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they're the world's most infamous serial killers it was the largest numbers of deaths attributable to a single mass murder in American history here it was all American boys kill Americans but what drove them to commit their horrific crimes the victims had been cut open and their organs had been removed was it nature her father was reportedly a sex offender he's the most deranged fellow I ever met or nurture [Applause] John Wayne Gacy a sadistic serial killer that fooled even his closest friends and neighbors this is a hard driving very hard-working individual I was astounded a pillar of society with a shocking secret we took a screwdriver into a little crack in the floor and when we did the whole floor lifted up he would become one of the most prolific serial killers in American history they asked him well why why did you do this stuff I was afraid they would exposed me he said they were all just human trash anyway but was John Wayne Gacy a product of his upbringing or was he born to kill [Music] John Wayne Gacy was born in Chicago in 1942 the only son of Marian and john gacy senior John Casey was a son of a blue-collar worker a mother who was a pharmacist his biological father drank alcohol but continued to work he was considered a functioning alcoholic from what I understand he was physically abused by his father and his father was often not available or was intoxicated his father was also known for abusing Casey's mother in fact engaging in physical fights with her that Casey must have witnessed now clearly those sorts of things have an impact on a person's development and the way they look at the world the young John was close to his mother but to his father the overweight an athletic boy was a disappointment one that he made little effort to hide his father would come home he would go down into the basement into his workshop not interact with anyone in the family but had this special thing about his son whom he felt should be better more like the father become a business person become someone who was admired in the community cases father regularly called him stupid a mama's boy and a sissy his father frequently told him he was a failure he wouldn't amount to anything so again you you think of how someone growing up with that kind of verbal abuse and emotional abuse would develop as an adult john entered his teenage years and began to complain of body problems headaches and faintness dizziness which the father must have seen as a weakening that this was not a strong person this was not a person who could stand up and be tall and be successful at school the young Gacy continued to disappoint he entered serially high schools and to great disappointment to his father he tended to fail and there were reasons for failure perhaps put forward I mean he he was ADHD he had real problems concentrating despite his failures john gacy jr. was getting a reputation as a braggart he told fanciful stories and could confidently talk himself out of trouble at 11 years old Gacy was struck on the head by a swing resulting in a series of blackouts his father accused him of faking at age 16 he began taking medication for a heart ailment Gacey was seen as weaker than other teenagers these conspired but overriding most of these excuses for his failure was the basic fact that John Wayne Gacy was very good at producing justifications and excuses for why he failed age 20 and without qualifications Gacy left Chicago and struck out on his own [Music] he traveled to Las Vegas where he found a job cleaning up in a mortuary he entered the world will one to one basis he no longer as it were were living living in the shadow his family and particularly his father he kind of fell a bit of a release working in there and sweeping up was probably not the kind of high status job but it was a job he attained on his own and it was a job that he managed to hold down the work was low paid and menial Gacy often worked alone with only dead bodies for company a number of serial killers will go through a variety of experiences which will mean that they come into close proximity with dead bodies in Casey's case we know that he acted as a janitor in a mortuary we have a kind of familiarization with dead bodies a familiarization that would take away the taboo of being around a dead body John Wayne Gacy 'he's new life in las vegas didn't last long after only three months he used what little money he'd saved to return to Chicago there he enrolled in a business college and for the first time Gacy began to flourish he'd always had the gift of the gab but he soon discovered a flair for salesmanship [Music] Gacy suddenly realized that there was something that gave him a steal is something that made him stand up in the world where he could as it were stand shoulder to shoulder and even beyond that with those individuals around him by the age of just 21 cases business talents had won him the position of manager at a shoe store he realized that his abilities his acting abilities his charm and disarm abilities that most kind of inherent Psychopaths seem to have this cold indifference actually works for you in interactions he then found this success and he found his career success could even match the expectations of his father in September 1964 Gacy met and married his co-worker Marlon Myers Marlins father saw promise in his ambitious new son-in-law and appointed him the manager of his three fast food franchises in Iowa joel and marvin began a new life in Waterloo together they had two children Gacy was now a family man a rising star in the local business world and a popular member of the community on the surface it was a storybook existence Gacy was a role model he was the role model of what a businessman should be he should