John Wayne Gacy Jr: The Killer Clown

[@itsme776]

*Watches funny KZbin videos all day* *An hour before bed* “Oh serial killers videos”

[@michaelforgothispassword]

Have you been stalking me or what

[@agentadvocate]

Every. Single. Time. I. Am. Home. Alone. :|

[@ljf2260]

So true I’ve been home all day watching memes and now at 7:30 I’m watching story’s about killer clowns

[@michaelforgothispassword]

@@ljf2260 it happens

[@lee-uw7vv]

Same

[@chuck5667]

*his father beats him *he doesn’t want to do stuff with his father His dad: :0

[@hellojell-o2887]

I think you mean, *suprised pikachu face*

[@lylasaur6694]

This enraged his father, who punished him severely

[@lylasaur6694]

@Jeb Bush Dude. Uncool.

[@therainbowbelongstosatan4260]

@@lylasaur6694 Hhehehehe

[@lylasaur6694]

@@therainbowbelongstosatan4260 hehhehehheh

[@santana898989]

He bashed in an inmate's face until bloody, but is released early on good behavior. Bizarre.

[@MosoKaiser]

The beaten inmate probably didn't want to tell the prison authorities who did it and in what circumstances...

[@remarkablerepublican7838]

The guy who got beaten was a homosexual.

[@bubbybunny2655]

Remarkable Republican What does that mean?

[@stevencooke6451]

I did a "wait, what?" myself. I guess his spiced chicken overrode his violent conduct.

[@jeff21killersep54]

Sorryitsmya it was in times where gays weren’t accepted into society and looked down up on like black people in those days

[@robertditchfield441]

"john wayne gacy was good with kids" thats quite the quote

[@Howsoonisnow2009]

Robert Ditchfield yeah are you kidding me

[@Vinn_Tree]

Good with killing and hiding the bodies.

[@GorlliaGrodd]

Are you guys really this dense? He was inferring with John Wayne Gacy second wife thought of him.I know I shouldn't expect much intellectual prowess here in the KZbin comments section, you think somebody watching you buy a graphics video would be able to comprehend what they're listening to.

[@carterpizano]

@@GorlliaGrodd dude they're joking chill out

[@warrennelson9784]

Tattoo worthy

[@ahobimo732]

It's amazing what Gacy was able to get away with before he was caught. America was a different place during Gacy's lifetime. You could hide your past. This sort of thing would be impossible today.

[@Biographics]

Hope so.

[@vladkandinsky796]

Unless you are a priest!

[@tammiewade8331]

Yes it's hard to start over with a clean slate.

[@thevideosinc]

@@vladkandinsky796 or dressing up like a woman to read books to kids in a library

[@lylasaur6694]

Yea, especially now with digital footprints. No one is hidden on the internet, so guys: Don’t try stuff lol

[@stee8345]

Damn! Sounds like you could get away with A LOT back in the day!

[@ilkkarautio2449]

You still can! 😉😉

[@jeffrei594]

Ilkka Rautio no you can’t.

[@Chaoitcme]

@@ilkkarautio2449 Not really. Now with the internet and video cameras everywhere you could never get away with this kind of open abuse that Gacy did.

[@Jobbazz]

Those were the days...

[@jmitterii2]

And DNA testing, makes it near impossible, its way better than shitty finger prints that were often incomplete or fully washed off.

[@mikepuppetz9]

Hey! I just met you. And this is crazy But here's my crawlspace I'm John Wayne Gacy!

[@bettynolo23]

😂😂😂👏👏👏

[@manbutt656]

Good one

[@Dragon_rls]

When they said “crawl space”, I thought they were talking about his butt hole????

[@vicentenevarez1754]

Bazinga

[@acetate909]

Aha...nice. I still think that Carly Rae Jepsen is a bigger psycho killer _qu'est-ce que c'est_

[@JamVar]

"John Wayne Gacy loved his children. It doesn't make you special." -George Carlin

[@CorbCorbin]

Jam35Var1ety Hilarious

[@manbutt656]

I don't get it

[@eccoakadicco]

Your kids are not special. @@HenningDiesel

[@JamVar]

​@@HenningDiesel k

[@evilseedsgrownaturally1588]

eccoJAM of course his kids are special. George Carlin was a cynic.

[@SoulSociety5]

My uncle used to bring Gacy his meals in prison, said he was very unnerving to be around.

[@HeilRay]

Get that feeling from all politicians

[@Peanut_taco_muffin]

Yeah, knowing a man killed at least 33 people, many of them still children, would kind of automatically make him unnerving.

[@janetlieb2507]

Would be creepy! Did he say anything else about him?

[@heinzkrupps5028]

Liar.

[@plasticweapon]

@@heinzkrupps5028 right, everything's a lie, everything's fake, interesting things only happen on tv and in movies because your life is so boring you can't picture anything interesting ever happening to anyone. gacy and his murders were probably just a tv show you saw.

[@Lrapsody27]

"John Wayne Fact was good with children." I object, your honour.

