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· 18 Apr 2022

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Pennywise True story

#history The fragrances of terror have many aspects. This is what the prolific writer Stephen King must have thought when he set out to write one of his most famous novels Four years later, in 1990, the miniseries came with which the clown, named Pennywise, would achieve worldwide recognition. It starred actor Tim Curry. It's been raining a lot since then. Today a remake that promises to be creepy opens in Spain.

John Wayne Gacy, better known as Pogo, was the serial killer who inspired King to create his fictional character. Gacy's childhood hadn't been easy. His father, Stanley Gacy, abused him because of his physique in front of his neighbors and beat him when he came home drunk.

Prison held him only 16 months for good behavior. There, a political and entrepreneurial mentality would be forged. And he learned something much more important: that no one could report him if he ended up with him before. His first victim was a teenager in 1972. He picked him up at the bus station, showed him around the neighborhood, and then forced him to have sex. When he finished, he stabbed him in the chest, burying the body in his Chicago home.

Shortly after, Pogo, the clown, would be born. He was characterized by a white complexion, light eyes and a bald wig with little reddish hair. Hand in hand with this personality, he would perpetrate numerous crimes, exceeding thirty. Someone who came out alive from his encounter with Wayne Gacy was Jeffrey Regnall. Although, since then, he drags sequelae for life, After picking him up with in his car, the clown pounced on him with a chloroform handkerchief that destroyed his liver. The images he remembers are of the naked clown, with numbers sex toys intended for torture and with a smile of enjoyment. The next memory was waking up next to the statue of Lincoln Park, in Chicago, dressed and wounded, but alive.

John Wayne Gacy was arrested in 1978 with 33 crimes behind him and sentenced to death he died in 1994 by lethal injection In prison he began a prolific career as a painter, standing out as a portraitist of clowns and skulls.