Buried Secrets: Inside the Real John Wayne Gacy Investigation with Bob Motta
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3.3 • 907 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The killer clown. The crawl space. The 33 victims. But BURIED: Inside the John Wayne Gacy Investigation exposes what the public never heard — the story behind the story.
In this conversation, criminal defense attorney Bob Motta joins me to go inside his groundbreaking podcast BURIED, featuring the remastered Gacy tapes — real recordings of John Wayne Gacy speaking with his defense attorneys, including Motta’s own father, Robert Motta Sr., who defended Gacy during his insanity trial. For decades, these tapes were locked away, unheard by the public. Now, they’ve been restored with pristine clarity — revealing not just Gacy’s chilling words, but the inner workings of the investigation that brought him down.
We dig into the revelations that shook even the detectives who worked the case — shocking admissions, hidden police files, and details from evidence logs that tell a different story than the official narrative. BURIED isn’t another Gacy biography — it’s an investigation into the investigation itself, uncovering how systemic bias, bad assumptions, and desperation shaped one of the most infamous manhunts in American history.
If you’ve seen Devil in Disguise on Peacock, this conversation goes even deeper — beyond the horror, into the human failures that let Gacy kill for so long.
This is justice under a microscope. And it’s a story that will make you question everything you thought you knew about the Gacy case.
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