Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Canning here with a bonus episode for Dateline followers.

We're diving into a chilling new drama series, now available on Peacock, the streaming channel,

which is owned by our parent company NBCUniversal.

Our colleagues at NBC News Studios are producers on the project.

It's called Devil in Disguise John Wayne Gacy.

Hey, guys, set the record straight.

I killed.

So many.

Gacy was one of America's most prolific serial killers.

In the 1970s, he kidnapped and murdered at least 33 young men and

buried most of them in the crawl space beneath his house. But here's what's different about this

new show from other documentaries and films you might have seen on the murders. Gacy isn't the

main focus. Devil in disguise is a show about Gacy's victims, who the young men were before they met Gacy,

their family's heartbreak and trauma after their murders, and the systemic failures and

societal prejudices that allowed Gacy's crimes to go unnoticed for so long.

Recently, I sat down with the showrunner, Patrick McManus. He was also an executive producer, director, and writer on the series.

We were joined by two of the stars of the series, Michael Churness, who plays Gacy and Gabriel Luna, who plays the detective who helped crack the case.

What followed was a conversation about honoring victim stories, crafting respectful narratives in true crime, and acknowledging the

everyday heroes who solve those crimes.

Well, thank you all for being here.

Yeah, thanks for having us.

So, Patrick, let me start with you.

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