On the 21st of december 1978 police in chicago were desperately trying to locate a missing teenager and had begun searching the home of a local maintenance contractor when they executed that search warrant they went in the crawl space and the very first shovel that they dug they found human remains the man they had in custody 36 year old john wayne gacy was a popular socialite who spent his weekends dressed as a clown entertaining children at one point chillingly he says to the detectives
“You know clowns can get away with murder.”
Well never was a truer word said in total gacy the killer clown had tortured and killed 33 young men over a five-year period 27 of the bodies were buried right beneath his own home using other human beings you know inflicting pain and suffering and torture on another helpless human being to me is is the essence of evil the remorseless john wayne gacy had proved himself to be one of the world’s most evil killers
over the course of six years john wayne gacy kidnapped tortured and brutally murdered
33 young men and boys in and around chicago illinois it was one of the most shocking sets of crimes in american history the bodies of 27 of gacy’s victims were buried directly below the house he lived in but this killer story starts almost 40 years before john wayne gacy was born in chicago illinois on the 17th of march 1942.
the second of three children gacy had a difficult upbringing his father was an alcoholic who was reportedly both mentally and physically abusive to his children and their mother his father spent apparently all of gacy’s childhood demeaning him and physically punishing him and telling him how stupid and worthless and effeminate he was gacy’s childhood friend barry beschelle remembers the physical abuse he suffered at the hands of his father
“If johnny was two minutes late no food so a lot of times johnny hit at our house
and stayed at our house overnight he used to take johnny when he was sitting at the kitchen table and he would take his fist and hit johnny in the face.”
the father is a very significant figure in the genesis of gases terrible deeds for to my mind gacy was always trying to satisfy his father whom he never could he was beaten repeatedly by his father with belts with brooms at one stage he was knocked out by him these people grow up with such a malignant view of the world and of human relationships and feeling that human relationships are not
based on love and trust and respect you know that they’re all based on exploitation and cruelty and inflicting pain gacy was a sickly child he suffered from a heart condition limiting his involvement in sports activities and consequently alienating him from his peers aged 11 an accident in a playground led to his teenage years being blighted by blackouts and hospital visits at that time the swings were wooden base wings with heavy chains coming down johnny went to grab it and the swing clipped and right across the forehead
and knocked him to the ground
by 1966 24 year old gacy was married and had relocated to the city of waterloo 300 miles west of chicago in the neighboring state of iowa well casey got married and life from the outside appeared to be relatively normal he had quite a good job his wife had two children so they appeared to be the the typical cereal box american nuclear family and gacy wasn’t just a regular family man he was also quite active in the local chamber of commerce and he played quite an active role and he was a real figure in the local
community gacy had started to build the perfect life for himself but he was concealing a dark secret he developed an unhealthy sexual interest in young boys there was a son of a fellow jc member um who he lured back to his home and he sexually assaulted so he’s he’s abusing power he’s getting into these positions of trust and he’s taking advantage and that’s a theme that’s going to continue for him and then when the kid revealed this to his father and gacy was arrested for uh gacy hired another teenager to intimidate this kid to lure this kid
into some remote place and spray mace in his eyes and beat him up and warn him against testifying in casey’s case despite gace’s efforts his victim still testified but there wasn’t conclusive proof of an attack therefore police were only able to charge him with sodomy of the 15 year old boy he pleaded guilty to one count of sodomy thinking he would get a very very minimal sentence but the judge threw the book at him and he was sentenced to 10 years in prison on the 3rd of december 1968 gacy was sent to anamosa state
penitentiary whilst in jail gace’s wife divorced him a further blow was dealt when his father died and he was denied permission to attend the funeral given the perfect nature of gases ability to groom whomever he came into contact with within a matter of months gacy had become head cook at the prison had convinced the staff that he was an absolutely ideal person what’s more then convinced the parole board that he was no danger to anybody and so served barely 18 months of the 10 years of his original sentence in june 1917 now aged 28
john wayne gacy was released from prison and returned home to chicago his friends family and neighbors were entirely unaware of what had taken place while he’d been living over 300 miles away in iowa his background was not looked into in any way i think partly because he didn’t go into any line of work in which any kind of background check would have been necessary you know he began his own business i mean none of his acquaintance was even remotely aware of his criminal background in june 1972 gacy got married for a second time and
he and his new bride set up home in the chicago suburbs at 8213 west summerdale avenue a house that would eventually become one of the most infamous addresses in america six years later in december 1978 10 miles from casey’s house 15 year old des plaines resident rob piste was reported missing by his mother detectives mike albrecht and dave hackmeister began to investigate the teen’s disappearance
“Rob piste was like a stellar kid i mean he was the kind of kid that anyone would want as a son never been in trouble never had any inclination to run away he
was a good student very very much out of character they he would turn up missing so yeah that caught our attention obviously and at that time in the late 70s there was a lot of stuff going on with the hippie movement all that kind of stuff but he made a determination very quickly that this was not a normal quote-unquote runaway didn’t have any girlfriend problems was not involved in drugs or anything like that just an all-american good kid.”
