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Gacy grabbed McCoy, wrestled him to the floor, and stabbed him repeatedly in the chest as he straddled him. As McCoy lay dying, Gacy claimed he washed the knife in his bathroom, then went to his kitchen and saw an opened carton of eggs and a slab of unsliced bacon on his kitchen table.
McCoy had also set the table for two; he had walked into Gacy's room to wake him while absentmindedly carrying the kitchen knife in his hand.
He added: "That's when I realized that death was the ultimate thrill. Gacy said the second time he committed murder was around January Gacy strangled him and then placed the body in his closet before burial.
As a result, Gacy regularly stuffed cloth rags, or their own underwear, in the mouths of subsequent victims to prevent this leakage from recurring.
On July 31, , another of Gacy's employees, an year-old from Lombard , John Butkovich, disappeared. The day before his disappearance, Butkovich had confronted Gacy over two weeks' outstanding back pay.
Butkovich's father, a Yugoslav immigrant, called Gacy, who claimed he was happy to help search for his son but was sorry Butkovich had "run away".
When questioned by police, Gacy said Butkovich 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 three years, Butkovich's parents called police more than times, urging them to investigate Gacy further.
Gacy later admitted to encountering Butkovich exiting his car at the corner of West Lawrence Avenue, waving to attract his attention. According to Gacy, Butkovich approached his car, stating, "I wanna talk to you.
At his home, Gacy offered Butkovich a drink, then conned him into allowing his wrists to be cuffed behind his back.
Gacy later confessed to having "sat on the kid's chest for a while" before he strangled him. He stowed Butkovich's body in his garage, intending to bury the body later in the crawl space.
When his wife and stepdaughters returned earlier than expected, Gacy buried Butkovich's body under the concrete floor of the garage in an empty space where he had initially intended to dig a drain tile.
In addition to being the year his business expanded, Gacy freely admitted was also when he began to increase the frequency of his excursions for sex with young males.
He later referred to these as his "cruising years". Although Gacy remained gregarious and civic-minded, several neighbors noticed erratic changes in his behavior after his divorce.
This included seeing him keeping company with young males, hearing his car arrive or depart in the early hours of the morning, or seeing lights in his home switch on and off in the early hours.
She identified the sounds as emanating from a house adjacent to theirs on Summerdale Avenue. One month after his divorce was finalized, Gacy abducted and murdered year-old Darrell Samson.
He was last seen alive in Chicago on April 6, Hours after Gacy abducted Reffett, year-old Samuel Stapleton vanished as he walked home from his sister's apartment.
He disappeared while traveling from Chicago to Waukegan. Gacy strangled Bonnin with a ligature and buried him under the spare bedroom.
Carroll seems to have been the first of four victims known to have been murdered between June 13 and August 6, On August 5, a year-old Minnesota youth named James Haakenson is last known to have phoned his family.
Gacy is thought to have murdered two further unidentified males between August and October Gacy buried the body beneath his master bedroom.
His girlfriend last saw him outside her house after he had driven her home following a date. He had informed his family that Gacy had had him "dig trenches for some kind of drain tiles" in his crawl space.
Godzik's car was later found abandoned in Niles. His parents and older sister, Eugenia, contacted Gacy about Godzik's disappearance. Gacy claimed that he had run away from home, having indicated before that he wished to do so.
Gacy also claimed to have received an answering machine message from Godzik shortly after he had disappeared. When asked if he could play back the message to Godzik's parents, Gacy said he had erased it.
Between December and March , it is known Gacy killed an unidentified adult male. He buried him in the crawl space beneath the body of a year-old Michigan native named Jon Prestidge, who had disappeared on March Gacy murdered one additional unidentified youth and buried him in the crawl space in the spring or early summer of ; the exact time of this murder is unknown.
Bowman's mother last saw him at a suburban train station. The following month, Rossi was arrested for stealing gasoline while driving John Szyc's car.
The gas station attendant noted the license plate and police traced the car to Gacy's house. When questioned, Gacy told officers that Szyc had sold the car to him in February, saying he needed money to leave town.
A check of the VIN confirmed the car had belonged to Szyc. By the end of , it is known Gacy had murdered six more young men between the ages of 16 and The first of these victims was year-old Robert Gilroy, the son of a Chicago police sergeant, last seen alive on September He was murdered and buried in the crawl space.
On September 12, Gacy had flown to Pittsburgh to supervise a remodeling project, and did not return to Chicago until September Ten days after Gilroy was last seen, year-old former U.
Marine John Mowery disappeared after leaving his mother's house to walk to his apartment. On October 17, year-old Minnesota native Russell Nelson disappeared: he was last seen outside a Chicago bar.
Nelson was looking for contracting work. Less than four weeks later, Gacy murdered year-old Kalamazoo, Michigan teenager Robert Winch and buried him in the crawl space.
On November 18, year-old father-of-one Tommy Boling disappeared after leaving a Chicago bar. Three weeks after the murder of Tommy Boling, on December 9, a year-old U.
Marine, David Talsma, disappeared after informing his mother he was to attend a rock concert in Hammond. On December 30, Gacy abducted year-old student Robert Donnelly from a Chicago bus stop at gunpoint.
Gacy taunted him with statements such as, "Aren't we playing fun games tonight? Gacy replied, "I'm getting round to it. Donnelly reported the assault, and police questioned Gacy on January 6, Gacy admitted to having had a " slave-sex " relationship with Donnelly, but insisted everything was consensual, adding that he "didn't pay the kid" the money he had promised him.
On March 21, Gacy lured year-old Jeffrey Rignall into his car. Shortly after Rignall entered the car, Gacy chloroformed him and drove him to his house, where his arms and head were restrained in a pillory device affixed to the ceiling.
Gacy raped and tortured Rignall with various instruments including lit candles and whips and repeatedly chloroformed him into unconsciousness.
Gacy then drove Rignall to Chicago's Lincoln Park , where he was dumped, unconscious but alive. Rignall managed to stagger to his girlfriend's apartment.
Police were informed of the assault but did not investigate Gacy. Rignall was able to recall, through the haze of that night, the Oldsmobile, the Kennedy Expressway and particular side streets.
He and two friends staked out the Cumberland exit of the Expressway and in April Rignall saw the Oldsmobile, which he and his friends followed to West Summerdale.
He faced trial for battery against Rignall. By , the crawl space had no room for further bodies. He believed one had landed on a passing barge ; [32] only four bodies were ever found.
He was murdered in mid-June after leaving his Dover Street apartment to purchase cigarettes. Shortly before his disappearance, O'Rourke had told his roommate a contractor on the Northwest Side had offered him a job.
On November 4, Gacy killed year-old Frank Landingin. He had informed his sister that he was working in the construction industry and "doing all right".
On the afternoon of December 11, , Gacy visited the Nisson Pharmacy in Des Plaines, to discuss a potential remodeling deal with the store owner, Phil Torf.