be involved in all these political organizations all of these business organizations he should be the upstanding citizen in his small town but it really had no meaning for him otherwise if it had he wouldn't have needed to go into the remainder of what he did for the rest of his life what John Wayne Gacy would become would shock his suburban neighbors to their core after a childhood plagued by illness and failure John Wayne Gacy now had a wife two children and was the successful manager of a chain of fast-food outlets [Music] the gazes appeared the perfect nuclear family but behind the respectable facade John Wayne Gacy had begun to inhabit a world at odds with the straight-laced image of Midwestern suburbia he got started abusing teenage boys sexually and there are a few chilling incidents where he actually threatened some of these young men that we didn't injure or kill anyone as far as we know in 1967 Gacy lured 16 year-old John Tully to his home they watched pornographic movies drank and played pool then without warning Gacy forced toddler E onto a bed at knifepoint handcuffed him and started to choke him Gacy was arrested the 26 year old family man and bright light of the community was charged with sodomy and sentenced to 10 years in Anamosa it's a high-walled institution there are armed guards on the towers and very restricted movement inside the compound to the prison fellow inmate ray Cornell became KC's close friend this rigorous s prison I think should be it was dangerous there were numerous murder attempts while I was serving the two years that I was there and at least one occasion I witnessed a person stabbed to death was not a very nice place to be a convicted homosexual sex offender Gacy should have been high on the prison hit list John told everyone that he was serving time for showing pornographic movies to teenage boys John was very careful never to reveal in the fact that he in fact was in there for molesting or attempting to molest teenage boys with the truth behind his crimes successfully hidden Gacy showed the same ambitious streak as he had as a free man only this time he was striving to be a pillar of a very different community [Music] Richard Snavely was a prison counselor at the time he came into contact with inmate Gacy he had a small little sign that he wore that was very much like the nametags that the employees wore which said john gacy first cook and you're a man of some authority here what do what is your title well I first cook in the kitchen and I run the morning meal in the afternoon meal in the kitchen John how long you've been here I've been here now a year in about two weeks he kind of got himself ingratiated into the system he was very responsible very adult in his style he was older than the average inmate he was able to try to develop a position and he was pretty successful and in doing that but his friend ray Cornell witnessed another side to John Wayne Gacy during an encounter with an openly gay convict known as mr. connect mr. connected some of his friends were in the lorry yard of the prison playing basketball and the ball got loose and went rolling past John and John got the ball and threw it as hard as he could and connect not showing a lot of good judgment then said missed me missed me now you gotta kiss me and John went after it just for a second I think I saw just a glimpse of what his victims saw at the end of their lives because he had every intention of going after Gary connect and hurting him badly or killing I think I saw the monster at Christmas 1969 JC received news that would affect him profoundly we were sitting in the lower yard did the card-playing area when a guard came down and got jaunt and took him up to the security office Casey's father had died from cirrhosis and the authorities were not to permit him to attend the funeral but when I saw him again the following morning in the chow hall he was a wreck he requested permission to visit his father and I suppose make amends with him my suspicion is that when his father died that was difficult because what it means is that you can never repair this relationship people always want the approval of their parents no matter how old they are he talked about his father over the next several days and he also talked about how deeply hurt he was at the fact that he would not be going over to Chicago to see his father buried but in 1970 less than two years after his conviction Casey's model behavior paid off why am I asking how long do you plan to take up residence here well I hope to be getting out sometime and may what's interesting about Casey's prison experiences as a result of the sodomy charges is firstly he's released very quickly his sentence was 10 years he was out after 18 months he was able to convince people that his behavior wouldn't be repeated but within that 18 months he rises to the top of the prison hierarchy despite the fact as a sex offender one would have expected him to be at the bottom of the prison hierarchy so what we're seeing here is the skills that actually underlie cases behavior over a long period of time skills that allow other people to gain confidence in him to see him as responsible to see him as trustworthy of course ultimately he would abuse that responsibility he'd abused that trust in 1970 Gacy now divorced returned to his home city of Chicago eventually settling into the quiet suburban neighborhood of Norwood leaving his past in Iowa Gacy continued his ambitions to be seen as an important valued pillar of the local community he married divorcee Carol Hoff and she and her two children moved into his home there was an indomitable spirit in Gacy he really did think he was beginning to become invulnerable that he could rise again and simply getting married was just another strategic plan as