[@adoriharris9988]

my god he did such evil acts to kids I am bout to throw up at this point

[@Galantski]

"Clowns can get away with murder." -- actual comment of John Wayne Gacy Jr: to a police officer

[@brianglade848]

Yes, Officer Mike Albrecht

[@bttawfiq]

Wait a minute, he was married to a “Myers” and his first victim was a “Voorhees”?! Sounds like a plot to a movie including Pennywise, Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees!

[@n-extrafries-surprise]

Baha T sounds like a fan fiction. I would love to read that!

[@unwelldanny7108]

or The Joker

[@Jay-jb2vr]

That's where the ideas came from

[@ldive]

Zak Jansen any relative of Jason’s is not to be messed with 💀 if you even walk across his mom he’d kill u

[@stevencooke6451]

I stopped at the mention of Voorhees. It's not exactly a common name outside of campgrounds.

[@lastlife0726]

"So Gacy murdered a man in prison..." "Anyways, his good behavior led him to an early release."

[@UnchainedMelodie92]

The video never stated he killed the man in prison, only that he beat him. It's still awful, but it just wasn't murder.

[@ayhamshaheed7740]

Dread Pirate Robin *nearly

[@HonkeyKongLive]

@@ayhamshaheed7740 all he said in the video was he was beaten "bloody." That's far from nearly to death.

[@ayhamshaheed7740]

Zach Gates well, the video doesn’t specifics how bloody the beating was. I’m gonna assume it was significantly bloody

[@8kigana]

Prisoners don't snitch like that. A lot of stuff goes down in the big house that is talked about but never reported. Gacey was also a favourite for his cooking too, that speaks volumes too.

[@cultofmalgus1310]

another abusive household creates a monster. I swear they need to have breeding licenses.

[@ragreenburg]

I think the issue is everyone at the time was so "tough" and rough around the edges that that's just what you did. Your kids talked back? Hit em, hard. They didn't take out the trash? Bash em. So at the time the punishment was probably worse than most families but also almost every families go to punishment was bashing the kid and almost everyone hated the gays at the time. Rough time to be alive for many.

[@mrmerperls7383]

Bro having fucking breeding licenses sounds like a horrible dystopian world

[@celestejones6744]

No it would not be that bad birth control in the human until msting time would decrease teen pregnancies

[@waterburgr]

kids first eugenics

[@alilweeb7684]

@@mrmerperls7383 most people have no preparation to create a child. Poor households is what leads many young people into criminality early in their lifes.

[@websterforrest]

Thanks for the video. There are actually several significant factual errors in it, which is surprising, because it seems like you've done a good bit of research. Some examples: Robert Piest was abducted from the parking lot of the drug store while his mother was inside browsing. He did not call Gacy and then go out of his own house to meet him. Gacy didn't go into the pharmacy and ask to speak to the owner: he already knew the owner and was in the shop to take measurements when he spotted Piest. You say that Piest's body was found and that the police then took testimonies, connected the dots between Gacy and Piest, and went to interview Gacy, but Piest's body was only found in April '79, several months after Gacy was already in prison awaiting trial. His second wife did know about his jail time - she'd known Gacy since they were young and had been a childhood friend of Gacy's sister Karen. The picture you have of Tim McCoy is actually a picture of Russell Nelson, another Gacy victim. You said Gacy would rape and stab the boys, but the only one who was stabbed was his first victim, McCoy. All the others were killed by ligature strangulation. I hope you read these in the spirit in which they are intended, which is not one of squabbling.

[@agamerscoven]

Yeah this makes me wonder if the rest of his videos are as nonsensical as this. Thanks for the clarification. His accent makes him sound very studious but apparently not. 😂 probably just goggles a bunch of stuff and puts it together. Shame.

[@GaRrYfIsHeRmAn009]

Although your right that this video is wrong about a few things the way the final victim was taken he was actually right. The boy wasn’t abducted and his mom wasn’t browsing the store. She arrived at the pharmacy to pick her son up to celebrate her birthday but he told her to wait that he was going to talk to a contractor about a job. Gacy offered him $5 an hour double what he was making at the pharmacy. Unfortunately he went to gacys house willingly because he thought there was the possibility of getting a dank job. Unfortunately what happened, happened but the boy was not abducted. That is his own mothers account of what happened. I’m sure you can find the info on it online but that is 100% fact of what happened. Although I do agree with you it’s unfortunate how much this video got wrong. He definitely could have done a much better job doing his research before putting this out

[@GaRrYfIsHeRmAn009]

I’m also not replying to argue or cause trouble. Just throwing it out there ! I like that you actually knew what you were talking about. So again I don’t mean any I’ll will in my comment so I really hope you don’t take it that way ! And since we are commenting on a video about serial killers stay safe man ! A lot of sick people in this world ! Never know when something may happen so always be aware of your surroundings ! God bless and be safe man ! !

