#342: Devil In Disguise: Honoring the Victims and Deconstructing a Serial Rapist/Killer' - Part 1

Real Crime Profile

Real Crime Profile / Wondery

True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, Documentary

4.2 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In our new series, we deconstruct prolific serial killer John Gacy (JG) who raped and murdered at least 33 teenage boys in the Chicago area in the late 70s. Throughout this series we refer to him as JG as unfortunately this killer has received so much notoriety in life behind bars that it has obscured the names of the victims he killed and we do not want to contribute to that. We want to reframe this case and honour the victims.

Jim and Laura analyze JG's behavior and explain how he was able to target his victims and avoid discovery. We discuss the many mis-steps of law enforcement and the criminal justice system that allowed JG to offend for as long as he did. Across our series we use the Peacock documentary called “Devil in Disguise” as a framework for our discussion and analysis, so check it out and listen to our series or you can just dive into our episodes. You won't want to miss this.

Their names were:

John Butkovich - 18

John Szyć - 19

Gregory Godzik - 17

James Mazzara - 20

Rick Johnston - 17

Micheal Bonnin - 17

John Prestidge - 20

Robert Gilroy - 18

Timothy O’Rourke - 20

John Mowry - 19

Matthew Bowman - 19

William Carroll - 16

Randall Reffett - 15

William Kindred - 19

Robert Winch - 16

Tommy Boling - 20

Samuel Stapleton - 14

David Talsma - 19

Darrell Samson - 18

Kenneth Parker - 16

Timothy McCoy - 16

William Bundy - 19

James Haakenson - 16

Russell Nelson - 16

Frank Landingin - 19

Robert Piest - 15

Frances Alexander - 21

Unidentified Victim 10

Unidentified Victim 13

Unidentified Victim 21

Unidentified Victim 26

Unidentified Victim 28

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Devil in Disguise Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUi-m3Ugo-g

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Real Crime Profile ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:07.0	John Gacy was probably the most prolific or infinitesirial killer in modern times.
0:16.0	Police say John Wayne Gacy raped and murdered young men and boys from 1972 to 1978.
0:26.0	Before his arrest, he spent nearly a decade living a double life.
0:32.0	It sticks out in people's mind because not only did Gacy rape and kill so many boys in such a short amount of time, but he had everybody fooled.
0:43.0	Cops say Gacy was well liked in his community, just outside of Chicago.
0:49.0	He was active in local politics and would dress up as a clown to entertain children.
0:55.0	The whole case was very, very unique. It was very troublesome to people in Chicago and really across the country.
1:26.0	Gacy was arrested in 1978 when investigators searched his home. They found the unthinkable. More than two dozen bodies.
1:41.0	He concealed the bodies of his victims in his own home. In the crawl space, he had a dirt and rock crawl space.
1:49.0	Where he would excavate shallow graves and place the victims in the crawl space.
1:57.0	Gacy was convicted and executed for the murder of 33 young men and boys.
2:04.0	But at the time, investigators were not able to identify eight of those victims.
2:11.0	Hi everyone and welcome to Railcrime Profile. I'm Laura Richards, Criminal Behavioral Analyst,
2:20.0	Formanese Scotland Yard, Founder of Paladin National Stalking Advocacy Service,
2:24.0	and host of Crime Analyst. And with me today is...
2:27.0	Hi, I'm Jim Clemente, Retired FBI Profile of Forman, New York City Prosecutor and writer producer for CBS's Criminal Minds.
2:33.0	And I'm Lisa Zambetti, I'm casting director for CBS's Criminal Minds and I have a real interest in real crime.
2:38.0	And the minds that solve these crimes and we are turning to a new, tremendously heartbreaking case.
2:44.0	And I realized that this is another one of those offenders whose name and visage I recognize from popular culture,
2:51.0	but whose crimes I was completely unaware of. And I certainly never heard of the victims.
2:57.0	And so first up, that's the first thing we're going to do. As you know, we do that on Railcrime Profile.
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