at the time of his disappearance peace was working at a pharmacy in des
plaines so he had told an employee and actually his mother that he was going to go talk to a contractor about a job and he then went out the back door and he wasn’t seen any time thereafter rob peace seemed to have just vanished off the face of the earth the two detectives desperately needed to track down the contractor who was probably the last person to see him their search would lead them to the door of a 36 year old man by the name of john wayne gacy he divorced his second wife two years previously and was now running
a successful business called pdm contractors casey would often employ young men one of whom was tony antonucci
“At the time when I met him I was about 16 years old and of course like a lot of 16 year olds I wanted to get a job so I could afford to have my car.”
“My first impressions were that he was basically a likable guy kind of jovial liked to joke around um you know appeared very normal.”
“Gacy seemed in many ways like the perfect boss sometimes at three o’clock in the afternoon you know John would say hey it’s a nice day out let’s knock off
early and and you know have some fun or do something and all normal stuff you know just kind of you didn’t expect you know your boss to you know be the one that wanted to knock off early.”
another young man who’d come looking for a job was 15 year old rob piste but he hadn’t been seen since meeting with gacy at the pharmacy where he worked detectives dave hackmeister and mike albrecht were investigating
“we ran a records check on him and as it turns out he had a fairly lengthy background he had spent some time in iowa for sodomy and so it was
sexual crimes basically against children.”
concerned by gases criminal record the police obtained a warrant to search his home the warrant consisted of three facts the first fact is that john wayne gacy in fact was at the pharmacy the night raw piece went missing in fact two that rob pista told people that he was going to see a contractor regarding a job and fact three his criminal background so on those three facts they were able to obtain a search warrant on the 13th of december 1978 police conducted their first search of
gases home finding a number of suspicious items they recovered various items of pornography they recovered some books that were titled pretty boys must die they also recovered driver’s licenses of other young people and they did a check on those driver’s licenses it was determined that those kids were also reported missing initially we’re hoping to find rob peace to live someplace and it didn’t take long to realize that probably was not going to happen another item recovered was a high school ring which had belonged to missing 19 year
old john scheck last seen in january 1977.
further investigation discovered that two of gace’s employees had been reported missing seventeen-year-old john buckovich last seen in july 1975 and gregory godzik also 17 years old missing since december 1976. it was an evolution as we went along i think it was after that search warrant we’re pretty confident that there’s at least five or six victims that were associated with casey that hadn’t been seen but with no evidence or bodies the police could not make an
arrest they decided to begin surveillance on gacy we just said wherever you go we’re going if casey went into a public place we were going to follow him in and see what he was up to throughout this overt surveillance we became fairly friendly with john wayne gacy he knew we were following him he tried to be cordial with us in fact he initiated conversations with us he’d play games with the police he’d go up to their car and say hi do you guys want some marijuana or do something stupid like that he goes into moose lodge
and mike and i my partner and i said we’re going to go in right along with gacy but we’ll sit at a different table all of a sudden the waitress comes over with a couple of beers and places of beers in front of us and says it’s on that gentleman over there we look over at john and john gives us the high sign and we wave back very confident cocky kept on bragging about all property and how much of a businessman he was and how well-connected he was john wayne gacy had a psychopathic personality so he really does seek out power and he
seeks out control and he likes playing with people he’s a he’s a bit of a puppet master and i think that was driving his behavior everyone that we talked to just loved john wayne gacy his neighbors his co-workers all of his associates they loved the and we could see that i mean the way he was interacting with us was basically the same and my partner and i would have to on many occasions remind one another hey listen you know this guy is dangerous gacy was considered an upstanding key member of his small community
he was popular and involved in politics at weekends he would even dress as a clown and perform for children at parties and at local hospitals the fact that gacy have this other personas pogo the clown professional clowns usually you know will paint their smiles you know with sort of gentle circular things around their lips gacy’s smile looks like bat wings there’s just something horrifically sinister and monstrous about about this figure of pogo just an element that raises gacy to the level of a kind of mythic american monster
at one point chillingly he says to the detectives
“You know clowns can get away with murder.”
