Beneath the quiet suburban home of John Wayne Gacy lay a nightmare few could imagine. In this episode, we descend into his basement of horrors, where Gacy dumped the bodies of 29 young men and boys into a cramped crawl space. To hide his crimes, he enlisted his own employees to help him dig trenches and spread lime to mask the stench of death. While his crawl space became a personal graveyard, life upstairs appeared deceptively normal—family gatherings, parties, and business deals—all with no one suspecting the horror below.

But how could no one know? Neighbors made excuses for the smell, friends ignored uneasy questions, and even those closest to him could not reconcile the popular, charitable clown—who hobnobbed with politicians and entertained children—with the vile brutality festering beneath his floorboards.

This is the second in a four-part true crime podcast series on the life, crimes, and trial of John Wayne Gacy. Follow along as each episode uncovers new layers of his twisted story, from childhood trauma to his horrifying killing spree and the investigation that finally brought him down.

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