“You know, clowns can get away with murder.”

— John Wayne Gacy

Quoted in Wolcott, Martin Gilman The Evil 100 https://books.google.com/books?id=AqAtjVMGnLIC&pg=PA150&lpg=PA150&dq=john+gacy+funeral+parlor+license&source=bl&ots=koZRMY2U1t&sig=ACfU3U0Xvi5XTOq4hbVXOKgS5ZCkpW977A&hl=en&ppis=_e&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiHzZC_ntfmAhWGKs0KHbNBCQAQ6AEwDXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=john%20gacy%20funeral%20parlor%20license&f=false Citadel Press 2004 p. 150.

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