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Pogo the Clown: The Constructed Identity That Hid Thirty-Three Murders
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John Wayne Gacy didn't stumble into six years of undetected murder — he engineered it, building the persona of Pogo the Clown and a respected Chicago contractor as deliberate cover. This episode dissects the cold methodology behind thirty-three killings, the crawl space beneath Summerdale Avenue, and the fifteen-year-old whose disappearance finally broke the case.
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December thirteenth, nineteen seventy-eight. A fifteen-year-old boy tells his mother to wait a moment outside a pharmacy in Des Plaines, Illinois.
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