NewYorkPostandTorontoSuncrimereporterandauthorofColdBloodedMurder,BradHunterhasspentoverthirtyyearswritingaboutsomeofAmerica’smosthorrificcrimes.InthisnewbookheentersthemindofJohnWayneGacy,thereal-life’KillerClown’,oftensaidtobetheinspirationforStephenKing’sevilPennywiseinIt.Gacyluredvictimstohishomewiththepromiseofworkorawarmbedandthendupedthemintoputtingonhandcuffs,claiminghewantedtoshowthemamagictrick.Hewouldthenrapeandtorturehisvictimsbeforekillingthembysuffocatingorstranglingthem.Twenty-sixwereburiedinthecrawlspacebeneathhishome;otherswereburiedelsewhereonhisproperty,whileahandfulweredumpedintheDesPlainesRiver.WhileGacywasexecutedforhissickeningcrimesin1994,histerrifyingspectrecontinuestohauntus.Atleastfiveofhisvictimsremainunidentifiedanddetectiveshavealwayssuspectedthattheknownvictimswerejustthetipoftheiceberg.Gacyeventoldonedetectivethathistallyofmurderswasclosertoforty-fivevictims.Howmanyvictimswerethere?DidGacyactalone?AndwhatdroveJohnWayneGacytomurder?Wasithisalcoholic,abusivefatherorwasitsomethingdeepwithinhimthatcausedtheseeminglynormalGacytosexuallyassault,tortureandmurderatleastthirty-threeyoungmenandboys?AndwhowastheJohnWayneGacywhoregularlyperformedatchildren’shospitalsandcharitableeventsasPogo,orPatches,theClown?TheGacywhowasaplayerinlocalDemocraticPartycircles?Drawingonhismanyyears’experienceasacrimereporter,investigatingandinterviewingperpetratorsofterriblecrimes,HunterseekstounderstandwhatdroveGacytounleashareignofterrorinsuburbanChicago.
