The Most Evil Clown To Walk The Earth: John Wayne Gacy | Full Documentary

John Wayne gasey was one of the worst serial killers in US history he raped tortured and murdered at least 33 young males over a 20-year period most of his victims were killed in Cook County Illinois gasy is often referred to as the Killer Clown due to his alter ego as Pogo and patches the clown a Persona he took on when he performed a children's hospitals and charitable events in this episode of murderous Minds we look at the life of John Wayne gasey from his abusive childhood to his heinous crimes unlike most Killers gasy wasn't an oddball lonely individual to the likes of say Eden he was a hardworking member of the community and Democratic party precincts captain for many years he was able to fool friends and neighbors into believing he was a respectable businessman who would help anyone in need in reality he was a predatory pedophile and murderer who prayed on boys and young men for his own sexual gratification gasy tortured and killed his victims in the viest way before bearing their bodies in the crauel space beneath his house a lot of information about dates and circumstances came from Casey himself through his confessions but as with all serial killers gasy was a compulsive liar so some of the dates and names May differ from source to Source regardless here we all tried to bring an accurate betrayal of one of the United States most infamous serial [Music] killers [Music] John Stanley gasey was of Polish and danish ancestry he served in World War I before working most of his life as an auto repair machinist in 1938 he married Marian elain Robinson and the pair settled in Chicago they soon welcomed their first child a daughter they named Joanne just over 2 years later on March 17th 1942 they had a second child a boy they named John Wayne gasy the baby was born 29 minutes after midnight at Edgewater Hospital in Chicago USA a few years later later they had their third and final child a daughter named Karen Chicago was a tough place to be born into it had the reputation as being one of the most violent cities in the US and even today it has a higher proportion of gun crime and homicides compared to other large cities and John Wayne gasy would grow up to join the list of serial killers that hailed from the city which includes the infamous HH Holmes and Richard Speck the family lived in a neat house on the north side of Chicago and gasy Jr and his sisters attended the local Catholic School when gasy was 11 years old the family moved and he started attending grammar school where he seemed to do well he had friends a part-time job and attended Scouts all of which made him appear to be a normal boy however he did have a few health problems he had hit his head on a swing at the age of 11 and started suffering occasional blackouts eventually he was diagnosed with a blood clot on the brain which was successfully treated with medication gasy had his appendix removed at age 15 and also needed to take medication for a heart problem that plagued him for the rest of his life at school gasy was an average pupil he didn't exal at anyone subject he just sort of Blended in with the rest of the students because of his heart condition he avoided all sports and exercise and was an overweight child the only thing he was known for was how smart he kept himself his clothes were not expensive by any means but they were always washed and ironed and he kept himself neat during his teenage years he changed High School four times but never completed his senior year it is said that the last few months that gasy attended his final School Charles a pra vocational in Balman Kagen he was clearly troubled his attendance was patchy and eventually he dropped out the cause of his rebellion was his relationship with his father John Senior was a drunk and a bully and the whole family suffered from his violent outbursts he beat his wife terrorized his daughters and repeatedly belittled his only son calling him dumb and stupid and unfavorably comparing him to his sisters the constant berating from his father had a profound impact on the Young gasy and instead of his early childhood memories being filled with love and fun they were full of verbal abuse and beatings on one occasion he was mercilessly beaten with a leather belt for accidentally jumbling up car engine components his father had assembled however gasy had a close relationship with his mother and two sisters and his mother affectionately called him Johnny she did her best to Shield her son from his father's abuse but her intervention often fueled John's senior's anger and he accused gasy of being a [ __ ] and a M's boy nevertheless despite his brutality gasy loved his father and yearned to have a proper father-son relationship and he tried in vain to please his father and earn his approval gas's relationship with his father hit an all-time low when he was 7 years old and his father found out that he and another boy had inappropriately touched a young girl John Senor whipped his son mercilessly with a razor strop as punishment it was around the same time in 1949 that young gasy started being sexually abused by a family friend who would molest him in his truck however gasy was so scared his father would blame him that he told no one about the abuse until years later after a particularly brutal encounter with his father gasy left home he headed west and ended up in Las Vegas where he found work as a janitor at the pal Mortuary gasy was a good worker and just got on with his job to to earn enough money to go back home he later confessed that one evening while alone in the mor he climbed into the coffin of a deceased teenage boy and embraced and caressed the body before realizing what he was doing and being disgusted with himself the incident prompted gasy to call his mother and ask whether his father would allow him to come home his father agreed and the same day he drove back to Chicago when he arrived home he was warmly welcomed by everyone except his father who was indifferent about his return after returning home gasy enrolled at Northwestern business college despite failing to graduate from high school he graduated in 1963 and celebrated the day with his family not long after his graduation gasy took a management training position with the nun bushu company they were so impressed with him that in 1964 just before his 22nd birthday the company transferred him to Springfield Illinois to manage the company's retail outlet at a leading cloth store gasy was perfect for the job he was naturally a good talker and his gregarious personality made him a good salesman not long after his transfer he started dating Marilyn Meers one of his co-workers and within a few months they were engaged they married in September 1964 apart from gas's increasing weight gain aggravating his heart condition things were looking good for him and Marilyn they were financially secure and gasy was well respected in the community the future looked bright in February 1966 Marilyn gave birth to a son they named him Michael and the following year the couple welcomed a daughter named Christine gasy later described this period of his life as perfect after his children were born he had