Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes (2022)

Directed by

Joe Berlinger

Genre

documentary television program

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 3 episodes

Rated

TV-MA

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 220 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A limited docuseries about serial killer John Wayne Gacy who murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men in the 1970s. It uses never-before-heard audio recordings of Gacy himself along with interviews with people close to the case and a surviving victim.

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What happens

Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes is a limited docuseries created and directed by Joe Berlinger for Netflix. It is the second installment in the Conversations with a Killer series and succeeds Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes. The series depicts the murder spree of serial killer John Wayne Gacy, who killed at least 33 teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978 in Chicago, Illinois. The story is depicted through never-before-heard archival audio footage that was recorded during Gacy's incarceration and interviews with participants close to the case and from one of the surviving victims. It was released on April 20, 2022. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 86% of 7 critics' reviews are positive. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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