far as Gacy was concerned there was no real sexual intent in this marriage it was convenience as in Iowa cases images the perfect suburban neighbor was a mere facade in 1971 he was charged by Chicago police with disorderly conduct after a teenage boy complained that Gacy had picked him up at a bus station and forced him to commit a sexual act the case was dropped when the boy failed to appear in court in 1972 Gacy was charged with battery the case never went to trial Timothy Jack McCoy was just 15 years old when he was picked up by Gacy at a Chicago bus station in 1972 after spending the night together Gacy stabbed him to death Gacy would later claim the killing was accidental and in self-defense many murderers commit a murder because of the force of particular circumstances at a particular point in their life but crucially the vast majority of murderers are overwhelmed psychologically by the fact they've taken another person's life and they never want to repeat that experience because they understand how difficult that has been not just for the victim for the victim's family but also for themselves sadly a small number of murderers want to continue to behave like that because they found that experience visceral vital exciting sexy Gacy had his first taste of murder it would be far from his last in 1970 after serving time in prison for molesting teenage boys John Wayne Gacy remarried and began building a new life in Chicago but his image as a loving family man and generous neighbor was a sham in 1972 he'd picked up 15 year-old Timothy McCoy for sex and killed him gacy would not be arrested for the murder of the teenager as far as the rest of the world was concerned the fifteen-year-old had simply disappeared and to the local community John Wayne Gacy seemed evermore the perfect suburban neighbor the neighbors on the black liked him he was a he was a very friendly man he would give these tremendous outside parties for 100 to 200 people Gacy regularly entertained his neighbors by dressing up as a clown and performing magic tricks Gacy was the kind of person that not knowing how evil he was you would like to have him in your community he was active in the Jaycees which is the Junior Chamber of Commerce and he was volunteer for the political party of his choice and he was very well thought of in a very small world of his community [Music] in 1974 Gacy established his own painting decorating and construction business hiring a string of young men to carry out the work his charisma and bravado ensured there was no shortage of potential employees the boys knew John Wayne Gacy he was a big name in town and when he walked in he was John he had the big car outside he had the money everybody knew he was wealthy he had a big business and when he approached boys that were 14 15 16 years old making minimum wage and he was promising them almost double salary just to work in a construction site and help him build these boys jumped jumped at the chance gazes up standing image as generous neighbor successful businessman and do-gooder in the community meant his motives for employing many of the young men went undiscovered I find it very interesting that people have a Hollywood image of the serial killer as being this rather scary man that's going to pop up from behind a bush and attack and kill was in fact serial killers by and large are very well socialized into their community often holding down very responsible jobs within the community often seen as being pillars of the community and indeed Gacy is almost living out a fantasy that he must have had about being a pillar of the community by the mid seventies behind closed doors gazes wife began complaining of his violent mood swings she divorced him and gacy began actively cruising chicago's city streets looking to pick up young men from gay districts known pickup spots and areas where Waifs and strays would congregate Gacy was able to actually use one of his roles that of a pseudo police officer he had the wherewithal in terms of you know the radio and he would often hide behind a badge and have you know bits of what looked like police paraphernalia he would pick them up here cruising the streets in a car that had a very large light on it as the police often did and he would be able to stop people using that as if he were a police officer picking up strays taking them home torturing them in 1975 boys began disappearing some had been selling sex on the streets some were young runaways some were connected with his construction business Casey's technique of charming and disarming his victims was pretty much similar to the way that he actually engaged people in a legitimate business way he would keep them entertained with his verb overall and be able to actually charm them quickly and rapidly into situations that they could not escape from and once he had got them into a position where he felt that he was totally in power he would change he would change very quickly in the twinkling of an eye you would become the commanding frightening torturous monster he always picked the kind of attractive guy that he could never be himself but these individuals became less individualistic as far as he's concerned they became more and more objects I mean the more they became simply objects for him to do with as he wish the more horrific and torturous their experience was within his company [Music] Kaycee seems to me to fall into the criteria of the hedonistic serial killer in other words the person who kills simply for the sexual thrill of killing rumors circulated amongst the gay community about the dangers of a large man with a liking for violent sadistic sex but despite an ever-increasing number of disappearing young men they were simply assumed to have left town or run away with no bodies discovered they