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Fizzicyst t1_itsimub wrote

Reply to comment by meatball77 in Investigation underway into daughter's allegation Iowa man was prolific serial killer by livestrong10

I think that was Gary Ridgeway's victim profile. His mistake was that he left the bodies to be found near the Green River. Gacy made the mistake that he began to take people who would be missed. I think if he had stuck to male prostitutes he'd have gone another decade or more.

It's really sad that there are segments of society that can be killed off and no one seems to notice or care.

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SofieTerleska t1_itsu6zm wrote

Gacy actually took people who would be missed quite early on, that's the crazy thing about him. Yes, there were runaways and prostitutes mixed in there but his second or third victim had worked for him and the kid's father was begging cops to look into Gacy, and throughout the next few years Gacy employees also disappeared. It's just that it being the seventies, no bodies, and the kids being older than, oh, 12, the cops were all too happy to write them off as runaways. I've seen people say he only got caught because his last victim was a "good kid" but the kid really wasn't that different from plenty of previous victims -- a high school kid living with his parents and looking for part time work. What really got Gacy in trouble was kidnapping the kid as his mother was literally waiting in a drugstore for him to come back from the parking lot so she could drive him home. Even lazy Illinois cops couldn't write that one off as a random runaway.

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meatball77 t1_itsjx0q wrote

If he'd lived in the country on a giant block of land he could probably have just dumped the bodies in the woods and no one would have known.

Dahmer made me wonder how many serial killers there are that get away with it because he was so sloppy and still got away with everything for so long.

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thebillshaveayes t1_itvsvk4 wrote

Also Ted Bundy was like, well I want to help the FBI catch him (bc that is my block and I AM KING).

FBI took him up on the offer.

Bundy: like okay guys, next time you find some bodies leave them bc he’ll totally come back and fuck them.

Police ?

Bundy: yeah, he totally will. Just…believe me, like, he’ll BE back

Ridgeway came back.

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