How They Were Caught: John Wayne Gacy

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  • Also known as Pogo the Clown, John Wayne Gacy is one of the most notorious serial killers in U.S. history, and this is how he was caught.
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  • @ginavicentijevic2255
    @ginavicentijevic2255 4 년 전 +13303

    Gacy: *confesses 33 murders*
    Also Gacy: "I'm innocent"

    • @makavelitheboy4357
      @makavelitheboy4357 4 년 전 +190

      He did say he had an alter ego so “technically” he is innocent Jack Hanely did it

    • @anonymousperson3023
      @anonymousperson3023 4 년 전 +25

      Well, the police thought that Gacy was suicidal so by pleading guilty, Gacy couldve gotten his 'wish' of dying.

    • @janeeyre1990
      @janeeyre1990 4 년 전 +47

      I just watched an interview with Katherine Ramsland, a professor of forensic psychology who corresponded with Dennis Rader (BTK) for several years, and she talked about how Rader described his different personas as the sides of a cube.
      One side was the husband and father, maybe another work/professional side, and still another was the stalking and murdering side.
      So if you asked him if he was guilty on a day when he was in dad/father mode, he would say no. If you asked when he was in serial killer mode, he would freely admit to it.
      Ramsland also points out that everyday a sociopathic serial killer says could be a lie, so it's hard to know to what extent Rader or other killers like Gacy really have cognitive dissonance about crimes they have compartmentalized and to what extent they're just trying to sell the idea of having multiple personalities and being crazy.

    • @wjejwjje9493
      @wjejwjje9493 4 년 전 +4

      Gina Vicentijevic lose weight

    • @robertlucas9970
      @robertlucas9970 4 년 전 +3

      Wjej Wjje 🤣🤣🤣

  • @crev652
    @crev652 4 년 전 +10070

    The 70s seemed like a booming era for serial killers.

    • @janeeyre1990
      @janeeyre1990 4 년 전 +598

      White men mad that they weren't able to live up to the glory of the Greatest Generation that came before them as more and more marginalized groups began to become competition or consider them irrelevant with the rise of the cultural revolution and various civil rights movements

    • @brayanarellano1134
      @brayanarellano1134 4 년 전 +1021

      And the 2000s for school shooters

    • @blake7871
      @blake7871 4 년 전 +231

      Kelsey Williams You really don’t believe that drivel do you?

    • @janeeyre1990
      @janeeyre1990 4 년 전 +59

      @@blake7871 😘

    • @sarahlevxo
      @sarahlevxo 4 년 전 +323

      John Gacy, Ted Bundy, Son of Sam, Amityville murders, People's Temple (Jonestown) - I know those weren't serial killers but the most horrifying and unforgettable murders came out of the 70s. I know I'm probably forgetting some

  • @bananafish3231
    @bananafish3231 4 년 전 +7756

    Wow the police really failed people with this one.

    • @firedragon7911
      @firedragon7911 4 년 전 +803

      "Uh hey this guy literally kidnapped and assulated me"
      Police: "NAH he's a good guy"

    • @Deraj_
      @Deraj_ 4 년 전 +458

      i mean has that really changed?

    • @RiverSiege
      @RiverSiege 4 년 전 +54

      Policing in the 80s

    • @madalice5134
      @madalice5134 4 년 전 +190

      @@RiverSiege And the 90's, and the present day...

    • @Sanmarachella
      @Sanmarachella 4 년 전 +94

      Happens way too often unfortunately

  • @h0eforyaoi836
    @h0eforyaoi836 4 년 전 +3508

    “Ordinary Business Man”
    *Child screaming intensifies*

  • @emmimikkonen9405
    @emmimikkonen9405 4 년 전 +6310

    I don’t care what everyone is saying, the narrator sounds great and fits the video perfectly. The voice needs to be neutral and peaceful. Other voices just wouldn’t fit

    • @KAMS1198
      @KAMS1198 4 년 전 +90

      Just imagine shanes voice. You’re so so right!

    • @kelseymyers2855
      @kelseymyers2855 4 년 전 +7

      I agree!!!

    • @-caesarian-6078
      @-caesarian-6078 4 년 전 +57

      If anything, I think that this voice is too deep, I would love it if Ryan or Shane switched to voicing these videos

    • @SecondAftermath
      @SecondAftermath 4 년 전 +39

      I would at least want Shane and Ryan to go over Serial Killers from childhood to death because I like their dynamic.

    • @lukeedwards-sparsholtt1587
      @lukeedwards-sparsholtt1587 4 년 전

      @@SecondAftermath tbh

  • @lacy9402
    @lacy9402 4 년 전 +3288

    Admits to killing
    Last words are how he’s innocent

    • @nightk3717
      @nightk3717 4 년 전 +26

      That’s the criminal justice system for you. Many admit to crimes they didn’t commit just to stop police interrogations (not saying he was innocent)

    • @skidaddleskadoodle6886
      @skidaddleskadoodle6886 4 년 전 +33

      He also had an alter ego, his last words prolly weren't his, and also the criminal justice system isn't to blame for people lying on death row. And besides they were literally under his house and it was also in like the 1900's you could definitely get away with murder

    • @BrokenKings
      @BrokenKings 4 년 전 +43

      Maybe he doesn’t even view the killings as ‘wrong’ and therefore he believed he was innocent. That’s even more chilling.