[@websterforrest]

@@GaRrYfIsHeRmAn009 Hi - It's a good point. Your description is essentially the same as my understanding. I think we're talking semantics concerning the word abduction. Not sure where you are based, but in UK law (and I was only assuming it was the same in the States, which it very well may not be) 'abduction' is simply the unlawful removal of a person from a place: either by coercion, or by force. So I wasn't suggesting Gacy had abducted Piest by force. In fact, this is one of the most tragic and chilling things about this: the boy got into Gacy's car of his own free will on the false prospect of this job offer. This is very much in Gacy's m.o. - he was a con man at many levels. It's just like the handcuff trick and so much else that he did. As to Mrs Piest browsing: I've seen an interview with Mrs. Piest where she says that after her son came up to her car and asked her to wait, she went into the store to browse. I'm assuming that this was because it was so cold out. (She'd only have driven a short distance from home to pick him up, and heaters in cars back then took ages to warm up the car.) Thanks for your comment. :)

[@websterforrest]

@@GaRrYfIsHeRmAn009 Totally appreciate this! :D

[@acetate909]

Dude had lots of skeletons buried in his -closet- crawl space.

[@acetate909]

@@bilalgarcia2543 You put a -around - the word you want to strike through. The - needs to be touching each end of the word without any spaces. I left a space between the end of around and the - so you could see it. Putting a * before and after makes it bold and a _ makes it italics. -strike - *bold * _italics _ -strike- *bold* _italics_

[@acetate909]

@@brantleyhester6641 No problem. The strike helps when making jokes and the italics help when you want to write a word in a sarcastic tone.

[@antiquesman7]

@@acetate909 Using comma's and quotation marks can do the same.

[@acetate909]

@@antiquesman7 "Really"

[@acetate909]

@Captian Echo Ya got it

[@dragon091327]

I feel bad for his second wife... it seemed like she really loved him. Also I could only imagine how hard it would be being a divorcee twice over in the 70’s.

[@hkchan1339]

wife of serial killer and twice divorcee is worse

[@theshamanarchist5441]

Pogo the killer clown from Springfield. Shouldn't that be Krusty?

[@Dr_Do-Little]

Nah. More like Sideshow Bob.

[@theshamanarchist5441]

@@Dr_Do-Little thats the one.

[@jonsnipe5484]

🤣🤣🤣 make sense

[@tiffa808]

Hey, Hey!

[@emilydiez5297]

Is his character based on john i couldve sworn he was?

[@emmafr1edman]

“Wanted to get as far away from his home town as possible” *moves to springfield*

You could say he was home-ophobic.

[@theblackbaron4119]

@ *Badum TSS* OUT!

[@elikoffman4344]

He was a clown that moved to Springfield... I can’t trust Krusty anymore

[@lylasaur6694]

Or Sideshow Bob

[@TheDennys21]

@@lylasaur6694 Bob was never to be trusted.

[@garyc39]

Its sad when you use an image that suppose to make people laugh and smile and you use that image for evil

[@romelnegut2005]

Indeed.

[@thebestcentaur]

Not sure that I'd trust clowns anyway

[@chrislucas8718]

@@thebestcentaur Well he is one of the reasons as to why clowns are considered super scary now

[@thephantomoftheparadise5666]

He didn't dress like a clown while killing people. He only dressed like that when he put on shows for kids.

[@unwelldanny7108]

The Joker?

[@Dragon_rls]

Simon said "BLOODY". Been waitin' for that :)

[@Cottontailart]

I'm English and we say some weird words instead of bloody ;)

[@Cottontailart]

@Ungregistered User we do have some weird slang words tbh

[@Cottontailart]

@Joe Dick he's brilliant then

[@snovaspectre2]

@Joe Dick people can pick up accents.

[@CurtisAlfeld]

Two of his alleged victims, Harold Lovell and Robert Hutton, were discovered to be alive in 2011 and 2013.

[@lylasaur6694]

Where were they all those years?

[@CurtisAlfeld]

@@lylasaur6694 they moved away and just didn't talk to their families for forty years.

[@alilweeb7684]

@@CurtisAlfeld how tf

[@co7769]

Maybe because as a society we shame the victims and give cool names, tv interviews, and all the attention to the murderer. Since it was also back then, people would have probably made fun of the guys for being raped and call them sissies instead of giving them the emotional and psychological help they needed.

[@co7769]

@شكور نائب الرئيس I live in the same society you live in. I also didn't specifically mention the victims of Gacy. I was talking about the perception society has regarding this crime. How come when women and men are raped instead of immediately reporting it to the authorities they choose to live with the secret unless someone does speak then everyone else does. In the case of women they could be called liars, sometimes people tell them that is because they were wearing revealing clothes so they were basically asking for it, that they should have known better than to go out in the middle of the night for whatever reason they were going out. In the case of men, if raped by another man, sometimes other men will call him gay and attack his masculinity and how did he even let it happen, and if a women raped him then society will literally almost see no issue as they think that's what we always want sex. I fortunately have not met someone in real life that is so cruel as to blame a victim of rape of the rape itself. You are lucky that wherever you live, people actually treat the victims with respect and the proper care instead of shaming them. But I can understand why some people would be curious as to how the mind of somehow who commits such crimes works. Yes off course, how could I dismiss the fact that any normal person is always wondering how a killers mind works and why they do what they did, how did I not think of that? Also, in case you didn't know, not every rape victim ends up murdered.

