The Clown and the Candyman

By: ID
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  • Two serial killers, Dean Corll and John Wayne Gacy, thousands of miles apart, brutally murdered over 60 teenage boys. The police said the murders were the work of these sole deranged killers, but for the first time we reveal that they were actually connected by a network of pedophiles which was partially financed by prominent members of American society. This is America's sordid secret.

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  • Introducing: The Clown and the Candyman

    Introducing: The Clown and the Candyman
    Nov 12 2020

    Bringing one of America’s sordid secrets to light, The Clown and the Candyman reveals the network of pedophiles that connected two deranged serial killers, Dean Corll and John Wayne Gacy. Episodes will be available weekly starting on December 15.


    And watch ID's The Clown and the Candyman exclusively on discovery+ starting January 15: discoveryplus.com/clownandcandyman


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    2 mins
  • Ep.2: "Stranger Danger” – How the Oakland County Child Killer stopped American kids from playing outside

    Ep.2: "Stranger Danger” – How the Oakland County Child Killer stopped American kids from playing outside
    Dec 15 2020

    Description: When four children were snatched off the street and murdered in Oakland County, police looked for a lone sadistic killer. 47 years later the case is still unsolved but evidence now points to a ring of predators working together.


    Watch ID's The Clown and the Candyman exclusively on discovery+ starting January 15: discoveryplus.com/clownandcandyman

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    43 mins
  • Ep. 1: “The Candyman” – The inside story of Dean Corll

    Ep. 1: “The Candyman” – The inside story of Dean Corll
    Dec 15 2020

    Houston 1973: America was unprepared for the discovery of 27 boys murdered by a friendly local figure, Dean Corll the Candyman. Jacqueline Bynon takes us inside the case that should have changed how America protected its boys...but didn’t.


    Watch ID's The Clown and the Candyman exclusively on discovery+ starting January 15: discoveryplus.com/clownandcandyman

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Cotton mouth

Most of it was okay but the narrator sounded like she had. Orrin mouth the whole time and it was hard to concentrate with that!! Sorry

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Could have gotten deeper

From the trailer I really thought this podcast was going to show hard evidence backing Gacy being a part of a human trafficking sex ring. There was no aha moment showing a connection. Being from Chicago, I remember watching the execution in a bar with my classmates and instructor (we were criminal justice majors). My instructor who was a 25 year veteran detective made statements that night that he did not believe Gacy acted alone, and that he felt this was much bigger than this man alone. Since then, I have read, and listened to everything I can find on Gacy, and I agree that there is a good possibility he took some huge secrets to his grave that left a lot of disgusting evil beings to continue to torture, rape, imprison, and eventually kill many more innocent people. I wish that this would have dug a little deeper and looked for those connections.

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Conspiracy nonsense

Lots of speculation that gets elevated to fact on nothing, zero proof is ever presented. For example a few child molesters in Detroit are “exposed”. A few moments later they are elevated to “ring of child molesters” with zero linkage between them. The lack, intentional in my opinion, is infuriating. It’s one graphic yet vague assertions are made about General Motors, sex islands, porn studios, suicide (or was it murder!) and again absolutely no factual basis. A GM executive owns a plane so he must be transporting children as part of a trafficking ring, why else would you own a plane?

The series uses the Candy man and Gacey, real cases, to somehow prop up their baseless idiocy.

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