    • @christianaguilar3283
      @christianaguilar3283 4 년 전

      But was the lethal injection FDA approved

    • @MisterRawgers
      @MisterRawgers 4 년 전 +3

      He was a coward

  • @alexandralopes1157
    @alexandralopes1157 4 년 전 +6465

    "I'll trade you a Gacy for a zodiac!"

    • @erictheblackcat8204
      @erictheblackcat8204 4 년 전 +288

      Ill trade my Zodiac for a Richard Ramirez

    • @byron3907
      @byron3907 4 년 전 +237

      Ah i see what you did there..! (The reference)

    • @mooncrack8104
      @mooncrack8104 4 년 전 +115

      I’ll trade my zodiac for your Fisher!

    • @adambump5297
      @adambump5297 4 년 전 +173

      I'll give you an Axeman for a Jack the Ripper and an Iceman for a Doctor Death.

    • @Visarly
      @Visarly 4 년 전 +105

      Uh oh.... I’ll trade Gacy for Dahmer

  • @italianinitalics4302
    @italianinitalics4302 4 년 전 +889

    Gacys 800th escaped victim: *rushes into the police station covered in blood yelling about a guy named John Wayne gacy*
    The police: “are you Shuuure he’s such a nice guyyyy”

    • @user-eu8kr5ub5m
      @user-eu8kr5ub5m 3 년 전 +46

      “Well I invited him over the other night and he brought over THE most delicious chicken casserole. I really can’t see how that talented of a cook could do that.”

    • @Carlosrastar123
      @Carlosrastar123 3 년 전 +5

      That's what they say about Tom Hanks!

    • @Me-dd7jv
      @Me-dd7jv 3 년 전 +5

      @@user-eu8kr5ub5m plot twist:that wasn't actually chicken that was human meat from the people he killed

    • @its_-gf9be
      @its_-gf9be 3 년 전 +2

      basically killing stalking

    • @kariellemalcolm331
      @kariellemalcolm331 년 전 +2

      i thought he only killed 33

  • @jakey-mcfc7563
    @jakey-mcfc7563 4 년 전 +1068

    “Mr Gacy, are you Innocent”
    “Well yes, but also no.”

    • @dortesandal4303
      @dortesandal4303 3 년 전 +3

      It is a complete Peter Griffin answer,,,and unbelievably more comforting when Peter says it.

    • @supportyourtroopsathletes6460
      @supportyourtroopsathletes6460 3 년 전 +1

      Admitting partial guilt today is pleading "no contest" same thing near enough.

  • @mckenna8663
    @mckenna8663 4 년 전 +1981

    One of my high school friends was one of his victims.... Edited: since they mentioned him by name.. my dear high school friend was John Szyc. We lost touch after he graduated (he was two years older than me), but I heard that he had left the area and no one had heard from him. the story didn't make total sense to me because he had left behind a few things that he wouldn't have traveled without. Then when I was at a New Year's Eve party (Gacy was already in custody they were finding bodies), I overheard a news broadcast that said that John's school ring was found in Gacy's house. John's ring was a beautiful Sapphire School ring. He loved that ring and would never part with it. Upon hearing that news, though John was not identified yet, I knew he was one of the victims. Here I had thought, hoped and prayed that John just took off to a different part of the country and was living a happy life. And I remember being shocked sick upon hearing the news.

    • @itpaynesme
      @itpaynesme 4 년 전 +136

      Mc Kenna I’m sorry for your loss

    • @kitteekittee4010
      @kitteekittee4010 4 년 전 +60

      Im sorry :(

    • @hellothere8870
      @hellothere8870 4 년 전 +21

      did you guys go to maine west?

    • @mckenna8663
      @mckenna8663 4 년 전 +97

      @@hellothere8870 yes. I believe a number of his victims were from the high school or schools (graduates) in the the area. It's not a small suburb/area. So though I knew one, I didn't know any of the others.

    • @caitlynroberts3100
      @caitlynroberts3100 4 년 전 +34

      Mc Kenna I’m so sorry. That’s terrible.

  • @ig1398
    @ig1398 4 년 전 +1848

    so what im hearing is he was able to continue killing because the police didnt do their job .... sad

    • @TheBeautyScientist
      @TheBeautyScientist 4 년 전 +90

      Typical policemen in the 70s. Thats why most of them get away with it. Jeffrey dahmer did too alot of times.

