How They Caught Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy 

Police: "This might be our guy" Guy: *Shovels snow* Police: "Never mind, hes not our guy"

Seriously? The parents of that kid asked the police over 100 times to investigate Gacy, and they refused? At what point does incompetent become complicit?

When my grandfather was a kid he lived in the same neighborhood has John Gacy. He said he was walking around the neighborhood one time and came up on John in his backyard. He motioned my grandfather over to talk. He looked in the backyard and noticed a bunch on construction equipment from his job. My grandfather was a gearhead he was tempted to go ever so he could get a better engine for his motor bike, but he said he got a gut feeling that said not to go over and he left.

This is why stereotypes are so harmful. A serial killer got away with heinous crimes because police thought he didn't "look like" a killer. There is no look! Law enforcement should investigate all suspicious behavior.

John proves that just because someone seems nice, doesn’t mean they’re truly good people.

I just realized that there were lots of notorious serial killers in the 70’s. Gacy should’ve been caught a lot sooner and the police should’ve taken him more seriously. Rest In Peace everyone who died because of that monster.

Police incompetence is a common denominator in these cases and that’s infuriating They need to be held accountable for all the terrible work some of them they do

It’s crazy to think that Bundy, Gacy, and Dahmer, were all killing in the 70’s

feel so bad for the mom who lost her son on her birthday, and for everyone else too

I was dying to know why people are scared of clowns, now I do. Truly terrifying…

As a person who spends hours and hours with addicts and criminals I can attest to having some of the best initial impressions of people who turned out to be a bunch of thieves and lying sociopaths. What they didn't know was that my background had me aware of this side of their personalities and as soon as they knew the game was finished they turned into the coldest of cold and stopped "participating" in their therapy. Anyone can seem like a boy scout. Some of the absolute worst were in law enforcement.

I heard a story that a college student would hitchhike home after school everyday and he did this one day and when he was being driven by this man he realized he missed the turn and he told the man he said (I don’t rember exactly) “oh no your not going there” the student then jumped out of the car and ran home A few years later the same man whom was almost kidnapped heard a interview of a murderer and the question was “why did you make your passenger door unopenable from the inside” the murderer response was along the lines of “the first person I tried kidnapping was a college student who jumped out of the door” That murderer was gracey We don’t know if these stories are connected for sure but the thought of it was frightening

It took for 33 people to go missing before he was caught, wow.

I can't imagine being his child. I hope his kids don't hold any guilt about their father.

He literally snitched on himself multiple times and police still didn't arrest him.

Fun fact: my fathers friend worked as someone who towed trucks during the 70’s. (We live in IL) let’s call the friend Peter. Well, one day, Peter got a call to tow a car that had apparently driven down in a ditch near a river off a highway or road and had gotten stuck. Peter went down and towed the truck, thinking nothing of it. Just a careless driver. He noticed the driver was a little odd, with a safety tag or something on the car. Peter didn’t mind, and did his job. A month later Peter got a call into court, to testify. Peter arrived and the judge was with the man who’s car he towed. The judge asked Peter if this was the man who’s car he had towed and to describe what happened and what the car looked liked. Peter identified the man and car as the one he towed and saw. He shrugged it off as a small crime the man must have done. A few weeks later, all over the news was that John Wayne Gacy had been sentenced to prison and the crimes he has done. Peter looks at the photo of John, and is surprised to realize that John Wayne Gacy was the man who’s car he towed. Apparently Gacy had dropped his last victims body off in the river right before he came and got towed. Pretty crazy!!

I have a LOT of respect and empathy for detectives, I can’t imagine having to go into a crawl space to find and identify bodies at various levels of decomposition, especially bodies of children/minors. They can’t even look away, their job is to study it and document it in as greater detail as possible. I’m sure they see things on the job far more confronting than anything any of us could think up on our own.

Plot Twist: The cameraman actually caught John Wayne Gacy.

When my dad was a teenager living in Evanston he was late to a concert but luckily ran into his friends dad driving who offered him a ride. Once inside my dad was being asked weird questions and he soon realized that it wasn’t his friend’s dad but a complete stranger. He got out and other than being shaken up from the encounter didn’t think much of it until years later when he saw a picture of the man on the news. Under the picture was the name John Wayne Gacy.

