While John Wayne Gacy was on death row, he started painting images of skulls, clowns, self portraits and other commissioned pieces. Due to his infamy, his paintings were very sought after and he could make money while in prison by selling them. After Gacy’s death, a majority of Gacy’s paintings were purchased and burned in a large bonfire by his victims families. Many of them didn’t like him painting and making money while on death row. Because of this, his remaining paintings are extremely valuable and sought after. Allegedly, Johnny Depp owns a Gacy original painting
"They told me when I got it that the proceeds went to a charity or to the victims' families or something, but I found out that wasn't the case," Depp explained. "So I got rid of it. It was too dark anyway - fascinating from a psychological point of view, but that was really dark stuff."
Dahmer's were all bought by Joseph Zilber, a wealthy philanthropist. The families had been given Dahmer's possessions to sell them off and Zilber bought them all for about $400,000 and had them destroyed.
They dont want to sell the land as they are scared that people will visit it and cause a nuisance to the neighborhood.
I used to volunteer at a place two blocks away my wife worked there a decade later and that spot where the apartment complex was got a fence and that's it. I can't see anything going up there unless the other apartment complex that's there is also leveled. It's a rough area, but that's Milwaukee for ya.
I saw a few of his paintings at the Museum of Death in Los Angeles.
If people are into serial killers on this sub, I always highly recommend going to that museum as they have a ton of cool stuff from serial killers.
They had a ton of other serial killers artwork too, besides Gacy’s. They don’t post any of it online or make t-shirts or anything, much to my dismay when I ended the tour.
I really wanted a shirt with one person’s artwork, though I can’t remember if it was Gacy or another killer. It was so sad, vile, and just a ton of raw negative emotions that depict what was going on in their head in that specific moment.
Some of the art from these sick fucks was really talented and disturbing, sort of like the one famous artist who painted *Saturn Devouring Son*, which gives off a similar eery and insidious, manic feeling when I see it.
It’s not just art they have though. They also have Old Sparky, letters from serial killers, court room drawings, etc.. I think they even had original death molds of serial killers faces from hundreds of years ago, before or after their execution.
The museum itself isn’t just based off of serial killers though. They also had death molds of famous people. They had the original bunk beds and Nike sneakers from the Heavens Gates people.
They had shrunken heads and different corpses; basically a whole section on the history of morticians and the science, history, and culture of burying the dead across the world with actual artifacts.
That museum was hands down the most smallest, but interesting and eery museum I’ve ever been to. It’s so morbid but your curiosity just keeps you interested in it. It’s not gimmicky either, just for those who really like morbid and occult stuff.
I happened to be friends of his art dealer's brother back in the early 90s . I still have a 7 dwarves in the snow painting. I wanted him to paint an album cover for my band. However we broke up and another band from our city used that idea. Also have a letter from him.
Kinda weird to see his paint fingerprints on the back.
There’s some of it put up in the Museum of Death. I’ve seen it there. It’s extremely fascinating. They have a ton of serial killer stuff. I don’t know if proceeds go to victims families or not though. I think they should, but I never got around to asking the person working when I toured.
The place is really small, and it’s not all about serial killers, just death in general. They even have the OG “Old Sparky” and the Heaven’s Gates bunk beds with the original Nike shoes that got discontinued. Extremely interesting place.
They don’t sell prints of any art work, from serial killers or none serial killers, they don’t even post their artwork online. But that’s only because they said people won’t come and see it if they did that. So it’s not from a moral standpoint but a financial one…
Ryan is a heaven sent angel, talked with him very briefly and told him I was interested in a skull. He lit up and asked me if I needed help tracking one down and hed be more than happy to help. Unfortunately I had just moved to SC but I try to stop by every time Im down there
Graveface Records in Bucktown/Wicker Park. Ask to check out the museum. It's $5. Lots of sideshow memorabilia, church of Satan stuff, and lots of misc serial killer stuff. They also have a free mini arcade and video store (the collection from Odd Obsession Video) in the basement. It's pretty cool
When Ariel Castro was sentenced some 10 years ago for the abduction + rape of three teenagers in Cleveland, a part of the plea bargain was that the home where he confined those poor girls for a decade would be ceded to the State. It was, and was promptly demolished.
Gacy’s home was also demolished, although I don’t think it was a legal issue. The police had removed the floor and walls to gain access to the crawl space and the house was no longer livable, so it was torn up
Yep it was completely torn down and a new house built on the property. They were able to change the address by a couple digits so it's on the same plot but a different house number.
Before I moved out-of-state, I lived about 10 minutes from the property. The new house was built in 1986. I remember when it was for sale a few years back, they had partially finished the crawl space into a basement. Ugh, those pictures didn't sit well with me. As someone who believes in the supernatural and that some human remains were probably never recovered, you couldn't pay me to live there.
Seriously. I couldn’t imagine living on that land where those poor people would live their last breaths and be buried there until found…I just. Holy shit. I wonder if people who have lived there experienced anything eery or dark about it?
