John Wayne Gacy: Inside Netflix’s Horrifying Docuseries About the Clown Killer (Exclusive)
etonline.com, now streaming on Netflix. This time, his life and crimes are at the center of the second installment of true-crime director Joe Berlinger’s series, which features previously unheard audio interviews with the notorious serial killer.
Following the success of the first season, which was about Ted Bundy, Berlinger explains to ET that when he started thinking about who could be next, “Gacy came to the list, in part, because he’s naturally someone to talk about,” he says. “But also the tapes materialized.” The director adds, “Sometimes projects find you.
You don’t always find the project.” Once in his possession, “I listened to them and it was like the Bundy tapes. It was just this fascinating insight into the mind of a serial killer,” he says. “And Gacy has always fascinated me as much as Bundy.” Known as the Killer Clown, Gacy murdered 33 boys — most of them teenagers — and buried them inside his Norwood Park, Illinois, home between 1972 and 1978, before an investigation into the disappearance of a Des Plaines teenager led to his arrest.
While convicted of 33 murders, it’s believed by many that Gacy, who was sentenced to death and died in 1994, is responsible for more unsolved murders or disappearances.
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