finally earned his father's approval and in July 1966 his father apologized for the abuse saying son I was wrong about you it was in Springfield that gasi discovered the United States Junior chamber also known as the J's a group for young business people and professionals who worked together to improve the community they lived in at the time it was a man only Organization for those aged 18 to 40 the group were always Keen to to celebrate their successes and recognize outstanding members through a succession of dinner and banquet ceremonies this was something the extremely sociable gas he reveled in he had always craved recognition and appreciation something he never received from his father gasy soon Rose through the ranks of the J and he worked tirelessly for them in 1965 he was elected the first vice president and the chapter's outstanding Man of the Year soon after the book birth of Michael gas's father-in-law offered him a job managing a string of KFC franchises he owned in water Iowa marn's parents never liked gasy and right up to the day of the wedding they had tried to persuade their daughter not to marry him but by offering gasy the job it meant that their daughter and Grandson would be close to them the couple moved into a cute little bungalow on a nice side of town and gasy soon joined the waterl branch of the ja's not long after the couple welcom their daughter Christine to the outside world they were the perfect family respectable hardworking and financially stable however Fred Meers had a different opinion of his son-in-law and wasn't particularly happy with the way he ran the restaurants and how he lorded it over the staff as if he was the owner gas's habit of giving away free food to his friends and Ja members also angered Meers and if he hadn't been his son-in-law he would have fired him gasy relished his new life in waterl not least because the JC social life offered a slightly more exciting activity involving prostitution pornography and various other Vice activities of which gasy enthusiastically participated he reveled in this new found Deery and bragged about the women he slept with his relationship with his wife grew distant and he would even offer her sexual favors to other men he was also keeping her short of money something her parents couldn't understand as he was well paid for managing their restaurants gasy also joined the merchant Patrol a sort of security Force which guarded their own premises against break-ins he also did night Patrols in his car and used a portable red flashing light on his car's roof gasy would often take some of his young male employees with him on these patrols trying to impress them gas's wife later said that her husband husband had a fascination with the police and emergency vehicles and like to think he had influence over the Emergency Services he would often take free KFC meals to Firefighters and Patrol officers and even self-titled himself Colonel John gasy when he arrived with food for everyone most of the people he gave free food appreciated it but a few thought he was trying to buy friends and respect from the community and he seemed to like to impress teenage boys especially it wasn't unusual to see gayy with a teenage boy beside him in his truck but at the time no one thought anything of it because KFC hired a lot of youngsters and they figured he was just giving them a ride home however some of the boys who worked at KFC started to notice that it was only the good-looking young boys he was offering a lift to rumors also began to surface among the staff about their boss's sexual interest in young boys and some started declining lifts and avoiding gasy as much as they could it was also also speculated that he would deliberately splash some boys with hot cooking oil so he could take them to hospital in his truck despite the rumors there was enough ja's who believed in Casey as a good charitable man and he was named the most outstanding vice president for 1967 he was also honored as the best JC Club chaplain in the state of Iowa and he looked set to take the top role of Club president by 1968 life was good for gasy he had two adorable children and despite some dubious encounters gasy and Marilyn seemed happy he had even decided to hand his notice into his father-in-law and start up his own business however all that was shattered when there was a knock at the door gasy answered and was faced with a policeman gasy had been indicted for molesting young boys the policeman produced a search warrant and seized from the family home five rolls of scene movie footage and an envelope containing advertisements for pornographic footage Marilyn was in complete shock she had no idea her husband harbored sexual preferences for boys she believed he was a good hardworking man and loving father and she felt sure that they had made a mistake the allegations against gasy were made by two boys who told the jury that on separate occasions gasy coerced them into un wanted sexual encounters with him James Telly a 16-year-old who worked for gasy at KFC told how gasy invited him into his home while his wife was in hospital after giving birth to their second child they played pool watched pornography and drank before gasy propositioned the young boy the Boy refused his sexual advances gasy then forced the boy at knife point up to the bedroom but after accidentally cutting the youth gasy backed off and apologized only to lay the tire's victim up in the basement James pretended to play dead and gasy became concerned and freed him agreeing to drive him home the second accusation came from Donald VES a 15-year-old boy who didn't work in the restaurant but who did odd jobs for gasy ves's father was a fellow Jai and knew gasy well gasy told him he was doing research for his sexual education committee and he could earn $50 if he assisted him in his research over a period of several months gasy forced Vorhees to commit sexual acts on him he got the boy drunk and in a variety of locations assaulted him the boy became very confused about what was happening to him but gasy told him not to tell ass about the experiment they were conducting and if he did he would contact his gangster friend from Chicago gasy failed two polygraph tests but continued to deny the allegations that the boys had made and many people in the community and the JC's believed him and believed he was being framed however eventually gasi admitted to having a paid relationship with Vorhees despite this admission nothing much happened as regards to the investigation it is thought this may have been because gasy had a lot of incriminating evidence against the police involving the sedia side of the jci's it is likely if gasy hadn't taken the action he did he may have gotten away with the assaults but it seemed he didn't want to take the chance and on August 30th 1968 gasy persuaded one of his employees 18-year-old Russel schroer to physically assault VES in an effort to discourage the boy from testifying gasy promised to pay schroer $300 and schroer agreed in early September he lured Vorhees to an isolated country Park sprayed mace in his eyes then beat him Vorhees managed to escape and reported the assault to police police identifying schroer as his attacker they