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The Crawl Space: What Police Found Beneath Gacy's House

The Crawl Space: What Police Found Beneath Gacy's House

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(00:00:00) The Crawl Space: What Police Found Beneath Gacy's House
(00:01:47) The Last Shift
(00:03:27) The Smell the Neighbors Didn't Name
(00:05:11) The Surveillance and the Warrant
(00:06:46) The Confession and the Diagrams
(00:07:49) The Trial and the Verdict
(00:09:17) The Eight Who Remain Unnamed
(00:10:20) What This Case Left Behind

In December 1978, fifteen-year-old Robert Piest stepped outside a Des Plaines pharmacy to discuss a construction job and was never seen alive again. His disappearance set in motion one of the most consequential criminal investigations in American history — one that would expose six years of systematic murder hidden beneath a quiet suburban house just outside Chicago.

This episode traces the chain of events that finally brought John Wayne Gacy into the crosshairs of law enforcement: the thin thread of a name mentioned by a pharmacy employee, a background check that revealed a prior conviction for the sodomy of a minor, and a surveillance operation that steadily tightened around a man who had, until then, operated with extraordinary impunity.

Before police ever executed their search warrant, something was already wrong at 8213 West Summerdale Avenue. Neighbors had noticed the smell for years — persistent, organic, impossible to fully explain away — and yet Gacy's vague answers about drainage and moisture had been enough to keep questions at bay. That smell was decomposition. Twenty-six of his thirty-three known victims were buried in the crawl space beneath his home.

This chapter also examines what enabled Gacy to keep killing for so long: the Pogo the Clown persona that served as social armor, the P.D.M. Construction business that gave him access to vulnerable young men, and a systemic failure that allowed a convicted sex offender to build a business routinely bringing teenagers into his orbit. On December 21, 1978, investigators entered the crawl space. What they found there changed everything.

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