    • @angelguerrero8394
      @angelguerrero8394 4 년 전 +67

      Like with the zodiac killer they had him and didn't hear right and were looking for a African american. I don't understand why American people don't want to accept that they go some crazy as people

    • @themarquis8716
      @themarquis8716 4 년 전 +1

      and typical

    • @wrenc8672
      @wrenc8672 4 년 전 +3

      its frighteningly common

    • @ellycruz534
      @ellycruz534 4 년 전 +2

      Nope! That’s not the case:) Officers were given small pieces of evidence at the time, but never had enough to do a full investigation or obtain a warrant until there had been multiple big pieces of evidence, and then the police immediately began an investigation, and he was later found guilty and all that. :)

  • @leahelle1081
    @leahelle1081 4 년 전 +279

    The fact that multiple people complained shows that people’s deaths are authorities faults too

  • @RoachDogg
    @RoachDogg 4 년 전 +2042

    Pogo the clown? I thought that was Ryan’s other personality

  • @PublicOfDisturbance
    @PublicOfDisturbance 4 년 전 +955

    He actually lived in DesPlaines (also by O’Hare. My father actually had to walk by his house everyday to get to school and he said it always smelled weird by that area

  • @anniezawada5217
    @anniezawada5217 4 년 전 +349

    The guy who’s high school ring they found, lived across the street from where I live now. His brother still takes care of the property. It’s crazy that all this happened where I live and a lot of the boys went to the same high school I did

    • @gabrielattridgefuentes4961
      @gabrielattridgefuentes4961 4 년 전 +29

      There's another guy in the comments going by "Mckenna", that posted about a month ago too saying he knew a victim & mentioned a class ring as well. Are you two the same person or do you both just happen to know the same murder victim??

    • @mariahcarey9470
      @mariahcarey9470 4 년 전 +2

      @@gabrielattridgefuentes4961 i was just about to comment that!!!

    • @bratmojmojbrat7727
      @bratmojmojbrat7727 4 년 전 +3

      @@gabrielattridgefuentes4961 Imagine you life be so bad that you literally copy someone comment for likes. hahahah.

    • @TahtahmesDiary
      @TahtahmesDiary 4 년 전 +9

      @@gabrielattridgefuentes4961 This all happened in the same town, likely some of the victims knew each other too!

    • @anniezawada5217
      @anniezawada5217 3 년 전 +7

      I’m 23 so I only know the story that the victims brother told my parents. It’s pretty well known that he was fought because of the Maine west class ring. It’s entirely possible that the other commenter knows him too

  • @patpatpatpatsquire
    @patpatpatpatsquire 4 년 전 +275

    They arrested him to prevent him from committing suicide.
    Oh how times have changed!!!

    • @minchoochoo
      @minchoochoo 4 년 전 +24

      i think they did this because theyre already suspicious of him and if he did commit suicide, they cant prosecute him

    • @patpatpatpatsquire
      @patpatpatpatsquire 4 년 전 +26

      @@minchoochooit's a jeffrey epstein joke

    • @minchoochoo
      @minchoochoo 4 년 전 +5

      @@patpatpatpatsquire oh jokes on me for not getting that lol

    • @laurabaca9683
      @laurabaca9683 4 년 전 +3

      I wonder if he knew the Clinton's.

    • @JTScott1988
      @JTScott1988 4 년 전

      Epstein committed suicide. He couldnt wiggle outta life in prison like he did in 2006.

  • @tigipilled
    @tigipilled 4 년 전 +576

    this mans decided dr jekyll and mr hyde was a good book huh

    • @viktorvictorian4206
      @viktorvictorian4206 4 년 전 +12

      rai well I mean it is a good book.

    • @Naharu.
      @Naharu. 4 년 전 +2

      How dare you? *how dare you?*

    • @tigipilled
      @tigipilled 4 년 전 +1

      Milo The Floofy Boi if only i could read it

    • @sheeperscreepers6482
      @sheeperscreepers6482 4 년 전

      this comment sent me

    • @viktorvictorian4206
      @viktorvictorian4206 4 년 전 +1

      rai search your local library or book store and look for Robert Stevenson, the book is pretty easy to find once you know where to look.

  • @woah4848
    @woah4848 4 년 전 +152

    JWG: ok so I did kill s guy.. he’s under the garage
    Police: find multiple bodies in a different part of the house that isn’t the garage
    JWG: you weren’t supposed to do that

  • @Miss_J
    @Miss_J 4 년 전 +286

    They didn't mention that the house actually smelled from the bodies.

    • @hugh_jas1337
      @hugh_jas1337 4 년 전 +80

      Well when there's 20+ bodies under a house it kind of goes without saying that it didnt smell pleasant

    • @user-tx9qq3uq7k
      @user-tx9qq3uq7k 2 년 전

      Julia Lordhutchiinson, ho do uu know that, hav eyou llived nearby at the time of the crriimes or wat?