Shortly after Gacy left the pharmacy, Piest's mother arrived at the store to drive her son home so the family could celebrate her birthday together.
He left the store at p. Piest was murdered shortly after p. In response, Gacy stated "good money" could be earned by hustling, although Piest was dismissive.
Gacy then duped Piest into donning handcuffs before saying, "I'm going to rape you, and you can't do anything about it" as Piest began weeping.
When Piest failed to return, his family filed a missing person report with the Des Plaines police. Torf named Gacy as the contractor Piest had most likely left the store to talk to about a job.
Kozenczak and two Des Plaines police officers visited Gacy at his home the following evening. Gacy indicated he had seen two youths working at the pharmacy and that he had asked one of them—whom he believed to be Piest—whether there were any remodeling materials behind the store.
When questioned as to how soon he could come to the police station, he responded, "You guys are very rude. Don't you have any respect for the dead?
At a. On returning to the police station later that day, Gacy denied any involvement in Piest's disappearance and repeated that he had not offered him a job.
When asked why he had returned to the pharmacy, Gacy reiterated that he had done so in response to a phone call from Torf informing him he had left his appointment book at the store.
Detectives had already spoken with Torf, who denied calling Gacy. At the request of detectives, Gacy prepared a written statement detailing his movements on December Suspecting Gacy might be holding Piest against his will at his home, Des Plaines police obtained a warrant to search Gacy's house on December A blue hooded parka was found atop a tool box inside the laundry room, and underwear too small to fit Gacy was located inside a bathroom closet.
In the northwest bedroom, investigators found a class of Maine West High School ring engraved with the initials J. Police assigned two, two-man surveillance teams to monitor Gacy on a rotational twelve-hour basis as they continued their investigation into his background and potential involvement in Piest's disappearance.
On December 15, Des Plaines investigators obtained further details of Gacy's battery charge, learning the complainant, Jeffrey Rignall, had reported that Gacy had lured him into his car, then chloroformed, raped and tortured him before dumping him, with severe chest and facial burns and rectal bleeding, in Lincoln Park the following morning.
In an interview with Gacy's former wife the same day, they learned of the disappearance of John Butkovich.
By December 16, Gacy was becoming affable with the surveillance detectives, regularly inviting them to join him for meals in restaurants and occasionally for drinks in bars or at his home.
He repeatedly denied that he had anything to do with Piest's disappearance and accused the officers of harassing him because of his political connections or because of his recreational drug use.
Knowing these officers were unlikely to arrest him on anything trivial, he taunted them by flouting traffic laws and succeeded in losing his pursuers more than once.
Cram also revealed that, because of his poor timekeeping, Gacy had once given him a watch, explaining he got it "from a dead person".
Investigators conducted a formal interview of Rossi on December He informed them Gacy had sold Szyc's vehicle to him, explaining that he had bought the car from Szyc because he needed money to move to California.
A further examination of Gacy's Oldsmobile was conducted on this date. In the course of examining the trunk of the car, investigators discovered a small cluster of fibers which may have been human hair.
That evening, officers conducted a test using three trained German shepherd search dogs to determine whether Piest had been present in any of Gacy's vehicles.
One dog approached Gacy's Oldsmobile and lay on the passenger seat in what the dog's handler informed investigators was a "death reaction", indicating Piest's body had been present in the vehicle.
That evening, Gacy invited detectives Albrecht and Hachmeister to a restaurant for a meal. In the early hours of December 18, he invited them into another restaurant where, over breakfast, he talked of his business, his marriages and his activities as a registered clown.
At one point during the conversation, Gacy remarked: "You know By December 18, Gacy was beginning to show signs of strain from the constant surveillance: he was unshaven, looked tired, appeared anxious and was drinking heavily.
Byers admitted, when contacted in person the following day, that she had worn the jacket on December 11 to shield herself from the cold.
She had placed the receipt in the parka pocket just before she gave the coat to Piest as he left the store, claiming a contractor wanted to speak with him.
The same evening, Rossi was interviewed a second time. This time he was more cooperative. He informed detectives that in the summer of , at Gacy's behest, he had spread ten bags of lime in the crawl space of Gacy's house.
On December 19, investigators began compiling evidence for a second search warrant for Gacy's house.
The same day, Gacy's lawyers filed the civil suit against the Des Plaines police. The hearing for the suit was scheduled for December That afternoon, Gacy invited the surveillance detectives inside his house again.
As officer Robinson distracted Gacy with conversation, officer Schultz walked into Gacy's bedroom in an unsuccessful attempt to write down the serial number of the Motorola TV set they suspected belonged to John Szyc.
While flushing Gacy's toilet, the officer noticed a smell he suspected could be that of rotting corpses emanating from a heating duct.
The officers who had searched Gacy's house previously had failed to notice this; the house had been cold. Investigators interviewed both Cram and Rossi on December Rossi had agreed to be interviewed in relation to his possible links with John Szyc as well as the disappearance of Robert Piest.
When questioned by Kozenczak as to where he believed Gacy had concealed Piest's body, Rossi replied Gacy may have placed the body in the crawl space, adding that he thought Szyc's car was stolen.
He denied any involvement in Piest's disappearance, also denying any knowledge of his whereabouts.
He soon refused to continue the questioning, and Rossi's "erratic and inconsistent" responses to questions while attached to the polygraph machine rendered Kozenczak "unable to render a definite opinion" as to the truthfulness of his answers.
Cram informed investigators of Gacy's attempts to rape him in He stated that after he and Gacy had returned to his home after the December 13 search of his property, Gacy had turned pale after seeing a clot of mud on his carpet which he suspected had come from his crawl space.
Cram said Gacy had grabbed a flashlight and immediately entered the crawl space to look for evidence of digging.
When asked whether he had been to the crawl space, Cram replied he had once been asked by Gacy to spread lime down there and had also dug trenches, which Gacy had explained were for drainage pipes.
Cram stated these trenches were 2 feet 0. On the evening of December 20, Gacy drove to his lawyers' office in Park Ridge to attend a scheduled meeting, ostensibly to discuss the progress of his civil suit.
On his arrival Gacy appeared disheveled and immediately asked for an alcoholic drink, whereupon Sam Amirante fetched a bottle of whiskey from his car.
On his return, Amirante asked Gacy what he had to discuss with them. Gacy picked up a copy of the Daily Herald from Amirante's desk, pointed to a front-page article covering the disappearance of Robert Piest and said, "This boy is dead.
He's in a river. Gacy then proceeded to give a rambling confession that ran into the early hours of the following morning. He began by informing Amirante and Stevens he had "been the judge Gacy dismissed his victims as " male prostitutes ", "hustlers" and "liars" to whom he gave "the rope trick", adding he sometimes awoke to find "dead, strangled kids" on his floor, with their hands cuffed behind their back.
