I think that he is proud of what he has done.
I think he's proud of the title that he's got
of largest mass murderer in the history
of the United States.
It's sick, but I think that he's proud of it.
I think he took out his sexual fantasies on these boys.
He accomplished his goal.
And then
he murdered them.
I'd castrate him for what he did to me and the others.
These people are talking about John Wayne Gacy.
On the surface, the divorced stepfather of two
seemed a solid citizen.
He owned a successful construction business
that he ran from his home in Cook County, Illinois,
a suburb of Chicago.
He was active enough in politics to have had
his picture taken with then First Lady Rosalynn Carter.
But the man who entertained neighborhood children
would soon become known as the Killer Clown,
a sexual psychopath who lured dozens of young male victims
to his house before assaulting and then murdering them.
Even with Gacy's handwritten map,
it took the police weeks to recover all of the bodies
he had buried in the crawlspace under his house.
Gacy had been killing and burying his victims
for at least four years.
Eleven of his victims have still not been identified.
In 1981, the courthouse here in Cook County, Illinois
was the site of John Wayne Gacy's trial for mass murder.
He was convicted and sentenced to death
for torturing and then killing 33 young men and boys.
10 years later, he's still alive.
But what infuriates the victims' relatives
even more than that is Gacy's newfound fame.
Personally, I believe he's the worst animal
who has existed during this century.
Terry Sullivan was the Cook County DA
who prosecuted John Wayne Gacy.
He says that since Gacy has been on death row,
he's taken up drawing, then painting,
and his ability to sell his artwork for thousands of dollars
is like salt in the wounds of his victims' relatives.
Yes, certainly his abilities to get his name out
and his paintings out, and all the rest of the things
outside of the jail walls, is something
that just adds another
burden to the back of the victims' families
that are out there right now.
Two years ago,
Gacy's paintings were exhibited in Boston.
The art show consisted of 20 of Gacy's paintings,
and it was a complete sellout.
As a result of his notoriety, Gacy has received
a great deal of mail from people around the country.
He corresponds with them on stationery bearing
his own personalized letterhead.
These letters and others have been compiled
in a new book about Gacy and his pen pals.
It has reportedly sold a substantial number of copies.
Why should John Wayne Gacy have anything?
He should have nothing.
All his rights should be taken from him for what he did.
I do not feel that a person who has committed
so many crimes and hurt so many people
should have anything available to 'em.
Nothing whatsoever.
Dolores Nieder's son John
worked in construction after he got out of the Marines.
His last job offer was obviously from Gacy.
The police found his remains with the others,
under Gacy's house.
When you lose a child, it's like taking
a little piece of your heart out.
Now Gacy has stolen something from me
that I just can't forgive him.
I can't forgive that man.
Do you blame me?
Do you think I have, I mean,
how can you forgive somebody who
ends a part of your life?
I can't do it.
I don't even think God would expect me to do that,
to tell you the truth.
Do you want Gacy executed?
Yes, I do.
I want Gacy to die.
The beginning of the end for Gacy
began in December 1978, when an investigation
into the disappearance of 15-year-old Rob Piest
led police to Gacy's house.
We found numerous piece of identification
that belonged to other young male individuals
and it didn't take too long to see that
there was a pattern here, that this identification
belonged to people who were missing
throughout the Chicago metro area.
In 1978, Joe Kozenczak was
the chief of detectives in the
Des Plaines, Illinois police department.
That was where Rob Piest lived
before his disappeared.
Joe says Gacy confessed to him in lurid detail.
John used to like to read the Bible,
certain excerpts from the Bible
to his victims while they were dying,
and was essentially
not finished with the victims once they died,
because he was a necrophiliac.
Tell me, how did he lure his victims?
He primarily used the guise of being a police officer.
John was into a police thing, he had a Chicago police star.
He had a car, he'd buy a brand new car every year
that would always be black.
On the way to his house, he was boasting
that he was a police officer.
And he showed me his gun.
And his car, it looked like a police car,
an unmarked police car,
it had a spotlight and everything.
This man, we'll call Jim,
doesn't want his identity revealed.
He met Gacy in a bar and was invited
to his house to do some drugs.
For some reason, he survived his ordeal,
and can now tell us what happened.
Did he give you drugs?
Yeah. And he'd tell me to try
this other stuff, it's better.
So I tried it, and a minute or so later, I passed out.
I ended up in the bedroom.
And he was muscling me.
He was sexually assaulting you.
Yes. And I tried to push him off, and I couldn't.
You're probably one of the few
that ever got away alive.
How did you do it?
I don't know.
I told him I wanted to go back to my car.
And he said, well, okay, I gotta go to church anyway,
so I'll give you a ride back.
And he gave me a ride back,
and he gave me a handful of speeders,
and I got back in my car and went home.
Like nothing happened.
Yeah.
What was your reaction when Gacy was arrested?
I got lucky.
I got lucky he didn't kill me.
But at least 33 others were not as lucky.
It's not fair.
When are all his appeals over?
When will his execution be carried out?
That's what I want to know.
Is it gonna be in my lifetime, or isn't it?
And nobody can give me an answer.