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Peacock releases a teaser of a John Wayne Gacy movie

Posted on 7/10/25 at 12:03 pm
Posted by tigerfan84
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Posted on 7/10/25 at 12:03 pm
Posted by Locoguan0
St. George, LA
Member since Nov 2017
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Posted on 7/10/25 at 12:46 pm to
They should make one for Baton Rouge when we had two serial killers going at the same time.
Posted by GeauxldMember
Member since Nov 2003
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Posted on 7/10/25 at 5:52 pm to
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They should make one for Baton Rouge when we had two serial killers going at the same time.


Three in reality. People forgot Jeffery Lee Guillory was killing women in BR during that timeframe as well. Then there was the pudgy little gay dude from Houma killing guys in the same period.
Posted by Teddy Ruxpin
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Posted on 7/10/25 at 6:13 pm to
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Three in reality. People forgot Jeffery Lee Guillory was killing women in BR during that timeframe as well. Then there was the pudgy little gay dude from Houma killing guys in the same period.


If I had to guess, OP was leaving out the pudgy guy and not Guillory
Posted by GeauxldMember
Member since Nov 2003
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Posted on 7/10/25 at 6:27 pm to
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OP was leaving out the pudgy guy and not Guillory


pudgy Houma boy would be 4. Just threw him in as lagniappe to illustrate how damn crazy South LA was around that time.
Posted by Teddy Ruxpin
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Posted on 7/10/25 at 10:32 pm to
That's funny because I was mixing Guillory with Gillis.

Errybody gettin' serial in the 2000s.
Posted by SouthPlains
Member since Jul 2023
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Posted on 7/10/25 at 10:35 pm to
Gacy was a monster, but along with Dahmer and Bundy, it feels like his story has been needlessly told over and over again thanks to suburban white women and their true crime obsession. There only so many times you can hear about these guys before there’s no new information left.

Agree with the posters in here who are suggesting lesser known killers with much more interesting (or at least less heard) stories.
Posted by Ranger Call
Lonesome Dove / Montana
Member since Apr 2023
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Posted on 7/11/25 at 7:37 am to
They should focus on how he was a prominent member of the democrat party in Chicago, and nobody noticed he was nuts because they all are.
Posted by CatfishJohn
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Posted on 7/11/25 at 8:10 am to
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They should focus on how he was a prominent member of the democrat party in Chicago, and nobody noticed he was nuts because they all are.



I'm not sure you can call a lower-middle class birthday party clown a prominent member of anything, but I get your point

Posted by Ranger Call
Lonesome Dove / Montana
Member since Apr 2023
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Posted on 7/11/25 at 9:40 am to
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I'm not sure you can call a lower-middle class birthday party clown a prominent member of anything, but I get your point


I watched a documentary about him recently. He was very well connected despite his modest social standing. I was just making a joke in general, but he was definitely rubbing elbows with some Chicago muscle during the time he was doing the killing. He was very popular. It was a total shock to a lot of people that he was actually a complete monster.

IIRC, his first kill was a young, male sex companion that walked in his bedroom one morning with a butter knife. Gacy thought he was being attacked so he killed the guy. Turns out...the John had just made breakfast for him and was coming to wake him up. Gacy got a taste for it and then went full on psycho. He also learned along the way that it was too messy to have to clean up a lot of blood, so he started wrapping a belt around victim's necks and twisting it with a stick until they could no longer breathe. The guy was a complete psycho, and like many serial killers, he blamed it on mommy and daddy.

Gacy with Rosalynn Carter

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In 1960, at age 18, Gacy became involved in politics, working as an assistant precinct captain for a local Democratic Party candidate.


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Gacy entered local Democratic Party politics, initially offering use of his employees to clean party headquarters at no charge. He was rewarded with an invitation to serve on the Norwood Park Township street lighting committee, subsequently earning the title of precinct captain.[43][46][57]

In 1975, Gacy was appointed director of Chicago's annual Polish Constitution Day Parade.[6][70] Through his work with the parade, which he would supervise until 1978, Gacy met and was photographed with First Lady Rosalynn Carter wearing an "S" pin, indicating a person given special clearance.[57][71] The event later became an embarrassment to the United States Secret Service.[71]
This post was edited on 7/11/25 at 9:50 am
Posted by SammyTiger
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Feb 2009
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Posted on 7/11/25 at 9:19 pm to
Guillory’s serial killer name is “The Other Baton Rouge Killer”
Posted by TutHillTiger
Mississippi Alabama
Member since Sep 2010
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Posted on 7/11/25 at 9:40 pm to
If they are going to cover the sexual trafficking ring he was in with the candy man no interest. They actually were pen pals and in competition to see how many boys they could screw and murder .
Posted by mark65mc
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2007
11501 posts
Posted on 7/11/25 at 9:45 pm to
Acid Bath on the soundtrack?
Posted by Neutral Underground
Member since Mar 2024
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Posted on 7/12/25 at 3:21 am to
Vincent D'Onofrio would had made a great Gacy
Posted by arktiger28
Member since Aug 2005
5307 posts
Posted on 7/12/25 at 9:20 am to
I may sit this one out. One of the most freaked out I’ve ever been is listening to the story of one of his murders on a podcast. Tricked this kid into
Handcuffs. The way the person told it just totally put you in the moment and I did not like it at all.
Posted by Xignals
Pits of Hell
Member since Nov 2013
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Posted on 7/12/25 at 5:26 pm to
Are you talking about Dean Corll? Nobody seems to remember what a fricking monster he was.
Posted by sledgehammer
SWLA
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Posted on 7/12/25 at 5:31 pm to
The Clown and the Candyman podcast opened my eyes to Dean Corll
Posted by GeauxldMember
Member since Nov 2003
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Posted on 7/13/25 at 8:26 am to
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Are you talking about Dean Corll? Nobody seems to remember what a fricking monster he was.


Ronald Dominique. Killed at least 23 men between ‘97 and ‘06.

LINK


Dude had more victims, I think, than any serial killer since Gary Ridgeway and no one even knows about him. Hell, I don’t remember really seeing anything in the news about him/his murders at the time.

If you account for him and the killer of the Jeff Davis girls (some or all), along with the 3 in BR, you’ve got the possibility of having 5 serial killers in South Louisiana operating at approximately the same time. That’s pretty insane, given the relatively small population of the area.




Posted by gumbo2176
Member since May 2018
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Posted on 7/13/25 at 12:00 pm to
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Dude had more victims, I think, than any serial killer since Gary Ridgeway and no one even knows about him. Hell, I don’t remember really seeing anything in the news about him/his murders at the time.



Probably had more to do with who he murdered. His victims were mostly black men on the fringe of society being mostly young, down on their luck, some of them homosexual and living a day to day transient lifestyle.

You know, the people most people don't really notice.

If Dominique would have been killing pretty young women anywhere near that number, he'd have been on the Most Wanted List with lots of media coverage.

He did have a hell of a ruse going on in order to kill as many young men as he did with many of them WAY more fit and bigger than he was.
Posted by gumbo2176
Member since May 2018
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Posted on 7/13/25 at 12:08 pm to
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Vincent D'Onofrio would had made a great Gacy


He would have had to do a great job to surpass Brian Dennehey's portrayal of him in "To Catch a Killer".
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