John proved that just because a person was nice, that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re good people…

What's weird about older generations is how many red flags they were willing to ignore about their neighbors. It's really odd how ingrained their perceptions of "who" was dangerous could be in spite of all the red flags one of their friends or neighbors or family members could exhibit.

The incompetence of police will never cease to amaze me 🤦‍♂️ all it takes to get away is to be a “outstanding citizen”

My father and my uncles grew up in Gacys neighborhood and my uncle also worked for him one summer. My dad told me about it Gacy wanted to pay my uncle and my dad to clean out his attic my dad and uncle went and both left because of how much of a creeper he was. Thank god someone caught him and my dad and uncle decided against working for him or I wouldnt be here probably

The scary part is I grew up around 3 miles from him and the last kid he killed was a friend of my aunts who went for a job from him. That is how he got a lot of his victims as he ran a construction company. I know this lady and she waited for her son that she never saw alive again .

My father was almost kidnapped by Gacy 3 days before he was caught. Luckily, even though Gacy offered to watch over my father for my grandma at the time while she went to the bathroom , she was pretty suspicious, and took my dad with her Edit: So, I have seen a few people say this is fake. To that, I have to say that it is completely okay to not believe this story. However, I must tell you that I am not making this up

Gacey: I like men Jeffery dahmer: *Wanna drink?*

It’s really a shame how many of these dudes had wives or girlfriends that saw/heard/smelled things but chose not to go to the cops. History is littered with these cases of cops ignoring worried friends and parents of victims because a guy doesn’t fit their profile, but they would listen to a woman who thinks her husband is a killer in a heartbeat.

my dad used to play cards with Gacy's son. he also talked to John at his kfc. my dad says that he acted weird around him and that he new something was wrong with him. and i am so glad he wasnt a victim.

“Everyone new him as a pillar of the community” *Procedes to tie a noose around childs neck*

I thought we all agreed never to trust clowns a long time ago

So as I have studied serial killers, watched movies, documentaries, read articles and books on them I couldn't get enough of my research. So as a local chicagoan, I've visited the home of Gaysee (if someone wants to come for me on my spelling mark it wrong on my spelling test!). I sat there staring at the new house built on the property envisioning what was once were. Then an old guy came out of his house and walked to my car. He must've known why I was there. He just started talking to me about Gacy! He knew him because he lived in his home since the 70s. He offered me to come in his house and talk more. I declined but he continued to stand there speaking to me. There's nothing like having the knowledge of events that took place from someone who was actually there to see it for themselves. I fed my hunger to know more. I learned from him more about Gacy in that 10 minute conversation than I have from anything prior that I've learned.

I actually know someone who saw Gacey at a party as Pogo the Clown, she said that he was almost too fond over her cousin. My cousin also had a teacher who had Robert Piest as a student

'A good friend of politicans' That shouldve been the first red flag

Don't forget the part where he had a documentary on peacock(?) and flipped through a huge photoalbum of his victims with their entire life stories and declared he had never seen any of these people. He had investigated all of their family and friends and claimed he had no idea who any of them were.

He's definitely one of the more depraved ones. A lot of serial killers seem to just knock out their victim and choke them in their unconscious state. Guys like this though tortured these kids for hours on end before killing them, having them awake and suffering through the entire thing. This guy and the Pied Piper of Texas probably were the most sadistic ones because they liked watching their victims in agony and wanted them awake for the entire thing.

Once again, just like with Bundy, Dahmer and Coral, Gacy could have been caught so much sooner if the police had actually acted instead of being classist, racist, sexist, or homophobic. At least those detectives actually did a really good thing in catching him and pursuing him so relentlessly.

I don’t think people realize how close Gacy was to getting away with what he did. The bodies they found in his crawl space probably should have been suppressed.

The ways I was always told, Gacy had killed several people killed at this point and was confident. He stored these bodies under his house. He got so cocky he invited a couple of policemen over to dinner one night. An officer asked to use the bathroom and when he got in there, he smelled something funny coming from the vent. They caught Gacy and his defense was, “Everyone at work was out to get me! I had to defend myself!”