As a result of the alcohol he had consumed, Gacy fell asleep midway through his confession. Amirante immediately arranged a psychiatric appointment for Gacy at a.
On awakening several hours later, Gacy shook his head when informed by Amirante he had confessed to killing approximately 30 people, saying, "Well, I can't think about this right now.
I've got things to do. Gacy later recollected his memories of his final day of freedom as being "hazy", adding he knew his arrest was inevitable and that he intended to visit his friends and say his final farewells.
After leaving his lawyers' office, Gacy drove to a gas station where, in the course of filling his rental car, he handed a small bag of cannabis to the attendant, who immediately handed the bag to the surveillance officers, adding that Gacy had told him, "The end is coming for me.
These guys are going to kill me. Gacy hugged Rhode before bursting into tears and saying, "I've been a bad boy.
I killed thirty people, give or take a few. As he drove along the expressway, the surveillance officers noted he was holding a rosary to his chin, praying while he drove.
As Gacy spoke with him, Cram informed the surveillance officers that Gacy had told him and Rossi that he had confessed to over 30 murders with his lawyers the previous evening.
Gacy then had Cram drive him to Maryhill Cemetery, where his father was buried. As Gacy drove to various locations that morning, police outlined the formal draft of their second search warrant, specifically to search for the body of Robert Piest in the crawl space.
On hearing from the surveillance detectives that, in light of his erratic behavior, Gacy may be about to commit suicide, police decided to arrest him on a charge of possession and distribution of cannabis in order to hold him in custody, as the formal request for a second search warrant was presented.
Peters granted the request for a second search warrant. Armed with the signed search warrant, police and evidence technicians drove to Gacy's home. On their arrival, officers found Gacy had unplugged his sump pump , flooding the crawl space with water; to clear it, they simply replaced the plug and waited for the water to drain.
After it had done so, evidence technician Daniel Genty entered the byfoot 8. Genty immediately shouted to the investigators that they could charge Gacy with murder, adding, "I think this place is full of kids".
A police photographer then dug in the northeast corner of the crawl space, uncovering a patella. The two then began digging in the southeast corner, uncovering two lower leg bones.
The victims were too decomposed to be Piest. As the body discovered in the northeast corner was later unearthed, a crime scene technician discovered the skull of a second victim alongside this body.
Later excavations of the feet of this second victim revealed a further skull beneath the body. After being informed that the police had found human remains in his crawl space and that he would now face murder charges, Gacy told officers he wanted to "clear the air", adding he had known his arrest was inevitable since the previous evening, which he had spent on the couch in his lawyers' office.
In the early morning hours of December 22, and in the presence of his lawyers, Gacy provided a formal statement in which he confessed to murdering approximately 30 young males—all of whom he claimed had entered his house willingly.
When shown a driver's license issued to a Robert Hasten which had been found on his property, Gacy claimed not to know him but admitted this license had been in the possession of one of his victims.
When questioned specifically about Piest, Gacy confessed to luring him to his house and strangling him on the evening of December He also admitted to having slept alongside Piest's body that evening, before disposing of the corpse in the Des Plaines River in the early hours of December His vehicle had slid off an ice-covered road and had to be towed from its location.
Accompanied by police and his lawyers, Gacy was driven subsequently to the spot on the I bridge where he had confessed to having thrown Piest's, Landingin's and three other victims' bodies into the Des Plaines River that summer.
To assist officers in their search for the victims buried beneath his house, during his confession, Gacy drew a rough diagram of his basement on a phone message sheet to indicate where their bodies were buried.
Cook County medical examiner Robert Stein supervised the exhumations. The crawl space was marked in sections and each body was given an identifying number.
The first body recovered from the crawl space was assigned a marker denoting the victim as Body 1. Gacy had buried this victim in the northeast section of the crawl space directly beneath the room he used as his office.
The body of John Butkovich was labelled as Body 2. The search for victims was postponed temporarily over Christmas. Four more bodies were unearthed on December A cloth gag was found in the mouth, leading investigators to conclude this victim most likely died of asphyxiation.
On December 27, eight more bodies were discovered. Both 14 and 15 were found with their head and upper torsos inside separate plastic bags.
Body 16 was found close to Body This victim was found with a cloth rag lodged deep in his throat, causing him to die of suffocation.
The seventeenth victim was found with a ligature around his neck. The following day, four more bodies were exhumed.
By December 29, six more bodies were unearthed. Bodies 22, 23, 24, and 26 were buried in a common grave located beneath Gacy's kitchen and laundry room, [76] with Body 25 located beneath Gacy's bathroom.
Two socks were recovered from the pelvic region. The bones of victims 23 and 24 were commingled together, and a section of cloth was found inside the mouth of Bodies 24 and The final victim recovered from the crawl space was also found beneath the bathroom, buried ten inches below the surface of the soil.
This victim was found to have a section of cloth lodged deep in his throat. Operations were suspended due to the Chicago Blizzard of , but resumed in March despite Gacy's insistence that all the buried victims had been found.
All the victims discovered at W. Summerdale were in an advanced state of decomposition. Dental records and X-ray charts helped Stein identify the remains.
These identifications were also supported with personal artifacts found in Gacy's home. The head and upper torso of several bodies unearthed beneath Gacy's property had been placed into plastic bags.
In some cases, bodies were found with foreign objects such as prescription bottles lodged into their pelvic region, the position of which indicated the items had been thrust into the victims' anus.
Stein concluded 12 victims recovered from Gacy's property died not of strangulation, but of asphyxiation. The victim found 6 miles 9.
An autopsy was unable to rule out strangulation as the cause of death. Following Gacy's arrest, investigators discovered he was a further victim.
Frank Landingin's cause of death was certified at autopsy as suffocation through his own underwear being lodged down his throat, plugging his airway and effectively causing him to drown in his own vomit.
He was assigned victim number On December 28, one further body linked to Gacy was found 1 mile 1. This victim was identified as James Mazzara, whom Gacy confessed to having murdered shortly after Thanksgiving.
On April 9, , a decomposed body was discovered entangled in exposed roots on the edge of the Des Plaines River in Grundy County.
The body was identified using dental records as being that of Robert Piest. A subsequent autopsy revealed that three wads of "paper-like material" had been shoved down his throat while he was still alive, causing him to suffocate.
Gacy was brought to trial on February 6, , charged with 33 murders. At the request of his defense counsel, Gacy spent over three hundred hours with doctors at the Menard Correctional Center in Chester in the year before his trial.
He underwent a variety of psychological tests before a panel of psychiatrists to determine whether he was mentally competent to stand trial.
When Gacy had confessed to police, he claimed to be relaying the crimes of Jack, who detested homosexuality and who viewed male prostitutes as "weak, stupid and degraded scum".
Presenting Gacy as a Jekyll and Hyde character, the defense produced several psychiatric experts who had examined Gacy.
