VIDEO: Killer Clown – John Wayne Gacy

Creepy clown sightings have become an increasingly common occurrence in the US, Australia and Canada. Fuelled by social media, they are now on the rise in the UK, too. Police have reported dozens of cases where individuals dressed as clowns have terrified passers-by.

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People love playing jokes on their friends and I think we can all agree that clowns are pretty creepy, so all these killer clown sightings are nothing but hoaxes and pranks.

What’s truly scary is the fact that an actual killer clown existed – John Wayne Gacy. He sexually assaulted, tortured and murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978 in Cook County, Illinois.

According to Wikipedia, on January 2, 1972, Gacy picked up 16-year-old Timothy Jack McCoy from Chicago’s Greyhound bus terminal. Gacy took McCoy—who was traveling from Michigan to Omaha—on a sightseeing tour of Chicago, and then drove him to his home with the promise that he could spend the night and be driven back to the station in time to catch his bus.

According to Gacy’s later account of the murder, he awoke the following morning to find McCoy standing in his bedroom doorway with a kitchen knife in his hand. Gacy leapt from his bed and McCoy raised both arms in a gesture of surrender, tilting the knife upwards and accidentally cutting Gacy’s forearm. Gacy had a scar on his arm which he said supports his account.

He then twisted the knife from McCoy’s wrist, banged his head against his bedroom wall, kicked him against his wardrobe and walked towards him. McCoy then kicked him in the stomach and Gacy grabbed the youth, wrestled him to the floor, then stabbed him repeatedly in the chest as he straddled him with his body.

Gacy claimed he then went to his kitchen and saw an opened carton of eggs and a slab of unsliced bacon on his kitchen table. McCoy had also set the table for two; he had walked into Gacy’s room to wake him while absentmindedly carrying the kitchen knife in his hand. Gacy subsequently buried McCoy in his crawl space and later covered the youth’s grave with a layer of concrete.

In an interview after his arrest, Gacy stated that immediately after killing McCoy, he felt “totally drained”, yet noted that he had experienced a mind-numbing orgasm as he killed the youth. He added: “That’s when I realized that death was the ultimate thrill.”

Gacy later stated that the second time he committed murder was around January 1974. The victim was an unidentified teenage youth with medium brown, curly hair estimated to be aged between 14 and 18 whom Gacy strangled before stowing the youth’s body in his closet prior to burial.

Gacy later stated that fluid leaked out of this youth’s mouth and nose as he was stored in his closet, staining his carpet. As a result of this experience, Gacy later stated he regularly stuffed cloth rags or the victims’ own underwear in their mouths to prevent a recurrence of this incident. This particular unidentified victim was buried about 15 feet (4.6 m) from the barbecue pit in Gacy’s backyard.