68, the first Suck of 2018, John Wayne Gacy!
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Cold Open: On the afternoon of December 21st, 1978, a half-dozen Chicago investigators, armed with a fresh search warrant, made their way down into the crawlspace beneath the home of John Wayne Gacy, at 8213 West Summerdale Avenue, in the Norwood Park neighborhood of Chicago. Officer Daniel Genty made his way, crawling along his stomach, to a spot underneath Gacy’s kitchen where he saw what looked like human hair sticking out of the ground. Shining a floodlight on the area, he saw a long depression that looked like a dry lake bed with cracks in the yellow gray covering of a layer of lime that Gacy had put over the entire surface of the dirt beneath the home. Genty popped an entrenching tool into the ground and after two shovelfuls of dirt, he hit some whitish bits of soap-like material. It was adipocere (“Add-i-pah-sear”) flesh - body tissue that has chemically changed to a lard like substance due to rot and moisture. The crawlspace smelled like a sewer. Genty dug further and hit bone. An arm bone. Definitely human. There were more hair strands on his little shovel. Genty turned towards some other officers poking their heads through the crawlspace access door. “Charge him,” he said. “I’ve found one.” Within minutes, Gacy was in police custody, charged on suspicion of murder. The body Genty had began to uncover was the first of what would be 28 corpses that would be removed from underneath his home. We tend to like it dark here in the Suck, and it’s hard to get darker than this week’s Gacy. So let’s go full evil and explore the man, the murderer, the evil fucking children’s clown that was John Wayne Gacy, today, on Timesuck. PAUSE INTRO I. Welcome! A. Happy New Year Suckers! 2018. It’s here! Hail Nimrod! Let’s make it big. I’m Dan Cummins, and this is Timesuck. Welcome to the Cult of the Curious. Lucifina is clearly steering us into the New Year. Not able to suck this one in the Suck Dungeon, the Suck Studio, the Suck Lair. Recording from Denver Colorado, where I’ve been doing shows at Comedy Works, and I’ve been overwhelmed by the amount of Timesuckers who came out. Now I also really want to add Denver to the list of cities to do a future live Timesuck in. Denver came out in force this week, and I appreciate it. Even received some gifts - got a framed Rasputin story newspaper clipping from 1917. Putting that in the office! And if you’re the Timesucker that gave it to me, please message me. I lost track of your name in the blur of Suckers I was meeting for the first time. Couple tour dates and then we’ll get to Gacy. More announcements at the end, including the topic for this Friday’s bonus suck and a special upcoming Timesuck live event. Indianapolis January 5th and 6th. Providence, RI January 19-20th. Chicopee, MA Jan 21st Philadelphia! January 25-27th. Baltimore January 28th - sorry that hasn’t been posted at Magooby’s website. Should be up by now. Chicago! January 31st through Feb. 3rd New York City - Gotham Comedy Club, one night only, Feb. 11th. More tour dates at either dancummins.tv or timesuckpodcast.com for more info. The Minneapolis tickets should now be on sale. They were supposed to be announced today - so grab those quick, limited seating. Ticket links, or least venue links, in the episode description for all the shows I mentioned and a few others I didn’t. More announcements at the end of the show, right now let’s get to Timesuck 68, the first suck of 2018, John Wayne Gacy! PAUSE INTERLUDE II. John Wayne Gacy. A. John Wayne Gacy. An Polish, Illinois man who was seen by some as a pillar of the community. He donated his time to cheer up sick kids, dressed as Pogo the Clown, or Patches. He was heavily involved in the Jaycees, volunteering at numerous community events, organizing parades, contributing both time and money to the local Democratic party. He helped get First Lady Rosalynn Carter and wife of President Jimmy Carter to come to Chicago - there’s a picture of the two shaking hands. He ran several successful businesses, had a couple kids, convinced two women to marry him. He wasn’t some social outcast. But he was a serious social deviant. He had a dark side. And at least 33 young men and boys lost their life because of this dark side. So let’s suck in to who he was and how he became a monster, with a long, hard look at his sick, twisted life, in a Timesuck Timeline. PAUSE TIMESUCK TIMELINE INTRO