Jack Merrill says he had a horrifying experience with serial killer John Wayne Gacy. The 65-year-old Law & Order and Grey’s Anatomy actor claims he was abducted and raped by the notorious criminal in 1978 when he was just 19 years old in an essay for People.
He said he was living by himself in Chicago at the time, and encountered the killer while walking home at night. “A guy pulled over and said, ‘Do you want to go for a ride?’” he wrote. “He pulled over near the ramp of the Kennedy Expressway and asked if I’d ever done ‘poppers’—amyl nitrite.
He pulled out this brown bottle, splashed some liquid on a rag and jammed it into my face. I passed out, and when I woke up, I was in handcuffs.
I saw the exit for Cumberland on the expressway, near the airport, and the next thing I knew, we were outside his house.” Keep reading to find out more… As a “puny 19-year-old,” the actor said he was taken back to the serial killer’s house, where he realized he was in danger. “The house was dark.
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