The Killer Clown Next Door

In the 1970s, the most popular guest at a Chicago birthday party didn’t arrive in a limo.

He arrived in a rumbling Chevy van, carrying a bag of balloons and a painted-on smile.

To the kids, he was Pogo. He twisted latex into poodles, told corny jokes,

and made the neighborhood roar with laughter. He was a "pillar of the community." He was safe.

He was fun. But while the balloons inflated, the boys in the neighborhood started

disappearing. One by one, the laughter turned into frantic search parties.

It took years for the police to follow the smell to a quiet ranch house... and the crawl space

hidden beneath the floorboards. His real name was John Wayne Gacy. He wasn’t just a