One of my friends dad or grandad I can't remember it was an old friend that. Yeah but he actually met John and he apparently was a survivor and I didn't realize when my friend told me when the clown sightings had happened (2016) he told me about it. I guess the clown phobia hits a lot now. Also love your work keep at it!

fun fact: my grandparents actually knew him they lived in chi and owned a grocery store he went to alot he lived right up the street . he would hide the bodys like right under his front porch.

You do such a good job at explaining all this! 😊

No the two detectives deserve praise for their dogged pursuit of Gacy. They cracked the case and even fought with the democratic political machine in greater Chicago area in their pursuit. Before the internet age you had to make phone calls or drive to places. You had to wait until someone physical went through old paper files to find information you asked for.

If you watched the show Evil Kin there's a episode where his sister talked about him growing up. The big factor was his father something about Gacy he loved cooking and he cooked for everyone. One day his father came home saw him cooking called him names that were horrible and beat him. Overtime he started to show anger towards his sister and his mother.

Gacy is absolutely insane, one of the biggest killers of all time.

*This was the shortest horror movie I've ever watched!!*

what's worse, is that after Gacy more or less knew he was caught, he flooded the crawl-space so when the search warrant came in and they started excavating, all the bodies were more or less underwater

My grandmother use to work in a hospital in chicago and john wayne gacy was the clown at the hospital she worked at. Pretty spooky.

I rarely comment, but this was a nicer way of enjoying my usual True Crime documentaries. Good job!

2:11 He stroked the slick , ...... embalmed skin. Wow info show knows exactly what they are doing lol!!!

Proves that just because someone is looked at as a leader does not mean he's a nice man

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While its been a while I don't think That's how the handcuff incident played out. First Gacy put them on himself then escaped from them like it was a magic trick. He then offered the teen to try to do the trick. When the boy couldn't get out of the cuffs he said to Gacy "how'd you unlock em" at which point Gacy says "gotta have the keys" dangling a tiny cuff key in the teen boys face. He then proceeds to attack and subdue the cuffed and defenseless adolescent.

I think he got off far to easy with the death penalty. Killing him was far to easy the punishment was over as soon as he was dead. I think forcing him to spend his whole life locked in jail is far worse than the death penalty. I'm sorry the death penalty is wrong it's a escape for these people who need to be punished.

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12:26 Robert Ressler was my next door neighbor when I was between 3 and 12 years old. It's kind of funny to run across him in an infographics video. He was an interesting man, had original paintings done by one of the killers he profiled hanging in his house.

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I'd just like to say, this was an excellent and well done video, from the words used, to the animation, to the accurate way this horrible man I refuse to mention was and how discernment was clearly not very prevalent in those days. Subscribing for sure.

My grandfather was a prison psychologist, and I’m pretty sure he was a witness at Gacy’s execution - he just doesn’t like to talk about it. I’ll have to ask him sometime about Gacy’s famous last words;)

The whole time you were describing his evasion tactics i was thinking of Gustavo Fring.

Still can't forget the movie "to catch a killer" with Brian Dennehy as Gacy. Back then, it was a great movie

I can’t believe his second wife didn’t go to the police. Also this makes me sad for having accomplished so little at 31.

This serial killer operated under the guise of an upstanding citizen, pillar of the community. Which made it so hard to catch him. No imagine how difficult/impossible it is to catch serial killers who are in way higher social positions. *also: ghosts don't exist. At least vengeful ghosts trying to get back on the person who killed them*

"Americas most evil serial killer" you already did this one. Not complaining though. Love these

That was a good video! 😀👍

i’m so freaked out. i keep getting recommendations on every social media app about john wayne fact, when my dad is literally john’s doppelgänger

Rest In Peace to all the young boys who lost their lives to him 🤦🏽‍♀️ 🥺

Love these kind of vids.

the background music sound like I accidentally left two youtube tabs opened playing different songs

my dad grew up in the 60s. he lived in Norridge Illinois he met john Wayne Gacy many times. my father's mother was even friends with John Wayne Gacy's wife. it's pretty scary that my own father was around this man when he was young.

how can people say the police aren’t corrupt? literally every single infamous serial killer could’ve been caught way earlier if the police weren’t some kind of discriminatory.