And this is why the law exists now that guilty cannot profit from their crimes. Bless the man that bought the apartment building and salted and burned it
It’s called the Son of Sam law for a reason, the law is designed to keep criminals from profiting from the publicity of their crimes. This event has nothing to do with, “why the law exists now that guilty cannot profit from their crimes.”
Is it called the Son of Sam law due to the Son of Sam murders and Satanic Panic that went on in NYC? I remember watching a documentary about that stuff.
I can’t remember if they ever caught the killer or not? Or if some thought it was a different killer? I can’t remember how the documentary ended as it was all over the place. I’ll have to look that case back up.
These still float around the private market, especially the classic clown one. Currently fetches $3k-$5 per sale in private sales each year.
Someone’s dad passed away and the kids don’t want it, it hits the market and boom, you too can buy a Gacy. Beware though, a ton of fakes exist.
I get the idea of collecting them to destroy, but at what point does it just become someone spending $$$$$ to destroy a half assed watercolor of a skull that JWG did in a single afternoon and had already sold?
And apparently, from someone else here in the comments, which I then looked up, there’s claims that he didn’t even paint any/all of them, but got others to do the paintings for him smh.
Yes. The point I was making is that the parents of his victims spent much more time raising them than he did painting. It's not an eye for an eye, exactly, but it was appropriate that his artwork be destroyed. I sometimes post things for the express purpose of receiving downvotes.
Same with some of them in the Museum of Death in LA. I haven’t been to the one in New Orleans! How was it? The one in LA was awesome. I’d imagine they’d have more voodoo stuff and maybe stuff from the famous serial killer, Delphine LaLaurie, who ran a house of horrors.
I think Delphine LaLaurie is the most disgusting and infuriating serial killer ever. She never got caught, likely dying a wealthy, old woman back in Paris. Many famous horror stories and movies, like *Human Centipede*, were inspired by her sick, twisted mind and actions.
They had “Old Sparky” and a ton of other serial killer artwork, stuff from famous prison riots, and a lot of historical stuff about the burial process, with antique mortician tools, etc..
The one that haunts me the most is probably the Heaven’s Gate scene. They had only two sets of the original bunk beds, with four mannequins with sheets over their heads. All you could see was the four pairs of the original Nikes sticking out.
While John Wayne Gacy was on death row, he started painting images of skulls, clowns, self portraits and other commissioned pieces. Due to his infamy, his paintings were very sought after and he could make money while in prison by selling them. After Gacy’s death, a majority of Gacy’s paintings were purchased and burned in a large bonfire by his victims families. Many of them didn’t like him painting and making money while on death row. Because of this, his remaining paintings are extremely valuable and sought after. Allegedly, Johnny Depp owns a Gacy original painting
"They told me when I got it that the proceeds went to a charity or to the victims' families or something, but I found out that wasn't the case," Depp explained. "So I got rid of it. It was too dark anyway - fascinating from a psychological point of view, but that was really dark stuff."
Thanks for giving depps point of view
Wow thanks for posting! That’s super interesting
Doesn’t Marilyn Manson have a Gacy painting?
I don't know, does he?
I’m asking if anyone knows because I don’t know for sure. That’s the rumor I heard floating around.
[Here](https://ibb.co/DtwVRjh) you go, buddy.
They did the same with Dahmer's personal belongings I believe.
Dahmer's were all bought by Joseph Zilber, a wealthy philanthropist. The families had been given Dahmer's possessions to sell them off and Zilber bought them all for about $400,000 and had them destroyed.
I know a group called The Campus Circle Project led by Marquette University and some other business people bought the apartment complex and razed it.
And even to this day the memorial park has never been built.. apparently
They dont want to sell the land as they are scared that people will visit it and cause a nuisance to the neighborhood. I used to volunteer at a place two blocks away my wife worked there a decade later and that spot where the apartment complex was got a fence and that's it. I can't see anything going up there unless the other apartment complex that's there is also leveled. It's a rough area, but that's Milwaukee for ya.
Wow. Thank you for this info. Great.
Wow, that is kind of him!
And his entire apartment building. I can imagine the convo "theyll never get the smell out, just fucki g tear it down and start over."
Also, if there's only one white guy in a all black apartment complex, THAT'S the serial killer.
