In 1980 John Gacy was sentenced to death in Chicago for the confessed murders of 33 youths. He was executed in 1994 in Illinois.
A new series on streaming platforms reveals the modus operandi of John Wayne Gacy, the Chicago killer who tortured and brutally murdered children and youth in the 1970s and was executed by injection lethal on May 10, 1994 in Illinois.
Gacy, Dubbed the “killer clown,” he confessed to raping, torturing and hanging, between 1972 and 1978, 33 youths, 29 of whom were found under house arrest. The United States had never known such a serial killer.
The numbered stakes indicate where the bodies of John Wayne Gacy’s victims were found in the space below the suburban home. Twenty-one bodies, all young men, were recovered. Four others were found in the Illinois rivers. Photo: Grosby
The documentary series entitled “John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise” is a production of the Peacock platform and features the collaboration of Rafael Tovar, a retired private investigator, who revealed that Gacy killed more people than the 33 homicides by which the American authorities condemned.
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According to an Infobae note, the documentary features exclusive conversations with researchers, family members, as well as one of his closest friends and his second ex-wife. In addition, the material contains a crude interview with Wayne Gacy from prison, this before being executed in 1994, at the age of 52.
One of the most shocking excerpts the series includes is a conversation between Tovar and Gacy when the serial killer was transferred to the Cook County, Illinois prison.
Tovar was one of the investigators who worked on the search and exhumation of the remains of the homicide victims. He was for several days dismantling Gacy’s house, where he hid the corpses.
On the conversation with the “killer clown,” Tovar told Fox News that he himself asked if there were more victims. “I said, ‘How many people did you really kill?’ And he said, ‘Well, I told my lawyer this number: 30 and something. And you got about 32, 33 or 34. But 45 sounds like a good number ‘”.
John Wayne Gacy. Photo: Grosby
Then the investigator asked him where those bodies would be, but cynically the serial killer replied, “No, I’m not going to tell you guys, that’s because they find out. You’re the detectives.”
“I think he liked the power of killing people, the power of death,” Tovar said. “He made him feel like a God. And I think that just caught him. And he was smart. He escaped for a long time.”.
Chicago police and hired technicians used a ground penetration radar device in an attempt to confirm the existence of more bodies in the apartments where the mother of serial killer John Wayne Gacie lived, November 23, 1998 Photo: AFP
The retired Chicago detective, quoted by the press, said he saw Gacy in 1975 loading a shovel out of the building – where Gacy’s mother lived in the 1970s – in the middle of the night.
The detective said he remembered the incident three years later, when Gacy was arrested and found guilty of killing 33 young men and children, 29 of whom he buried at home in the suburbs.
With information from Infobae