arrested him the following day and initially he denied any involvement but soon confessed to assaulting Vorhees indicating that he had done so at gas's request police arrested gasy and laid an additional charge of hiring the boy to assault and intimidate Vorhees he was jailed in lie of $10,000 Bond a psychiatric valuation was ordered during his enforced stay at the psychopathic Hospital he frequently grasped on members of the staff and patients and tried to take over certain aspects of its running he was friendly enough but very opinionated telling other patients he had done nothing wrong and was there as a private patient at the end of his 17 days stay it was noted that gasy would twist the truth in such a way that it made his actions look like it wasn't his fault he was a smooth talker who displayed a high level of social intelligence and knew how to influence people however gasy denied responsibility for any of the things he was accused of and presented himself as the victim of a Witch Hunt he was diagnosed with an antisocial personality that would not benefit from any known medical treatment however ultimately gasy was found to be competent to stand trial on November 7th 1968 gasy pleaded guilty to one count of sodomy concerning VES but not guilty to the charges relating to other youths gasy claimed Vorhees had offered himself to him and that he had acted out of curiosity however his story was not believed and gasy was convicted of sodomy on December 3rd and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment to be served at the Anamosa state penitentary it was the maximum possible sentence at the time and the judge who sentenced him seemed to sense the danger gasy posed to young boys giving him the maximum sentence he could nowadays such an offense carries a maximum term of 25 years had that been the case in 1968 we would probably have never heard of John Wayne gasy and countless lives would have been saved that same day gasy was convicted his wife petitioned for divorce requesting she'd be awarded the couple's home property and sole custody of their two children plus alamon the Court ruled in her favor and the divorce was finalized on September 18th 1969 Marilyn agreed to provide gasy with photos of the children twice a year at his expense gasy never requested any photos or made contact and never saw his first wife or children again during his incarceration gasy rapidly acquired a reputation as a model prisoner within months of his arrival he had risen to the position of head cook he also joined the inmate JC chapter and increased its membership from 50 to 650 men in less than 18 months he is known to have have secured an increase in the inmates daily pay and to have supervised several projects to improve conditions for prisoners he also managed the installation of a mini golf course in the prison recreational yard on Christmas Day 1969 gas's father died from therosis of the liver when he was told of the news gasy crumpled to the floor sobbing his request for supervised compassionate leave to attend the funeral was denied gasey was a model prisoner and on the 18th of June 1970 he was released from jail on parole after serving just 18 months there to greet him after his release was his longtime friend Charlie Hill Charlie Hill was one of the few people from watero who believed in gas's innocence and during his incarceration was his only regular visitor as the pair drove back to watero gasy Talked of getting his life back together however less than 24 hours later he told Charlie he was going to Chicago to visit his mother and he would be back in a few days although gasy kept in touch with Charlie Hill he never returned to [Music] waterl gasy moved back in with his mother and started working at a restaurant he continued his bragging ways telling his colleagues that he served in the Marines he was a successful Gambler and he had worked as an ambulance driver all of these exagger ated claims were lies after working in several local restaurants he finally landed a job in a restaurant that was popular with members of Chicago's professional hockey team and soon he was blagging tickets for games and handing them out to his friends his mother was pleased with how well he had settled in and agreed to help him buy a little home in a quiet family orientated area in West Summerdale Avenue Norwood Park the house was sturdily built with a shingled front a garage and a small front and back lawn inside the house there were two bedrooms and two extra rooms that had been added to the downstairs living area by the previous owner in one of the bedrooms there was a trap door that led to a 4ft deep crawl space under the house similarly in the extended part of the house crawl spaces had been added as they were cheaper than basements almost as soon as gasy moved in he made Renovations and could always be heard banging soaring and messing with the house he also added a pool table and games machines in a newly installed bar area that he kept well stocked with alcohol far from being a reformed character after his stint in prison gasey turned into a predator he started hanging about the Greyhound bus terminal at Clark and Randol Street in Chicago every day thousands of passengers from towns and cities throughout the US arrived in the city some of of them just teenagers on their first trips without their parents these youngsters arriving alone in the city made them very vulnerable and pimps and perverts were often waiting to seduce young boys and girls into a life of prostitution or worse for someone like gasy it was the perfect place to pick up teenage boys on February 12th 1971 barely 8 months after being released from prison Chicago Police charged gasy with disorderly conduct after a teenage boy he picked up at the terminal made a complaint against him the boy claimed he was picked up by gasy and taken back to his house where he was forced to commit a sexual act luckily for gasy the case was dismissed after the boy failed to attend court neither gas's neighbors or the parole board heard about the acquisation and on October 18th 1971 gasy was officially released from parole and his citizenship rights were restored gas's first known murder occurred on January 3rd 1972 following a party he held at his house after the party gasy drove to the Civic Center to view a display of ice sculptures and in the early hours of the morning he lured a 16-year-old boy from the Greyhound bus terminal into his car the boy was traveling from Michigan to Nebraska and took a break in Chicago gasy took the teenager on a sightseeing tour of Chicago and then drove him to his home with the promise that he could spend the night there before continuing his journey the next day gasy later told various stories about how he came to kill the boy who became known as Greyhound bus boy unlike most of his victims the boy was not strangled he was stabbed twice in the chest after the killing gasy claimed that as he listened to the boy dying and gasping for air that he had experienced a huge sexual high it was then he realized that that for him death was the ultimate thrill gasy buried the body in his cruel space but later on when his second wife moved in and complained of odors in the house he covered