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Psychologist has Gacy's brain in her basement
Chicago Tribune ^ | May 29, 2004 | Jane Fritsch

Posted on 05/29/2004 2:44:52 PM PDT by Land_of_Lincoln_John

The problem with having John Wayne Gacy's brain in your basement is that people want to see it. Or at least they think they want to see it. Certainly, they want to know how you got it and why you keep it there.

These are issues facing Helen Morrison, a psychiatrist who has had the serial killer's brain in the basement of her Chicago home for the last decade, resting, more or less, in peace.

Gacy was executed after being convicted of murdering 33 young men and boys during the 1970s and burying most of their bodies in the crawl space under his house in Norwood Park Township, an unincorporated area surrounded by Harwood Heights and the Far Northwest Side of Chicago

His body was either cremated or buried in a location that has never been disclosed by his mother--now dead--or sisters who, overwhelmed by the magnitude of the tragedy, have managed to stay well out of public reach.

But on the 10th anniversary of Gacy's execution, the subject of his brain and its whereabouts emerged somewhat startlingly as Morrison set off on a tour to publicize her new book, "My Life Among the Serial Killers."

In an interview on CNN earlier this month, Morrison revealed that the brain is in her basement, "the safest place it can be." Morrison had been more cautious a few days earlier when she declined to tell a reporter for the Associated Press where she kept the brain.

"It depends on the audience," Morrison said in an interview. "We have it in our home in an area in the basement that is secure and not accessible."

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: gacy; johnwaynegacy; rosalyncarter; serialkiller; serialkillers
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John Wayne Gacy, as many FReepers know, was once a proud Democratic Party precinct captain in Norwood Park Township, a cog in the Cook County Regular Democratic Organization, aka, "The Machine." Pictured below is the Killer Clown with Rosalyn Carter.


1 posted on 05/29/2004 2:44:55 PM PDT by Land_of_Lincoln_John
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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John

The only difference between him and a typical Demoncrat is that he literally acts out his hatred. Other Demoncrats show some restraint other than when it comes to abortion. In that issue, the victims are defenseless. Demoncrats love evil.


2 posted on 05/29/2004 2:47:29 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: Constitution Day; martin_fierro

In a jar, right next to ABBY.


3 posted on 05/29/2004 2:49:11 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (John Kerry - Not the Swiftest Boat in the Delta.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

"In a jar, right next to ABBY."

Is that ABBY Normal?


4 posted on 05/29/2004 2:51:13 PM PDT by AngieGOP (I never met a woman who became a stripper because she played with Barbie dolls as a kid)
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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John
Great picture!

The downside is that it'll be casting its vote in the upcoming Presidential election, unfortunately.

5 posted on 05/29/2004 2:51:47 PM PDT by MarineDad (So what's the big deal? Allah wears panties on his head, too...but you don't hear HIM complaining.)
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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John

Tell me, did this man sexually abuse his victims? If so why isnt that mentioned.


6 posted on 05/29/2004 2:52:11 PM PDT by mlmr (Poisoning pigeons in the Park............)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Well, you said what we were all thinking. ;)


7 posted on 05/29/2004 2:52:25 PM PDT by Bogey78O (I voted for this tagline... before I voted against it.)
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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John

Only a satanist or a fool would think keeping this scum's brain tissue is a good thing to do.


8 posted on 05/29/2004 2:52:35 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg (There are very few shades of gray.)
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9 posted on 05/29/2004 2:53:41 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (John Kerry - Not the Swiftest Boat in the Delta.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

ROTFL


12 posted on 05/29/2004 2:55:21 PM PDT by AngieGOP (I never met a woman who became a stripper because she played with Barbie dolls as a kid)
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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John
I live in the Chicago area, and Gacy still is a big subject in metropolitan area. Hard to believe anybody would want anything to do with Gacy, let alone have his brain in their basement. Super creepy. The small parcel of land where Gacy's home once stood was vacant for more than a decade, but somebody eventually built another home on that land. Very Super creepy again.

Now if you want something even more very, very super creepy, here is a pic of Gacy as his evil alter-ego, Pogo the Clown!


13 posted on 05/29/2004 2:55:56 PM PDT by Lockbar
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

Only a fool would blab about it, like Morrison has done.


14 posted on 05/29/2004 2:56:21 PM PDT by Bonaparte
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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John

Well, now she'll have to put it on permanent loan to a museum to stop the tourists from coming.


15 posted on 05/29/2004 2:58:11 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John
Psychologist has Gacy's brain in her basement

As long as she doesn't do something naughty in front of it, I don't see what's the problem.

16 posted on 05/29/2004 3:03:17 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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The small parcel of land where Gacy's home once stood

If you know this area, how close was this to Nordica St., near Devon?

17 posted on 05/29/2004 3:04:14 PM PDT by Nick Danger (With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.)
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To: mlmr
Tell me, did this man sexually abuse his victims? If so why isnt that mentioned.

No. He did NOT sexually abuse his victims. He sodomized them before killing them. As any Democrat will tell you, there's nothing wrong with that. As far as we know, it was consensual sex. Then Gacy just got too enthusiastic and killed his young paramours. Move along, nothing to see here. MoveOn. Just MoveOn.

18 posted on 05/29/2004 3:04:36 PM PDT by Thommas
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
My question is why a shrink?

I would think that there are other medical specialities that could do more forensically with it than a shrink.

More likely more if was "fresh" rather than years later.

Still, why a shrink?

And what's with the title of the article? Public school educated reporter AND editor?

19 posted on 05/29/2004 3:05:35 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: mlmr
Tell me, did this man sexually abuse his victims? If so why isnt that mentioned.

Yep, he did that. S & M gay sex was his thing. Obviously, he took it to the extreme. The reason why this isn't mentioned, the sexual abuse, is that in the Chicago area, pretty much everyone, even people not alive when he was caught, knows about Gacy.

20 posted on 05/29/2004 3:07:06 PM PDT by Land_of_Lincoln_John
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