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vrijdag 12 maart 2010

Serial Killer & Artist John W. Gacy

This is one of gacy's clown drawings which were found in his house. besides his normal life activities he was also a painter and invented a performance character: "pogo the clown." he used to dress himself up like a clown to get in touch with young men and boys, he killed and raped after.





Here you see angry collectors burning paintings by pogo when they found out that he was a mass murderer (33 victims). some of them paid up to 20.000$ for an exemplar. gacy was a popular man, he used to throw block parties (where he also performed as "pogo") for his friends and neighbours. there is a famous picture showing him and rosalynn carter. if you want to see more of his work, here.


7 opmerkingen:

  1. I forgot about him. I think there's a difference between mass murderer and a serial killer. Not by numbers but by approach. Gacy was definitely a serial killer. I was very interested in serial killers a couple of years ago.

    Gilles de Rais (15th century) the founder of serial killing.

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  2. just a brief but feminist and nationalist! reminder here and here... lucky there are no Slovacs in class!

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  3. i think a mass murderer is somebody like hitler. a serial killer does it one by one.

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  4. ALERT link in post points to a very telling URL: museumsyndicate.com/artist... my dog!

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  5. agree! but i made a spelling mistake: my DOG! woudda been more appropriate.

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  6. wow didnt know about pogo...
    ted is still my favourite

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