John Wayne Gacy: The Killer Clown

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The Chicago contractor who murdered thirty-three teenage boys and buried twenty-nine of them under his own house between 1972 and 1978. The Pogo the Clown persona at children's parties. The neighbors' complaints about the smell. Robert Piest's disappearance in December 1978 that finally broke the case. The crawl space, the trial, six years on Menard's death row, the pizza and fried shrimp last meal, and the eight victims still unidentified today. — a daily series with new episodes every day.

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September 8 · 13 min
Bodies in the Crawl Space: The Evidence That Couldn't Be Explained Away
Twenty-nine bodies. A crawl space beneath a ranch house in Norwood Park Township. A contractor, a clown, and six years of murder that neighbours explained away as a sewer problem. This episode follows the full arc of the John Wayne Gacy case from the...
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September 7 · 11 min
Robert Piest and the Crawl Space: How Gacy's World Finally Collapsed
On December 13, 1978, fifteen-year-old Robert Piest told his mother he was stepping out to speak with a contractor about a summer job. He never came home. That single disappearance unravelled six years of murder, thirty-three victims, and one of the...
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September 6 · 12 min
The Last Performance: Death Row, Denial, and Eight Unnamed Victims
Twenty-nine bodies beneath a suburban floor, and John Wayne Gacy spent his final fourteen years doing what he'd always done — controlling the story. In this closing chapter of the full arc, we follow Gacy from conviction to Menard Correctional Center,...
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September 5 · 12 min
Death Row, the Crawl Space, and Eight Victims Without Names
On March 13, 1980, a Cook County jury took just two hours to convict John Wayne Gacy on all thirty-three counts of murder — one of the swiftest verdicts in one of the most devastating serial killer cases in American history. But the guilty verdict...
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September 4 · 13 min
Pogo the Clown: The Constructed Identity That Hid Thirty-Three Murders
John Wayne Gacy was not a man who lost control. He was a man who built systems. In this chapter of the story, we go inside the methodology that allowed a Chicago contractor to murder thirty-three young men and boys between 1972 and 1978 — and bury...
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September 3 · 12 min
The Life He Built: How Gacy's Respectability Shielded Six Years of Murder
John Wayne Gacy buried twenty-nine victims beneath the crawl space of his ranch home on West Summerdale Avenue while his neighbors complained about the smell and accepted his explanations. He was a contractor. There was always drainage work, always...
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September 2 · 13 min
The Smell Beneath the Floor: When Gacy's Concealment Finally Broke
For six years, the smell was there. Neighbors noticed it. Workers noticed it. John Wayne Gacy explained it away — plumbing problems, sewer issues, the ordinary odor of a busy construction property — and people moved on. That cycle of suspicion and...
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September 1 · 12 min
The Diagram Confession: Gacy's Clinical Map of His Own Crimes
When police arrived at John Wayne Gacy's home in December 1978, they expected resistance. What they got was a pen, a piece of paper, and a meticulously numbered diagram. Gacy drew investigators a map of his own crimes — precise, organised, clinical —...
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August 31 · 11 min
Dead Under the Floor: How Gacy Hid Thirty-Three Murders in Plain Sight
Twenty-nine bodies. One house. Six years of murder hidden behind a contractor's handshake and a clown costume. This episode of John Wayne Gacy: The Killer Clown goes inside the crimes themselves — how Gacy used job offers to lure teenagers to 8213...
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August 30 · 11 min
Robert Piest and the Warrant That Exposed Thirty-Three Dead
On the night of December 21, 1978, Des Plaines police officers stepped inside 8213 West Summerdale Avenue with a search warrant and walked into one of the most horrifying crime scenes in American history. They were looking for fifteen-year-old Robert...
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August 29 · 12 min
The Crawl Space: What Police Found Beneath Gacy's House
In December 1978, fifteen-year-old Robert Piest stepped outside a Des Plaines pharmacy to discuss a construction job and was never seen alive again. His disappearance set in motion one of the most consequential criminal investigations in American...
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August 28 · 12 min
Pogo the Clown: The Smile That Hid Six Years of Murder
John Wayne Gacy spent six years hiding twenty-nine bodies beneath the crawl space of his ranch house on West Summerdale Avenue — managing the smell with lime, offering his neighbors plausible explanations, and maintaining his reputation as a...
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August 28 · 11 min
Twenty-Nine Bodies Under the House: How Gacy Hid in Plain Sight
John Wayne Gacy murdered thirty-three young men and teenagers between 1972 and 1978, burying twenty-nine of them in the crawl space and grounds of his ranch house at 8213 West Summerdale Avenue in Norwood Park Township, Chicago. He wasn't hiding. He...
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