well never was a truer word said but it took some time for those detectives to fully comprehend that here was a man who was capable of murder and more than one as mike and dave continued with their surveillance detectives back at the station were trying to get another warrant to search gacy’s house they’d received some disturbing new evidence while questioning his colleagues they’re young kids you know 17 18 19 years old and at times uh he casey had ordered
these young kids to go down into his crawl space of his home and dig trenches and he had told them that there was a sewage issue and that he needed the trenches dug so he could alleviate that situation but they said that it happened several times and that there was an odor down there that was just unbelievable so now we’re starting to believe hey is that possible i know it sounds crazy but is it possible he could have buried someone in the crawl space he gets other people unwittingly involved in his offending and they don’t know anything of what’s
going on and i think that’s what gets him gratification the fact that he has such power over other people that they’re not joining the dots together and that he’s able to hide in plain sight mike and dave continued to follow the popular contractor but they had a plan to force casey’s hand we were on the surveillance for about seven days and as the surveillance progressed what we found out was that he had this huge core support of friends and family and co-workers and such and that that is really what was the barrier between us and casey
so we developed a plan for the investigators to put some pressure on all these people that were supporting him and slowly they started peeling back from casey and we were feeding casey information that there’s possibly looking to execute a second search warrant he became more and more desperate and the last day it was about midnight or one in the morning he contacted his attorneys and met his attorneys in their office in park ridge at that point mike and i are outside and we see the attorneys waving us into the building
it was very uncharacteristic of the attorneys to do this the first thing they were telling us though is to park your cars in front of gacy’s and don’t let them out if he tries to move shoot his tires out you know what’s going on here it was very obvious to us that the attorneys were absolutely scared to death petrified they’re pacing up and down they won’t take their eyes off of gacy and that pretty much solidified the fact to us that he had confessed to his attorneys about at least a couple three murders dave and mike knew that gacy was
beginning to buckle they continued to trail him as he left his attorney’s office so we followed gacy and uh gacy is driving like a madman and he drives to the shell gas station where he did all of his business he goes in and we see a transaction happen in the gas station he’s very emotional shaking his hand almost down the side hugging that kind of thing and this is a lot of context for jason so when casey comes back out jumps in his car and takes off i go back in the gas station and when i go in there they throw a couple of bags of marijuana
at me the employees and they say hey listen we didn’t buy this we didn’t ask for it casey just gave it to us as gases behavior grew more and more erratic the two detectives at least now had a reason to apprehend him we make a decision at that point to arrest him for the drug transaction that happened at the shell gas station so we cut off the car pull gacy out of the car and arrest him for the drug transaction divine in milwaukee this was casey’s final location of freedom that’s it it was never free from this point on
grabbed him out of the car he was all whining to us why are you doing this to me and all that and that’s where it ended so technically he was arrested for marijuana possession and delivery and then we took him her mother station while in custody gacy told detectives who was experiencing chest pains and was taken to a local hospital as a precaution but he was just trying to buy some more time the police had obtained the second warrant they’d been so desperate for on the 21st of december 1978 they searched gacy’s home on west
summerdale avenue for the second time when they executed that search warrant they went in the crawl space and the very first shovel that they dug they found human remains police had finally unearthed the secrets that gacy had thought would stay buried forever so they immediately called me let me know that there was human remains in a crawl space and at that time i arrested jack gacy for murder gacy says he wants to confess but really he wants to confess to the surveillance team both myself and my partner and the other
team and now all of a sudden he’s got an audience again and he’s on top of the world and he knows he can’t get out of it at this point and so he might as well just divulge everything that actually happened gacy told detectives he was willing to draw a map of the burial site beneath his home i gave him a pen and he started right up he squared it off in a thing and he started well this was a double and this was a triple and this was the first guy with a put an x on it went around the whole crawl space with these places where the body was
buried i mean they were digging with spoons and everything but they obviously identified where all the bodies were and they did an overlay of where the bodies were actually found compared to that diagram that he made and was unbelievable right on the money in total 27 bodies were discovered in gases crawl space it wouldn’t take long for news of this horrific discovery to filter out to the wider world then the arrests came down and that was the headline on the local papers everything how many bodies they took out of gacy’s
basement well you know when gacy’s crimes were uncovered he entered into the record books you know as some america’s most prolific serial murderer the notion that this you know pudgy normal seeming decent regular ordinary guy was living in this horror house you know that was just suffused with the stench of death and that there were the rotting bodies of 27 young men in this crawl space bringing home and torturing young boys right in the midst you know of all his neighbors and then going off to work the next day
when we booked him for murder we asked casey where where he was born and casey looked at us and said
“I was born in a state of confusion.”
