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Buried: Inside the John Wayne Gacy Investigation. The story you never knew - until now

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Defense Diaries

True Crime

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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 The story you never knew - until now

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Bob Mata, host of Buried Inside the John Wayne Gacy Investigation, our newest podcast.

0:08.4

Now, we wanted to give you a bit of an FYI here, as we had to remove the Gacy tapes from our main feed over on defense

0:15.3

diaries in order to avoid confusion between the two podcasts, which unequivocally would have happened.

0:22.2

If you were following that series or in the middle of that series, you can continue listening,

0:28.0

ad free over on our Patreon, where all episodes remain available.

0:33.5

Now onto our trailer for Buried, Inside the John Wayne Gacy investigation. Enjoy.

0:42.9

I'm Bob Mata, host of Buried Inside the John Wayne Gacy Investigation, which is Defense Diaries' remastered re-release of the Gacy tape season.

0:54.0

The original Gacy recordings have been professionally remastered re-release of the Gacy tape season. The original Gacy recordings have been professionally remastered for enhanced clarity,

0:59.9

bringing new life to this groundbreaking investigation.

1:04.3

Just to be clear, this podcast is not another John Wayne Gacy biography.

1:09.8

No, this is the story of the victims,

1:12.7

the desperate investigation to find them,

1:15.2

and the lines that were crossed to bring their killer to justice.

1:19.8

The case shocked the nation and defined a generation of true crime.

1:24.3

But the full story of just exactly how Gacy was caught has never been told.

1:30.3

Until now. Well, there's a new podcast that is reexamining the investigation of serial

1:39.7

killer John Wayne Gacy. In the most recent episode, the host profiles a story about the key evidence in the case that he says, isn't the story we've come to know. If that doesn't show up on my report, then I was unaware of it that night. That's a detail I'm sorry that I cannot remember. Who are we to argue with, you know, state's attorneys and all that stuff. So I feel kind of bad about that end of it.

2:01.9

But he said that due the circumstances, we were not to tell anybody about that.

2:08.6

So for years, I never mentioned it to anybody.

2:13.2

My father, Bob Modis Sr. represented John Wayne Gacy during his insanity defense trial in 1980.

2:20.3

For decades, our family has possessed never-before-heard audio recordings of Gacy speaking candidly with his defense team.

2:29.3

These tapes reveal the mind of one of America's most notorious serial killers.

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