John Wayne Gacy teevee Special haunts me
Yes Newt there are monsters among us ...I recall Aliens. The movie starring Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley, Michael Biehn as Corporal Dwayne Hicks, Lance Henriksen as Bishop the android, Carrie Henn as Rebecca "Newt" Jorden, and the late great Bill Paxton as Private Hudson among others in what has proven to be one of the most exceptional ensemble performances I've ever seen.
I rather perturbed my mother when she discovered my ability to speak the lines in the movie along with the characters. This was some 100 or so views of the vhs I taped then watched over and over. Anyway, in one of the scenes Ripley and Newt have a moment where the child states how grownups tell children that monsters aren't real but that they really are to which Ripley can only ruefully agree with sympathy for what has been a horrendous childhood of a little girl all alone on the planet LV426.
Well, the xenomorph in Aliens is most certainly fiction but the harsh reality is we do live among monsters. Our fellow human beings who will hurt us and kill us for various carnal, psychological, and existential ends known only to them.
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This deviant pervert was convicted of sodomizing a young boy in Iowa in 1968 and was sentenced to 10 years in prison but was released after servicing but 18 months. His first murder happened in 1972. I was in the eleventh grade.
Two more murder victims are known as of 1975. There are 30 subsequent victims who were killed after his divorce from his second wife in 1976.
The investigation into the disappearance of a Des Plaines teenager named Robert Piest led to Gacy's arrest on December 21, 1978.
He admitted to murders committed inside his ranch house near Norridge, subdivision of Norwood Park in the metro Chicago area.
Typically, he would lure a victim to his home and trick him into handcuffing himself under the pretext of demonstrating a magic trick, then rape and torture his captive before killing him by either asphyxiation or strangulation with a garrote.
Twenty-six victims were interred poorly in the crawl space under his home. There were many comments regarding the pervasive odor of decomp throughout the home. Three others were buried in other locations on his property. Four victims were discarded in the Des Plaines River.
His conviction for 33 murders was a record for one individual in United States at that time. Gacy was sentenced to death on March 13, 1980.
While on death row at Menard Correctional Center he spent much of his time painting. He amassed quite a collection of these works — many of which collected by locals when they were sold at auction. These were purchased and ceremoniously burned by persons who sought to eliminate him from their collective memory.
His home became such a source of embarrassment and horror by individuals living nearby that the property was razed to the ground after authorities were sure they had recovered all evidence to be had from the location.
His execution by lethal injection was carried out at Stateville Correctional Center on May 10, 1994. Thus this evil human being is no longer among us preying on the young, the inexperienced, socially inept, and the weak.