the body with concrete after gas's eventual arrest the body was discovered with stab wounds and under the concrete slab described by gasey The Remains were unidentified for 14 years after their Discovery but were finally identified through dental records as 15-year-old Timothy Jack koi the identification took so long because only two or 3% of the population had such unique dental work as McCoy gasy didn't kill again until around 2 years after his first murder when in January 1974 he strangled a young man and hid his body in a closet in his home before burying him he later said that bodily fluids leaps from the victim's mouth and nose staining his carpet as a result gasy regularly stuffed cloth Rags the victim's underwear or a sock into the mouths of subsequent victims to prevent this leakage from reoccurring his second victim has never been identified despite having a preference for teenage boys gasy was often seen in the presence of Carol Hoff a divorce with two young daughters Carol was a regular visitor to gas's house and along with his mother gasy had introduced her to his neighbors she became a familiar face when the residents met up for card games and drinks nights gasy was a popular figure in the community and was a helpful and considerate neighbor although his taste in Decor often alarmed them his house both inside and out was full of garish colors that stood out against the more conservative houses in the area gasy was very active in his local community and he willingly loaned his construction tools and plowed snow from Neighbors walks free of charge he also hosted hosted annual summer parties attended by hundreds of people including politicians it was no surprise to anyone when gasy announced he and Carol were getting married Carol knew gasy had been in prison but he was so kind and considerate to her and she felt he could offer her and her daughters a stable life after her particularly distressing divorce the only thing that concerned her was her future husband's erratic moods one minute he could be calm the next he was in a furious rage despite these concerns the couple were married on July the 1st 1972 and Carol and her two daughters moved into gase's house things seemed fine to start with the only thing that was bothering Carol was the foul odor that could be smelled throughout the house Carol wasn't the only one to notice gas's mother and new mother-in-law also mentioned the stench as did the visiting neighbors gasy blamed it on the damp beneath the house and tried to mask it with lime he also blocked up some of the vents to try and dampen the smell however in reality nothing had changed for gasy and around the time he married for the second time he was arrested and charged with aggravated battery and Reckless conduct gasy had posed as a police sheriff and forced a young man into his car under the threat of arrest gasy then ordered the boy to perform a sex act on him luckily the terrified boy managed to escape however the charges were later dropped and the case never went to court life continued for the gayes and in 1974 he started hosting huge themed parties for friends and neighbors where he would brag about his achievements to anyone who would listen although many were getting wise to his tll stories and simply humored him when he made claims about his days in the Marines police and fire brigade and his time as an ambulance driver in 1974 gasy also started a new company he called PDM contractors it stood for painting decorating and maintenance around the same time his marriage to Carol started to crumble his temper and admission that he was bisexual caused a lot of tension and less than a year into their marriage gasy had started going out late at night and not returning until the morning when Carol asked him where he was going he would tell her it was none of her business the odor in the house was also unbearable and Carol couldn't understand understand why her husband did nothing about it all he did was continually shovel quick lime into the crawl space under the house although gasy was a good provider and hard worker Carol quickly realized she had married the wrong man however she stuck it out for the sake of her girls who referred to gasy as Daddy the last straw was when Carol found evidence that gasy was meeting young men and viewing gay pornography following a heated argument in October 1975 Carol asked her husband for a divorce gasy agreed to his wife's request although by Mutual consent Carol continued to live at the house until February 1976 when she and her daughters moved into their own apartment on March 2nd of that year the gase's divorce was finalized upon the false grounds of gas's infidelity with other women however after their divorce Carol and gasy remained in contact and got on much better than they were when they were married gasy renewed his political interests after becoming too old to be part of the J's he sought out Robert F matwick the Democratic Township committeeman and told him of his aspiration to run for public office matwick advised gasey to get himself known first and to involve himself in local community projects in late 1975 gasy joined the Jolly Joker clown Club whose members regularly performed at fundraising events and parades and voluntarily entertained hospitalized children he went on to create his own clown character Pogo the clown and patches the clown he described Pogo as a happy clown whereas patches was a more serious character and started performing locally he performed as both Pogo and Patches at numerous local parties political functions charitable events and children's hospitals sometimes gasy would remain in his clowning Garb after a performance and briefly drink at a local bar before returning home and he became well known in the area little did anyone know but when gasy wasn't entertaining local children as a clown he was trying to lure teenage boys back to his house or car to persuade them to engage in sexual acts with him most of his company's Workforce consisted of high school students and young men and gasy would often proposition his workers for sex or insist on sexual favors in return for Lending his vehicles financial assistance or promotions he also claimed to own guns once telling an employee do you know how easy it would be to get one of my guns and kill you and how easy it would be to get rid of the body completely oblivious to these activities gasy entered local Democratic Party politics initially offering his employees to clean party headquarters at no charge he was rewarded for his community service with an appointment to serve on the Norwood Park Township street light committee subsequently earning the title of Precinct captain and in 1975 gasy was appointed director of Chicago's annual Polish Constitution Day parade and supervi this yearly event from 1975 until 1978 it was through his work with the parade that gasy met and was photographed with first lady Rosalyn Carter in May 1978 the event later became an embarrassment to the United States Secret service in the pictures gasy is seen wearing an s pin indicating a person given special clearance John butkovich was a hardworking 17-year-old who worked in a hardware store gasy took a liking to him and offered him a