In 1992, serial killer John Wayne Gacy sat down for a rare on-camera interview. John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise I: The Trigger, caption, Sky Crime 2022
Police digging under a house in Des Plains, Illinois, have found four more bodies today. The owner of the house, a man named John Wayne Gacy, is suspected of having killed as many as thirty-two teenage boys … ibid. old television news
John is a master manipulator. He comes across as so damned normal. ibid. documentary dude
I’ve always told people when I got into clown make-up I regressed into childhood. John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise II: Warning Signs, Gacy
The Iowa State Psychopathic Hospital as it was called at the time did a complete work-up of Gacy as a sex offender before the sentencing in that case [1968] which essentially says this guy is a sexual psychopath. There is absolutely no treatment of any kind that is gonna cure this guy. ibid. dude
My marriages went down the drain only because I was a workaholic. ibid. Gacy
To my understanding there was a total of 29 bodies/28 bodies were found on the property. 26/27 of them under the house. John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise III: Horrific Acts, Gacy
Gacy never once showed any type of remorse or regretting what he did; he always blamed the kids. ibid. rozzer
The next day I see it in the newspaper: Gacy has four personalities. John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise IV: By Reason of Insanity
There is no confessions in this case. ibid.
I kind of find it hard to see that Gacy did all that by himself. ibid. ex-rozzer
He enjoyed it. And he did it again. And he did it again … John Wayne Gacy V: Devil in Disguise: You Have to Dig, dude
I feel I was wrongfully convicted [insanity defence promoted by brief] for 33 murders. And that was only because of sensationalism and ego. ibid. Gacy
He was basically the poster child for the death penalty. ibid. dude
Police in Chicago said they had found no evidence that serial killer John Wayne Gacy buried bodies of his victims in the backyard of his mother’s apartment building. ibid. TV news
Just like I consider myself the 34th victim, I consider the families [as] victims as well. Because they did not get justice from the shoddy investigation … John Wayne Gacy VI: Devil in Disguise: It Never Ends, Gacy
In the end there was eight that were never identified. ibid. dude
Law enforcement has never identified anyone as an accomplice in the Gacy case. ibid.
Spring 1992: Serial killer John Wayne Gacy tries to justify his murders … Gacy has been convicted of murdering 33 young men and boys between 1972 and 1978. Serial Killers s1e3: Gacy, Channel 5 1999
He claims to be concerned at the breakdown of family values. ibid.
He rejects his family and becomes involved in Democratic party politics. ibid.
The case of serial killer John Wayne Gacy is one of sexual depravity, horror and unspeakable crimes. In the 1970s he was accused of raping and murdering 33 young men and boys and burying many of their bodies under his house. But outwardly he portrayed an image of respectability. Including dressing up as Pogo the Clown. The Killer Clown: 33 Murders & Counting aka Acts of Murder: Killer Clown, Channel 5 2024
Gacy was attracted to young boys, and it was the sexual assault of 15-year-old Donald Voorhees in Waterloo, Iowa, that first brought him to the attention of police. ibid.
‘That was the only one of Gacy’s victims that was stabbed. All the rest of them were choked to death.’ ibid.
‘He confessed to us in detail about killing 33 young men and boys.’ ibid.
GADDAFI, MUAMMAR murder: viz Assassinations: GADDAFI, MUAMMAR
GAFOOR, JEFFREY: Panorama: Justice Denied TV - Court of Appeal 1992 - BBC online - Satish Sekar - A Killing in Tiger Bay TV - Catching Britain’s Killers: The Crimes that Changed Us TV - The Bay: The Murder of Lynette White TV - Cold Case Forensics TV - Forensics: Catching the Killer TV -
Twenty years ago Panorama investigated a bungled murder inquiry [Lynette White] that resulted in three innocent men being sent to prison for life. Last year the case against eight officers accused of perverting the cause of justice to secure those convictions collapsed. Panorama: Justice Denied: The Greatest Scandal? ***** BBC 2012
Cardiff 5: The biggest scandal in the history of British justice. ibid.
A tale of murder and a major miscarriage of justice. ibid.
Last year eight police officers involved in that miscarriage have walked free from court. ibid.
The murder of 22-year-old Lynette White, a well-known prostitute. ibid.
A single white-male line of inquiry. ibid.
For nine months the police had been looking for one white male suspect ... A completely new set of suspects was taken in for questioning. ibid.
Following the longest murder trial in British criminal history ... the remaining three remaining three defendants Steven Miller, Yusef Abdelahi and Tony Paris were all sentenced to life in prison. ibid.
Hostile police interviews. ibid.
The decision of the South Wales police to investigate itself ... 13 South Wales police officers were charged. ibid.
The deliberate destruction of files. ibid.
Incredibly, the documents that had apparently been destroyed mysterious turned up seven weeks after the trial had ended. ibid.
We are bound to say on hearing the tape we were horrified ... Short of physical violence it is hard to conceive of a more hostile and intimidating approach by officers to a suspect. Court of Appeal 1992
South Wales Police says it has asked the police watchdog to investigate after the UK’s biggest case involving alleged police corruption collapsed.
Eight former officers were cleared of perverting the course of justice at Swansea Crown Court after the wrongful conviction of three men for murder.
The judge ruled the officers and two other defendants, who were also found not guilty, could not get a fair trial.
The case follows the murder of Cardiff prostitute Lynette White in 1988.
Files relating to complaints by an original defendant were said to be missing, and the director of public prosecutions said he was 'extremely concerned'.
The cost of the investigations and trials is thought to run into tens of millions. BBC News online article 1st December 2011
The English criminal justice system regularly churns out serious miscarriages. If you want to know why and how this happens, you could turn to this shocking and detailed account of the case of the Cardiff Three.
The three, Yusef Abdelahi, Tony Paris and Steven Miller, were convicted of the brutal murder of a prostitute in Cardiff’s Butetown after one of the longest-ever trials. The real killer is still at large. Policemen under pressure to resolve a horrific crime refused to accept the repeated and emphatic denials of a man who was psychologically vulnerable. They intimidated and threatened him until he confessed. Other promising lines of inquiry were abandoned once the police were convinced they had got their men.
Though the crime was committed in Cardiff, the trial was held in Swansea, where black defendants were unlikely to find jurors whose life experience matched their own. Satish Sekar details how forensic evidence was misinterpreted, and draws pertinent general conclusions about the defects of the adversarial system of trial. Satish campaigned for and got a full investigation of the way the case had been handled. He shows that despite (or perhaps because) of the blizzard of legislation in this field over the last 20 years, the system is on course for more miscarriages in the future. This is a very important book for anyone concerned with the future of civil liberties in Britain. Satish Sekar, The Fitted In Project