John Wayne Gacy: The Killer Clown

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.

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  The Smell Beneath the Floor: When Gacy's Concealment Finally Broke

  Sep 2, 202614 minS0

  For six years, the smell was there. Neighbors noticed it. Workers noticed it. John Wayne Gacy explained it away — plumbing problems, sewer issues, the ordinary odor of a busy construction property — and people moved on. That cycle of suspicion and reassurance is one of the most disturbing elements of the Gacy case, and it ran unbroken from 1972 until December 1978.<br /><br />This episode covers the moment that cycle ended. On December 13, 1978, fifteen-year-old Robert Piest told his mother he was stepping out to speak with a contractor about a summer job. He didn't come back. His mother reported him missing that same...

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  The Diagram Confession: Gacy's Clinical Map of His Own Crimes

  Sep 1, 202613 minS0

  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.<br /><br />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 acce...

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

  Aug 31, 202612 minS0

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

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  Robert Piest and the Warrant That Exposed Thirty-Three Dead

  Aug 30, 202612 minS0

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

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

  Aug 29, 202612 minS0

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

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