[@thalia7104]

I suppose every normal person would have been able to smell the rotting corpses 🤢...

[@LRGDuran]

John Wayne Gacy loved all his kids. So much that he kept them all close by in the crawl space.

[@ericthompson861]

When I was a senior in high school in Wisconsin, I was in a Forensic Science class and one of the detectives who worked on the John Wayne Gacy case came in and spoke to my class and the high school Psychology class.

[@ErikHawkinson]

I know one of the people involved in investigating the case, but we've never talked about it.

[@acetate909]

Were you in Kenosha or Beloit? Somewhere near the boarder?

[@offwhitejayR2E]

Skindian Torrez that nigga did a good speech lmfao

[@stayingcleanandouttatroubl5778]

Erik Hawkinson i

[@ab4845]

...And since then not a single person from that class has been able to sleep again...

[@ThomasTrue]

A bizarre footnote is that the current owner of Gacy's most infamous painting of Pogo is Johnny Depp. And Depp bought it purely to force himself to face up to his coulrophobia - an irrational fear of clowns.

[@pangaea5258]

Not sure what to think of this..

[@studiomonster-c9l]

Johnny Depp got 2 serial killers out of prison. He's a psycho devil worshipper apparently.

[@shadowfox6438]

This is why every grindr downloader needs a pair of running shoes and a taser. Edit: Thanks for all these sexy likes, guys :)

[@acetate909]

*taser Solid joke tho.

[@shadowfox6438]

@@acetate909 fixed:D

[@MrSinthan]

Tinder too, I guess.

[@naranara1690]

TASERFACE!!

[@justjess-zl3pm]

Since most serial killers kill women I would say anyone using any dating app should.

[@phoenixfeedsthefire2894]

Had a friend who worked for him at one of the fast food restaurants in Illinois. He was lucky he didn’t get taken home.

[@namewitheld2568]

Wow...

[@badguy99]

Just to think if he never threw his last victim into the river, no one probably would’ve known the wiser.

[@vozhdpascubillo1586]

So the joker was related to batman?

[@joeycasella1430]

joker doesnt rape

[@TupocalypseShakur]

@@joeycasella1430 actually he does. In the 2008 comic he raped his henchman's wife to get even with him

[@jadenvanhess2341]

@@TupocalypseShakur that’s an elseworld story tho.

[@serg74ful]

I live in Wisconsin one of my co workers said his uncle almost took a job from gacy when he was a teen in Chicago

[@devin_leary]

serg74ful I live in Wisconsin too. And that’s nuts

[@angelaquinnzell2548]

Live where he lived so a lot of my family knew him by word of mouth the brother of my grandmothers best friend worked for him for a little bit but he was older than his normal victims and was well known in the area so I guess he thought it would be too suspicious to try anything

[@danjanies]

Oml

[@Peanut_taco_muffin]

khadafi inc right? I can officially say that my parents, grandparents and I all grew up in Chicago and have no ties to Gacy that we know of whatsoever 👍

[@Corinari]

Yeah well my seventh cousin on my moms side had a friend who had a friend that knew this guy that once said hello to him lmao

[@sparrowtalonproductions6959]

Myers...in Springfield.......with Vorhees...am I the only person noticing this?

[@ravenzyblack]

SparrowNugget-No. Both Michael Myers and Jason Vorhees were inspired by John Wayne Gacy’s case.

[@JayyTheLegend]

Simon: How did he get this way, and why did he go on such a murderous rampage? Also Simon: John Wayne Gacy Jr. was born in Chicago. Me: This explains everything

[@fynnthefox9078]

@King Nova Don't you mean a city?

[@fynnthefox9078]

Imagine if he was born in Detroit.

[@Austin_Soares]

Imagine if he was born in Florida.

[@drillingig2368]

Imagine if he was born in Jacksonville

[@dicegerry5127]

Ngl things could have been different for him if he'd been born now. He would be much more likely to be accepted by his father, and may have even ended up coming out as transgender. He was a horrible person but I feel like he could have turned out better if he had been able to be himself in early life and like, if he hadn't been physically abused.

[@MarillSweatshirt]

"Scientists can't explain why Gacy did what he did!?!?" Me: He was a sociopathic asshole. 😐

[@sirtangerine1465]

Well part of his Sociopathic behavior was possiblycaused by an Abusive childhood. So there's that

[@windebiesteultima3317]

Glad to hear you know more than scientists...

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

He never dressed as a clown for his crimes . It was just a smoke screen to cement his false social identity

[@presence9745]

i would agree but what he did in his torture chambers will never be known

[@FistyClown]

@@presence9745 there's literally nothing that suggests this other than people deciding to conflate the two.

[@dkupke]

According to one near victim who was renting a room in Gacy’s house, he did come in one night to find Gacy in full makeup getting drunk. After sharing a few drinks Gacy attempted to throttle him while still in makeup. He also used “zither rope trick” as his main method of gaining control of his victims, developed from his clown magic act.

