I know what you mean. True crime blogs/video/podcasts only have to do one thing - be about crime and be true. How hard can that be? Like there isn’t enough crime out there and they have to make it up?
We’re dedicated to “fighting ignorance”; and the post directly below yours shows that this is a place where there’s ignorance to be fought.
I’ve been afraid of clowns ever since I saw the One Step Beyond episode called “The Clown” in 1960. It freaked me out, and I continued to be freaked out for years afterwards.
Umm, why do you care? And, you know, his victims are , well dead, and I doubt if we know what he was wearing when he did his horrible acts. Maybe a Nixon mask.
In any case, he did play a clown, and he did horrible violent acts.
Magno and Davey (not to mention, Batman) were dealing with killer clowns back in the 1940s.
Nah, it just makes for a more lurid story.
And who can forget the clown rapist in the Sylvia episode of Little House on the Prairie? (Spoiler: Sylvia dies.) One of the freakiest episodes ever shown on broadcast TV.
Why do you care if people tell accurate stories about WWII exploits?
Here’s a real-life killer clown:
Yes, but one has nothing to do with the other. John Wilkes Booth was an actor and an assassin. But he didn’t shoot Lincoln because he thought it would be the greatest stage performance in history.
It would be ignorant to propose such a thing.
I’ve never been afraid of clowns, myself. That said, my parents had in their house ever since I was little, a watercolor painting of a “Pierrot”-type clown (I believe it had been painted by my great-aunt). I can’t remember the last time I saw it, but I’m pretty sure I was a teenager. I recall that that clown ALWAYS gave me the willies (even as a teenager).
I’ve often wondered what became of that painting.
I never understood being afraid of clowns myself. They’re whimsical and merry.
There was Jean-Gaspard Deburau, a French pantomime clown, who cracked a little boy’s skull with his cane in 1836. He was acquitted (the boy was a rude street urchin, after all).
Seems to me that the real story of a self-loathing closeted gay man maintaining the appearance of a normal family life and a respectable business while cruising for teen hookups and then killing them for the thrill of it and because he was ashamed of his own urges is lurid enough. Maybe people didn’t like to talk about the gay aspect in the '70s because people would think the victims had it coming or hold it up as proof that gay people are all violent killers.
Then there’s the allegations of his being linked to a human trafficking / child porn network, which almost never get mentioned even in true crime videos.
What does Gacy being or not being a clown have to do with your town. Are they cashing in the Gacy story.
I have a feeling they’d rather it never came up. Clown or no.
Every town has a few bad history stories.
Doesn’t make them bad, it’s just how things are.
Does Booth make all actors bad. Or the profession?
It was Dr. Mudd who’s name was mud🤭
Speaking of Mr. Gacy…
“What was John Wayne Gacy’s favorite Country song?”
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“Walkin’ the Floor Over You”
(If you remember the case, you’ll get this.)
John Wayne Gacy murdered at least 33 victims. The fact that One Survivor doesn’t mention a clown outfit isn’t proof that he never did.
The only reason he dressed as a clown was to be near children. To find victims.
Killer Clown, I say.
So anyone who does a clown act is a pedophile. Got it.
Gacy wasn’t into prepubescent children. He was into teenagers who were well beyond being impressed by a clown.
Not sure what your point is. No one in this thread, especially me, is disputing the OP’s premise. In fact, the OP admitted that being really upset about others misunderstanding about Gacy’s MO isn’t necessarily rational.