Good final episode wrapping up the trial and conviction, taking the time but also not excessively going into detail. I liked the choice to follow things up to the present and drive home the importance of remembering the victims.
Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes (TV Mini Series)
Sane Enough (2022)
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A late ending for this excuse of a human beign.
MidoriAi24 April 2022
Warning: Spoilers
This episode returns telling about all those bodies berried in the crawl space of his house. We see that the police had to rip his house apart to make sure all the bodies were exhume. In total were more than 30 in his house, because he end up with no space and had to throw those tortured bodies somewhere else, in this case, a river, but I left to wonder, that maybe there are a lot more victims out there, even more if we take into account the testimony of one of his victims that he tried to rape but he didn't, and it was the year 1967, and the fact that he moved from state to state like 3 times.
When apprehended he said "everything", some of the killings with details, and I thank that those weren't told.
The defense wanted him to be found guilty by insanity. They said it was because his father was "too strict" and everything he did "was wrong and got punished a lot" and that he questioned his sexuality from early age because he was fat and ugly, and started to wear his mother's underwear.
His mother was elderly but he was a witness in his son's favor. Even tho they showed her behavior like she was senile, I think she was a delusional woman that had a really weak character, governed by a strict and fearful husband, the kind of mother that can't do anything about her husband's behavior, not even to defend her son.
He was insane alright, but death penalty was something that everybody was in favor for.
In the past, a child behaving like that was an aberration, at the end of the XX century was weird and needed psychological treatment, but in today's day and age he would have the support he needed, he would be reinforced his gayness and given a hormonal treatment and possibly a boob job.
What I'm trying to say is that the John Gacys of this world are a product of society.
I left to wonder about the wife, really, about the dead bodies in her home and her not noticing anything. I guess I have to do a little googling.
We see him 14 years later being executed, and being the psychotic cocky narcissistic as$hole that he was, right up until the end. It was 1994.
At the end, there are a lot of slides showing all the boys that this bastard killed. It was a real tear jerking. So moving, really. I know it is most interesting knowing every detail about his life because it intrigues us why oh why a human fellow can be turned into a real life monster that everybody likes (that's frightening!) but family telling a little bit about the victims, even revealing the identity of some of them thanks to DNI was cathartic and well deserved for their memories.
This tv show could have had more episodes. All those details would have been interesting to know about.
When apprehended he said "everything", some of the killings with details, and I thank that those weren't told.
The defense wanted him to be found guilty by insanity. They said it was because his father was "too strict" and everything he did "was wrong and got punished a lot" and that he questioned his sexuality from early age because he was fat and ugly, and started to wear his mother's underwear.
His mother was elderly but he was a witness in his son's favor. Even tho they showed her behavior like she was senile, I think she was a delusional woman that had a really weak character, governed by a strict and fearful husband, the kind of mother that can't do anything about her husband's behavior, not even to defend her son.
He was insane alright, but death penalty was something that everybody was in favor for.
In the past, a child behaving like that was an aberration, at the end of the XX century was weird and needed psychological treatment, but in today's day and age he would have the support he needed, he would be reinforced his gayness and given a hormonal treatment and possibly a boob job.
What I'm trying to say is that the John Gacys of this world are a product of society.
I left to wonder about the wife, really, about the dead bodies in her home and her not noticing anything. I guess I have to do a little googling.
We see him 14 years later being executed, and being the psychotic cocky narcissistic as$hole that he was, right up until the end. It was 1994.
At the end, there are a lot of slides showing all the boys that this bastard killed. It was a real tear jerking. So moving, really. I know it is most interesting knowing every detail about his life because it intrigues us why oh why a human fellow can be turned into a real life monster that everybody likes (that's frightening!) but family telling a little bit about the victims, even revealing the identity of some of them thanks to DNI was cathartic and well deserved for their memories.
This tv show could have had more episodes. All those details would have been interesting to know about.
Nexflix's Inevitable Politcal Agenda
TheFearmakers19 April 2023
And of course, this being Netflix, the Woke Capital of the World, there has to be a political agenda, especially from a documentary of a male killer of young men who was an active, semi-important democrat... that aspect could not have been easy for them to produce...
In this case, after all the stuff about John Wayne Gacy's murders and then the crawlspace discovery of bodies... we get interview selections with someone who... unlike the cops and family members and lawyers... has absolutely nothing to do with this true crime story...
An old female Gay Activist who is basically siding with Gacy's stories, mostly lies, about the fact he's picking up on gay men, and that all his victims were homosexual, which was NOT the case: most were teenagers he pretended to hire for his contracting company, or those who actually worked for him... and they were all handsome and muscular, and Gacy was the epitome of a homosexual predator...
This is followed by the same lady basically blaming the parents of the victims because their kids were runaways or confused enough to become trapped by Gacy in the first place... ugh...
Just... shame on you, Netflix, for always having your docs pointing to the wrong culprit, even when it's about a serial killer who admitted to everything...
(Also: while it's true that defense lawyers are just doing their jobs, Gacy's old fat lawyer, and the shrinks he fired to say he was insane, are filmed here with more regard to the documentary than any of the victim's families or the cops... It's almost as if Netflix is sympathetic to Gacy, which is kind of their thing since The Unibomber doc was basically a celebration of a global warming enthusiast... and it's really sickening that this channel doesn't realize that being too "progressive" is just plain nuts...)
In this case, after all the stuff about John Wayne Gacy's murders and then the crawlspace discovery of bodies... we get interview selections with someone who... unlike the cops and family members and lawyers... has absolutely nothing to do with this true crime story...
An old female Gay Activist who is basically siding with Gacy's stories, mostly lies, about the fact he's picking up on gay men, and that all his victims were homosexual, which was NOT the case: most were teenagers he pretended to hire for his contracting company, or those who actually worked for him... and they were all handsome and muscular, and Gacy was the epitome of a homosexual predator...
This is followed by the same lady basically blaming the parents of the victims because their kids were runaways or confused enough to become trapped by Gacy in the first place... ugh...
Just... shame on you, Netflix, for always having your docs pointing to the wrong culprit, even when it's about a serial killer who admitted to everything...
(Also: while it's true that defense lawyers are just doing their jobs, Gacy's old fat lawyer, and the shrinks he fired to say he was insane, are filmed here with more regard to the documentary than any of the victim's families or the cops... It's almost as if Netflix is sympathetic to Gacy, which is kind of their thing since The Unibomber doc was basically a celebration of a global warming enthusiast... and it's really sickening that this channel doesn't realize that being too "progressive" is just plain nuts...)
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