[@courtneyheverling4610]

He absolutely did....one of the ways he got them in cuffs.

[@cocktailonion696]

Yeah, he actually did the clown routine as a volunteer. People knew about it and it was actually thought to be a good wholesome thing back then. Nowadays, and probably because of this guy, it’s like a red flag factory.

[@LilNoodle95]

This was SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPER helpful. I have a project in forensics about a psychological analysis of a serial killer and was assigned this case, and it's been hard to find enough information in any one place. Thank you so much for helping me pass my final 👍😭😭

[@Aalborg42]

Your school actually accepts youtube videos as legitimate source for this kind of study?

[@Noodlelino28]

​@@Aalborg42what they don't know, won't hurt them! 😉

[@Aalborg42]

@@Noodlelino28 Sure.. but every serious "school" requires you to record in your "paper" exactly where you got your information from.. unless it's one of those made up universities from India 🤣

[@uas8470]

More like John Wayne GAYcy

[@therainbowbelongstosatan4260]

Are you proud of that one?

[@ramonacat]

i have a small story time. My grandpa tells me this story all the time and he said it’s something he’ll never forget. My grandfather grew up in cook county, south side of Chicago. When he was younger him and his friend(i think his name was Billy DeSouza) went missing. They were at a carnival, and he said that they rode on their bikes there. My grandpa went to go and pee, and since they were around 12, he thought it would be fine to leave Billy alone. When he came back, he lost Billy. He looked everywhere and searched and searched and he never found him. He went to the workers there and told them. Later, helicopters were flying very down low, megaphones in the pilots hand, screaming; “Billy, your parents aren’t mad, come home.” and “You can come home now Billy, your safe.” They said that they never found the body, and it remained a mystery. After Gayce was found out, everyone freaked. He was there, that night when Billy went missing. It’s been a rumor in my family since them that Billy was killed by Gayce. Anyways, i hope you enjoyed the short little story my grandpa loves to tell about this horrible man.

[@sebastianharrington5041]

We now know that Gacy was part of a sex ring that kidnapped boys to high ranking politicians

[@lylasaur6694]

Woah

[@heinzkrupps5028]

Liar...stfu.

[@brianglade848]

Have that family send his dental records to the CCSD

[@ramonacat]

Heinz Krupps i’m not lying lmao

[@dmcgee3]

Think you got the first kill wrong. The story was he woke up to the boy standing over him with a knife, thought he was going to kill him and killed the boy first. Only to later see he’d just made breakfast and was probably just waking him up and didn’t even realize he had the knife in his hand. Was the only murder he seemed genuinely regretful about. Could be in a way he blamed that mistake on breaking the seal on his murderous ways and thought maybe if that didn’t happen the other murders wouldn’t have either. Doubt it though, something else would have set him off at that point in his life

[@KylesDigitalLab]

And the picture of McCoy isn't him. It's Russell Nelson. The only picture of McCoy I could find is black and white and sort of weird.

[@plasticwrapcharlie]

This is the most common narrative, yes. However it is silly to think we definitely know what happened that night.

[@michaelladouceur6832]

Love the Sufjan Stevens plug!

[@thomasdgardner]

Never forget that in 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune.

[@ladycheyne5607]

🤣🤣🤣🤣😄

[@phantomclan-blob998]

Lol

[@claytongunter171]

Love the a-team reference.

[@rodneyhill5960]

This is the first time I 100% disagree with your final summary. I was abused, mocked, ridiculed and left to die as a kid and it still in no way justify me killing an innocent for it. So poor John had a tough upbringing but at a certain point his choices were his own. I feel less than zero for the pure evil that he was.

[@flak4438]

This video got a bunch of stuff wrong, such as saying he commited murders dressed up as a clown (he never did this), that he randomly attacked the first victim (gacy woke up seeing him standing in the hall with a knife and thought the boy was going to attack him when he actually just made breakfast for the both of them).

[@GHustle4]

@@flak4438 who cares about the true facts you get that it helps bring home the nonsense this maniac did

[@primroserain1739]

@Dawid st agreed

[@janetlieb2507]

He was just evil. So was his father. He was not human. He was a reptilian.

[@janetlieb2507]

@Dawid st there is

[@catjudo1]

On the day John Wayne Gacy died, a voice could be heard. "We all float down here," it said.

[@primroserain1739]

The answer is quite obvious: HE CAME BACK FOR REVENGE, EVERYBODY!!! GET YOUR GUNS! LOCK THE DOORS! AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, SACRIFICE GEORGIE!

[@sjmsutherland]

I couldn't help it but I laughed at that....please don't judge me!!

[@neo_corgski4618]

Speaking of John Wayne Gacy, you should do one of these on GG Allin!

[@rickslick.]

GG Allin is god

[@Nantosuelta]

Was just about to say that

[@jacksutton5730]

Lol

[@michaelslowmin]

JWG and GG were buddies believe it or not.

[@brianglade848]

GG ate his turds

[@bsteven885]

Unfortunately, this Biographics episode neglects to say that John Wayne Gacy was actually in Waterloo, Iowa when he committed the crime of "Sodomy" and served his prison sentence. Hence, no one in Illinois would have known of that conviction unless his history was thoroughly investigated.