job at PDM John enjoyed working for gasey and worked long hours for a reasonable paycheck if he was working late he sometimes stayed over at gas's house Carol who was still living in the house got used to gasy letting his workers stay over and thought nothing of it however the relationship between gasy and John soon soured when gasy refused to pay him for work he had done John and a couple of his mates went over to gas's house to demand what they were owed and an argument broke out gasy saw the lads off of his property and JN dropped his friends off of their homes in his Dodge the date was AUST the 1st 1975 and that evening John didn't go home to his parents' house this was highly unusual and out of character for him the next day his 1968 Dodge was found parked near the corner of Sheridan and Lawrence with his jacket and wallet inside and the keys still in the ignition John's parents contacted the police and reported him missing they also contacted gasy who offered to help with the search for him but John's parents suggested the police question gasy who told them John and two friends had arrived at his house demanding the overdue pay but they had reached a compromise and all three had left over the following 3 years Jon's parents called police more than a hundred times urging them to investigate gasy further but they treated their son's disappearance as just another teenage runaway the truth was gasy had encounted John exiting his car at the corner of South Lawrence Avenue waving to attract his attention according to gasy Jon approached his car declaring I want to talk to you gasy invited Jon into his car then asked him back to his home purportedly to settle the issue over his overdue wages gasy got John drunk at his house then conned him into allowing his wrist to be handcuffed behind his back he then sat on his chest and strangled him he left Jon's body in his garage intending to bury him later in the crawl space but when his wife and stepdaughters returned earlier than expected gasy buried Jon's body under the garage's concrete floor in a space where he initially intended to dig a drain tile following his divorce but whilst his ex-wife and stepdaughters were still living with him gasy frequently went out late at night searching for young men to have sex with he didn't kill everyone he had contact with although the frequency of his killing increased after his wife finally moved out out in 1976 around this time his parties and late night visitors were more frequent and his neighbors couldn't help noticing that most of his guests were young good-look teenage boys or men it also didn't go unnoticed that he spent a lot of time digging in his garden and renovating and adding to his property his erratic Behavior did not unduly concern his neighbors who just thought of him as a hardworking gregarious man who did a lot for the community who they believed was just a little eccentric in reality at this time gasy was at his most prolific he abducted and murdered at least 21 boys and young men with ages ranging between 14 and approximately 28 years of age gasy had no trouble finding and befriending the boys many of them he hired to work for him at his ever expanding business he met others in bars and around the Greyhound bus station many who had travel to the city to start new lives or find work gasy would lure the youngsters with Promises of construction work or some other Rose gasy also befriended young boys when he performed in his clown attire for children's parties and charity events during this period gasy abducted and murdered 18-year-old Daryl Samson who was last seen alive in Chicago on April 6th 1976 he buried Daryl under the dining room with a section of cloth lodged in his throat 5 weeks later on the afternoon of May 14th 15-year-old Randall reford disappeared while walking home from high school hours after his abduction 14-year-old Samuel Stapleton vanished as he walked home from his sister's apartment the boys were buried together in the crawl space and investigators believe both victims were murdered on the same evening a couple of weeks later on June 3rd gasy killed a 17-year-old Lake View teenager named Michael bonnin Michael disappeared while traveling from Chicago gasy strangled him with a ligature and buried him under his spare bedroom John frequently cruised the streets of Uptown and New Town Chicago searching for young boys who hung about on street corners selling themselves to middle-aged men some of the kids were as young as eight or 9 years old although Gay's preference was good-looking teenage boys Uptown Chicago in the 70s was Notorious for Street prostitution and improv lives and living conditions it was also a place where the gay community was almost accepted unlike in other parts of the world and gasy felt comfortable there mingling with other men who most were middle-aged and married who had been forced to hide their sexuality for years the boy Street Hustlers shared experiences of the men they got into cars with and learned that a certain breed of man enjoyed inflicting pain and fear into their young lives word soon got around about an overweight man who cruised around in a new black old mobile one boy told how he got into the car of the big bellied man who had driven him to a house on Summer Avenue in West Norwood his first meeting with the man was uneventful but on their second meeting he was violent and beat him the boy fought back but was molested anyway he managed to escape by telling the man his friend had taken down his license plate number for protection he was then driven back to where he was picked up from but word was out that the chubby man in the black car was to be avoided he was known to be generous with his money but was dangerous he was even blamed for The Disappearance of a 9-year-old prostitute who was pointed out to youth division police who staked out his house for 2 weeks watching a stream of young men come and go however when they were questioned about gasey they all did denied anything UNT and similar to other inquiries about him no one checked deep enough to establish his links to other missing boys Billy Caroll Jr was the kind of boy who seemed to always be getting into trouble at the age of nine he was in a juvenile home for stealing a purse and at age 11 he was caught with a gun Billy was mischievous and spent most of his time on the streets in uptown Chicago at the age of 16 he was making money by arranging meetings between teenage homosexual boys and adult clientele for a commission on June 13th 1976 Billy left his home to head out to the streets but he never returned another victim of gasy who was found 2 years later buried in the crawl space between gas's home after Billy's death gasey went on to kill a further three boys in the space of fewer than 4 weeks they were aged between 16 16 and 28 years old although the older man was never identified on August 5th a 16-year-old Minesota youth named James hackinson phoned his family possibly from gas's home they never heard from him again and he was later found buried in the crawl space underneath the body of a 17-year-old youth named Rick Johnston who was last seen alive on August 6th gasy is thought to have murdered two further unidentified males