and he smiled like that and we captured the photo in total gacy confessed to the murder of 33 young men and boys between 1972 and 1978. gacy preyed on victims who he knew were not necessarily going to be missed by any family members rootless and homeless teenage boys who had no families that were going to miss them or care about their disappearance at that time in the late 70s kids were
running away all the time and a lot of these kids were reported missing but there was no follow-up as it turns out he had buried 27 young kids in the crawl space he buried one of the young kids outside in his backyard and he didn’t have any room left on his property so he threw five remaining victims in the des plaines river one of the bodies found floating in the des plaines river in april 1979 was that of rob piste the 15 year old boy whose disappearance had ultimately led to gacy’s downfall he was very descriptive on what he had
done with rob piste rob peace mom was waiting for him in the front parking lot and rob said to his mom hey i’m going to talk to a contractor about a job i’ll be right back he goes back in the pharmacy gacy is in the back parking lot the alleyway and as gacy’s leaving rob follows them outside and says excuse me sir i understand that you hire young kids and i’m really interested in having a different job and gays he says well jump in the car i’ll have you fill out an application so gacy actually drives piste willingly
to gacy’s house while there gacy starts showing piste some um some little tricks of the trait of being a clown he shows a couple of card tricks and the last trick that he shows piste is the handcuff trick gacy actually handcuffs himself and turns around and struggles with the handcuffs and then turns back and he holds the handcuffs up and piste is pretty amazed at that and he said that’s that’s neat how’d you do that so gacy says
“Well here you handcuff yourself and i’ll show you how to do that.”
so peace handcuffs himself and he struggles and
he struggles and he struggles and he looks at gasy and he says
“Now what’s a trick to this.”
and gacy reaches in his pocket and pulls out a key to the handcuffs and he says
“The trick is you got to have this key.”
this handcuffed trick was part of an horrific yet clinical ammo gacy throughout all of the 33 killings had developed a method of killing these young kids he would pick up these victims some were kids who worked from him but most were teenage runaways you know and bring them back to his house and giving them drinks he would sort of
trick them into handcuffing themselves or being handcuffed gacy would use chloroform to subdue his victims chloroform’s an old-fashioned anaesthetic really so it gets into your lungs and it just renders you unconscious very effectively he did what he called a rope trick and when he had these young kids incapacitated like that he would slip a rope over their neck a knotted rope like a loop and then put the stick in the back like a tourniquet and he would slowly turn the tourniquet and he said he had it perfected so well
that he knew exactly how the body would react to each half turn putting a ligature around the neck the first thing it’s going to block is the blood vessels so it prevents blood getting to the brain prevents it getting back to the body from the brain it’s going to be very uncomfortable and it can even render you unconscious in a small number of seconds and he went into detail on how he would torture these young men and he in fact did double and triple murders he would incapacitate two or three people at a time and kill one person in front of the
other victims and then continue to kill the other victims and he seemed to be pretty proud of that we used that to our advantage to keep him talking and he described every killing to a t exactly how it happened all 33 as the news broke across the country one shocked viewer who’d unknowingly experienced gases mo first hand was his ex-employee tony antonucci whilst working for pdm tony had accidentally got a nail stuck in his foot john took me and i got a tetanus shot and uh and took me home and he came over later
that evening to check on if i was okay or that was the the theory but he also had you know some wine and we were drinking and he was kind of joking around it was probably 10 10 30 at night i was a high school wrestler and he said
“Oh you know you know you’re a big wrestler guy.”
