Jack Merrill is an actor known to a wider audience from such productions as “The Conspiracy of the Eight”, “Dangerous Deal” and “Bad President”. The star has just given a shocking interview to People magazine, in which he told how years ago he was kidnapped and sexually assaulted by the serial killer – John Wayne Gacy.
Jack Merrill told how John Wayne Gacy took advantage of him. “He told me to be quiet. I knew I couldn't anger him.”
Killer Clown, because this was the nickname given to John Wayne Gacy, who often dressed as a clown, was convicted of killing 33 young men and boys aged nine to 22. However, he himself admitted that he had more victims on his account. 26 bodies were found in his house. John Wayne Gacy was sentenced to death (by lethal injection) in 1980. It was performed only on May 10, 1994.
How did John Wayne Gacy work? He lured his victims into his house or car under the pretense of showing them magic tricks. In 1978, he accosted Jack Merrill, then a teenager, on one of the streets. The actor recalls that Gacy, who drove up in a car, offered him a lift. “You're smart. You're not like those other kids,” the actor heard from the kidnapper. A moment later, the 19-year-old was drugged and woke up in Kiler Clown's house. He was already handcuffed with katanas. – He told me to be quiet. I knew I couldn't anger him. I just had to defuse the situation and act like everything was fine – said the actor, who thought he knew how to deal with aggressive people because he grew up in an abusive home.
The actor confessed that his abuser at one point he put the barrel of a gun into his mouth and then raped him. – I knew that if I fought him, I wouldn't have much of a chance. That's why I didn't panic or scream, the actor told People.
The murderer released him
At one point, Jack Merrill confessed that he began to feel sorry for his tormentor. – He looked like he didn't necessarily want to do what he was doing, but he couldn't stop – we could hear. He also revealed how he managed to get free. It turns out that the torturer himself released him. – Suddenly he said: I'll take you home. At 5 a.m., Killer Clown threw Merrill, then 19, out of his car near where he kidnapped him. – Maybe we'll meet again someday – Gacy allegedly told him, handing him a piece of paper with his phone number. Merrill grabbed it and once he got into the house, he quickly flushed it down the toilet. He took a shower and did not tell anyone about the traumatic events. – I didn't call the police. I didn't know then that he was a killer – said “People”. “I thought that if the police ever needed my help, I would come forward,” he said.