[@maxolcat1281]

Explains why he was in Anamosa prison.

[@brianglade848]

Not until much later, the cops sent for his rap sheet that they found this

[@jasonchatham4170]

wow. last time I was this early to a video I had just run over a clown in my truck....a few times... you know, just to make sure.

[@JoseGranny]

I hate clowns!

[@CorbCorbin]

Papa?

[@clifftrainor6774]

That same clown will now murder you when you least expect it.

[@ruthbekkam6648]

Why didn’t he say “Hey Vsauce , Micheal here!”

[@nielk.]

Wrong channel mate

[@redjirachi1]

So he's the real life Pennywise?

[@glenntaylor1834]

Not even close. There is no evidence he committed the murders while dressed as a clown. However, we know he impersonated a cop to abducted several victims who were visited Bughouse Square.

[@knightwing5169]

@@glenntaylor1834 Isn't it wonderful that some documentaries about Gacy suggest if not say outright he dressed like a clown for the post-Butkovich killings.

[@PhantomFilmAustralia]

Uploaded on Gacy's birthday. Nice attention to detail, Simon.

[@brianw.5230]

Gacy said he was born "in a state of confusion", not out of chaos.

[@DevineInnovations]

Now you have me questioning this entire video.

[@burquebandit7169]

That's a much better line

[@CorbCorbin]

Known for his ability, to spice up prison cooking...... 🥴

[@DerptyDerptyDUM]

....I think saying "kill clown" instead of "kill count" at 0:49 is one of Simon's most glorious mis-speaks ever. 🤭

[@ramiusz7336]

whenever I see these documentaries/Biographies on serial killers I am often amazed at just how close many of them came to getting caught earlier on, situations where 9 times out of 10 anyone would get caught but for some reason they didn't. John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffery Dahmer all had very close calls.

[@bjornironside6707]

Odd that his mothers name was Marion, John Waynes real first name(Marion Mitchell Morrison)

[@janetlieb2507]

Interesting !

[@skotmatthews8940]

I commend your work ethic. This video, TIFO Nick Cage, and the Jew Video on Highlight History, all came out within 2 days, have you in the same outfit, with slightly different angles with the same brick background. I feel like a detective figuring out you must film 1 video for each channel at the same time 😆. I applaud how hard you work!

[@kyrstinbruce3708]

He has a video showing the filming process and how he uploads several a day. It's pretty neato

[@theatomicwookie9953]

Do Marquis de Sade. Thanks.

[@WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs]

"John Wayne Gacy was great around kids" **blinks** he's not lying there ewe

[@snafutari8799]

I have 2 questions 1: when did you start including punk rock in the transitions? 2: what are the songs called?

[@tacticalpacciani6147]

I'm going to guess it's a song from the group Penmywise

[@eeshsinger]

carlo formosa your kinda right

[@acetate909]

@@tacticalpacciani6147 That would be funny but it doesn't sound like Pennywise. I would also like to know who the band(s) in the video is also.

[@chrishenniker5944]

It could be The Mentally Ill, who did a song called "Gacy's House".

[@Yakushi0Mikatsu]

Bump

[@dogfish3373]

No killer has ever given me the chills more than Gacy. I remember hearing about him when I was a child and I've been creeped out by him ever since.

[@michaelb1761]

For me it's Charles Manson. That's probably because I've heard him speak. The again, I've heard interviews with other serial killers that didn't have the same effect.

[@megbro10]

Imagine being in the hospital at the time he was Pogo the Clown and he came to visit you and do magic tricks and later when you grew up found out who he really was

[@robertmaltbie9027]

That kind of plays into something I was taught as the kid and that you should never hide who you are cuz it will make you very unwell it's the very bad for the psyche it's something we even talked about my psychology classes in college

[@yummyjackalmeat]

"What we know FOR SURE, though, is that if it were not for all the shame he endured all his life, these killings MAY never happened." Sooo if they MAY never have happened then you don't know for sure....

[@davidpena9513]

EXACTLY. What a stupid statement to end on. It conveys NOTHING.

[@savagetv6460]

His statement is just virtue signalling. Gacy is evil. To this day he still thinks he's not as bad as dalmer or Bundy. It doesn't matter if he had been accepted, he would have killed regardless

[@ahumanbeingfromtheearth1502]

No one is claiming gacy was not responsible for his own actions, just that his parents are at fault as well.

[@savagetv6460]

@@ahumanbeingfromtheearth1502 he was going to kill regardless. His indifference to his crimes and claims of being less evil than Bundy and dalmer show he's truly sick.

[@ahumanbeingfromtheearth1502]

@@savagetv6460 you say that so definitively, but given how much of his actions are rooted in his abuse im not inclined to belive that. No one is arguing hes not evil, just that his upbringing was a large part of how he became that way. Explaining his behaviour is not the same as excusing it.

[@shadowfox6438]

Shoe seller at a department store? GUILTY!

