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He loved doing that. broderick: he was actually a real clown. .who did tricks for little kids. and he was in a union and all that. he got kids laughing. he had little hand puppets. he had a squeaky voice that would talk to the children, and they would talk back. gacy: pogo the clown was the clowning that i did for charity hospital work for the democratic party. pogo comes from being polish and on the go all the time. so it s po-go. broderick: he got pleasure out of performing for people, particularly little kids, in hospitals. he d see this kid who s got leukemia and is, you know, diagnosed incurable. he d do his clown act and cry on their behalf. ....
He knew his father hated homosexuals. his father would have absolutely, positively killed him. so john wayne gacy did what everyone did back then. he got married, he had two kids, and he kept his secret life a secret. broderick: he was living in iowa, and he was working for kfc. he had a normal job. he was a member of the jaycees. he had a wife. he had a normal life. he wanted to show his dad that he should be proud of what he s doing in his life. cahill: i think his dad might even have said, john, i was wrong about you. that was a very significant moment for john s father s approval all his life. there was some evidence during those years that john was gonna be a normal, suburban guy. ....
Amirante: one day he called me. he said, it s very, very important i talk to you. i have to tell you something. gacy sits down, and he tells me the same old. about robbie piest, vehemently, unequivocally denied. i took the newspaper with robbie piest s picture. i threw it in front of him, and i said, look at this kid. john, look at him. he s a good kid. he s missing. he looked at the picture. he said, you know what? this boy this boy s dead. i said, what do you mean? he goes, i ve been a judge, jury, and executioner of many, many people. even now my hair stands up on end thinking of hearing those words. he said, i m gonna tell you the whole story from the beginning. it started in 1972. i was cruising around . broderick: he s cruising the greyhound bus station, and he sees a kid that looks kind of on his own. ....
The final trick was the rope trick. broderick: the rope trick was a thing that he developed. put the rope around the kid s neck, and he would use, like, the handle for a hammer or any kind of strong piece of wood that he had handy. .and then twist it, twist it, twist it. he had arranged it in such a way it was lodged against the kid s back. the more he struggled, the tighter it got. hachmeister: and he got so good at this rope trick. at every half turn, the body would start reacting a little bit differently, and he knew exactly what he could do or not do with the body at that point. so he had it down to a science. pretty eerie and pretty creepy. ....
Duke: but it s not long before gacy is back to pursuing his secret life, and carole starts to suspect something. i was finding a lot of books in the house of nude men. he would not have much to do with me. we hardly had any sex. and he found it very difficult to have anything to do with me. he did a lot of masturbating, which i knew about. duke: and it wasn t long before their marriage falls apart. after carole moved out with the girls, john had the house at 8213 summerdale to himself. john actually called those years from 76 to 78 his cruising days. broderick: john wayne gacy had sex with hundreds at least and maybe more kids. but he wasn t looking for victims, ....