Episode 298: John Wayne Gacy, Part 1

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.5 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In the spring of 1977, 18-year-old Matthew Bowman mysteriously disappeared from a suburban Chicago neighborhood. Matthew’s family immediately knew something horrible had happened, yet he was dismissed as a runaway by local police. Soon the arrest of serial killer John Wayne Gacy and the horrors found in the crawlspace under his house made the news. It was only then that Matthew’s family learned what happened to him. In speaking with members of Matthew’s family, this episode demonstrates how the loss of Matthew at the hands of John Wayne Gacy still reverberates today.

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0:00.0	It's a degree.
0:02.0	First degree.
0:04.0	First degree.
0:05.0	First degree.
0:06.0	First degree.
0:07.0	The first degree.
0:08.0	The first degree.
0:09.0	You see it on the news.
0:10.0	See it on the table and you see it on Facebook.
0:13.0	These things are supposed to happen in movies, not in real life.
0:16.0	And if you could go back to the night, the last night you saw and you could say one thing or one sentence or one, or one, anything, what would it be?
0:34.0	God, I haven't given that much thought.
0:37.0	I would have phrased things a little differently.
0:40.0	You never know when you talk to somebody,
0:42.0	the words you tell them might be the last
0:46.7	words you ever get to tell them so maybe there's a little lesson in that.
1:04.6	Welcome to the first degree the truth of the and we are back with another two-part episode for you obviously if you saw the title this is a series on John Wayne Gacy it's one we've been prepping for a while and here it is
1:10.3	right and more importantly the many many victims of John Wayne Casey.
1:15.0	And we have a really compelling episode in store for all of you.
1:19.0	Maybe you're excited to see another two-parter,
1:21.0	maybe you're disappointed to see another two-parter, but you know what?
1:24.1	This was just an episode that could not be done in just one.
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