The prosecutors presented the case that Gacy was sane and in full control of his actions. Those doctors refuted the defense doctors' claims of multiple personalities and insanity.
Cram and Rossi testified that Gacy had made them dig drainage trenches and spread bags of lime in his crawl space. On February 18 Robert Stein testified that all the bodies recovered from Gacy's property were "markedly decomposed [and] putrefied, skeletalized remains", and that of all the autopsies he performed, thirteen victims had died of asphyxiation, six of ligature strangulation, one of multiple stab wounds to the chest and ten in undetermined ways.
Jeffrey Rignall testified on behalf of the defense on February Asked whether Gacy appreciated the criminality of his actions, Rignall said he believed that Gacy was unable to conform his actions to the law's expectations because of the "beastly and animalistic ways he attacked me".
On February 29, Donald Voorhees, whom Gacy sexually assaulted in , testified to his ordeal at Gacy's hands and his subsequent attempts to dissuade him from testifying by paying another youth to spray Mace in his face and beat him.
Voorhees felt unable to testify but did briefly attempt to do so before being asked to step down. Robert Donnelly testified the week after Voorhees, recounting his ordeal at Gacy's hands in December Donnelly was visibly distressed as he recalled the abuse he endured and came close to breaking down several times.
As Donnelly testified, Gacy repeatedly laughed at him, but Donnelly finished his testimony. During the fifth week of the trial, Gacy wrote a personal letter to Judge Garippo requesting a mistrial for a number of reasons, including that he did not approve of his lawyers' insanity plea; that his lawyers had not allowed him to take the witness stand as he had wanted to do ; that his defense had not called enough medical witnesses, and that the police were lying with regard to verbal statements he had purportedly made to detectives after his arrest and that, in any event, the statements were "self-serving" for use by the prosecution.
On March 11, final arguments by both prosecution and defense attorneys began; they concluded the following day. Prosecuting attorney Terry Sullivan spoke first, outlining Gacy's history of abusing youths, the testimony of his efforts to avoid detection and describing his surviving victims—Voorhees and Donnelly—as "living dead".
Referring to Gacy as the "worst of all murderers", Sullivan stated, "John Gacy has accounted for more human devastation than many earthly catastrophes, but one must tremble.
I tremble when thinking about just how close he came to getting away with it all. After the state's four-hour closing, counsel Sam Amirante spoke for the defense.
Amirante argued against the testimony delivered by the doctors who had testified for the prosecution, repeatedly citing the testimony of the four psychiatrists and psychologists who had testified on behalf of the defense.
The defense lawyer attempted to portray Gacy as a "man driven by compulsions he was unable to control", contending the State had not met their burden of proving Gacy sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
In support of these arguments, the defense referred to the testimony of the doctors who had appeared for the defense, in addition to defense witnesses such as Jeffrey Rignall and a former business associate of Gacy's—both of whom had testified to their belief that Gacy had been unable to control his actions.
Amirante then urged the jury to put aside any prejudice they held against his client and asked they deliver a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity, adding that Gacy was a danger to both himself and to others, and that studying his psychology and behavior would be of benefit to science.
On the morning of March 12, William Kunkle continued to argue for the prosecution. Kunkle also referred to the testimony of one of the doctors who had examined Gacy in and had concluded he was an antisocial personality, capable of committing crimes without remorse and unlikely to benefit from social or psychiatric treatment, stating that had the recommendations of this doctor been heeded, Gacy would have not been freed.
At the close of his argument, Kunkle removed photos of Gacy's 22 identified victims from a display board and asked the jury not to show sympathy but to "show justice".
Kunkle then asked the jury to "show the same sympathy this man showed when he took these lives and put them there!
After Kunkle had finished his testimony, the jury retired to consider their verdict. The jury deliberated for less than two hours and found Gacy guilty of 33 charges of murder; he was also found guilty of sexual assault and taking indecent liberties with a child; both convictions in reference to Robert Piest.
In the sentencing phase of the trial, the jury deliberated for more than two hours before sentencing Gacy to death for each murder committed after the Illinois statute on capital punishment came into effect in June On being sentenced, Gacy was transferred to the Menard Correctional Center, where he remained incarcerated on death row for 14 years.
On February 15, , Henry Brisbon, a fellow death row inmate known as the I killer, stabbed Gacy in the upper arm with a sharpened wire as Gacy was participating in a voluntary work program.
A second death row inmate injured in the attack, William Jones, received a superficial stab wound to the head. Both received treatment in the prison hospital for their wounds.
After his incarceration, Gacy read numerous law books and filed voluminous motions and appeals, although he did not prevail in any of them.
His appeals related to issues such as the validity of the first search warrant granted to the Des Plaines police on December 13, , and his objection to his lawyers' insanity plea defense at his trial.
Gacy also contended that, although he had "some knowledge" of five of the murders those of McCoy, Butkovich, Godzik, Szyc and Piest , the other 28 murders had been committed by employees who had keys to his house while he was away on business trips.
In mid, the Supreme Court of Illinois upheld Gacy's conviction and ordered his execution by lethal injection on November The following year, Gacy filed a further post-conviction petition, seeking a new trial.
His then-defense lawyer, Richard Kling , argued that Gacy had been provided with ineffective legal counsel at his trial.
This post-conviction petition was dismissed on September 11, Gacy appealed the decision that he be executed.
The Illinois Supreme Court upheld his conviction on September 29, , setting a new execution date of January 11, After the U.
That afternoon, he was allowed a private picnic on the prison grounds with his family. For his last meal , Gacy ordered a bucket of KFC, a dozen fried shrimp , french fries, fresh strawberries, and a Diet Coke.
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On October 22, , it was announced that SYFY was in talks to acquire the rights to Killer Klowns from Outer Space and the Critters franchise in order to produce new sequels to both properties.
This time, the characters would feature in a Haunted House attraction rather than the Scare Zone format in which they appeared in in Orlando.
In August , after the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney , it was revealed that Fox intended on developing the sequel to Killer Klowns from Outer Space, but Disney had cancelled it along with over other projects.
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He is known to have secured an increase in the inmates' daily pay in the prison mess hall and to have supervised several projects to improve conditions for inmates in the prison.
In June , Gacy was denied parole. To prepare for a second scheduled parole hearing in May , Gacy completed 16 high school courses, for which he obtained his diploma in November On Christmas Day , Gacy's father died from cirrhosis of the liver.
When told the news, Gacy collapsed to the floor sobbing. Gacy was granted parole with 12 months' probation on June 18, , after having served 18 months of his year sentence.
On his release, Gacy told friend and fellow Jaycee Clarence Lane—who picked him up from the prison and had remained steadfast in his belief of Gacy's innocence—that he would "never go back to jail" and that he intended to re-establish himself in Waterloo.
