Gacy naturally gravitated toward his mother’s more nurturing demeaner, but eventually developed a strange fetish for her underwear. ‘Now I want to be my own judge, jury, and executioner, I’m going to tell you everything that happened.’ While awaiting trial for murder, Gacy was interviewed by his legal defense team in over 60 hours of recorded testimony. ‘I’ve been a judge, jury, and executioner of many many people,’ he says in the unearthed recordings. To this day, five victims remained unidentified.
Four others, including Piest, were dumped in a nearby river when he ran out of space beneath his house. The depravity of Gacy’s crimes shocked the public, who learned how he buried 29 bodies in the crawl space of his quiet Chicago suburban home. In his free time, Gacy performed at children’s hospitals and charitable events his alter-ego, ‘Pogo the Clown.’Įven as close associates around him began to disappear, nobody suspected that the man beneath the harlequin veneer was a homicidal sociopath who raped, tortured and strangled dozens of young men and boys during a six-year-long killing spree that lasted from 1972 to 1978. By all outward appearances, the Democratic precinct captain and father-of-two was a seemingly ordinary man.