[@picolete]

No ma'am

[@jamesfracassejr9030]

Al bundy

[@shadowfox6438]

@Travis Tucker That's kinda hot. Too bad he decided to become a killer blob.

[@jawuanmoss3525]

Shadow Fox ya

[@tonygrayne60]

I definitely like that lively punk rock background music.

[@acetate909]

I was looking for a track name.

[@Cottontailart]

I recognise it but I can't remember the name and band name, watch it be the sex pistols and me being a egit

[@Cottontailart]

@Megaton Rotten MouthI love green day, I was a wee 18-year-old when they first came out in the uk

[@brianglade848]

Not 27....but 29 bodies in the crawl space, was there....4 in Des Plaines River

[@zacharyoliver5332]

I posted a Craigslist ad years ago for a birthday party clown. I used pictures of Pogo, used his houses address and posted the listing in his area..... people actually responded to it wanting to schedule kids parties. History is so easily forgotten.

[@derrickzeller3351]

It's very possible if John had been able to express his sexuality as a gay man, he may not have become a serial killer.

[@NLBrown-gz2qe]

Derrick Zeller and it’s very possible if he wasn’t gay, he wouldn’t have raped all of those boys

[@DevineInnovations]

Maybe, maybe not.

[@lemmmaila]

It’s very possible if you weren’t such an asshole, you wouldn’t generalize gays as monsters.

[@theghostwiththemost287]

I totally agree with you :)

[@dpj1]

Nathan Brown If he was straight he would have raped little girls

[@MRSNIPER1730]

Every serial killer has been abused in some way by their parents

[@RE-pz6kr]

Mr Sniper1730 This isn’t true though lol

[@turtleanton6539]

So sad

[@aydenwalker6093]

This applies to alot of them, not all of them.

[@ShayPatrickCormacTHEHUNTER]

@@aydenwalker6093 it actually applies to all. Just some deny it. That's it. Take Ted bundy for example "I had a perfectly normal childhood!" Looks for women who specifically look like his mother. Meaning there's some stuff he ain't saying but made him develop that behavior. The way it works is this: All people have the same potential for evil. Some choose to do it, some dont. Having a extremely traumatizing childhood does make the chances that you'll choose being evil very very higher. The choice is still made by the individual, but their childhood has an enormous influence on that. Serial killers don't drop out of the sky!

[@savagetv6460]

Abuse doesn't make serial killers. They have psychopathic personalities and the abuse just makes it worse

[@debbiemarquis3231]

Released after sixteen months...and nobody bothered to keep tabs on him...

[@Will-xf3qe]

And released on good behavior even though he beat a guy bloody

[@ashesashesallfalldown8703]

😱

[@missgalaxia14]

His wife's last name was Myers and one of his first victims is surnamed Voorhees... There's a joke in there somewhere.

[@jennifercordova7229]

You know, if his father had just let him plant flowers and cook, there's a good chance he never would have turned out the way he did.

[@jamesyoreilly5442]

It's not even the slightest bit his father's fault

[@bigdaddytrichardson4994]

Tim McCoy looked like Jeffrey Dahmer...

[@heytheremogwai]

8:50 newly divorced Gary :)

[@MudderFukker-m6g]

I 'm starting to see a pattern with these Bios of serial killers: Momma's boys who were beaten by their alcoholic disappointed fathers.

[@Cottontailart]

Not all are, im obsessed with how they think, some are abused by one parent or both, some were just born with a mental illness like skitzofrienia (im dyslexic so I know I've spelt it wrong) some had a perfectly fine childhood and they were just evil etc

[@Cupcakes4PoorPeople]

Interestingly enough, a lot of these serial killers who target women often have had difficult or abusive relationships with their mothers

[@Cottontailart]

@@Cupcakes4PoorPeople I found that interesting too

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:40 - Chapter 1 - Early life 4:15 - Chapter 2 - Climbing the social ladder 9:30 - Chapter 3 - Send in the clowns 12:45 - Chapter 4 - Caught

[@dJ-rd9wt]

It's cool that this genre has a lot of LGBTQ+ representation though, love that

[@Mo10tov]

6:25 "Voor-hears"? ... I'll never get my British accent right

[@Lucrei.]

Double e, like beers

[@wilk4093]

Just about to take a study break then I get this notifications, it’s the little things in life 😍🙌

[@stan3075]

I’m here because I AM studying. My genius teacher assigned me this person to research...

[@wilk4093]

Doggo Pupper best of luck! I’m sure you’ll do great 👏💪

[@deliveryman7001]

1:22 you forgot about "Killer Klowns from outer space" , I bet a few other people know what i'm talking about without looking it up.

[@Cypresssina]

Cotton candy cocoons. The creepy cracked makeup.

[@deliveryman7001]

@@Cypresssina 2 clowns in the trunk of a car with inflatable breasts, those were some strange times we lived in.