However, within 24 hours of his release, Gacy had relocated to Chicago. On February 12, , Gacy was charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy who claimed that he had lured him into his car at Chicago's Greyhound bus terminal and driven him to his home, where he had attempted to force the boy into sex.
The court dismissed this complaint when the boy failed to appear. On June 22, Gacy was arrested and charged with aggravated sexual battery and reckless conduct.
The arrest was in response to a complaint filed by a youth who claimed that Gacy had flashed a sheriff's badge, lured him into his car, and forced him to perform oral sex.
The Iowa Board of Parole did not learn of these incidents and eight months later, in October , Gacy's parole ended. With financial assistance from his mother, Gacy bought a ranch house near the village of Norridge in Norwood Park Township, an unincorporated area of Cook County , a part of metropolitan Chicago.
The address, West Summerdale Avenue, is where he resided until his arrest in December and where, according to Gacy, he committed all his murders.
Gacy was active in his local community. His neighbors considered him helpful. He willingly loaned his construction tools and plowed snow from neighborhood walks free of charge.
In August , shortly after Gacy and his mother moved into the house, he became engaged to Carole Hoff, a divorcee with two young daughters. They were married on July 1, By , Gacy had told his wife that he was bisexual.
His wife observed Gacy bring teenage boys into his garage and found gay pornography and men's wallets and identification inside the house.
When she confronted Gacy about who these items belonged to, he informed her angrily that it was none of her business. Following a heated argument when she failed to balance a checkbook correctly in October , Carole Gacy asked her husband for a divorce.
One month later, on March 2, the Gacys' divorce—decreed upon the false grounds of Gacy's infidelity with women—was finalized.
Initially, Gacy undertook minor repair work, such as sign-writing, pouring concrete and redecorating, but he later expanded to include projects such as interior design, remodeling , installation, assembly and landscaping.
In mid, Gacy quit his job as a cook so he could commit fully to his construction business. By , PDM was expanding rapidly, and Gacy was working up to 16 hours per day.
In March , he became a supervisor for PE Systems, a firm specializing in the remodeling of drugstores. Through his membership in a local Moose Club , Gacy became aware of a "Jolly Joker" clown club, whose members regularly performed at fundraising events and parades in addition to voluntarily entertaining hospitalized children.
Gacy seldom earned money for his performances and later said that acting as a clown allowed him to "regress into childhood". He performed as both Pogo and Patches at numerous local parties, political functions, charitable events, and children's hospitals.
Much of PDM's workforce consisted of high school students and young men. In , Gacy and a teenage employee traveled to Florida to view property Gacy had purchased.
On the first night in Florida, Gacy raped him in their hotel room. After returning to Chicago, he drove to Gacy's house and beat him in his yard.
Gacy told his wife he had been attacked for refusing to pay him for poor quality work. In May , Gacy hired year-old Anthony Antonucci. In July , Gacy went to Antonucci's home.
The two drank a bottle of wine, then watched a heterosexual stag film before Gacy wrestled Antonucci to the floor and cuffed his hands behind his back.
One cuff was loose and Antonucci freed his arm while Gacy was out of the room. When Gacy returned, Antonucci—a high school wrestler—pounced upon him.
He wrestled Gacy to the floor, obtained possession of the handcuff key, and cuffed Gacy's hands behind his back. At first, Gacy threatened Antonucci, then calmed down and promised to leave if he would remove the handcuffs.
Antonucci agreed and Gacy left. Antonucci later recalled that Gacy told him: "Not only are you the only one who got out of the cuffs, you got them on me.
Gacy offered him a job with PDM, and he began work the same evening. On August 21, Cram moved into his house. The next day, he and Gacy had several drinks to celebrate his 19th birthday, with Gacy dressed as Pogo.
Gacy conned Cram into donning handcuffs, in front of his body. Gacy swung Cram around while holding the chain linking the cuffs, then said he intended to rape him.
Cram kicked Gacy in the face and freed himself from the handcuffs. A month later, Gacy appeared at Cram's bedroom door intending to rape him, saying: "Dave, you really don't know who I am.
Maybe it would be good if you give me what I want. Gacy also entered local Democratic Party politics, initially offering use of 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 lighting committee, subsequently earning the title of precinct captain.
In , Gacy was appointed director of Chicago's annual Polish Constitution Day Parade —he supervised the annual event from until In the pictures, Gacy is wearing an "S" pin, indicating a person given special clearance.
Gacy murdered at least 33 young men and boys, and buried 26 of them in the crawl space of his house.
Gacy usually lured a lone victim to his house, although on approximately three occasions, Gacy had what he called " doubles "—two victims killed in the same evening.
Several victims were lured with the promise of a job with PDM, others with an offer of drink, drugs, or money for sex. His victims included people he knew and random individuals lured from Chicago's Greyhound Bus station, Bughouse Square , or simply off the streets.
Some victims were grabbed by force, others conned into believing Gacy who often carried a sheriff's badge and had spotlights on his black Oldsmobile was a policeman.
Inside Gacy's home his usual modus operandi was to ply a youth with drink, drugs, or generally gain his trust. Gacy would then produce a pair of handcuffs to show a magic trick, sometimes as part of a clowning routine.
He typically cuffed his own hands behind his back, then surreptitiously released himself with the key which he hid between his fingers. He then offered to show his intended victim how to release himself from the handcuffs.
Having restrained his victim, Gacy proceeded to rape and torture his captive. He frequently began by sitting on the chest before forcing his victim to fellate him.
Gacy typically murdered his victims by placing a rope tourniquet around their neck before progressively tightening the rope with a hammer handle.
After death, Gacy usually stored the victims' bodies under his bed for up to 24 hours before burying his victim in the crawl space, where he periodically poured quicklime to hasten the decomposition of his victim.
Gacy's first known murder occurred on January 2, According to Gacy's later account, following a family party he decided to drive to the Civic Center in the Loop to view a display of ice sculptures before luring a year-old named Timothy Jack McCoy from Chicago's Greyhound Bus Terminal into his car.
McCoy was traveling from Michigan to Omaha, Nebraska. Gacy took McCoy on a sightseeing tour of Chicago and then drove him to his home with the promise that he could spend the night and be driven back to the station in time to catch his bus.
Gacy claimed he woke early the following morning to find McCoy standing in his bedroom doorway with a kitchen knife in his hand.
McCoy then kicked Gacy in the stomach, doubling him over. Gacy grabbed McCoy, wrestled him to the floor, and stabbed him repeatedly in the chest as he straddled him.
As McCoy lay dying, Gacy claimed he washed the knife in his bathroom, then went to his kitchen and saw an opened carton of eggs and a slab of unsliced bacon on his kitchen table.
McCoy had also set the table for two; he had walked into Gacy's room to wake him while absentmindedly carrying the kitchen knife in his hand.
