Producers of John Wayne Gacy series highlight youth at screening hosted by Cal State LA Criminal Justice Student Association
When Patrick Macmanus was approached to write a television drama about serial killer John Wayne Gacy, he turned it down. He was approached a second time, and again, he turned it down. When he finally agreed to create Peacock’s “Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy,” he was still not at all interested in telling Gacy’s story. Instead, he took the opportunity to put a spotlight on the young people whose lives Gacy destroyed, and how the system that was meant to protect them ultimately failed.
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