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Timesuck with Dan Cummins

68 - John Wayne Gacy: Chicago's Serial Killing Clown

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.721.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2018

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

John Wayne Gacy aka Pogo the clown aka Patches the clown aka the Devil himself. This outgoing member of his Chicago community, this Democratic Party volunteer, high ranking member of the Jaycees, parade organizer, and successful contractor by day was a living monster by night. He abducted, handcuffed, raped, strangled, tortured, and suffocated at least 33 young men and teen boys in the 1970s. Twenty-eight of them ended up buried beneath his home in the crawlspace. Meet the man/monster who's last words were "kiss my ass" today on Timesuck! Timesuck is also brought to you by by the socially conscious on-line fantastic mattress store LEESA! Go to www.leesa.com/timesuckto get $100 off of one of their incredible mattresses and help both the environment and the homeless while doing so! Trouble with the APP or new website? Email BitElixir! (you'll have to copy and paste - sorry) [email protected] Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast

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0:00.0

On the afternoon of December 21, 1978, a half dozen Chicago investigators, armed with the fresh

0:05.6

search warrant, made their way down into the crawl space beneath the home of John Wayne Gacy,

0:09.6

at 8213 West Somardale Avenue in the Norwood Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.

0:15.1

Officer Daniel Gentie made his way crawling along his stomach to a spot underneath Gacy's kitchen

0:20.4

where he saw what looked like human hairs sticking out of the ground.

0:23.6

Shining a flood light on the area, he saw a long depression look like a dry lake bed with cracks

0:28.2

in the yellow grade covering of a layer of lime that Gacy had put over the entire surface of the

0:32.3

dirt beneath his home. Gentie popped an entrenching tool into the ground and after two shovel

0:37.0

folds of dirt, he hit some whitish bits of soap-like material. It was at a posterior flesh,

0:42.4

body tissue that has chemically changed to a large-like substance due to rot and moisture.

0:47.6

The crawl space smelled like a sewer. Gentie dug further and hit bone, an armed bone.

0:53.4

A definitely human arm bone. There were more hairs on his little shovel.

0:58.0

Gentie turned towards some other officers poking their heads to crawl space access door and said,

1:02.3

charge him. I found one. Within minutes, Gacy was in police custody,

1:07.1

charged on suspicion of murder. The body Gentie had begun to uncover was the first of what would be

1:11.6

28 corpses that would be removed from underneath his home. We tend to like it dark here in the

1:17.8

suck and it's hard to get darker than this week's Gacy. So let's go full evil. Explore the man,

1:23.5

the murderer, the fucking children's clown that was John Wayne Gacy today on TimeSuck.

1:42.4

Happy New Year, suckers 2018. It's here. Hail Nimrod. Let's make it big. Let's make it real big.

1:48.0

I'm Dan Cummins. This is TimeSuck. Welcome to the Cult of the Curious.

1:51.9

Lucina clearly steered into the New Year. Not able to suck this one in the New Suck Dungeon,

1:56.9

suck studio, the Suck layer. I'm still in a Denver Colorado doing some shows,

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