He added: "That's when I realized that death was the ultimate thrill. Gacy said the second time he committed murder was around January Gacy strangled him and then placed the body in his closet before burial.
As a result, Gacy regularly stuffed cloth rags, or their own underwear, in the mouths of subsequent victims to prevent this leakage from recurring.
On July 31, , another of Gacy's employees, an year-old from Lombard , John Butkovich, disappeared. The day before his disappearance, Butkovich had confronted Gacy over two weeks' outstanding back pay.
Butkovich's father, a Yugoslav immigrant, called Gacy, who claimed he was happy to help search for his son but was sorry Butkovich had "run away".
When questioned by police, Gacy said Butkovich 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 three years, Butkovich's parents called police more than times, urging them to investigate Gacy further. Gacy later admitted to encountering Butkovich exiting his car at the corner of West Lawrence Avenue, waving to attract his attention.
According to Gacy, Butkovich approached his car, stating, "I wanna talk to you. At his home, Gacy offered Butkovich a drink, then conned him into allowing his wrists to be cuffed behind his back.
Gacy later confessed to having "sat on the kid's chest for a while" before he strangled him. He stowed Butkovich's body in his garage, intending to bury the body later in the crawl space.
When his wife and stepdaughters returned earlier than expected, Gacy buried Butkovich's body under the concrete floor of the garage in an empty space where he had initially intended to dig a drain tile.
In addition to being the year his business expanded, Gacy freely admitted was also when he began to increase the frequency of his excursions for sex with young males.
He later referred to these as his "cruising years". Although Gacy remained gregarious and civic-minded, several neighbors noticed erratic changes in his behavior after his divorce.
This included seeing him keeping company with young males, hearing his car arrive or depart in the early hours of the morning, or seeing lights in his home switch on and off in the early hours.
She identified the sounds as emanating from a house adjacent to theirs on Summerdale Avenue. One month after his divorce was finalized, Gacy abducted and murdered year-old Darrell Samson.
He was last seen alive in Chicago on April 6, Hours after Gacy abducted Reffett, year-old Samuel Stapleton vanished as he walked home from his sister's apartment.
He disappeared while traveling from Chicago to Waukegan. Gacy strangled Bonnin with a ligature and buried him under the spare bedroom.
Carroll seems to have been the first of four victims known to have been murdered between June 13 and August 6, On August 5, a year-old Minnesota youth named James Haakenson is last known to have phoned his family.
Gacy is thought to have murdered two further unidentified males between August and October Gacy buried the body beneath his master bedroom.
His girlfriend last saw him outside her house after he had driven her home following a date. He had informed his family that Gacy had had him "dig trenches for some kind of drain tiles" in his crawl space.
Godzik's car was later found abandoned in Niles. His parents and older sister, Eugenia, contacted Gacy about Godzik's disappearance.
Gacy claimed that he had run away from home, having indicated before that he wished to do so. Gacy also claimed to have received an answering machine message from Godzik shortly after he had disappeared.
When asked if he could play back the message to Godzik's parents, Gacy said he had erased it. Between December and March , it is known Gacy killed an unidentified adult male.
He buried him in the crawl space beneath the body of a year-old Michigan native named Jon Prestidge, who had disappeared on March Gacy murdered one additional unidentified youth and buried him in the crawl space in the spring or early summer of ; the exact time of this murder is unknown.
Bowman's mother last saw him at a suburban train station. The following month, Rossi was arrested for stealing gasoline while driving John Szyc's car.
The gas station attendant noted the license plate and police traced the car to Gacy's house. When questioned, Gacy told officers that Szyc had sold the car to him in February, saying he needed money to leave town.
A check of the VIN confirmed the car had belonged to Szyc. By the end of , it is known Gacy had murdered six more young men between the ages of 16 and The first of these victims was year-old Robert Gilroy, the son of a Chicago police sergeant, last seen alive on September He was murdered and buried in the crawl space.
On September 12, Gacy had flown to Pittsburgh to supervise a remodeling project, and did not return to Chicago until September Ten days after Gilroy was last seen, year-old former U.
Marine John Mowery disappeared after leaving his mother's house to walk to his apartment. On October 17, year-old Minnesota native Russell Nelson disappeared: he was last seen outside a Chicago bar.
Nelson was looking for contracting work. Less than four weeks later, Gacy murdered year-old Kalamazoo, Michigan teenager Robert Winch and buried him in the crawl space.
On November 18, year-old father-of-one Tommy Boling disappeared after leaving a Chicago bar. Three weeks after the murder of Tommy Boling, on December 9, a year-old U.
Marine, David Talsma, disappeared after informing his mother he was to attend a rock concert in Hammond. On December 30, Gacy abducted year-old student Robert Donnelly from a Chicago bus stop at gunpoint.
Gacy taunted him with statements such as, "Aren't we playing fun games tonight? Gacy replied, "I'm getting round to it. Donnelly reported the assault, and police questioned Gacy on January 6, Gacy admitted to having had a " slave-sex " relationship with Donnelly, but insisted everything was consensual, adding that he "didn't pay the kid" the money he had promised him.
On March 21, Gacy lured year-old Jeffrey Rignall into his car. Shortly after Rignall entered the car, Gacy chloroformed him and drove him to his house, where his arms and head were restrained in a pillory device affixed to the ceiling.
Gacy raped and tortured Rignall with various instruments including lit candles and whips and repeatedly chloroformed him into unconsciousness.
Gacy then drove Rignall to Chicago's Lincoln Park , where he was dumped, unconscious but alive. Rignall managed to stagger to his girlfriend's apartment.
Police were informed of the assault but did not investigate Gacy. Rignall was able to recall, through the haze of that night, the Oldsmobile, the Kennedy Expressway and particular side streets.
He and two friends staked out the Cumberland exit of the Expressway and in April Rignall saw the Oldsmobile, which he and his friends followed to West Summerdale.
He faced trial for battery against Rignall. By , the crawl space had no room for further bodies. He believed one had landed on a passing barge ; [32] only four bodies were ever found.
He was murdered in mid-June after leaving his Dover Street apartment to purchase cigarettes. Shortly before his disappearance, O'Rourke had told his roommate a contractor on the Northwest Side had offered him a job.
On November 4, Gacy killed year-old Frank Landingin. He had informed his sister that he was working in the construction industry and "doing all right".
On the afternoon of December 11, , Gacy visited the Nisson Pharmacy in Des Plaines, to discuss a potential remodeling deal with the store owner, Phil Torf.
Shortly after Gacy left the pharmacy, Piest's mother arrived at the store to drive her son home so the family could celebrate her birthday together.
He left the store at p. Piest was murdered shortly after p. In response, Gacy stated "good money" could be earned by hustling, although Piest was dismissive.
Gacy then duped Piest into donning handcuffs before saying, "I'm going to rape you, and you can't do anything about it" as Piest began weeping.
