounds strong from construction work.
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He'd use what he called his handcuff trick, demonstrate how
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to escape handcuffs, then put them on the victim and
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reveal there was no escape. Once restrained, Gaysey would torture
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them hours. Sometimes he'd rape them, strangle them slowly, then
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revive them to prolong the experience. His preferred murder method
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a garrot made from rope with a wooden handle, called
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it his rope trick. He'd strangle victims to death while
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sexually assaulting them. Then he'd drag the bodies to the
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crawl space three feet of clearance between the dirt floor
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and the floor joists above. Gaysey would strip the victims,
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stuff their underwear in their mouths, and bury them in
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shallow graves. Spread lime over the bodies to control decomposition smell,
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cover them with dirt, return upstairs and continue his life.
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Some victims we know by name. Timothy McCoy fifteen January
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nineteen seventy two Gasey's first known victim. John Butkovich seventeen
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July nineteen seventy five worked for PDM. Buried under Gasey's garage.
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Gregory Godzick seventeen December nineteen seventy six also worked for PDM.
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John Sick nineteen January nineteen seventy seven Gasey sold his
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car after murdering him. John Prestige fourteen March nineteen seventy seven.
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Matthew Bowman nineteen July nineteen seventy seven, Robert Gilroy eighteen
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September nineteen seventy seven. Many remain unidentified. Decomposition in the
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crawl space was advanced. Dental records helped identify some others
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were matched to missing persons reports, but several bodies were
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never connected to names. They're listed as victim ten victim
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twenty six, victim twenty eight teenage boys who died in
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Gaysey's crawl space and nobody ever claimed them. By nineteen
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seventy eight, Gaysey's crawl space was full, twenty nine bodies
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buried in what should have been a storage area. The
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smell was overwhelming. Gaysey told visitors it was moisture problems,
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sewage issues, dead rodents. He'd spread more lime put down
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concrete in some areas to seal in the smell, but
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anyone who spent time in that house noticed the odor.
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When the crawl space couldn't hold more bodies, Gaysey changed
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his disposal method. Drove to the I fifty five bridge.
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Over the day, plains river weighted the bodies and dumped
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them in the water. At least four victims ended up
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in the river between nineteen seventy eight and December when
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he was caught. The victims shared commonalities male teenagers or
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early twenties, white working class, many from troubled backgrounds, some
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were gay or questioning, All were vulnerable in some way.
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All trusted John Gacy enough to go to his house,
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and their families suffered unimaginable horror, reporting sons missing, being
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told boys that age run away, being assured by police
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there's no evidence of foul play, waiting months or years
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for answers, then learning their sons were tortured and murdered
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by a clown who'd been burying bodies under his house,
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while the community celebrated him as a model citizen. Jeffrey
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Rignall survived an encounter with Gaysey March nineteen seventy eight. Rignol,
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twenty six, was walking near Chicago's gay bars when Gaycy
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offered him marijuana, accepted a ride. Gaysey chloroformed him. Rignol
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woke in Gasey's house, restrained being tortured and raped repeatedly. Eventually,
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Gaysey chloroformed him again dumped him in Lincoln Park. Rignol
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went to police, reported the assault, even staked out the
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expressway for weeks and spotted Gasey's car got a partial
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license plate. Police investigated Gaysey, but prosecutors declined to file charges,
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said it was consensual rough sex gone too far. If
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they'd searched Gasey's house, then twenty nine bodies would have
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been discovered. Multiple victims would have been saved, But they
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didn't search, and Gasey kept killing more. In a moment.
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December eleventh, nineteen seventy eight, Robert Peaste, fifteen years old,
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was working at Nissan Pharmacy in Day Plains, Illinois. It
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was his mother's birthday. Robert planned to meet her after
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his shift so they could celebrate together. Around nine, a
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man came into the pharmacy to talk with the owner
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about a remodeling job. The man was John Wayne Gacy.
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While there, Gasey overheard Robert mention he was looking for
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summer work. Gasey said PDM Contractors was hiring pays five
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dollars an hour, Robert should come talk to him. Robert
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told his mother he'd be back in a few minutes,
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just going to talk to a contractor about a summer job.
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That contractor was waiting outside in his car. Elizabeth Peast
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watched her son walk out. That was the last time
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she saw him alive. When Robert didn't return after twenty minutes,
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Elizabeth went looking. Found Gacy's business card at the pharmacy
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immediately called police. This wasn't a runaway situation. Robert had
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told his mother exactly where he was going, left his
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jacket behind, said he'd be right back. Something was wrong.
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Des Plain's Police Lieutenant Joseph Cozenzak took the case, interviewed
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the pharmacy owner, got Gaysey's information, learned Gaysey had a
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conviction for sodomy in Iowa. That changed everything. This wasn't
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just a missing teen who might have run away. This
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was a known sex offender who was the last person
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scene with a missing boy. December twelfth, police questioned Gaysey.
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He denied Robert ever came to his house, said he
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didn't remember seeing any boy at the pharmacy. His story
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kept changing. He claimed he was with friends that night,
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gave multiple alibis that didn't check out. Cozen Zach obtained
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a search warrant for Gaysey's house, but the warrant was
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limited only searching for evidence related to Robert Peaste's disappearance,
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not a general search of the property. December thirteenth, police
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searched eight two one three West Summerdale. Found suspicious items, handcuffs,
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police badges, a receipt from Nissen Pharmacy with Robert's coworker's name,
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books on homosexuality. But they didn't search the cross thoroughly,
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didn't dig in the dirt, missed the twenty nine bodies
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buried beneath them. But Cozenzak knew something was wrong. Gasey
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was lying. His story changed constantly. His behavior was suspicious.
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Cozenzak put Gaysey under twenty four hour surveillance. Squad cars
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followed him everywhere, made it obvious they were watching pressure
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tactic make Gasey nervous, make him slip up. Gasey responded
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by acting increasingly erratic, complained about police harassment, called his lawyers,
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constantly invited the surveillance officers into his house, offered them food,
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tried to befriend them, classic manipulation. If they like me,
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they'll go easier on me. December fifteenth, police talked to
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Gaysey's acquaintances, learned he'd had numerous teenage boys working for
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him over the years. Learned several had disappeared, learned about
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complaints from parents. The pattern emerged. This wasn't about one
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missing boy, this was about multiple victims. December eighteenth, police
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obtained a second search warrant, more thorough. This time included
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authorization to dig in the crawl space if necessary, But
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before they could execute it, Gaysey's lawyer invited them to
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search voluntarily. December twenty first officers entered eight two one
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three West Summerdale. The smell was overwhelming. Gasey claimed it
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was moisture and sewage, but it was the smell of decomposition. Death.
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Officers entered the crawl space, saw disturbed earth, suspected graves.
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Wayne Gacy's house was a burial ground. December twenty second,
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