I don't know about you, but there's something about Halloween that kind of intrigues us when it comes to horror stories.

But nothing is more horrifying than the true stories surrounding serial killers.

John Wayne Gacy has been getting some attention lately, almost 50 years after his arrest.

He seemed like a normal guy, a building contractor, family man,

who was involved in his community. But in the end, at least 33 young men and boys met a

horrifying end in his very normal-looking little ranch house outside of Chicago. I'm Patty Steele.

Did the killer clown have accomplices?

That's next on the backstory.

This is an I-Heart podcast.

Malcolm Gladwell here.

This season on Revisionous History,

we're going back to the spring of 1988

to a town in northwest Alabama,

where a man committed a crime that would spiral out of control.

And he said, I've been in prison 24, 25 years. That's probably not long enough.

And I didn't kill him.

From Revisionous History, this is The Alabama Murders.

Listen to Revisionous History, The Alabama Murders on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

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