When Piest failed to return, his family filed a missing person report with the Des Plaines police. Torf named Gacy as the contractor Piest had most likely left the store to talk to about a job.
Kozenczak and two Des Plaines police officers visited Gacy at his home the following evening. Gacy indicated he had seen two youths working at the pharmacy and that he had asked one of them—whom he believed to be Piest—whether there were any remodeling materials behind the store.
When questioned as to how soon he could come to the police station, he responded, "You guys are very rude. Don't you have any respect for the dead?
At a. On returning to the police station later that day, Gacy denied any involvement in Piest's disappearance and repeated that he had not offered him a job.
When asked why he had returned to the pharmacy, Gacy reiterated that he had done so in response to a phone call from Torf informing him he had left his appointment book at the store.
Detectives had already spoken with Torf, who denied calling Gacy. At the request of detectives, Gacy prepared a written statement detailing his movements on December Suspecting Gacy might be holding Piest against his will at his home, Des Plaines police obtained a warrant to search Gacy's house on December A blue hooded parka was found atop a tool box inside the laundry room, and underwear too small to fit Gacy was located inside a bathroom closet.
In the northwest bedroom, investigators found a class of Maine West High School ring engraved with the initials J. Police assigned two, two-man surveillance teams to monitor Gacy on a rotational twelve-hour basis as they continued their investigation into his background and potential involvement in Piest's disappearance.
On December 15, Des Plaines investigators obtained further details of Gacy's battery charge, learning the complainant, Jeffrey Rignall, had reported that Gacy had lured him into his car, then chloroformed, raped and tortured him before dumping him, with severe chest and facial burns and rectal bleeding, in Lincoln Park the following morning.
In an interview with Gacy's former wife the same day, they learned of the disappearance of John Butkovich.
By December 16, Gacy was becoming affable with the surveillance detectives, regularly inviting them to join him for meals in restaurants and occasionally for drinks in bars or at his home.
He repeatedly denied that he had anything to do with Piest's disappearance and accused the officers of harassing him because of his political connections or because of his recreational drug use.
Knowing these officers were unlikely to arrest him on anything trivial, he taunted them by flouting traffic laws and succeeded in losing his pursuers more than once.
Cram also revealed that, because of his poor timekeeping, Gacy had once given him a watch, explaining he got it "from a dead person".
Investigators conducted a formal interview of Rossi on December He informed them Gacy had sold Szyc's vehicle to him, explaining that he had bought the car from Szyc because he needed money to move to California.
A further examination of Gacy's Oldsmobile was conducted on this date. In the course of examining the trunk of the car, investigators discovered a small cluster of fibers which may have been human hair.
That evening, officers conducted a test using three trained German shepherd search dogs to determine whether Piest had been present in any of Gacy's vehicles.
One dog approached Gacy's Oldsmobile and lay on the passenger seat in what the dog's handler informed investigators was a "death reaction", indicating Piest's body had been present in the vehicle.
That evening, Gacy invited detectives Albrecht and Hachmeister to a restaurant for a meal. In the early hours of December 18, he invited them into another restaurant where, over breakfast, he talked of his business, his marriages and his activities as a registered clown.
At one point during the conversation, Gacy remarked: "You know By December 18, Gacy was beginning to show signs of strain from the constant surveillance: he was unshaven, looked tired, appeared anxious and was drinking heavily.
Byers admitted, when contacted in person the following day, that she had worn the jacket on December 11 to shield herself from the cold.
She had placed the receipt in the parka pocket just before she gave the coat to Piest as he left the store, claiming a contractor wanted to speak with him.
The same evening, Rossi was interviewed a second time. This time he was more cooperative. He informed detectives that in the summer of , at Gacy's behest, he had spread ten bags of lime in the crawl space of Gacy's house.
On December 19, investigators began compiling evidence for a second search warrant for Gacy's house. The same day, Gacy's lawyers filed the civil suit against the Des Plaines police.
The hearing for the suit was scheduled for December That afternoon, Gacy invited the surveillance detectives inside his house again.
As officer Robinson distracted Gacy with conversation, officer Schultz walked into Gacy's bedroom in an unsuccessful attempt to write down the serial number of the Motorola TV set they suspected belonged to John Szyc.
While flushing Gacy's toilet, the officer noticed a smell he suspected could be that of rotting corpses emanating from a heating duct.
The officers who had searched Gacy's house previously had failed to notice this; the house had been cold. Investigators interviewed both Cram and Rossi on December Rossi had agreed to be interviewed in relation to his possible links with John Szyc as well as the disappearance of Robert Piest.
When questioned by Kozenczak as to where he believed Gacy had concealed Piest's body, Rossi replied Gacy may have placed the body in the crawl space, adding that he thought Szyc's car was stolen.
He denied any involvement in Piest's disappearance, also denying any knowledge of his whereabouts. He soon refused to continue the questioning, and Rossi's "erratic and inconsistent" responses to questions while attached to the polygraph machine rendered Kozenczak "unable to render a definite opinion" as to the truthfulness of his answers.
Cram informed investigators of Gacy's attempts to rape him in He stated that after he and Gacy had returned to his home after the December 13 search of his property, Gacy had turned pale after seeing a clot of mud on his carpet which he suspected had come from his crawl space.
Cram said Gacy had grabbed a flashlight and immediately entered the crawl space to look for evidence of digging. When asked whether he had been to the crawl space, Cram replied he had once been asked by Gacy to spread lime down there and had also dug trenches, which Gacy had explained were for drainage pipes.
Cram stated these trenches were 2 feet 0. On the evening of December 20, Gacy drove to his lawyers' office in Park Ridge to attend a scheduled meeting, ostensibly to discuss the progress of his civil suit.
On his arrival Gacy appeared disheveled and immediately asked for an alcoholic drink, whereupon Sam Amirante fetched a bottle of whiskey from his car.
On his return, Amirante asked Gacy what he had to discuss with them. Gacy picked up a copy of the Daily Herald from Amirante's desk, pointed to a front-page article covering the disappearance of Robert Piest and said, "This boy is dead.
He's in a river. Gacy then proceeded to give a rambling confession that ran into the early hours of the following morning. He began by informing Amirante and Stevens he had "been the judge Gacy dismissed his victims as " male prostitutes ", "hustlers" and "liars" to whom he gave "the rope trick", adding he sometimes awoke to find "dead, strangled kids" on his floor, with their hands cuffed behind their back.
As a result of the alcohol he had consumed, Gacy fell asleep midway through his confession. Amirante immediately arranged a psychiatric appointment for Gacy at a.
On awakening several hours later, Gacy shook his head when informed by Amirante he had confessed to killing approximately 30 people, saying, "Well, I can't think about this right now.
I've got things to do. Gacy later recollected his memories of his final day of freedom as being "hazy", adding he knew his arrest was inevitable and that he intended to visit his friends and say his final farewells.
