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Today in True Crime

December 21, 1978: Gacy’s Home Searched

Today in True Crime

Parcast

Education, True Crime, History

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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On this day in 1978, police obtained a second search warrant to enter the home of suspected serial killer John Wayne Gacy. What they found in a crawl space underneath Gacy’s house remains one of the grisliest crime scenes in American history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Whatever it is I've done to you I probably deserve it. I've done some bad things.

0:04.4

On BBC I Player. For all it hurts you can't remember me. Maybe it's just as well.

0:09.2

Maybe it's time you find out who you really own.

0:13.0

Some things are best left buried.

0:16.0

Just happen what you want!

0:18.0

Wherever he is, I think that he's in trouble.

0:20.0

We will find your man, okay?

0:21.0

What is it that I've done?

0:22.8

That makes me the eye.

0:24.0

The Tourist.

0:25.0

You may not remember, but I do.

0:27.6

Watch all episodes on BBC I Player.

0:37.0

Today is Saturday, December 21st, 2019. On this day in 1978, police obtained a second search warrant to enter the home of suspected

0:45.0

serial killer John Wayne Gacy in Cook County, Illinois.

0:50.0

What they found in a crawl space underneath Gacy's house remains one of the grisliest crime scenes in American history,

0:59.1

a secret graveyard of teenage boys.

1:10.0

Welcome to today in true, a parcast original.

1:13.5

Due to the graphic nature of today's crimes,

1:16.0

listener discretion is advised.

1:18.2

Extreme caution is advised for listeners under 13.

1:22.0

Today we're covering John Wayne Gacy's drunken confession and

1:26.8

investigators subsequent search of his Cook County Illinois home. Now let's go back to Chicago in the earliest hours of December 21st, 1978. By 1 a.m.m. Sam Amorati and Leroy Stevens had been listening to their client

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