Expert says John Wayne Gacy, America’s serial killer clown who violently raped and killed at least 33 men in the 1970s, was a ‘narcissist’ with ‘no conscience’

Experts who analyzed the behavior of John Wayne Gacy, the notorious 1970s ‘killer clown’, have branded him a ‘narcissist’ with ‘zero conscience’.

In Channel 5’s new documentary, Killer Clown: 33 Murders and Counting, a group of psychologists analyzed the behavior of notorious murderer Gacy in archived footage of an interview in which he denied his crimes.

In the documentary, aired Sunday night, experts examined the mysterious behavior of the infamous killer who violently raped and murdered at least 33 men in the 1970s.

In 1980, 38-year-old Gacy — known as the Killer Clown because he performed as Pogo the Clown at charity events — was accused of raping and murdering 33 young men.

Thirteen years after the horrific acts, in 1992, the killer agreed to an interview with Chicago news anchor Walter Jacobson, but surprisingly denied his crimes.

Expert psychologists who analyzed the behavior of the notorious 1970s killer clown (pictured) have branded him a ‘narcissist’ with ‘zero conscience’

Although he initially confessed his crimes to police, he denied the murders in an interview more than a decade later.

In a bid to clear his name, he insisted the ‘proof’ of his innocence was that he had ‘no knowledge’ of the crimes despite having taken ‘truth serum’. There is no evidence that Gacy took truth serum.

Walter described how the killer tried to portray himself as a ‘good man’ and a ‘morally hard-working family man’.

Walter said: ‘I spent two and a half hours with John Gacy, hearing a brand new story about his case. ‘He was rambling, sometimes incoherent and always very cunning.’

He suggested that Gacy tried his luck at freedom one last time before being executed. However, their attempts failed and Gacy was executed by lethal injection in 1994.

During the documentary, expert psychologists looked at a 1992 interview in which Gacy attempted to clear his name. But according to experts, his lies were obvious.

In the archived footage, it was seen that the ‘clown killer denied the allegations that he was a murderer’. He denied: ‘The idea that I’m a gay sensation killer and all that is nonsense. They drew a picture of me wandering the streets, stalking and slaughtering young children.

‘If you could see my work schedule, you’d know very well that I’m never there.’

In 1980, 38-year-old Gacy — known as the Killer Clown because he performed as Pogo the Clown at charity events — was accused of raping and murdering 33 young men.

Experts noted some signs that Gacy was lying during the interview, as explained in the documentary. ‘His tendency to laugh inappropriately or out of context was a sign that he was deceptive’

Former agent and FBI behavioral science expert Jana Monroe said: ‘This is hilarious. He puts off saying that he can’t be gay chasing boys outside because he’s too busy.

‘He has zero conscience, no remorse for what he did. When you look at his ego, there is a trace of narcissism there. ‘He’s always talking about himself.’

Discussing the same moment, body language and behavior expert Mark Bowden said: ‘This idea of ​​the beast, there you see the full lips being pulled back and a sideways glance. So deal with the idea of ​​the monster category here. There’s something he wants to say.

‘He feels sad about being seen as a monster. Being viewed by society as antisocial and awful. He doesn’t like this at all.

‘He doesn’t like this at all, he’s a gay thrill killer, there’s real concern in his eyebrows. This will look bad to the rest of society, so he wants to look like the best possible member of society.’

Experts point out some signs that Gacy was lying during the interview. As the documentary explains: ‘His tendency to laugh inappropriately or out of context was a sign that he was deceptive. And if you put him in the gay thrill seeker category, he won’t like it.

‘His changing eyes during the interview indicate that he is in the act of lying. And his habit of moving away from the person he is talking to is a sign that he is dishonest.’

Experts explained that his walking away from the conversation and his reserved body language also implied that he was lying.

Gacy (pictured in December 1978) was executed by lethal injection in 1994.

John Wayne Gacy frequently sexually assaulted his victims before strangling or suffocating them to death in 1978, above.

Monroe said: ‘He believed denial, displacement or postponement would be convincing.’

Mark Bowden pointed out the hand gestures. He said: ‘His hands are open and pointing outward, what we can call a begging gesture, his eyebrows look like ‘you know me, I’m a good man’ and he starts looking at the documents as if he’s saying ‘look, this is it’, it’s all there, there’s no way it’s me.’

Gacy brutally murdered 33 young men and boys between 1972 and 1978. To date, five unidentified victims remain.

He raped, tortured and strangled his male victims before throwing them into the space beneath his house. Gacy was executed by lethal injection in 1994 at the age of 52.

The first of his victims was discovered in the crawl space beneath his home in December 1978, and he was later charged with all of them. It took the jury just two hours to convict him on all counts, and he was sentenced to death.

The serial killer was born in Chicago and was married from 1964 to 1969 to Marlynn Myers, with whom he had two children.

Active in local politics, he met then-First Lady Rosalynn Carter as chairman of Chicago’s annual Polish Constitution Day Parade in 1978.

The couple moved to Iowa, where Gacy agreed to manage Myers’ father’s KFC franchises.

Myers filed for divorce after Gacy was sentenced to 10 years in prison for performing oral sex on a 15-year-old boy, but he had only served 18 months of his sentence.

In 1970, he founded a contracting company called PDM Contractors. This work would later lead Gacy to his final victim, a 15-year-old employee of a pharmacy that PDM had remodeled.

Gacy promised the young man a job and took him to his home.

His mother reported him missing that night, and Des Plaines police Lt. Joe Kozenczak discovered that Gacy was the last person to see him alive, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Cook County Sheriff’s deputies remove part of the flooring of Gacy’s Illinois home while searching for a body in 1978. 26 people were found under the house

Gacy brutally murdered 33 young men and boys between 1972 and 1978. Five victims have not been identified to date

The serial killer was born in Chicago and was married to Marlynn Myers from 1964 to 1969, with whom he had two children. Pictured, excavation equipment works outside John W. Gacy’s suburban Chicago home.

He was questioned by the police and released. Gacy was arrested 10 days after Piest’s murder after police saw him handing marijuana to a gas station attendant, and the extent of his more serious crimes was later revealed.

He was married to Carole Hoff, whom he dated in high school, from 1972 to 1976. He was politically active and was elected precinct captain for the Town of Norwood Park.

Beginning in 1975, he oversaw Chicago’s annual Polish Constitution Day Parade. During his job in 1978, he met and posed for a photo with then-First Lady Rosalynn Carter, according to the Chicago Tribune.

The depravity of Gacy’s crimes shocked the country, and after more than a decade on death row, he was executed at Stateville Prison in Illinois in 1994.