A CRIMINAL profiler has revealed the bizarre and creepy demands made to him in a letter by one of America's most notorious serial killers.
John Kelly had reached out to so-called 'killer clown' John Wayne Gacy when he was on death row in Stateville Correctional Center, Illinois, 1993.
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Gacy was sentenced to death the following year, having been found guilty of the murders of 33 men and boys between 1970 and 1978.
But when Kelly, who has interviewed a number of killers and criminals in his career, asked Gacy for a chat, he declined.
"My policy is simple no photo, no answer with bio sheet in full," the killer told him in a letter dated April 1993.
Kelly told Fox News he also sent him a questionnaire, full of bizarre questions.
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They included requests for the individual's "thoughts on sex," "personal goals in life," and "new year's resolution."
Gacy also included "friends like me because" and "my hero" in the questionnairre.
Kelly said the killer demanded he send back the questionnaire along with a photo of himself.
The profiler, who never filled out the questionnaire, said Gacy was trying to manipulate him and use him as leverage to fight back against the justice system.
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While most of Gacy's victims remain unidentified, the Cook County Sheriff's Office identified one in 2021.
"I am nobody important, just a man caught up in the justice system," said Gacy in a brief encounter with Kelly.
Gacy worked as a contractor in his hometown in Illinois, where he would dress up as a clown for children's birthday parties.
He would perform as "Pogo the Clown" or "Patches the Clown."
He was known as the "Killer Clown" ever since.
Kelly attributed Gacy's violent and heinous crimes to his rough childhood. Gacy had an abusive father which led him to develop certain ideologies.
"That's how serial killers are made," said Kelly in an interview with Fox.
Following his conviction, Gacy was executed on May 10, 1994.
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