This is the stuff kids’ nightmares are made of.
In December 1978, the first of 33 bodies buried on John Wayne Gacy’s property was found. His hiding spot of choice? A crawl space under his house in Norwood Park Township. In fact, a total of 26 bodies were stuffed into that crawl space, as if he were a hoarder of the worst kind. Others were found outside the house and in waterways around the state.
Source: Chicago Tribune Archive
It’s been over four decades, and bodies are still being identified. To make things even creepier, the man responsible for all these deaths was a clown. That’s right: John Wayne Gacy was a killer clown. Those who hired him for their kids’ parties knew him as Pogo the Clown.