were chalked up as just another of the thousands of missing persons reported in the city each year the police tend to call young kids of that kind blue dross they tend to call them that as a way of saying they don't matter as much as kids from a normal background so we don't give them as much attention we also know because of their sexuality that often that means the police don't take enough notice of the violence in gay men's lives even when police were alerted to gaze his sadistic behavior they failed to act on a night in March 1978 27 year-old Jeffrey Riggle was lured into Casey's car by his offer to share a joint he was chloroformed driven to gaze his house after being repeatedly drugged he eventually awoke sprawled under a statue in Chicago's Lincoln Park despite reporting the incident Gacy remained at large Casey's protection from investigation prosecution was this established good citizen that he'd managed to fabricate in the community where he felt a so degree he was pretty much invulnerable from accusations from young lads who were probably not thought of very well in the community he also knew that it was pretty difficult for someone to make accusations of homosexual nature and of someone who would suddenly want to torture someone this was out of context particularly out of context given his standing but John Wayne Gacy was about to make a fatal mistake when Gacy stopped targeting young gay homeless men who weren't really part of the community but instead targeted Robert piste who was an all-american high school kid with a good family who were going to report him as missing who were going to say how is the police investigation going it was only by choosing that type of victim that really was the unraveling of Gacy 15 year old Robert peaced was considered the archetypal clean-cut all-american boy popular with his peers and loved by his close family on December the 11th 1978 he was working his regular job in a pharmacy saving money towards college he was looking forward to joining his mother's birthday celebrations that evening when she came to collect him at 9:00 p.m. he asked her to wait for a moment while he went to talk to a man who was in the parking lot about an offer of a construction job he did not return Chief of Detectives Joseph chosen Zach received the missing-persons report this is where Robert piece worked the boy's mother came here to pick him up and when she arrived the boy told her that he wanted her to wait inside so he could go outside to talk to someone about summer work and once the boy went out the front door he was never seen again the owners of the drugstore told us that they had a contractor who was to do repair work inside of their their pharmacy they supplied us with some information pertaining to his telephone number and through the phone number we were able to determine his full name and address and that's that's the first time we ever knew the name John Wayne Gacy detectives headed to the business man's home to question him hoping they would find the missing 15 year old safe and unharmed Casey had a diamond-shaped window in his front door and the front part of his house was dark but there was a street lamp and a sidewalk in front of his residence and his I stood in front of his door knocking on it with the reflection of the light into the window I could see a face staring back at us and the face faded into the darkness of the house and as we walked along the side of the house and looked inside of a window we could see Casey sitting in a chair watching television drinking a beer it was an uncomfortable feeling being inside his residence and he was belligerent uncooperative and seemed to seem nervous suspecting Gacey knew more than he was revealing detectives obtained a search warrant and discovered a concealed void beneath the house the crawl space was actually hidden by a secret trapdoor in a closet and one of my investigators found that and pointed that out to me we took a screwdriver into a little crack in the floor and pried it up and when we did the whole floor lifted up and that led us into the crawlspace and I went down there with a flashlight and looked around and everything was dry and solid there was no evidence teenager Robert piste was nowhere to be found detectives placed Gacy under 24-hour surveillance when we started our surveillance Gacy initially responded by telling many of his friends that we were FBI agents that we were bodyguards but ultimately what happened is he really started to break down psychologically in a sense that he couldn't maintain his day-to-day facade of being mr. nice guy or a businessman because every time he went out his front door those are police cars sitting there waiting to follow him around despite finding no bodies at his house the police had discovered a stash of personal possessions that appear to have been collected as trophies we had started to find case reports based on pieces of ID we found on the first search warrant and identified those little pieces of identification as being missing persons who were former employees of cases the mounting evidence convinced detectives that they should begin digging in the crawlspace under KC's house prosecuting attorney Robert Egan was one of the first on the scene the first body was excavated and everyone was kind of standing around were you for the excavation there was a lot of water in the crawl space as a matter of fact the body had to be taken up literally out of water the odin's technician had to reach down and feel a ribcage and then pull the ribcage up out of the water the parts were put into a body bag and as that was taking place the evidence technician that was doing the excavation was feeling down under the water and he he yelled out to us and we everybody kind of turned around to see