    • @magentuspriest
      @magentuspriest 2 년 전 +3

      @@user-tx9qq3uq7k me can speek engish 2

    • @user-tx9qq3uq7k
      @user-tx9qq3uq7k 2 년 전 +3

      @@magentuspriest my english is stellar lol. i studied in england from year 8 till year 13 in school, and then + 3 years in Uni

    • @ayesteriia
      @ayesteriia 2 년 전 +4

      @@user-tx9qq3uq7k learn how to spell

  • @younglobwedge
    @younglobwedge 4 년 전 +396

    Anyone who dresses as a clown in their part time is sus to me.

    • @huncho386
      @huncho386 4 년 전 +4

      Jess W im reporting you to the FBI

    • @onlyhuman5669
      @onlyhuman5669 4 년 전

      @Jess W ew wtf

    • @bruhno253
      @bruhno253 3 년 전 +7

      @@onlyhuman5669 what did he say he deleted his comment lol

    • @onlyhuman5669
      @onlyhuman5669 3 년 전 +2

      @@bruhno253 idk I forgot
      But prolly something really disgusting 😅

    • @VolksdeutscheSS
      @VolksdeutscheSS 2 년 전

      Absolutely. More "red flags" that were ignored.

  • @a.a.3478
    @a.a.3478 4 년 전 +97

    i really love "how they were caught," it's so precise & straightforward and the narrator's voice is perfect for this

  • @colleennanette6666
    @colleennanette6666 4 년 전 +265

    Okay kids so what did we learn today? Not to trust clowns.

  • @HipHopScenedaily
    @HipHopScenedaily 3 년 전 +73

    How the hell did 29 bodies fit in a crawl space and how did it smell

    • @gramgram2716
      @gramgram2716 3 년 전 +20

      HipHop Scene apparently it was so bad that the bodies were melting together and almost even liquified.

    • @stannct26
      @stannct26 3 년 전 +7

      @Gram Gram thats disgusting

    • @kaoru0001
      @kaoru0001 2 년 전

      @@stannct26 Delicious

  • @nativelatinosfooktrump5348

    😶 if you binge watch serial killer documentaries scary movies aren't going to be that scary to you

    • @lIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlI
      @lIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlI 4 년 전 +8

      Say word

    • @jesnamargret165
      @jesnamargret165 4 년 전 +9

      Yea, last few seconds of this video gave me creeps.. 'some people are pure evil' 😷

    • @blueeyes6852
      @blueeyes6852 4 년 전 +6

      Ummm....I've been watching what you just stated, more years than you've prolly been alive😄 I still am scared to death! But I've had to fight off some bad people, so maybe I'm a little more paranoid than you! Ha Hah! 😅

    • @blueeyes6852
      @blueeyes6852 4 년 전 +4

      @@jesnamargret165 Take up a martial art! It saved my life more than once! 😃

    • @nativelatinosfooktrump5348
      @nativelatinosfooktrump5348 4 년 전 +2

      Blue Is yeah you're part of the problem

  • @jloose5212
    @jloose5212 4 년 전 +447

    How they were caught ideas;
    The nightstalker
    The toolbox killers
    Wayne Williams
    Manson family
    Toy box killer
    Green river killer
    Suggest who you’d like to see in a video in the comments

    • @courtneyknox7893
      @courtneyknox7893 4 년 전 +3

      The Brotherhood of Eternal Love Cult is a good one too

    • @winendesertrose
      @winendesertrose 4 년 전 +11

      Freeway Killer bonin. One of my classmates was killed by that evil bastard. Hope there's a hell for people like that.

    • @TheMadman-qy5sv
      @TheMadman-qy5sv 4 년 전 +1

      Richard Chase
      David Ray Parker
      Peter Kurten

    • @savannahshotts9070
      @savannahshotts9070 4 년 전 +3

      Israel Keyes is interesting and one of the scariest since he basically gave himself away.

    • @killuazoldyck_
      @killuazoldyck_ 4 년 전 +1

      You seems like you enjoy these story just warned you jigsaw is coming.

  • @ripgloryboy
    @ripgloryboy 4 년 전 +80

    “I’ll show you where I killed this man, but remember it was in self defense”
    *Leads them to the crawl space*

    • @krysila7722
      @krysila7722 2 년 전 +3

      He buried that guy under his garage.

  • @phonomime
    @phonomime 4 년 전 +264

    Buzzfeed Unsolved: "John Wayne Gacy"
    Also Buzzfeed Unsolved: "wOuLd YoU sLeEp wiTh a dEmOn tHo?