I. Timesuck Timeline A. March 17, 1942: Future serial killer and arguably least funny and most evil clown ever, John Wayne Gacy is born in the Portage Park neighborhood of Chicago. Portage Park, aka, Clown town, is the birthplace to several of America’s more famous clowns, including, Sildo the Clown, host of a nationally syndicated 1960’s kids show, Sildo’s Rodeo until the show was pulled and then buried in 1968 following some on-air issues with alcohol and also Donald McDonald, inspiration for the McDonald’s clown whose name was changed to Ronald after a defamation suit. Donald McDonald was Barnum and Bailey’s Master Clown from 1934-1939 until an accident with the show’s human cannonball during rehearsals left his face partially paralyzed and, unable to smile, the Circus felt he was too scary to amuse children. Donald McDonald died in a tragic accident involving a banana peel and an oversized rubber mallet a few years after his forced retirement. None of that happened except for John being born in Portage Park. Sildo’s Rodeo? How many of you thought that sounded awfully close to Dildo’s Rodeo? Dildo the clown. Anyway, Portage Park is actually an officially designated Chicago community located on the northwest side of town and named due to it being the major portage linking the Des Plaines (“Dess Plaines” - like it’s spelled) and Chicago River. It also has the largest Polish community in all of Chicago, which if you’ve ever been to Chicago, is saying a lot, because that city is infested with dirty, mangy, disease riddled Polish people spreading their genetically tainted and inferior lineage. Little known fact, it’s actually uncommon for a Polish baby NOT to have several birth defects. Also, a Polish person of average human intelligence is considered a genius in the Polish community and sought out by other Polish people as a sort of oracle or shaman. Actual fact, my wife is Polish and I love to needlessly slander Polish people. I actually love Polish culture. Sausage and pirogis! Portage Park IS a heavily Polish, largely working class neighborhood, and Gacy was of primarily Polish descent. He was born on St. Patrick’s Day to John Wayne Gacy Sr., a Polish machinist and WWI veteran also born in Chicago. A stern, hard working, Polish Catholic man, who was also an abusive, violent, homophobic drunk. His mom was Marion Elaine Robinson, a homemaker with an incredible ability to live in total denial of her actual life. She was happy to be married to a man who made a good living and she would refuse to think John had anything to do with any of the murders until the day she died. John was their second child. John’s older sister Joanne had been born two years earlier in 1940. B. 1944: In 1944, John Sr. and Marion’s third and final child, Karen is born. John Sr. would later be described by all three of his children as an unemotional man with a Jekyll and Hyde personality. His violence could seemingly show up out of nowhere. When little John was two, and his sister Karen was only three weeks old, he came home drunk one night and punched out several of Marion’s teeth. She fled out into the street while two year old John and four year old Joanne screamed inside the house as their father further beat their mother on the sidewalk, only stopping when police officers intervened. As little John jr. got older, he’d try and come to his mother’s defense when his dad would attack her, his father would then also beat him and call him a sissy and a momma’s boy. “What kind of sissy tries to keep their momma from taking a good punch to the face? What are you gay? Little punching on mom got you weak in the knees?” John Sr. was a total piece of shit. Despite his violent temper, the kids apparently still loved their dad and were eager to please the man who wasn’t warm, but at least wasn’t beating the shit out of their mom, when he was sober. Sad, little John was really, really bad at pleasing his dad, who pretty much openly despised his son. His dad would call him fat, lazy, stupid - all kinds of things. And mom didn’t seem like an award winning parent either. When John was young, Marion once found a bag of her panties under the porch where John would play, so she made him wear a pair of her underwear to shame him for what he’d done. And then dad came home from work and beat him with a leather strap. He was once beaten with a leather belt by his father at the age of four for accidentally disarranging car engine components his father had assembled.