between August and October 1976 on October 24th gasy abducted and killed teenage friends Kenneth Parker and Michael Marino the two were last seen outside a Restaurant on Clark Street in Chicago 2 Days Later a 19-year-old construction worker William Bundy disappeared after informing his family he was attending a party William worked for gasy and his body was later found beneath gas's bedroom 1976 was a time when there was no mobile phones or Internet so it wasn't unusual for parents not to hear from their children for long periods of time especially when they had taken off to travel others were Drifters that sadly nobody missed however on several occasions similar to The Disappearance of John butkovich parents and friends were persistent in their belief that it was out of character for their loved one to just disappear or be classed as a runaway one such victim was 17-year-old Gregory godzik Gregory was a good-looking well-liked boy who liked nothing better than hanging out with his friend and girlfriend he was delighted when towards the end of 1976 he landed an Afterschool job with gas's business and had enough money to do up his old car things seemed to be going well for the young man however in the early hours of December 12th 199 6 just after dropping his girlfriend home Greg disappeared it was totally out of character for the home loving boy not to contact his parents or his girlfriend to let them know of his whereabouts even staying out all night was something he never did his parents were so worried they contacted all his friends and his girlfriends but none of them knew where he was when they contacted the police they were told he was probably a runaway this was something his parents were not willing to accept the next afternoon Greg's 1966 maroon Pontiac car was found unlocked and abandoned behind a pet shop in Niles Cook County Illinois directly neighboring the city of Chicago's far Northwest border Greg's mother remembered that gasy owed her son money for work he had done and contacted him to see if he had heard from Greg gasy told her her son had called a few days after he disappeared and left a message message on his answer machine saying he would be in for work the next day but when she asked to hear the recording he claimed it had already been erased after the conversation Mrs godzik urged the Chicago Police to speak to gasy about her missing son considering gasy had been interviewed about The Disappearance of John bukovich you would think a line would be made however Greg lived in police area 5 whereas John lived in area 6 and apparently there was no communication between the two divisions and so the common link was not recognized had further investigations been done at this stage gas's past sexual assault would have come up as well as him being the last person to speak to both missing boys because Greg didn't fit the typical profile of a runaway his case was also featured in the local newspaper the learner times the reporter who wrote the article even talked to gasy who said he believed the boy had run away although the reporter misspelled his name in the article as it read as John gasey g- a e y Greg's parents later hired private investigator Anthony palisano who had a great reputation for finding runaway kids but even he could find nothing less than 2 months after Greg disappeared 19-year-old John cizak was reported missing he was an acquaintance of both godzik and bukovich and like them had no reason to run away but again the link was missed gasy was even in the possession of John's car but he managed to F the police off saying he had sold it to him because he needed the money to leave town by the end of 1977 gasy had murdered six more young men the first of these victims was 18-year-old University of Illinois student Robert Gilroy Robert lived about four blocks away from from gasy and was the son of a Chicago Police Sergeant on September 15th 1977 he was expected to catch a bus along with some other students for a day of horse riding Robert never showed up it was out of character and so his friends contacted his parents and he was reported missing at the time gasy was in Pittsburgh and did not return to Chicago until September 16th when Robert's body was eventually found along with gas's other victims Under The house's crawl space it prompted speculation that maybe gasy had an accomplice however despite gasy having several young men stay at his house for long periods of time there was never any evidence he had an accomplice 10 days after Robert disappeared 19-year-old former US Marine John mauy vanished after leaving his mother's house to walk to his apartment John was later found strangled and buried beneath the master bedroom of G Casey's house on October 17th 21-year-old Russell Nelson disappeared he was from Minnesota and was in Chicago looking for work he was last seen outside of a bar in the city less than 4 Weeks Later gasy murdered 16-year-old kalamazo Michigan teenager Robert winch and buried him in the craw space on November 18th 20-year-old father of one Tommy boiling disa appeared after leaving a Chicago Bar as Christmas approached gasy killed another young man David Talmer who was traveling to a rock concert in Hammond on December 30th 1977 gasey abducted 19-year-old student Robert Donnelly from a Chicago bus stop at gunpoint he drove Robert to his home where he raped tortured and repeatedly dunked his head head into a bathtub until he passed out throughout the ordeal gasy taunted Robert with statements such as aren't we playing fun games tonight Robert was so traumatized he asked gasey to kill him however after several hours gasy drove Robert to his workplace and released him warning him that if he complained to police they would not believe him Robert ignored the threat and reported the assault to the police they Quest gasy on January 6th 1978 gasy told them he was in a sex slave relationship with Robert but insisted it was consensual remarkably the police believed him and filed no charges the following month gasy went on to kill 19-year-old William Kindred who disappeared on February 16th by now the crawl space under gas's house was full and William was the final victim he buried there on March 21st gasy lured 26-year-old Jeffrey rignell into his car shortly after he entered the vehicle gasy chloroformed him and drove him to his house where his arms and head were restrained in a Piller device he called the rack that was affixed to the ceiling gasy raped and tortured rigal with various implements and repeatedly chloroformed him into unconsciousness after the ordeal he drove him to Chicago's Lincoln Park where he was dumped unconscious but still alive Jeffrey managed to stagger to his girlfriend's apartment and police were informed of the assault at first they didn't investigate gasy as rnal had few details apart from the make of car he was also so severely injured he spent 6 days in hospital however rigal was determined to get Justice for his ordeal and he and his friend staked out the area near where he was picked up they spotted gas's black car cruising so they followed him back to 8213 West Summerdale armed with this new information he provided police with the license plate number and address but they still did