what he was wearing and he said I've got another ribcage down here beneath the unassuming suburban home detectives had made a discovery that would see it become one of the most infamous houses in American history in 1978 the search for 15-year old Robert peaced had led detectives to the home of John Wayne Gacy a businessman and pillar of the local community there they discovered the remains of a decomposing body in a hidden crawl space beneath the house but that was only the beginning the evidence technician that was doing the excavation he yelled out to us he said I've got another ribcage down here [Music] the second set of remains was merely the tip of the iceburg body after decomposing body was being unearthed [Music] Gacy kept the bodies of his victims under the house it's an ideal way to remember where his victims were it's an ideal way of keeping control over those victims even after they've died a total of 29 young men were discovered buried on Casey's property 27 of them in the crawl space beneath his home in police custody Casey began to confess he admitted to strangling all but his first victim when the investigation started the neighbors essentially were too shocked beyond belief because most of the neighbors even at that point in time still said John John would never do anything to harm anybody my son played by his house he's always had parties for the neighborhood he was a nice guy a good businessman so they the neighbors were just totally shocked I was astounded this is a hard-driving very hard-working individual this is a guy who appeared to have the social norms and the social values of the average middle American right down to the ground I certainly did not anticipate anything like that when I found out I was stunned but none of the bodies under the house was 15 year old Robert pieced his whereabouts were finally discovered in April 1979 Robert had been killed on the night of his abduction with no space left under his house Gacy had thrown the teenagers body from a bridge into the Des Plaines River three other boys had suffered the same fate On February the 6th 1983 seven-year-old John Wayne Gacy stood trial for the murder of 33 young men well the defense argued that he was insane because he couldn't control his actions I mean obviously he couldn't control his actions he killed 33 people that we know of but as an insanity defense in a legal courtroom that's not going to hold up prosecutor William cankle was convinced he could prove Gacy had been sane and fully aware of his wrongdoing he had underlined passages in red and his family Bible indicating his knowledge of his own guilt as a Catholic the blasphemers the idolaters the abusers of themselves with mankind shall not inherit the kingdom of God he had that underlying he had the Illinois statute book with the paperclips and underlining on the sexually dangerous persons Act you know exactly what he was doing and even knew what the consequences of it was so he never showed any remorse never any contrition no emotion of its what psychiatrists call a flat effect very narcissistic while he was all a matter [Music] on March the 13th 1989 Wayne Gacy was found guilty and sentenced to serve 12 death sentences and 21 natural life sentences they asked him well why why did you do this stuff and he said well there were several reasons with some of the kids I was afraid they would exposed me others threatened to expose me so I had to kill that he said they were they were all just human trash that was his reason on May the 10th 1994 after 14 years on death row John Wayne Gacy was executed by lethal injection [Music] Gacy remains one of America's most prolific serial murderers but what drove him to snuff out the lives of 33 young men was the belittling and abuse at the hands of his alcoholic father the catalyst was the blood clot on his brain from his childhood accident with a swing the trigger or was John Wayne Gacy simply born to kill I don't think there's anything in Casey's background that suggests that he was born to kill my sympathy for Gacy circumstances is the homophobia is a very difficult cultural phenomenon to overcome and as a gay man Gacy must have felt it was very difficult to be open about his sexuality and whilst we must never accept responsibility for the deaths that Gacy caused what we should do is analyze cultures that regard one gender as superior to another and one sexuality as superior to another he clearly lacked a conscience had no feeling towards others that he was very callous and cold and calculating I can only conclude that people are born with this deficit and there's no way we can change that we can't teach someone to develop a conscience if it's not there so just imagine yourself if you lacked a conscience the sorts of things that you could get away with without feeling bad it's a conscience that makes most of us behave because we'd feel bad if you were suddenly freed of that think of what you might do forensic psychologist dr. Helen Morrison spent 600 hours in the company of the serial killer and after his death was given permission by KC's family to have his brain examined there were no obvious abnormalities to him those men and those boys were vermin they just needed to be extinguished for no reason other than the fact that they needed to be gotten rid of 99% of serial murderers are male and this is around the world it covers all cultures it covers all socio-economic groups it covers all religious groups it covers any type of place that you can imagine in the world and yet they are so like they've been cut out with a cookie cutter they are so exactly the same so we have to assume that there is some genetic foundation it has to be a mutation john gacy was definitely born to kill [Music]

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