It has been over four decades since John Wayne Gacy, the infamous ‘Killer Clown’, was put behind bars, but he remains one of the most terrifying figures in true crime history, as a reminder that evil can wear the most ordinary of faces. The smiling suburban man who hid unimaginable darkness behind his clown persona remains synonymous with horror.
The new Peacock series, titled Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy, re-examines Gacy’s chilling double life and exposes how one of the most ordinary-looking men became one of the most prolific serial killers. Behind his Family Guy mask, he brutally murdered at least 33 young men and boys, many of whom he buried in the crawl space of his Chicago home.
Meet John Wayne Gacy, the ‘devil’ behind the mask