  • @YakiDah
    @YakiDah 4 년 전 +654

    Sir this is Wendy's drive through

  • @adorbiedoll421
    @adorbiedoll421 4 년 전 +1802

    Ok hear me out. What if, instead of buzzfeed unsolved, Shane and Ryan did a season of “buzzfeed, SO solved”? There’s only so many unsolved cases with theories. Maybe they cover known serial killers and go check out their stomping grounds? Mixing true crime and supernatural for lingering spirits 🤷‍♀️ #buzzfeedunsolved #truecrime #shaniac #NewbieCommenter

    • @charlesharsha4568
      @charlesharsha4568 4 년 전 +57

      Definitely something i would watch. But there is so many unsolved stuff out there. Regardless, I'll watch whatever content they put out

    • @annabelleadams2768
      @annabelleadams2768 4 년 전 +5

      Caitlin Hicks that would be cool

    • @Amplyfii
      @Amplyfii 4 년 전 +5

      I’ve always wanted them to do this, it would be so cool

    • @boomwizardyt7228
      @boomwizardyt7228 4 년 전 +3

      Awesome idea approve 👍

    • @vexhen
      @vexhen 4 년 전 +3

      @buzzfeed MAKE IT HAPPEN

  • @kyahlewis9742
    @kyahlewis9742 4 년 전 +120

    The scary thing is he could have gotten away with this if he wasn’t so careless

  • @alainconnelly8870
    @alainconnelly8870 4 년 전 +32

    If there is a hell, Gacy is in it.

  • @StaresTheLastofUs
    @StaresTheLastofUs 3 년 전 +45

    The scary thing is, when he was caught he knew exactly why he was being arrested and he said something like “have the others being caught yet?” Which means he had accomplices...

    • @ninajmisfit13
      @ninajmisfit13 년 전 +4

      That’s what I’m saying!!! I think that too!

    • @jayxfrost8987
      @jayxfrost8987 년 전

      A lot of serial killers overlapped back then.

  • @malahape
    @malahape 4 년 전 +404

    gacy: i'm not guilty!
    police: .... of the things you just told us about?
    gacy: exactly!
    police: ... of all the bodies we found in your home? and the others we found in the river?
    gacy: ...
    police: ...
    gacy: .... exactly!

    • @MrVsteel
      @MrVsteel 3 년 전

      Judge 1: Evidence speaks volumes compared to the cries of denial. Criminology as a cause only amplifies the determination of the endocrine system's natural will to survive when forced into fight or flight. (my own words, go quote yourself)
      Judge 2:
      3: ...
      4: ....
      5. ...

  • @rickmanalwayss
    @rickmanalwayss 3 년 전 +30

    I live in Illinois, really close to where Gacy was. Everyone here seems to have a story about him, so here's mine. Most of my family has lived here for years. My great grandparents lived on the same street as Gacy. When my mom was really little, she and her brother were over at their house for the day. They were playing in the front yard when the police came to excavate the crawl space. My great grandparents took them inside, so they didn't see anything, but it's still eerie.

  • @yumayae8514
    @yumayae8514 4 년 전 +37

    Yeeeesss I was waiting for another one of the 'How they were caught' videos! Great work guys!

  • @JackSmith-yz9il
    @JackSmith-yz9il 4 년 전 +62

    So what I’m getting is that in the 70-80s what was really popular
    Drugs
    Alcohol
    And
    Serial killers

    • @bookadmirer.3699
      @bookadmirer.3699 4 년 전 +5

      And inept police departments.

    • @kiambo1601
      @kiambo1601 4 년 전

      @@bookadmirer.3699 yes some White stuff was also popular

    • @Jiff321
      @Jiff321 3 년 전

      @@bookadmirer.3699 No DNA, no video, no internet, cant blame them for missing things.

  • @murdermygymsox
    @murdermygymsox 4 년 전 +34

    It’s so crazy how many times it takes the police to get involved before they become suspicious. This isn’t the only case like this also :/

  • @supamvp30
    @supamvp30 4 년 전 +82

    70s the Era of Serial Killers
    2000s the Era of School Shooters

    • @MiraSubieGirl
      @MiraSubieGirl 3 년 전 +3

      2010s Islamic Terrorism
      2020s Politicial gap widening and Civil War/rioting
      2030s oh how I wonder :))) cant wait!

    • @lucysrocky4743
      @lucysrocky4743 3 년 전

      That's just America some of us have gun laws

    • @iamjobu6101
      @iamjobu6101 3 년 전

      @@MiraSubieGirl you really think Islamic terrorism was a 2010s problem? You must be 11 then

    • @MiraSubieGirl
      @MiraSubieGirl 3 년 전

      @@iamjobu6101 ...? Was it not a problem?
      You taken your meds today?

    • @iamjobu6101
      @iamjobu6101 3 년 전

      @@MiraSubieGirl I never said it wasn’t a problem. I meant it wasn’t just a problem in 2010. Jackass

  • @aubrey4228
    @aubrey4228 4 년 전 +95

    if i had a birthday party and pogo the clown showed up i'd have died right then and there

  • @Xxxxxxoxx
    @Xxxxxxoxx 4 년 전 +207

    His eyes look empty. He has no soul

    • @DresdenShuffle
      @DresdenShuffle 4 년 전 +15

      X Serial killers tend to look like sharks before they go in for the bite.

    • @zz7733
      @zz7733 4 년 전 +29

      I mean he raped and killed boys before lining his walls with them. If that’s not demonic idk what is.

