A self-portrait that was allegedly painted by serial killer John Wayne Gacy has gone up for sale for $8,000.
The chilling artwork is available on Cult Collectibles, a dark website that sells things that are linked to notorious murderers; the site recently made headlines after it listed infamous cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer’s urn, said to have once contained his ashes, for $250,000.
Gacy, who raped, tortured, and murdered 33 young men and boys during a six-year killing spree in a Chicago suburb between 1972 and 1978, allegedly made the painting while he was on death row.
Titled ‘Patches the Clown,’ the artwork appears to even have been signed by the killer – with a scrawled ‘J.W. Gacy’ visible in the left corner – however the website has not confirmed where they sourced the artwork.
A self-portrait that was allegedly painted by serial killer John Wayne Gacy has gone up for sale for $8,000
Gacy raped, tortured, and murdered 33 young men and boys during a six-year killing spree in a Chicago suburb between 1972 and 1978
While he was committing the horrifying crimes, Gacy (seen with his second wife) presented himself as a beloved member of the community and a devoted family man
The father-of-two was an aspiring politician, was active in local charities – and he even enjoyed performing at children’s hospitals as his alter ego, ‘Pogo’ or ‘Patches the clown’
The alleged self-portrait was painted in bright, bold colors and portrays a sad-looking clown holding balloons with a forest of trees and a dark gray sky behind him.
Gacy was known to have painted numerous artworks while he was behind bars on death row awaiting execution. Several of his eerie pictures were auctioned off in 2017, including several chilling pieces that featured Pogo the Clown, the evil alter-ego Gacy used to lure children and young men before raping and killing them.
While he was committing the horrifying crimes, Gacy presented himself as a beloved member of the community and a devoted family man to everyone who knew him.
The father-of-two was an aspiring politician, was active in local charities – and he even enjoyed performing at children’s hospitals as his alter ego, ‘Pogo’ or ‘Patches the clown.’
On the back of the painting, the killer allegedly wrote in script handwriting, ‘Patches the Clown. John W. Gacy. Oil 781-93’ – referring to the brand of the canvas that was used.
Back in April, Netflix released a chilling documentary with never-before-heard recordings made by Gacy from his death-row prison cell, called Conversations With a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes.
In the eerie recordings, Gacy was heard boasting to his lawyers about ‘outsmarting’ the cops and preying on ‘the innocent virile ones’ during his six-year killing spree, revealing that, to him, his victims were ‘not human beings.’
He allegedly made the painting, which shows a sad-looking clown holding balloons, while he was on death row, and it appears to be signed by him
On the back of the painting, the killer allegedly wrote in script handwriting, ‘Patches the Clown. John W. Gacy. Oil 781-93’ – referring to the brand of the canvas that was used
The chilling artwork is available on Cult Collectibles, a dark website that sells things that are linked to notorious murderers
Gacy was known to have painted numerous artworks while he was behind bars on death row awaiting execution, including this image of Pogo the Clown, the evil alter-ego Gacy used to lure children and young men before raping and killing them
Several of his eerie pictures were auctioned off in 2017
He even admitted at one point that murdering a young man gave him ‘a mind-numbing orgasm.’
The site recently made headlines after it listed infamous cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer’s urn (seen above), said to have once contained his ashes, for $250,000
Born in Chicago in 1942, Gacy had a tough childhood under the punitive thumb of an alcoholic father who was physically and mentally abusive.
The closeted homosexual married a woman named Marlynn Meyers in 1964, and the couple moved to Waterloo, Iowa, where he managed three Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises for his father-in-law.
The pair welcomed two children shortly after, Michael in 1966 and Christine in 1967. During this time, Gacy joined the local ‘Jaycees’ – a civic organization for men between the ages of 18 to 40, who are interested in doing charitable work.
But his picture-perfect family man image came crashing down in 1968, when Gacy was convicted of sodomy for assaulting a 15-year-old boy named Donald Voorhees, who was the son of a fellow Jaycee.
He was sentenced to 10 years in prison, but was released on good behavior after 18 months; Marlynn filed for divorce shortly after and Gacy remained estranged from his biological children for the rest of his life.
After prison, Gacy was desperate to put his past behind him and re-invent himself in Chicago.
Gacy married a woman named Marlynn Meyers in 1964, and the couple welcomed two kids, while he managed three Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises for his father-in-law
But his picture-perfect family man image came crashing down in 1968, when Gacy was convicted of sodomy for assaulting a 15-year-old boy named Donald Voorhees
He was sentenced to 10 years in prison, but was released on good behavior after 18 months; Marlynn filed for divorce shortly after and Gacy remarried a woman named Carole Hoff
In 1972, he got remarried to a woman named Carole Hoff, a divorcee with two daughters, and the two moved into the middle class blue collar suburban neighborhood of Norwood Park Township.
Over the next six years, Gacy kidnapped, molested, and killed multiple men and boys around the area – and would store their bodies in a crawlspace in his house.
During this time, he began regularly performing as ‘Pogo’ or ‘Patches the clown’ at charitable functions, while also running a construction company called PDM Contracting.
In the doc, he said he chose to dress up as the jester because he ‘enjoyed the limelight’ and ‘being involved with something,’ comparing it to the ‘feeling you get out of coming out of church on Christmas Eve.’
He also enjoyed the invisibility of it, explaining ‘When you clowned, you’re hiding your image.
Over the next six years, Gacy kidnapped and killed multiple men and boys around the area – and would store their bodies in a crawlspace in his house. Some of his victims are seen
During this time, he began regularly performing as ‘Pogo’ or ‘Patches the clown’ at charitable functions, while also running a construction company called PDM Contracting
Gacy was arrested on December 21, 1978, and later admitted to all 33 killings. The Killer Clown was sentenced to death in 1980 and executed by lethal injection in 1994
29 bodies were found on his property, while four others were discovered dumped in a nearby river. Police are seen removing remains from his home
‘There are things that you could do that you wouldn’t do as a person. Clowns can get away with anything. Clowns can get away with murder.’
As time went on, Police started to become suspicious of Gacy after they noticed that many of his co-workers had gone missing.
They soon obtained a search warrant for his house and discovered pornography, shackles, drivers licenses related to missing persons, and a ring that was owned by one of the victims.
Gacy was arrested on December 21, 1978, and later admitted to all 33 killings. 29 bodies were found on his property, while four others were discovered dumped in a nearby river.
The Killer Clown was sentenced to death in 1980 and executed by lethal injection in 1994. Unremorseful to the end, his last words were: ‘Kiss my a**.’
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