“The dead won't bother you, it's the living you got to to worry about”

—  John Wayne Gacy

Robert Ressler interview (1992), seen in John Wayne Gacy: Devil In Disguise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUi-m3Ugo-g

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American serial killer and torturer 1942–1994

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