I have gotten back into researching serial murder of late and for the past few months I’ve been back to researching John Gacy. So, what more is there to possibly know about Gacy considering the magnitude of the case and plethora of material written about him? Well, I’m now 100% convinced that John Gacy did not act alone in many of the 33 murders attributed to him. In fact, in a few I believe he was not involved at all. No, Gacy had at least one accomplice and possibly two. I believe I know who these accomplice(s) were and have no problem calling them out by name. Before I do, however, allow me to summarize why I believe Gacy had help with these grisly murders.
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Though Gacy murdered 33 young men (most likely more) between the years 1972-78, the fact is 31 of those murders occurred after he divorced and his wife & step daughters moved out of his Des Plains home in February of 1976. That’s 31 murders in 35 months. It’s highly unlikely that Gacy, a short, overweight man with heart problems who worked 12-14 hours a day with his contracting business could abduct, torture, murder and bury that many young healthy men at such a rate without some help.
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One of the first things Gacy said during the initial interrogation after his arrest in December of 1978 was… “Have you arrested any of my associates”? This is not hearsay, this is from actual Cook County transcripts’.
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Gacy stated on some occasions in interviews over the years that others were responsible for the murders and on other occasions that he had accomplices, though he never provided names. Now, most just blow that off as Gacy being Gacy and refusing to accept guilt, but I’ve watched some of those interviews and I don’t think he’s lying. Gacy has a certain mannerism with his eyes that I’ve picked up on over the years when he is being dishonest or obtuse. This mannerism is not present when he speaks of accomplices.
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Two of Gacy’s young employees lived at his Des Plains home for extended periods of time after his wife moved out in early 1976. Despite his voracious appetite for murdering young men, especially those who worked for him, he never harmed these two. Why? And how would Gacy have been able to repeatedly assault, torture and murder young men in his home unbeknownst to a roommate sleeping just down the hall… keeping in mind that this was a very small single story house with only 2 bedrooms.
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One of the two Gacy sexual torture victims’ that got away, Jeffrey Rignall, clearly remembers a light flicking on in another room of the house while Gacy was raping him. At the time, under tremendous pain and trauma, it really didn’t even register with him, but later on he began to wonder about it. And though in a haze and going in and out of consciousness from being repeatedly chloroformed, he thought he faintly saw someone other than Gacy checking the restraints on his hands…. a much younger man.
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And the most convincing… Gacy was out of town on contracting jobs when 3 of the victims went missing. This is not conjecture… this is fact based on travel records. GACY WAS NOT THERE WHEN THE VICTIMS WERE MURDERED OR BURIED UNDER HIS HOME. It is also likely he was out of town for 4 other murders, however, there are no hard records to back those up… just handwritten travel logs, eyewitness accounts, etc.
So, who were Gacy’s accomplices? One or the other young men living with him from 1976 to 1978…. or both. That would be David Cram and Michael Rossi. Both were uncooperative with police during the initial investigation and both had spare keys to Gacy’s house, which would have allowed them to commit the murders that occurred while Gacy was out of town. Both also admitted to digging “trenches” in Gacy’s crawlspace, ostensibly in the belief that Gacy was going to fix a sewage problem under his home. Remarkable that neither of them would have been suspicious of the stench of numerous rotting corpses down there while digging.
So why pursue this now, decades after the fact? Well, first and foremost because it just isn’t right for such horrendous crimes to go unpunished. These cold-blooded killers having been walking the streets of Chicagoland freely for 35 years now. More importantly though, despite advanced DNA technology, a quarter of Gacy’s victims have never been identified. These fellows could possibly provide some clues as to who these John Doe’s are.
Now, I’m certainly not the first to speculate that John Gacy had accomplices in these garish murders. There are others. I am, however, the first to name names. Most of the other speculation centers around a different individual, a young man who was a roommate of one of Gacy’s victim’s, who knew Gacy and claimed to have also dug trenches in Gacy’s crawlspace. I’m doubtful of that particular speculation and believe this individual is merely seeking attention. Cram and Rossi have flown under the radar, mainly because they assisted police in the initial investigation of Gacy and assisted prosecutors by testifying at Gacy’s trial.
I continue my research.