not act on the information by the time police took ral's account seriously gasy had already been arrested for murder charges rigal later wrote a book about his ordeal by 1978 the crawl space was jammed with bodies but still no one had a clue and gayy was still considered by most people as a good neighbor and community worker he even moved a new girlfriend in and declared to his nextdoor neighbor that he was getting married again however the relationship didn't last and few people ever met her gasy was still in regular contact with Carol and he was often seen with her at social events they still occasionally visited the house although she continued to to complain about the stench gasy was always kind and generous to his mother and sisters and kept in close contact with them always remembering birthdays and to help out where he could although he never afforded the same generosity to his own children from his first marriage as you know who he cut out altogether despite this fa gasy was still picking up teenagers and killing them but because he had run out of space under his house he started disposing of his victims off the I55 Bridge into the Des Plains River gasy later confessed to throwing five bodies into the river in 1978 and he believed one had landed on a passing barge only four bodies were ever found the first known victim thrown into the river was 20-year-old Timothy Ock who he picked up and murdered in mid June after leaving his apartment to purchase cigarettes shortly before his disappearance oo had told his roommate a Contractor on the northwest side had offered him a job on November 12th 1978 the body of 19-year-old Frank landan was found naked in the Des Plains River he was another of Gay's victims shortly after the discovery of Frank's Body another young man went missing his name was James maera a 20-year-old elmswood Park resident who vanished on November 24th he too had told his sister that he had a job in the construction industry Robert past was only 15 years old when he mysteriously vanished at the time he was working in a pharmacy his mother had come to pick him up after his shift and was waiting in the shop Robert told her to wait a few minutes whil he went outside to talk to a contractor who had offered him a job Rober never returned 3 hours after after Robert's disappearance the Des plan's Police Department was notified and Lieutenant Joseph kerac started an investigation after learning the name of the contractor who had offered the job to Robert the lieutenant knocked on gas's door gasy answered and Joseph told him about the missing boy and asked gasy to go with him to the police station for questioning gasy said he was unable to leave his home at the moment because there was a recent death in the family and he had to attend to some phone calls but said he would come down later gasy showed up at the station at 3:20 a.m. he was covered in mud claiming he had been involved in a car accident on returning to the police station later that day he denied any involvement in the recent disappearance at the request of detectives gasy prepared a written statement detailing his movement on December 11th Joseph decided to run a background check on gasy and was surprised to find that that gasi had served time for committing sodomy on a teenager years earlier soon after Joseph obtained a search warrant for gas's house the first search of gas's property on December 13th 1978 revealed several suspicious items amongst them were police badges a 6mm breta starter pistol a syringe and a hypodermic needle investigators also found handcuffs books on homosexuality pornographic films capsules of Amal nitrate and a sex toy in one of the bedrooms they found a class of 1975 Maine West High School ring engraved with the initials J alongside a 36in section of nylon rope the crawl space located beneath gas's home was searched and the first thing that struck investigators was a rancid odor that they believed to be sewage the Earth in the crawl space was sprinkled with lime but seemed to have been untouched police found nothing else during their first search of the crawl space gasy was enraged that the police had searched his property and immediately contacted his lawyer when gasy was presented with a Miranda waiver stating his rights and asked to sign it he refused police had nothing to arrest him on and eventually had to release him after more questioning about past's disappearance however They confiscated gas's vehicle and other work vehicles and put him under constant surveillance further investigations were Unearthed some of them complaints made against gasy in particular the most recent filed by Jeffrey rignell things were piecing together although they didn't yet have enough to arrest him gy himself was getting restless at first he joked around with the surveillance police and even brought them takeout but soon he started accusing them of harassing him a further examination of gas's vehicle was conducted and investigators discovered a small cluster of fibers which may have been human hair that evening officers conducted a test using three trained German Shepherd surge dogs to determine whether past had been present in any of gas's vehicles one dog approached gas's a mobile and lay on the passenger seat in what the dog's Handler informed investigators was a death reaction indicating past's body had been present in the [Music] vehicle during the days following the police search of gas's house some of his friends were called into the police station and interrogated gas had told his friends earlier that police were trying to charge him with a murder but claimed he was innocent and Being Framed from the interviews police gathered little information on any connection between gasy and Robert past and Friends of gasy could not believe he was capable of killing a teenage boy frustrated by the lack of evidence they had linking gasy to pie the police decided to arrest gasy on possession of marijuana and Valium unknown to police at the time gasy had recently confided in a friend and coworker a day before his arrest that he had indeed killed gasy also told him that he had killed several people because they were bad and trying to blackmail him on Friday December 22nd 1978 gasy finally confessed to police that he killed at least 30 people and buried most of the remains of his victims beneath the crawl space of his house he also admitted to sometimes keeping the dead bodies under his bed or in the attic for several hours before eventually burying them investigators went back and searched gas's house again police set about digging an area under the garage where gasy said he had buried a body but before they started digging they did another search of the crawl space under the home it was not long before they discovered a suspicious mound of Earth as they started to dig the distinctive smell of death was all around and they were about to make a horrific Discovery carefully they began Excavating body after body some decomposing some skeletal and as the days passed the body count grew some of the victims were found with their underwear or a paper towel still lodged deep in their throats other victims were buried so close together that police believed they were probably killed