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Jan 05, 1992
DescriptionDetective Joe Kozenczak (Michael Riley) tracks down John Wayne Gacy (Brian Dennehy), convicted in 1980 of 33 Chicago serial killings.
Jan 06, 1992
After eventually achieving two search warrants, Kozenczak finds a large amount of incriminating evidence, as well as 29 bodies buried throughout John Gacy's property; the remaining four are found dumped in a nearby river, including Gant's remains. Afterwards, he is charged with the rape and murder of 33 boys and young men and convicted, being sentenced to death.
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To Catch a Killer Season 1 (1992) is released on Jan 05, 1992. Watch To Catch a Killer online - the English Biography TV series from Canada. To Catch a Killer is directed by Eric Till and created by Jud Kinberg with Brian Dennehy and Michael Riley.
One night at a pharmacy in Des Plaines, IL, a 15-year-old named Chris Gant mysteriously disappears after being seen talking with a heavy-set contractor named John Wayne Gacy (Dennehy). The boy's parents immediately call in the Des Plaines police, led by Lt. Joe Kozenczak (Riley) who investigates Gacy's background to find out that the contractor had a history of assaulting young men. A search warrant is obtained and evidence from the Gacy house reveals the contractor's ties to several missing boys. Gacy is put under surveillance but strikes back with a lawsuit. Eventually a second warrant is obtained, and something more frightening is found - there are bodies buried all over the property! Gacy is charged with 33 counts of first-degree murder. This is the true story of how the worst serial murderer in the history of the United States to that time was eventually brought to justice, and how the methods used to apprehend him became the model for law enforcement across the country in detecting & apprehending serial killers.
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