[@Cypresssina]

@@deliveryman7001 😂

[@CrkdCrayzirr]

IT right

[@secretlydadumbest7427]

Classic

[@adriandippenaar1404]

I believe he had a disorder the same as knights in the middle ages when they put on a helmet they believed they where some one else and acted so. That's why he blamed everything on his clown setup

[@k3vinhayne]

adrian dippenaar sounds Quixotic to me 😏

[@user-ln2go4xp6d]

dr jekyll mr hyde

[@jerodrobinson4040]

Talk about a dude being ahead of his time, he would have fit in perfectly with the current Democratic Party. And with the People that protected Epstein in power, this guy could go completely bonkers without a care in the World..

[@ajlukelepuke]

Gacy wanted to the P.O.T.U.S.? Explains a lot about our trusted political leaders. Past and present.

[@mrcliff3709]

@3/502 INF WIDOWMAKER and Ted Bundy was a Republican what about it?

[@linusfotograf]

No it doesn’t.

[@Ozymandias1]

He met with Rosalynn Carter, the First Lady at the time. See 0:34 and 6:13.

[@SK-qu4wo]

A lot of serial killers derive sexual gratification from the control that they exerted over their victims. Its that much of a stretch to believe that Gacy was an aspiring politician.

[@twistedtwistan5576]

Still relevant a year later.

[@joshuabowen190]

He didn't kill his victims dressed as a clown.

[@jolinkarlsson8569]

Joshua Bowen some people still thinks that he did

[@matthewdmiller4335]

@@jolinkarlsson8569 theres no proof that he did though

[@justyoureverydaypig3716]

Why do all the creeps have 3 names

[@JohnSmith-kz8yo]

Arthur Bremer?

[@Fentcheese]

You dont?

[@justyoureverydaypig3716]

WOOD MANE I only have 2 names. Hugh Janus

[@ainsleyharriottsspicymeat8909]

Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer

[@henrymarks2237]

Lee Harvey Oswald?

[@jameswayland2339]

He did admit to killing all those boys to someone, punk rock icon GG Allin. GG and John believed they where kindred spirits. They wrote back and forth , GG even visited him in jail.

[@LannasMissingLink]

Imagine bullying someone for a heart condition! I mean, imagine bullying someone for thinking they're gay too but there's countless cases of people doing that unfortunately.. the former is so odd to hear tbh

[@BHuang92]

The Original Pennywise....

[@thedeaderer8791]

You accidently call him Gary instead of gacy a few times

[@jeffcarroll1990shock]

John Wayne Gary was a nice man

[@mattdavies0792]

Can you do the Yorkshire ripper?

[@acetate909]

I heard that guy really tore through the chicks. They all say he was a real cut up . Razor sharp witt, had them all in stitches. Knife stab.

[@cadrejeff]

myers and voorhees, he was targeting the fictional names of serial killers cuz he sensed they would kill people in the future

[@MorganB101]

And this boys and girls is why I’m afraid of clowns 🤦🏾‍♀️deep sigh

[@-carina-]

Simon's voice is gorgeous.

[@nemesis_starz]

I mainly watch the channel because of his soothing voice

[@thefunkosaurus]

Pogo.... Bouncing up and down on a stick.... I'll see myself out.

[@Sophia-mt6ox]

Oh..how nice..

[@TRH.KARASU]

The light hearted rock in the transitions is a humorous compliment to subject 😂🖤🤘

[@PADARM]

a lot of inaccuracies, he never killed dressed as a clown

[@DrDolan2000]

A real shame. I'm sure Simon is doing his research

[@scottallen6227]

How would anyone know whether he did or not? If you watched the video he attempted to kill the victim that got away while dressed as a clown

[@chrisl9934]

I just find it really creepy how someone could live in a house filled with the stench of death and not feel anything about it.

[@skaterpulse6746]

That's how psychosis works. Psychopaths like Gacy don't have the ability to feel remorse for their wrong doings which is what makes them terrifying because if you're unfortunate to get caught by someone like Gacy begging for your life is pointless

[@chrisl9934]

@@skaterpulse6746 Dude probably gets high smelling all those corpses in his house. Indeed, he felt no remorse and laughed about it in an interview after he was caught. This guy was the inspiration for killer clowns in popular culture.

[@kowabungaus1820]

“A leather and razor strap” They’re the same thing. A razor strap IS a leather strap. The strap is used to sharpen the razor.

[@Cemi_Mhikku]

A leather strap is any old hunk of leather, longer than it is wide. A razor strop (not a misspelling) is a specialized piece of kit used by people who use straight razors to take the burr off a recently sharped blade. They are not super common today, but a simple google search would show you that they are generally a specific grade of leather in a specific thickness and width, usually with special ends attached so you can hold them at a steady tension, which can be essential to not damaging the rather thin blade of the razor in the process.

[@CelticSaint]

@@Cemi_Mhikku My grandfather would take off his belt, hitch the buckle over a nail and strop his cut throat razor whilst singing.

[@Cemi_Mhikku]

@@CelticSaint By far the most common way for your average joe to strop a blade to this day. Not necessarily with the singing.

[@plasticwrapcharlie]

TY!

[@matty7862]

I think the content of your KZbin channel is excellent. While I already know a lot about the subject matter of most of your episodes, there's always something new and interesting. Keep up the good work!