After leaving his lawyers' office, Gacy drove to a gas station where, in the course of filling his rental car, he handed a small bag of cannabis to the attendant, who immediately handed the bag to the surveillance officers, adding that Gacy had told him, "The end is coming for me.
These guys are going to kill me. Gacy hugged Rhode before bursting into tears and saying, "I've been a bad boy. I killed thirty people, give or take a few.
As he drove along the expressway, the surveillance officers noted he was holding a rosary to his chin, praying while he drove.
As Gacy spoke with him, Cram informed the surveillance officers that Gacy had told him and Rossi that he had confessed to over 30 murders with his lawyers the previous evening.
Gacy then had Cram drive him to Maryhill Cemetery, where his father was buried. As Gacy drove to various locations that morning, police outlined the formal draft of their second search warrant, specifically to search for the body of Robert Piest in the crawl space.
On hearing from the surveillance detectives that, in light of his erratic behavior, Gacy may be about to commit suicide, police decided to arrest him on a charge of possession and distribution of cannabis in order to hold him in custody, as the formal request for a second search warrant was presented.
Peters granted the request for a second search warrant. Armed with the signed search warrant, police and evidence technicians drove to Gacy's home.
On their arrival, officers found Gacy had unplugged his sump pump , flooding the crawl space with water; to clear it, they simply replaced the plug and waited for the water to drain.
After it had done so, evidence technician Daniel Genty entered the byfoot 8. Genty immediately shouted to the investigators that they could charge Gacy with murder, adding, "I think this place is full of kids".
A police photographer then dug in the northeast corner of the crawl space, uncovering a patella. The two then began digging in the southeast corner, uncovering two lower leg bones.
The victims were too decomposed to be Piest. As the body discovered in the northeast corner was later unearthed, a crime scene technician discovered the skull of a second victim alongside this body.
Later excavations of the feet of this second victim revealed a further skull beneath the body. After being informed that the police had found human remains in his crawl space and that he would now face murder charges, Gacy told officers he wanted to "clear the air", adding he had known his arrest was inevitable since the previous evening, which he had spent on the couch in his lawyers' office.
In the early morning hours of December 22, and in the presence of his lawyers, Gacy provided a formal statement in which he confessed to murdering approximately 30 young males—all of whom he claimed had entered his house willingly.
When shown a driver's license issued to a Robert Hasten which had been found on his property, Gacy claimed not to know him but admitted this license had been in the possession of one of his victims.
When questioned specifically about Piest, Gacy confessed to luring him to his house and strangling him on the evening of December He also admitted to having slept alongside Piest's body that evening, before disposing of the corpse in the Des Plaines River in the early hours of December His vehicle had slid off an ice-covered road and had to be towed from its location.
Accompanied by police and his lawyers, Gacy was driven subsequently to the spot on the I bridge where he had confessed to having thrown Piest's, Landingin's and three other victims' bodies into the Des Plaines River that summer.
To assist officers in their search for the victims buried beneath his house, during his confession, Gacy drew a rough diagram of his basement on a phone message sheet to indicate where their bodies were buried.
Cook County medical examiner Robert Stein supervised the exhumations. The crawl space was marked in sections and each body was given an identifying number.
The first body recovered from the crawl space was assigned a marker denoting the victim as Body 1. Gacy had buried this victim in the northeast section of the crawl space directly beneath the room he used as his office.
The body of John Butkovich was labelled as Body 2. The search for victims was postponed temporarily over Christmas.
Four more bodies were unearthed on December A cloth gag was found in the mouth, leading investigators to conclude this victim most likely died of asphyxiation.
On December 27, eight more bodies were discovered. Both 14 and 15 were found with their head and upper torsos inside separate plastic bags.
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Most of the vehicles used in the film were rented and therefore were not allowed to be damaged. The Chiodo Brothers wanted to cast comedian Soupy Sales as the security guard killed by the clowns' acidic pies, as he was known for receiving pies in the face on his children's television show Lunch with Soupy Sales.
Jojo the Klownzilla, the colossal klown who appears at the end of the film, was originally intended to be created using stop-motion animation , but was instead portrayed by Charles Chiodo in a rubber suit.
The film's score was composed by John Massari. The title song "Killer Klowns" was written and performed by the American punk rock band the Dickies and was released on their album Killer Klowns from Outer Space in A limited-edition complete soundtrack was released in through Percepto Records and features twenty-six tracks of the score, the title song "Killer Klowns", and four bonus tracks at a running time just over sixty-nine minutes.
This release was newly restored, with interviews, documentary featurettes, Klown auditions, bloopers, deleted scenes, a double-sided poster that features the original theatrical poster, as well as art by Sara Deck, and more.
The film has been considered a cult classic. The site's consensus reads: " Killer Klowns from Outer Space ' s title promises darkly goofy fun — and more often than not, the movie delivers.
In his second review, Maltin wrote "Routinely plotted, but vividly designed, with cheeky humor Charles Bramesco of The A. Club recommended the film, writing that "The film is patently absurd, but the filmmakers are fully committed to that absurdity.
It's hard not to respect", and noted the film's "enduring appeal". Two of the masks that were used to create the clowns in the film were re-purposed and used to portray trolls in the film Ernest Scared Stupid.
The Chiodo Brothers plan on creating a sequel to the film, with the initial release date being scheduled for , though it has since been postponed.
In , Grant Cramer, who starred in the original film, revealed that his character would make a return as a town drunk whom nobody believes.
His character would serve as a mentor to young street performers who must fight the Killer Klowns when they return.
He described his character as "somewhere between the energy of Kris Kristofferson 's character in Blade and Christopher Lloyd 's character in Back to the Future ".
Like the original film, Stephen Chiodo is set to be the director and Charles Chiodo is set to produce. With production to take place over 30 years after the release of the original film, the timeframe between films will be credited as the longest gap in the release of films in a horror comedy film series.
Right now, we are currently pursuing a long arch series for cable. We wondered, should we do a sequel to the first one or do we do a remake?
We came up with a 'requel' — it's a sequel and a remake. We've been developing this for a while. It's a trilogy in four parts, and it really follows the continuing adventures of new people who are experiencing this phenomenon of a Klown invasion, and once in a while you see some of the old guys pop up and hear their stories — find out what happened over the last 25 years.
It's fucking great. Most of the clowns, the Terenzi brothers, and their ice cream truck are incorporated into the zone. On October 22, , it was announced that SYFY was in talks to acquire the rights to Killer Klowns from Outer Space and the Critters franchise in order to produce new sequels to both properties.
This time, the characters would feature in a Haunted House attraction rather than the Scare Zone format in which they appeared in in Orlando.
In August , after the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney , it was revealed that Fox intended on developing the sequel to Killer Klowns from Outer Space, but Disney had cancelled it along with over other projects.
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