Episode 137: John Wayne Gacy Part 2: The Murders

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True Crime, Comedy, Exhibit C

4.5 • 95.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Tonight we continue our deep dive into the damp, smelly and super greasy world of John Wayne Gacy. Tonight's episode focuses on the abductions, the assaults and the murders that took place over a 6 year period in the mid to late 70s. This pig took the lives of 33 young, teenage boys and he did it in some of the most disturbing ways imaginable.
Fair warning, there are some descriptions and mentioning of sexual assault and rape.

Books mentioned/used in this episode:
John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster by Sam Amirante

The Man Who Killed Boys: The John Wayne Gacy Story by Clifford L. Linedecker

Buried Dreams: Inside the Mind of John Wayne Gacy by Tim Cahill

Killer Clown by Terry Sullivan

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0:50.9	It's not too of the John Wayne Gacy series.
0:54.2	Yeah, we are still hanging out with this big ugly bastard.
0:58.4	Rose!
0:59.4	And I thought we were gonna be able to do it in two, but it's definitely gonna be a three-pider.
1:05.4	Whoop, did it whoop, we love a three-pider around to you.
1:08.6	John Wayne Gacy, I mean he killed 33 people, so it's a lot.
1:13.0	It's a lot to talk about, and I don't want to just like gloss over certain things, so you know.
1:17.8	One of the big parts of his case is how he got caught, the surveillance that the police did,
1:23.9	his interviews after he got caught.
1:26.3	So I want that to be its own episode, and I didn't want to just be fluff over it.
1:30.3	No, that definitely should be its own episode, I totally agree with that.
1:33.7	Yeah, so today is gonna be a whole-ass discussion about all of his murders.
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