or buried at the same time gasy later confirmed to police that he had on several occasions killed more than one person in a day however the reason he gave for them being buried so close close together was that he was running out of room and needed to conserve Space by the 28th of December 1978 police had removed a total of 27 bodies from gas's house however this was not the final count they had also linked the death of Frank landingin whose body had been found in the Des Plains River to gasi after Frank's driver's license was found in gas's home as well as James mazara who was also found with the all too familiar underwear lodged in his throat by the end of February 1979 police were still digging up gase's property they had already completely gutted the house but believed there were still more bodies to be found and they were right while workmen were breaking out the concrete of gas's patio they came across another horrific Discovery they found the body of a man still in good condition preserved in the concrete the man wore a pair of blue jeans shorts and a wedding ring gas's victims no longer included just young boys or suspected homosexuals but now also married men the following week another body was discovered the 31st body to be found linked to gasey was in the Illinois River investigators were able to discover the identity of the young man by a tattoo on one of his arms the victim's name was Timothy oo around the same time another body was found on gas's property the body was located beneath the recreation room of gas's house it would be the last body to be found on gas's property soon after the discovery the house was destroyed and reduced to Rubble unfortunately among the 32 bodies that were discovered that of Robert Past gas's final victim was still unaccounted for finally in April 197 9 the remains of Robert past were discovered in the Illinois River his body had supposedly been lodged somewhere along the river making it difficult to find however strong winds must have dislodged the corpse and carried it to the locks at Dresden Dam where it was eventually recovered autopsy reports on piec determined he had suffocated from paper towels being stuffed down his throat the search for the dead had finally come to an end but investigations were far from over as they tried to identify the victims police investigators continued to match dental records and other Clues to help identify the remaining victims who are found on gas's property all but nine of the victims were eventually [Music] identified on Wednesday February 6th 1980 John Wayne gas's murder trial began in the Cook County Criminal Courts Building in Chicago jury members who consisted of five women and seven men listened as prosecutor Bob Eagan talked about Robert past's life and his gruesome death and how gasy was responsible for his murder and 32 other young men Egan told them about the investigation into gasy the discovery of bodies beneath his house and how gas's actions were premeditated and rational some of the jurors were learning details of gas's Killing For the First Time Egan's opening statement was followed by one of gas's defense lawyers Robert motor he opposed Egan's statement by claiming gas's actions were indeed irrational and impulsive but asserting that he was insane and no longer in control of his conduct if gasy was found insane he would become a ward of the State Mental Health System furthermore there would be no time limits on his incarceration and and he could be set free when deemed mentally stable enough to re-enter Society the trial lasted five grueling weeks during which horrific details were revealed about how gasy killed his victims in his defense some of his friends and neighbors spoke of a Kind and Generous man the darker side of his life and temper were also exposed and his victims who survived told the harrowing tales of the torture he put them through some of his ex-employees told of his mood swings and how he would trick them into being handcuffed others told of how he constantly made passes at them while at work testimony from Jeffrey Ringle did not last very long because he broke down while talling the court the details of his rape Ringle was so stressed that he began to vomit and cry hysterically he was eventually removed from the courthouse as gayy Sat by exhibiting no signs of emotion after the closing arguments and the testimony of over a 100 Witnesses over a period of 5 weeks the jury was left to make their decision it took only 2 hours of deliberation before the jury came back with its verdict the court room was filled with silence and everyone stood at attention when the jury marched in with its verdict the sentence was broken when the court clerk read we the jury find the defendant John Wayne gasey guilty gasy was found guilty in the deaths of 33 young men he had the singular notoriety of having been convicted of more murders than anyone else in American history gasy received the death penalty and was sent to mened Correctional Center just after midnight on May 10th 1994 John Wayne gasy was executed by lethal injection at the Stateville prison in Jo J at Illinois gasy walked calmly to his death he showed no remorse for the 33 young lives he had cut short not to mention the immense grief and loss he had caused their families before the execution began the chemicals used to carry out the execution unexpectedly solidified clogging the IV line used to administer the chemicals into gas's arm the blinds covering the window through which Witnesses observed the execution were temporarily closed while the execution team replaced the clogged Tu after 10 minutes the blinds were reopened and the execution resumed gas's final statement to his lawyer before his execution was that killing him would not compensate for the loss of others and that the state was murdering him his final spoken words were reported to be kiss my ass for his last meal gasy ordered a bucket of KFC a dozen fried shrimp french fries fresh strawberries and a Diet Coke as he laay dying a crowd estimated at over a thousand gathered outside most who were in favor of the execution although a number of anti-de penalty protesters were also present after gas's death was confirmed at 12:58 a.m. on May 10th 1994 his brain was removed and is still in the possession of Helen Morrison a witness for the defense at gase's trial who interviewed gasy and other serial killers in an attempt to isolate common personality traits of violent sociopaths the rest of his body was cremated gasy like so many other serial killers has been the subject of many film book and TV projects some of the artwork and sketches he created whilst waiting on death row particularly those of pogo the clown have sold for several hundred to collectors of maab memorabilia it was also rumored recently that Zach be wanted to purchase gas's pickled brain from Helen Morrison to display in his Museum along with other murderabilia linked to fellow serial killers for the friends and families of gas's victims their torment is never ending as are those that survived his clutches it's hard to believe that one man can take pleasure in causing the suffering and death of so many young lives

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