Summaries "The John Wayne Gacy Murders: Life and Death in Chicago", Focuses on serial killer John Wayne Gacy's time in Chicago and includes information about Gacy's childhood, his career of crime in Waterloo, Iowa, and Gacy's becoming a celebrity in prison. Containing interviews with Chicago attorneys, news reporters, law enforcement officers, and history experts, the film illustrates what the atmosphere was like in Chicago when Gacy was murdering and ultimately apprehended. Gacy's time in prison as a celebrity serial killer is also explored in this groundbreaking film by Chicago native filmmaker John Borowski. —John Borowski
Direction
Borowski's local lens turns familiar Chicago streets into crime scenes.
Editing
Jarring cuts between Gacy's art and victim photos—no distance, no comfort.
Director
John Borowski
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Borowski is part of a rare wave: Chicago filmmakers obsessively documenting their city's serial killers, including H.H. Holmes.
Gacy's Pogo the Clown paintings still circulate in true crime collector markets—some sold for five figures before being destroyed by disgusted owners.
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