Glad you at least mention the “ man” who ran the ring. The Clown and the Candyman goes into it I recommend it. Makes me wonder if Wayne Williams was also apart of this group. It really creeps me out

The real life Pennywise. 🎈

The excellent narration and epic score are intense! Wonderful!!!

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This channel is awesome

If only Jeffrey dahmer had met John wayne gacy in the 70's. Dahmer would have turned the tables on gacy and ate him.

Where did u find all this information? I love your videos by the way ❤

It’s sad how when we were younger clowns looked happy and energetic but now we stay on high alert in case they do something

Great content 👏🏼

Years ago one of my local tv stations had a thing where every I think Saturday they would play a movie based on a real life (usually a crime) incident and then after the movie would show a little special they'd made regarding the true story the movie was based on(one of my favs was an interview with Jeffrey Dahmer's prom date). So when they showed the movie where Brian Dennehy played John Wayne Gacy, afterward they showed a kind of lecture by the high something or other of the official organization of clowns. Since he was being serious he was wearing a suite and tie, NOT clown stuff. In any case this guy who ironically is being dead serious, explains that not only was JWG an evil serial killer of children, ...he was a BAD clown. The highlite was that he explained that are different kinds of clowns and they have guidelines about how they are supposed to dress and about makeup etc. For children's entertainer clowns their makeup is supposed to be all rounded. It makes them look jolly. He showed a picture of JWG as clown. There are some picts in the video. Look at them. The paint around his mouth comes to points. The fake eyebrows above his real eyebrows are triangles. He pointed out that look is demonic not child friendly. I got the feeling that had JWG come to attention of this guy, even if he HADN'T killed anybody, this guy would have drummed him out of clownbiz.

a few of my grandmothers friends were killed by this man, she told me he creeped her out a lot. but she doesn’t talk about him much so that’s basically all I know

Interesting video. Thanks.

You know. It would've been funny to see him go up against the only man with a similar name, and get pummeled by this man. This man is "The Duke". This man is Marion Michael Morrison. This man is... John Wayne.

RIP to all the victims

Well made video, the music makes it really tough to pay attention at certain points though

No one talks about this but it’s so important: The discrimination and abuse John faced a child is a huge part of his murderous adulthood. It’s so important to be good to people, especially be good parents/guardians to your children/wards. Discrimination, abuse, neglect, etc only help to destroy our society - and using religion to defend your discrimination is just you finding an excuse to pollute our World with your bigotry.

Now you gotta do “how they caught the zodiac killer”

Y'all ever think that someone is killing right now and people are unaware and the cops will find out about it in the next few years or something?

Good vid

I remember my dad telling me a story of how he went to one of John's house parties as a teenager in the mid 70s in/by Chicago. Wouldn't let my dad go down stairs to the basement to smoke he told me. Remembers hearing foot steps following him at night on his way home and ended up sprinting home. 😬

“Hey, I’m John Wayne from the first thanksgiving Happy thanksgivings pilgrims”

This man is genuinely sick.

I never heard the theory that gacy was in a group full of powerful ppl doing the same thing but thats interesting af and I want to know more

There's an interesting story about a guy who was suspected to be a victim of Gacy. Turns he just moved really far away and didn't even know people thought he'd been murdered by Gacy.

Man's single handedly ruined clowns for us

He would have been caught sooner had the police been serious with the parents

One of my most favorite albums of all time is "Acid Bath: When the kite string pops”. Now what made the album so controversial was the album cover itself, which included art work from John Wayne Gacy himself. It was a painting of him dressed as Pogo the clown. If you can find it, I would recommend giving finger paintings of the insane a listen. The lyrics are sick and twisted though.

Your opening statement in this video almost made me cry😥 It's so sad that the man people thought of as a "pillar of the community", was a monster 👹who murdered young men and teen-aged boys. It's so sad😥