S1 Ep2: John Wayne Gacy, The Killer Clown

What Makes a Killer

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Documentary, True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

A local businessman, socialite, and Democratic precinct captain, known to spend his weekends entertaining children as a clown -- but over the course of six years, John Wayne Gacy kidnapped, tortured, and brutally murdered 33 young men and boys in and around Chicago, Illinois. 27 of the 33 victims were discovered buried in a crawl space directly below Gacy’s home.

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0:00.0	What makes a killer contains graphic details of sexual assault and violence
0:04.8	and is not intended for all audiences?
0:07.5	Listener discretion is strongly advised.
0:15.0	December 11th, 1978, displace Illinois.
0:17.0	It's almost 9 p.m. and 15-year-old Rob Peast is getting ready to end his shift at a pharmacy.
0:23.8	When Rob's mother arrives to pick him up,
0:26.3	he asks if she can wait.
0:28.4	He tells her he wants to talk to a contractor
0:30.6	about a construction job.
0:32.4	She agrees.
0:34.0	Rob heads into the back parking lot to meet the contractor,
0:38.0	who then offers to drive Rob back to his home
0:40.0	to fill out an application.
0:42.0	Rob goes with him.
0:46.4	Rob Peast is never seen alive again.
0:49.4	When her son doesn't return, Rob's mother panics and files a missing person report that evening.
0:58.0	Mike Albrecht was one of the detectives investigating the teen's disappearance.
1:03.0	And at that time in the late 70s there was a lot of stuff going on with the hippie movement,
1:08.0	all that kind of stuff.
1:09.0	But he made a determination very quickly that this was not a normal quote-unquote runaway.
1:15.1	It didn't have any girlfriend problems, was not involved in drugs or anything like that,
1:18.9	it was just an all-American good kid.
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