“Clowns can get away with murder,” John Wayne Gacy told retired Des Plaines police officer David Hachmeister during a 10-day surveillance operation. The statement made the hair on the investigator’s head stand up. Over the course of Peacock’s original’s six-part docuseries John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise, Hachmeister’s follicles come to perform routine calisthenics.
Gacy is best known as the “Killer Clown,” but what sent Hachmeister’s neurological system into overdrive was how normal this clown appeared to be. That is the biggest reveal and the most common thread across the narrative. Gacy wasn’t Heath Ledger’s Joker in The Dark Knight, and even less like Joaquim Phoenix’s neurotic take. Gacy wasn’t socially inept, he wasn’t freakish, and he certainly wasn’t a loner. He was politically connected, threw a popular annual neighborhood picnic, ran the Polish Constitution Day Parade, and had...
Gacy is best known as the “Killer Clown,” but what sent Hachmeister’s neurological system into overdrive was how normal this clown appeared to be. That is the biggest reveal and the most common thread across the narrative. Gacy wasn’t Heath Ledger’s Joker in The Dark Knight, and even less like Joaquim Phoenix’s neurotic take. Gacy wasn’t socially inept, he wasn’t freakish, and he certainly wasn’t a loner. He was politically connected, threw a popular annual neighborhood picnic, ran the Polish Constitution Day Parade, and had...
- 3/25/2021
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
More to the story? An exclusive clip from Peacock's John Wayne Gacy: Devil In Disguise, which premieres March 25 on the NBCUniversal streaming service, has us asking this very question. The upcoming docu-series takes a closer look at the dark crimes committed by John Wayne Gacy and, in the exclusive footage obtained by E! News, it's questioned whether the whole truth surrounding the serial killings has been revealed. "I came to Chicago in 1994, I was the news reporter for the morning show," news reporter and anchor Larry Potash notes in a confessional. "I never imagined the twists and turns of a story like this, that were unresolved after all these years." As he continues, Potash says...
- 3/23/2021
- E! Online
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