and he started wrestling around with me he got my left arm and he got it behind me and i felt him put a handcuff on it i kept flailing my right hand around so that he he couldn’t get my right arm but eventually he did get a hold of my right
arm and he knocked me down to the floor with my hands behind me he left the room for a few minutes and i realized that if i pulled really hard on my right hand that i could pull my hand through the handcuff i could get it out by pretending he was still handcuffed tony was able to catch casey unawares when he returned and turned the situation to his advantage i took the handcuff that i had gotten out of and i handcuffed him on one of his wrists and i reached into his pocket got the key and i handcuffed him behind
his back laying face down he goes
“You’re the only one that not only got out of the handcuffs you got them on me.”
and i didn’t know what that meant i thought that this was some type of test that he had performed before and i let him stay handcuffed for 10 or 15 minutes before i let him out of the handcuffs and you know he had previously agreed that when i let him up he would leave and he did tony had no idea just how close he’d come to being another victim of this deadly killer i did not fear for my life and not fearing for my life and not
panicking uh is probably what saved my life as i’m sure if when i got out of the handcuffs if i tried to run for the door or do something you know he was 33 years old and very strong and i was 16 or 17. i’m sure he could have overpowered me if if he knew he had to tony continued working for pdm for a few months after the attack and only reported the incident after gases arrest by the time the case went to trial police had managed to identify the remains of 22 of the victims so with gacy we have around 30 bodies different states of
decomposition some of which have been there for many years forensically that sort of scene is a nightmare you’ve got so many different things to dig up it’s a very complex procedure it’s very hard work it will involve a lot of people in a lot of time seven of gases victims have never been identified this close-knit community on the outskirts of chicago was baffled beyond belief that such a monster had lived amongst them for so long one of the effects that learning about these crimes has on the public is that it sort of reduces you to a
state of childlike awe and terror and wonder you can imagine all these middle american suburbanites suddenly here are the authorities bringing out the decomposed remains of young men that have been stored in the crawl space of your neighbor’s house a horrified public were both shocked and outraged by the crimes casey had committed as the state prepared their case they were determined to ensure that the man who’d been held in such high esteem by his local community would pay for his crimes in full the trial of john wayne gacy began on
february the 6th 1980 at the cook county criminal courts building in chicago at the time illinois still had the death penalty gacy’s defense team were pleading insanity it was an interesting trial and what was so fascinating about it was they had so many different psychiatrists saying so many different things that they all came up with different diagnoses which really goes towards this picture of this non-intact human being this bits and pieces of person during the five-week trial the prosecution were desperate to prove
that casey was fully responsible for his actions there’s a difference between psychopathy and mental illness psychopaths are rational they know what they’re doing and they know what they do is wrong but they decide to do it anyway so he was pretty culpable for his crimes he was vicious he was evil he was not insane in any way he knew exactly what he was doing and he killed these people for self-preservation because he was so well-liked politically and business-wise he couldn’t have his public out that he was taking advantage
of these kids one of the prosecution witnesses was gace’s former employee tony antonucci who’d been attacked by the 37 year old contractor i saw him in court and he was off to my left sitting at the at the table where the defense attorneys are and he just stared straight forward he was fairly far away i i might have caught his eye on occasion in the courtroom but i was pretty nervous to be on a witness on a trial of that significance that even at that age in my early 20s on the 13th of march 1980 the jury had made their decision on
the fate of john wayne gacy it didn’t take long for them to find him guilty i think it took maybe less than three hours which was amazing and then he was found guilty it was kind of amazing how fast everything went when you look at other trials that have gone on this trial went extremely fast in the final moments of the trial one of the prosecutors william kunkel called him a ruthless sadistic killing machine and i think that’s a pretty apt description judge louis b garippo sentenced gacy to death he was immediately taken to the menard
correctional center illinois where he would remain on death row for 14 years whilst in jail he took up painting selling his artwork for profit even when he was behind bars he continued to control and manipulate people he produced several paintings several works of art which he he sold and and he he maintained a legacy even after his death through those paintings so so he was still in control when he was behind bars he still had power over other people and he was still able to make choices and decisions the profits he gained from these
paintings resulted in the government suing him for his earnings lawyer karen conti took on gases case against the state gacy liked to paint and he was a terrible terrible painter and he painted horrible things like skulls and clowns and creepy things like that but people bought them and they they paid 200 a shot for him to paint these ugly pictures so that’s the first thing he wanted to talk to us about but we went down there knowing that what we wanted to do was represent him in the death penalty what was surprising was he looked and
acted just like anybody else like your favorite uncle like your next door neighbor and if you think about it that’s probably why he got away with killing so many boys and men because he didn’t look evil you could not reconcile what he did with the man you were talking to karen was a firm opponent of the death penalty and represented gacy during his final appeals against the sentence over the years gay c had numerous appeals and our system allows that appeals in the federal court appeals in the state court by the time that gacy
had his execution date set we were out of traditional appeals there are certain serial killers even staunch anti-death penalty advocates would not protest against the execution of somebody like casey if he felt any twinge of feeling sorry it was only feeling sorry for himself you know these people are possessed of this incredibly malignant narcissism the only thing that they are capable of feeling anything for is themselves and their own needs when you have a client who has committed these horrific acts 33 murders no court is going to want to let
him out no court is going to want to change execution to life in prison because it’s politically a disaster gacy had to be executed and no matter what we alleged even if we had really really good arguments i don’t think anyone would have listened because it was john gacey in a cbs tv interview filmed in menard correctional center in may 1992 gacy recanted his confession and tried to deny that he was guilty of any of the murders he claimed he was a victim of circumstance and clearly innocent
“Now that was balderdash he was guilty of
sin but nevertheless he just proved what an extraordinary man he was.”