    • @ericanton7
      @ericanton7 4 년 전

      Noone has a soul.

    • @primroserain1739
      @primroserain1739 3 년 전

      @@ericanton7 agreed

    • @autismospectrumlini914
      @autismospectrumlini914 3 년 전

      He’s a good guy

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican 4 년 전 +290

    Pogo the Clown? Pennywise would teach him a lesson

  • @bomoore9872
    @bomoore9872 3 년 전 +45

    can we normalize how scary life can be for men and boys too? Its just not as spoken of but this is a great example

    • @UnleashedTraining101
      @UnleashedTraining101 2 년 전 +2

      Exactly right. Being a victim has no gender, it can happen to anyone. I was sexually molested at age 7. My dad bashed the guy pretty bad later because he lived next door and was actually friends with my parents. I was jumped in an ally by 3 guys when I worked security, but thankfully they were useless and couldn't fight at all. Then in 2004 I was abducted during an armed robbery and held hostage in a car travelling all through western Sydney. Women are more likely to be victims of sexual violence, but it still happens to men. But I will say one thing, and that is that men are more likely to be offenders. And I think that comes down to capability. There are plenty of female offenders, but nowhere near as many as men. That's not to downplay the role of cruel women though.

  • @duckymomolovercandacegertr2115

    Omg. This was only seven minutes yet it felt like an hour's worth of narration. Very chilling. Buzzfeed ya'll are doing some great work!

  • @DresdenShuffle
    @DresdenShuffle 4 년 전 +31

    Having a serial killer clown at my birthday party would probably be the highlight of said birthday.

  • @4scene2blame
    @4scene2blame 4 년 전 +11

    Into the Woods had some good advice: "Nice is different than good."

  • @nmsalas21
    @nmsalas21 4 년 전 +27

    Wow I just realized it’s “quote unquote” instead of “quote on quote” from this video

  • @daisybread6226
    @daisybread6226 4 년 전 +13

    My great aunt lived a few houses down from Gacy (still does actually) and she went to high school with one of the victims, Gregory Godzik.

  • @Dxco31
    @Dxco31 4 년 전 +30

    Gaycy: I confess that I kill 32 people
    Judge: what's your plea deal?
    Gaycy: NoT gUiLtY

  • @enabalinaa
    @enabalinaa 4 년 전 +175

    ive never seen a video say "uploaded a minute ago" yeet

  • @Lizzie-ve7kt
    @Lizzie-ve7kt 3 년 전 +9

    When Gacy said clowns can get away with murder, I think his statement is actually very telling and less literal than just a reference to his moonlighting as Pogo the clown, I think he was saying that when you’re a “clown” as in a well-liked, funny person who likes to goof around then no one takes you seriously or even thinks of the possibility that you could be threat, especially as people will laugh things off if they thinking you’re joking, meaning you could get away with a lot of things.

  • @krissywoowoo
    @krissywoowoo 4 년 전 +12

    I've watched and read about many different serial killers. JWG is one of the ones that always stood out and freaked me out to the core.

    • @holeephuk1161
      @holeephuk1161 4 년 전 +2

      Ted bundy, & jeffery dahmer were also hectic as well

    • @krissywoowoo
      @krissywoowoo 4 년 전 +1

      @@holeephuk1161 I agree and BTK got me too because it's very close to home.

  • @Cecerainbow
    @Cecerainbow 3 년 전 +17

    The story of his last victim just haunts me till these day. He was a beautiful young man who was just looking for a way to earn some extra cash. He’s willing to work hard but little did he know it will end his life. If only he just stay at the pharmacy. And this all happen on his mother’s birthday! She probably can’t celebrate her birthday again. As a mother myself I just can’t imagine! Do you know how hard it to raise a child & this sick bastard just take away her child just like that! Same goes to all of his victims. Im just so sad & angry at the same time 😫😡 *sorry for this long rant

  • @BaltimoreColt
    @BaltimoreColt 4 년 전 +105

    Me: "I've been drugged, handcuffed, strangled, and raped by John Wayne Gacy and he buried me under his house."
    My boss: "But you'll still be at work tomorrow, right?"

    • @jeromeking46
      @jeromeking46 4 년 전 +7

      Baltimore Colt idk if I should laugh 😂😂😂 or smh 🤦‍♂️ 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @MM-jz1om
    @MM-jz1om 4 년 전 +41

    "...typically strangled his vicitims with another trick - a rope around their neck"
    Nice trick

  • @summerclay4516
    @summerclay4516 4 년 전 +7

    I've been watching so many of these. They're so addictive

  • @haleydubz
    @haleydubz 4 년 전 +42

    i live in his town and everyone still talks about him

  • @bullie86
    @bullie86 4 년 전 +155

    “....strangled his victims with a rope. Around the neck.” Really? Not around their feet?

