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• Format: Black & White, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: A & E Home Video
• VHS Release Date: February 7, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 0767021983
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #485,587 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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A politician, a clown, an entrepreneur, a family man--these were the roles played by John Wayne Gacy to hide the fact that he was a serial killer who murdered 33 boys and young men. Rare archival materials and interviews with family and friends paint a portrait of Gacy from cradle to grave. (cc)

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3.0 out of 5 stars 33 victims from one criminal, September 27, 2008

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Jeffery Mingo (Homewood, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Biography - John Wayne Gacy: Monster in Disguise [VHS] (VHS Tape)

JWG killed 33 men: the highest number for a serial killer in the US. (The work doesn't say how a Soviet man killed about 50 victims before going to trial.) The work focuses on his ability to hide.
The work says he was involved with a Jaycee group. He was a businessman. He took a photo with First Lady Carter.
Books and documentaries on Jeffrey Dahmer stated that he failed at almost everything he did. JWG seemed to succeed in many aspects.
Other documentaries would have focused on the details of each murder. This work says little about them. The focus was more on his upbringing and his public life instead. You never hear from the family members of any of his victims here. In that way, the destruction he caused is not emphasized as it should have been.
Did the sex offender registration not exist!? How does a man who went to prison for molesting children remarry, own a business, and become a public figure with no one knowing about his record?! The work speaks about his paintings and the book he wrote. I think there's a law now that prevents murderers from earning from their crimes. Did that not exist before? Was he the catalyst for that new rule? This work never says.
The work interviews his sister, psychiatric experts, and legal representatives. Dahmer works emphasize that the apartment building where he lived was demolished. Did that happen to JWG's home?
The work concludes with a scientist saying she examined his brain after his execution and it showed no abnormalities. The implication remains that no one will know how to identify his type from the rest of the public.
I haven't read any books on him or saw any bio-pics. Those who have may have deeper analysis of this particular work to offer than I do.