In 1980, John Gacy was sentenced to death in Chicago for the famous murder of 33 young men. He was executed in Illinois in 1994.
A new series on streaming platforms reveals the modus operandi of John Wayne Gacy, the Chicago murderer who brutally tortured and murdered children and youth in the 1970s and who was executed by injection deadly on May 10, 1994 in Illinois.
Gacynicknamed the “murderous clown,” confessed to raping, torturing and hanging 33 young people between 1972 and 1978, 29 of whom were found under his home. The United States had never encountered such a serial killer.
The numbered posts indicate where the bodies of John Wayne Gacy’s victims were found in the space beneath their suburban home. Twenty-nine bodies, all young men, were recovered. Four others were found in the rivers of Illinois. Photo: Grosby
The documentary series entitled “John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise” is a production of the Peacock platform and has the collaboration of Rafael Tovar, a retired private investigator, who revealed that Gacy murdered more people than the 33 murders for which the US authorities convicted him. .
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According to a note from Infobae, the documentary presents exclusive conversations with researchers, family members, as well as one of his best friends and his second ex-wife. In addition, the material includes a crude interview with Wayne Gacy from prison before his execution in 1994 at the age of 52.
One of the most shocking clips in the series is a conversation between Tovar and Gacy when the serial killer was transferred to the prison in Cook County, Illinois.
Tovar was one of the investigators who worked to search for and exhume the remains of the killer’s victims. He spent several days dismantling Gacy’s house, where he hid the corpses.
Speaking of the conversation with the “ killer clown, ” Tovar told Fox News that he himself asked if there were more victims. “I said, ‘How many people have you really killed?’ And he said, “Well, I told my lawyer this number: 30 something. And you guys have about 32, 33 or 34. But 45 sounds like a good number.”
John Wayne Gacy. Photo: Grosby
The investigator then asked him where those bodies would be, but the serial killer replied cynically, “No, I’m not going to tell you, it’s up to you to find out. You are the detectives. “
“I think he liked the power to kill people, the power of death,” Tovar said. It made him feel like a God. And I think that just got it. And he was smart. He ran away for a long time “
Chicago police and hired technicians used a ground radar device in an attempt to confirm the existence of more bodies in the apartments where serial killer John Wayne Gacie’s mother lived on November 23, 1998. Photo: AFP
The retired Chicago detective, quoted by the press, said in 1975 he saw Gacy carrying a shovel outside the building – where Gacy’s mother lived in the 1970s – in the middle of the night.
The detective said he recalled the incident three years later, when Gacy was arrested and found guilty of the murder of 33 young men and boys, 29 of whom he buried in his own suburban home.
With information from Infobae