Who was John Wayne Gacy? The model citizen whose business skills were admired by his peers? The hospital volunteer whose sweet-faced clowning lightened the patients" days? The member of the Jaycees who was a civic-minded friend of the community? The depraved maniac who sodomized, tortured, and killed thirty-three young men and boys? Shortly before Christmas of 1978, a teenage boy disappeared from the drugstore where he worked. He would be the final victim of John Wayne Gacy"s horrifying compulsion. Then, ten days after the boy"s disappearance. Detectives, finding a human bone in the crawl space of Gacy"s house, dug into the lime-covered ground. With mounting horror, they pulled bone after bone from Gacy"s suburban home until finally they had gathered the remains of twenty-eight more youths who had fallen prey to the killer clown.