KILLER PROFILES: John Wayne Gacy A.K.A "Pogo The Clown"
John Wayne Gacy Buried His Victims Under His House…
In April of 2021, a house on West Summerdale Avenue in unincorporated Norwood Park Township, Illinois, finally sold for $395,000. It had been for sale since the summer of 2019, but attracted little interest and went for well below the original $459,000 asking price despite the red-hot real estate market.
Blame it, as the real estate agents say, on location, location, location.
The House That Now Sits Where Gacy’s Used To.
The three-bedroom, two-bathroom home sits on the same lot where police found dozens of decomposing bodies in 1979-the victims of John Wayne Gacy, the serial killer with the most unusual resume: He used to dress as Pogo The Clown to amuse kids at parties and parades.
From 1973 to 1978, Gacy lured dozens of teenage boys and young men to his suburban Chicago ranch house. There, he strangled or stabbed them to death, burying most under a crawl space and discarding others in the Des Plaines River.
A model citizen, active in the community and local Democratic party politics, Gacy came under suspicion when a teenage boy he had hired for remodeling work went missing. Looking into Gacy’s history, police found he had been convicted of sodomy. During a search of his house, officers were hit with the unmistakable odor of rotting flesh. Digging up the crawl space yielded human remains.
Confessing to 33 murders—though suspected of several more—Gacy was convicted and executed by lethal injection in 1994 at the age of 52 after a last meal of a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken, fried shrimp, French fries, strawberries and a Diet Coke.
Here, less than a third of his victims.
As Authorities continued to try to locate other victims, the ranch house was torn down and the new home was built in the 1980s, with a different street number.
Gacy smiling in his 1978 mugshot
The real estate listing lauded the property’s big backyard and “beautiful two-sided fireplace” but didn’t mention the grisly history.
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