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Rotten Mango

#6- The Killer Clown - Serial Killer (Case of John Wayne Gacy)

Rotten Mango

Stephanie Soo

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.825.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

Are you afraid of clowns? Most clowns when they take off their makeup and costumes they're just normal people. But today's case is about a clown... when he took off his makeup he was something scarier... a serial killer. "Do you want to see a magic trick?" - it's about to get really creepy. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Bramble.

0:01.0

Welcome to Rotten Mango episode number five, I believe.

0:05.3

Maybe number six, Adam Frickinou.

0:07.3

I'm your host Stephanie, professional as a bit Sue and we are here with my fiance.

0:13.9

And today's case is going to be highly requested and it's going to be one that just, I mean

0:18.1

I've been looking at it for a past couple days.

0:19.8

I've been doing this research for the past week now and every single day that I re-look

0:23.3

at my notes, I just don't understand what's going on.

0:25.6

I can't wrap my head around to the details of this case.

0:28.6

I can't wrap my head around the psychology behind this serial killer.

0:32.6

I mean today we are talking about none other than one of America's most prolific serial

0:38.5

killers by the name of John Wayne Gacy.

0:42.2

Now because every serial killer needs to have a cool name apparently according to the

0:46.0

big media, according to all the news, his nickname was the killer clown.

0:51.5

Now I don't know if this is where America's fear, including my own fear of clowns comes

0:56.2

from or if this just kind of played a role into it, but he was a fucking creepy clown.

1:02.6

So he went by the name of Pogo the clown and patches the clown.

1:08.6

Is he actually a clown?

1:09.6

He dressed up like a clown?

1:10.6

Yeah, he dresses up like a clown.

1:12.2

He would perform at children's hospitals and charity events and fundraisers.

1:16.4

He would go to schools and he would literally perform and this actually becomes pivotal

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