and throughout the interview you can see the interviewer looking more and more astounded by gases relaxation he didn’t look nervous he looked absolutely composed relaxed if anything a little angry
“Why am i being put through this it’s not fair i i was a pure accident i never did it.”
we knew it was his last ditch effort you know everything else failed he thought he could get away with you know insanity plea and that didn’t work so it was last-ditch effort to say
that he wasn’t involved or that others participated but it was very clear during his initial confession that he was the one who completed these crimes and completed him by himself gacy never took responsibility for his actions and he would always blame others he would blame his victims and in some cases he blamed his victim’s parents he would turn around and say well it’s not my fault i’m completely not responsible for any of this and that’s that’s a key psychopathic trait the failure to take responsibility for their own actions
despite numerous attempts to appeal his death sentence on the 10th of may 1994 john wayne gacy was executed by lethal injection at stateville penitentiary in illinois it was a circus we were in a room at some point and we saw a television screen and we saw thousands of people lined up at least a mile down the street at the prison with signs kill the clown kill gacy with our names on it kill karen conte people beating drums people dancing people with clown makeup on it was a celebration gace’s last words were
“Kiss my ass.”
those are the words of a man who absolutely didn’t mind what he’d done he was proud of himself and proud of that killing spree which makes him particularly chilling casey was unrepentant right up until his last moments he clearly felt no remorse for any of his 33 victims using other human beings you know inflicting pain and suffering and torture on another helpless human being to me is the essence of evil after the execution you’d think there’d be closure but there really isn’t closure for something like that i mean you always think back to the
victim’s family and the poor young boy who was 15 years old and just a good kid so as much as you’d like to believe there was closure there really wasn’t closure 40 years after being attacked tony antonucci feels relieved he didn’t become one of gays’s many victims
“I do feel very lucky to be alive i don’t know what to attribute that to you know maybe i you know luck definitely um the biggest component you know a little bit of help from above and basically my own ignorance of the fact that i was truly in danger and the fact that i didn’t panic and
just wanted to win the game if it was a game is probably what helped i also would have been one of the earlier victims so i’m sure his techniques became more honed after he was divorced and lived alone and had more freedom to act differently.”
john wayne gacy remains one of the most infamous killers in american history his horrific murders continue to halt the nation to this day i still get weird emails i still get weird things where people lash out and and say terrible things to me about representing casey so as gacy said
to me you know your obituary will read karen conte represented serial killer john gacey and although i won’t be around to verify that i have no doubt that’s what it will read for kids monsters are real as you become an adult you realize well there are no real werewolves there are real vampires but then something like this happens and you know it’s like well you know this monster is real you know there is this ogre it’s transfixing it’s riveting you know it’s fascinating in the most horrifying way gacy was the epitome of evil
and he was the epitome of being a great guy which gave him the ability to be the most evil guy in the world gace’s outward persona of a charming socialite helped to keep his crimes hidden for over five years but behind the mask of this friendly clown was a sadistic killer who cruelly and savagely ended the lives of 33 young men by torturing them in the most hideous of manners all for his own selfish sexual gratification his lack of remorse for any of his victims all their loved ones right up until the day he was executed
proved that he is without doubt one of the world’s most evil killers
