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John Wayne Gacy: The Killer Clown

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.© 2026 YesOui.ai ノンフィクション犯罪 世界
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  • The Diagram Confession: Gacy's Clinical Map of His Own Crimes

    The Diagram Confession: Gacy's Clinical Map of His Own Crimes
    2026/09/01
    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 — as though filing a contractor's report. That document tells you everything about who he was and why this case is structurally unlike almost any other in true crime history.

    This episode traces the full arc of Gacy's six-year killing spree at 8213 West Summerdale Avenue in Chicago's Norwood Park Township. We examine the PDM Construction business that gave him access to young male victims, the Pogo the Clown persona he cultivated with genuine enthusiasm, and the crawl space beneath his ranch home where twenty-six of his thirty-three victims were buried beneath layers of lime. When the space ran out, Gacy shifted methods — wrapping bodies in plastic and dropping them into the Des Plaines River.

    We also look at what the neighbours actually knew: the persistent smell, the explanations accepted without question, and the social trust that insulated a well-liked community figure from scrutiny. Then, the break. Fifteen-year-old Robert Piest disappeared on December 13th, 1978, after following a construction job lead. His mother reported him missing that same night. Within hours, investigators were at Gacy's door — and within days, they were inside his crawl space.

    Eight victims remain unidentified to this day. This episode asks how thirty-three murders stayed hidden — and what finally forced the world to look.

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    13 分
  • Dead Under the Floor: How Gacy Hid Thirty-Three Murders in Plain Sight

    Dead Under the Floor: How Gacy Hid Thirty-Three Murders in Plain Sight
    2026/08/31
    (00:00:00) Dead Under the Floor: How Gacy Hid Thirty-Three Murders in Plain Sight
    (00:00:53) The Man on West Summerdale Avenue
    (00:02:07) What Was Happening Inside the House
    (00:03:30) The Smell That Wasn't Investigated
    (00:04:36) Robert Piest and the Night Everything Changed
    (00:06:05) The Confession and the Diagrams
    (00:07:06) Trial and Conviction
    (00:07:50) The House, the Property, and the Years Between
    (00:08:38) Execution and the Eight Who Remain Unnamed
    (00:10:11) What This Case Left Behind

    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 West Summerdale Avenue, how he buried his victims systematically in the crawl space beneath his own floors, and how the smell that reached the street was explained away by a man who had mastered the art of respectability.

    At the centre of this chapter is the question that makes the Gacy case so enduringly disturbing: not just how he killed, but how long he was able to keep killing. Neighbours noticed the odour. Visitors remarked on it. Gacy had answers ready, and people accepted them because he seemed like exactly the kind of man who wouldn't lie. PDM Construction, the neighborhood association, Pogo the Clown — each layer of his public identity functioned as cover for what was happening underground.

    The episode then turns to the night that ended it all. On 13 December 1978, fifteen-year-old Robert Piest left a Des Plaines pharmacy to speak with a contractor about a job and never came home. His mother filed a missing persons report the same night. A background check on Gacy returned a 1968 Iowa sodomy conviction, surveillance began, and on 21 December investigators climbed into the crawl space and found the first remains. What followed was one of the largest forensic excavations of a residential property in American criminal history — and a body count that kept rising through Christmas.

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    12 分
  • Robert Piest and the Warrant That Exposed Thirty-Three Dead

    Robert Piest and the Warrant That Exposed Thirty-Three Dead
    2026/08/30
    (00:00:00) Robert Piest and the Warrant That Exposed Thirty-Three Dead
    (00:00:43) The Man the Neighbors Knew
    (00:02:08) The Smell That Went Nowhere
    (00:03:12) Robert Piest
    (00:04:44) December Twenty-First
    (00:05:43) The Diagrams
    (00:06:40) The Trial and Conviction
    (00:07:19) Death Row and the End
    (00:08:14) Eight Names Still Missing
    (00:09:13) What the Property Became
    (00:10:03) What the Search Warrant Actually Changed

    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 Piest, who had vanished eight days earlier after telling his mother he was meeting a contractor about a summer job. That contractor was John Wayne Gacy.

    This episode traces the final chapter of Gacy's six-year killing spree — how a respected Chicago contractor, community organiser, and part-time clown managed to murder thirty-three young men and bury twenty-nine of them beneath his own home without triggering a serious investigation. The neighbours had noticed the smell for years. Acquaintances had heard strange comments. Law enforcement had even run his record, which included a 1968 sodomy conviction in Iowa. None of it was enough — until Robert Piest didn't come home.

    We examine the surveillance operation that led to the warrant, the moment officers descended into the crawl space and discovered lime-covered trenches packed with human remains, and the remarkable aftermath in which Gacy sat down with investigators and drew precise diagrams marking exactly where he had buried each victim. Twenty-six bodies came out from under the house. Three more were pulled from the Des Plaines River. The total reached thirty-three confirmed victims.

    What makes this chapter so unsettling isn't just the scale of what was found — it's how long the evidence had been there, drifting through the air of a quiet suburban Chicago neighbourhood, waiting to be connected.

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    12 分
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