    • @themarquis8716
      @themarquis8716 4 년 전 +1

      i shouldnt laugh LOLOLOL

    • @russtownsend2898
      @russtownsend2898 4 년 전 +2

      I'm thinking he was busy,strangulation around the feet would have taken a little longer!

    • @ammedia9870
      @ammedia9870 2 년 전 +2

      Due to time constraints he decided strangulation around the neck would suffice but originally he had wanted strangulation around their feet.

    • @bullie86
      @bullie86 2 년 전

      Yeah I can’t test any feet choking theories for ya. You guys are on your own. 😂

  • @adltjo8682
    @adltjo8682 4 년 전 +21

    "Not all friendly people are good people. Some are pure evil and full of tricks."
    Would you say he was just...
    *clowning around?*

  • @zipsey
    @zipsey 3 년 전

    not a big buzzfeed buzz, but i like the narration snd narrative. keep up the good work yall.

  • @bryanfindley1438
    @bryanfindley1438 4 년 전

    great production, and narration

  • @jarolvvz
    @jarolvvz 4 년 전 +4

    the facts that it’s exactly midnight and my LED lights are red makes the experience chilling while watching this

  • @poindextertunes
    @poindextertunes 4 년 전 +24

    Gacy: I’m innocent
    Also Gacy: Clowns get away with murder

  • @inactive6155
    @inactive6155 4 년 전 +1

    0:49
    Okay, so I have watched *all* of Buzzfeed Unsolved True Crime *and* Supernatural. And bonus I watch them at night. It doesn't really freak me out. But Gacys' smiling mugshot literally sent a shiver down my spine. I don't know why.

  • @crystalv7288
    @crystalv7288 4 년 전 +12

    ❤️❤️❤️
    I just wanted to comment on your Tombstone video. I know it's old but I must say, you were on point. I was a paranormal investigator for 3yrs and quit because I wasn't finding ANYTHING. A few years ago, I visited Tombstone just because...I mean it's Tombstone. No intent to look for ghosts. What I found was amazing. It was hardcore proof. In one video of my tourism excitement, I heard my name whispered by someone definitely not human. At the Birdcage, oh my. So much activity. Anyways, just wanted to say good job!!!

  • @deethearies
    @deethearies 4 년 전 +204

    Hold on..so it’s quote unquote and not quote on quote? I-

  • @brianni3
    @brianni3 4 년 전 +3

    i used to live in the street past this house! I lived on berwyn street when I was younger and I remember my over protective dad would insist on me trick-or-treating in a completely different neighborhood. (Mind you, the street I lived on was all apartments so the closest street with "approachable" houses was on W Summerdale, the connecting street to Berwyn and the location of John Wayne Gacy's house. Crazy that his actions still affected the neighborhood decades after his capture.

  • @Visarly
    @Visarly 4 년 전 +3

    How is it that I know all this information on all these serial killers and yet I still find all these videos fascinating

  • @lex-ov6wh
    @lex-ov6wh 4 년 전 +13

    who would let a stranger handcuff them?? but i think its so sad that some of his victims are still unidentified to this day

  • @C-BassFromJakePhoenix
    @C-BassFromJakePhoenix 3 년 전 +10

    The police dropped the ball so many times with this.

  • @WhiteRescuer
    @WhiteRescuer 4 년 전 +16

    Batman's lore just got so much deeper.

  • @cheeseburgerbackpack2299

    This dudes voice makes me tired and scared at the same time. I love it.

  • @crishoudini2232
    @crishoudini2232 4 년 전

    great video buzzfeed. thanks.

  • @Im__A__Fan
    @Im__A__Fan 3 년 전 +12

    Him: "Im innocent!!"
    Also him: "I killed a man, I was the judge, jury, and executioner of many, many people"

  • @glamoursangel
    @glamoursangel 4 년 전 +4

    I live in Illinois by this area...been to the street where his house was. Parked in front of the new house...it has a different address number...it is freaking creepy

  • @eetujaako9894
    @eetujaako9894 2 년 전 +1

    Fun fact:
    Acid Bath - 'When the Kite String Pops' album artwork is a self-portrait made by John Wayne Cacy.
    (it's one of my favorite albums)

  • @junglemania6406
    @junglemania6406 4 년 전

    Your narrating voice is amazing

  • @HawlyAly
    @HawlyAly 4 년 전 +62

    This sounds like Ryan with the pitch of his voice altered guys.

    • @keidaniell9666
      @keidaniell9666 4 년 전 +4

      you think so? to me the speech pattern is different

    • @hotpinkcrayolas
      @hotpinkcrayolas 4 년 전

      That sounds like wishful thinking x

    • @itpaynesme
      @itpaynesme 4 년 전

      Ryan wouldn’t need to alter his voice for a voiceover & if he’d do a video, he has a big enough fan base to be recognised for it so they wouldn’t change his voice.

  • @Sophia-vs2ht
    @Sophia-vs2ht 4 년 전 +16

    My friends grandma was actually really close friends with him!

  • @dennysantibanez8205

    Make a series!!! On this man

  • @RollerCodsterWFEW
    @RollerCodsterWFEW 4 년 전 +1

    These videos are awesome, keep em' comin! :) ;)

  • @jefferysterner
    @jefferysterner 3 년 전 +3

    I grew up during the 1970s less than 1 mile from where this all happened and my uncle who was also in construction knew him. I was just young enough to be spared the possibility of being a victim.

  • @ByElectricc
    @ByElectricc 4 년 전 +3

    My uncle was correctional officer at menard. He once told me that gacy told him they are never gonna catch me. All they got on me is running a cemetery without a license.

  • @sailorrosethemagicalwriter

    Last October I watched the Ghost Adventures Serial Killer Spirits special and John Gacy was one of them. I even have a college professor who's a true crime author

  • @jemmaisweird
    @jemmaisweird 4 년 전

    Honestly this is my favourite series on the channel that isn’t the main show and the post mortem

  • @RubyPatino
    @RubyPatino 4 년 전 +5

    He actually kidnapped a guy that went to the high school I used to go to. I think his name was Robert and I’m sure he was the last victim before he was caught. He lived in Des Plaines, which is where I live, I’m pretty sure his body was dumped in the Des Plaines River too.

  • @dianahernandez8458
    @dianahernandez8458 4 년 전 +6

    If only this video existed when I had to do a project on him for my forensic class

  • @markmoire8969
    @markmoire8969 4 년 전 +3

    One of my dads friends was there when they had to pull out the kids bodies. He said he didn’t see them, but people who did were freaking out and crying

  • @maryjocoleman2677
    @maryjocoleman2677 4 년 전 +3

    It’s so weird hearing your town and the school in your town like on a buzzfeed video

    • @RubyPatino
      @RubyPatino 4 년 전 +1

      Maryjo Coleman ikr 👀 I go to Maine west and live in des Plaines

    • @maryjocoleman2677
      @maryjocoleman2677 3 년 전

      Ruby Patino I live in DP also!!! But I go to Elk Grove even tho I live near Maine West 😞

    • @RubyPatino
      @RubyPatino 3 년 전

      Maryjo Coleman Walt why? How does that work?

    • @maryjocoleman2677
      @maryjocoleman2677 3 년 전

      Ruby Patino the borders are whack 😞 it’s this tiny little section of des plaines that goes to EGHS despite me being able to drive to Maine west in like 3 min

  • @laurena2588
    @laurena2588 4 년 전 +10

    Investigators: Are we sure there’s only one body on the property?
    John Gacy: Ah, there is another...

  • @isabellarose4426
    @isabellarose4426 4 년 전 +23

    my aunt’s friend was michael bobbin’s sister, he was one of the victims

  • @kelseyb2585
    @kelseyb2585 4 년 전 +1

    Less than 10 seconds & Im already freaking out...

  • @stephanieallen2410
    @stephanieallen2410 4 년 전 +13

    @buzzfeed you need to send Ryan and shane to sloss fright furnace in Birmingham Alabama. Its extremely haunted.

    • @kiwikiwi5671
      @kiwikiwi5671 4 년 전 +2

      Yasssss!!!!!!! I hate that place. Only haunted spot here in bama that truly creeps me out

    • @fhermendoza7421
      @fhermendoza7421 4 년 전

      Yesssssss!!!!

  • @kiwivii
    @kiwivii 4 년 전 +25

    people in the 1900’s: *why do i hear boss music?*

    • @andrewwf458
      @andrewwf458 4 년 전

      In the forest chillin...
      Suddenly music...
      Wtf..
      Hi I'm Pogo.

  • @tatangadragon
    @tatangadragon 4 년 전 +26

    Gacy:
    *So anyways I started killing*

  • @texas1949
    @texas1949 3 년 전 +2

    Yikes! When this was all happening and in the news, I was a senior in HS and it was sooooooo scary and weird!!!!!! We all talked about it in home room every morning. 😵😵😵😵😵

  • @ashlynboone_
    @ashlynboone_ 4 년 전 +56

    I'm gonna have to watch this when i wake up. I'm off to bed

  • @teiahwallace6665
    @teiahwallace6665 3 년 전 +10

    My friends dad & his friend at the time (they were about both 15) were actually picked up by Gacy! They were picked up by him & were told they could make some quick money by helping him on a construction job. It wasn’t until Gacy started to touch my friends dads friend that my friends dad pulled a pocket knife on Gacy & they were dropped off on the side of the road. Months later they saw his same truck on tv & realized who he was!

  • @erinmatthews4597
    @erinmatthews4597 4 년 전 +4

    When john wayne gacy was on death row a student from our school newspaper wrote him a letter. He wrote back and they found it again last year. A teacher had it

  • @PhantomStella
    @PhantomStella 4 년 전

    This series is interesting!

  • @fandomsgaloreiloveit
    @fandomsgaloreiloveit 4 년 전 +3

    This series is very helpful, I haven't gotten caught yet!