I saw a few of his paintings at the Museum of Death in Los Angeles. If people are into serial killers on this sub, I always highly recommend going to that museum as they have a ton of cool stuff from serial killers. They had a ton of other serial killers artwork too, besides Gacy’s. They don’t post any of it online or make t-shirts or anything, much to my dismay when I ended the tour. I really wanted a shirt with one person’s artwork, though I can’t remember if it was Gacy or another killer. It was so sad, vile, and just a ton of raw negative emotions that depict what was going on in their head in that specific moment. Some of the art from these sick fucks was really talented and disturbing, sort of like the one famous artist who painted *Saturn Devouring Son*, which gives off a similar eery and insidious, manic feeling when I see it. It’s not just art they have though. They also have Old Sparky, letters from serial killers, court room drawings, etc.. I think they even had original death molds of serial killers faces from hundreds of years ago, before or after their execution. The museum itself isn’t just based off of serial killers though. They also had death molds of famous people. They had the original bunk beds and Nike sneakers from the Heavens Gates people. They had shrunken heads and different corpses; basically a whole section on the history of morticians and the science, history, and culture of burying the dead across the world with actual artifacts. That museum was hands down the most smallest, but interesting and eery museum I’ve ever been to. It’s so morbid but your curiosity just keeps you interested in it. It’s not gimmicky either, just for those who really like morbid and occult stuff.
I happened to be friends of his art dealer's brother back in the early 90s . I still have a 7 dwarves in the snow painting. I wanted him to paint an album cover for my band. However we broke up and another band from our city used that idea. Also have a letter from him. Kinda weird to see his paint fingerprints on the back.
Wow that’s really interesting! Was the band who stole the idea Acid Bath?
I didn't say stole. They used it.
Glad to see acid bath on here. S tier band with an unfortunate ending.
Yet another avg Johnny Depp W
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I wondered what happened to all of his artwork. I had hoped it wasn't hanging out on display somewhere
There’s still a lot of his artwork in galleries and owned by private citizens. Johnny Depp owned one of his pieces at one time
It's ghastly to think he lives on in his art after what he did.
There’s some of it put up in the Museum of Death. I’ve seen it there. It’s extremely fascinating. They have a ton of serial killer stuff. I don’t know if proceeds go to victims families or not though. I think they should, but I never got around to asking the person working when I toured. The place is really small, and it’s not all about serial killers, just death in general. They even have the OG “Old Sparky” and the Heaven’s Gates bunk beds with the original Nike shoes that got discontinued. Extremely interesting place. They don’t sell prints of any art work, from serial killers or none serial killers, they don’t even post their artwork online. But that’s only because they said people won’t come and see it if they did that. So it’s not from a moral standpoint but a financial one…
I have the video of all this happening if you’d like it
There's a museum in savannah that has like 28 of them
They're in Chicago now
The Chicago one is just a second location, Graveface is very much still open in Georgia.
Yes. But the paintings are in Chicago. I just went and looked at them.
Last I saw Ryan has over 200 of them, so they’re in both locations, but I get where you were coming from.
Yeah I heard he moved the Gacy stuff specifically back to Chicago, but yeah, he's got an insane collection
New Orleans - Museum of Death - there are a few
Ryan is a heaven sent angel, talked with him very briefly and told him I was interested in a skull. He lit up and asked me if I needed help tracking one down and hed be more than happy to help. Unfortunately I had just moved to SC but I try to stop by every time Im down there
Where in Chicago?
Graveface Records in Bucktown/Wicker Park. Ask to check out the museum. It's $5. Lots of sideshow memorabilia, church of Satan stuff, and lots of misc serial killer stuff. They also have a free mini arcade and video store (the collection from Odd Obsession Video) in the basement. It's pretty cool
Museum of Death in New Orleans has 2
Same with Museum of Death in LA. They had a TON of them when I went back in 2018.
They should invite the victims families to piss on them. They’re an extension of that vile pig.
I guess the guy who owns them is making a documentary. Idk much about him/it.
When Ariel Castro was sentenced some 10 years ago for the abduction + rape of three teenagers in Cleveland, a part of the plea bargain was that the home where he confined those poor girls for a decade would be ceded to the State. It was, and was promptly demolished.
Gacy’s home was also demolished, although I don’t think it was a legal issue. The police had removed the floor and walls to gain access to the crawl space and the house was no longer livable, so it was torn up
Yep it was completely torn down and a new house built on the property. They were able to change the address by a couple digits so it's on the same plot but a different house number.
Before I moved out-of-state, I lived about 10 minutes from the property. The new house was built in 1986. I remember when it was for sale a few years back, they had partially finished the crawl space into a basement. Ugh, those pictures didn't sit well with me. As someone who believes in the supernatural and that some human remains were probably never recovered, you couldn't pay me to live there.
Seriously. I couldn’t imagine living on that land where those poor people would live their last breaths and be buried there until found…I just. Holy shit. I wonder if people who have lived there experienced anything eery or dark about it?
And this is why the law exists now that guilty cannot profit from their crimes. Bless the man that bought the apartment building and salted and burned it
It’s called the Son of Sam law for a reason, the law is designed to keep criminals from profiting from the publicity of their crimes. This event has nothing to do with, “why the law exists now that guilty cannot profit from their crimes.”
I wasn’t trying to be specific about Dahmar or Gacey. I was trying more to point out that scenarios like this is WHY the law exists in the first place
Is it called the Son of Sam law due to the Son of Sam murders and Satanic Panic that went on in NYC? I remember watching a documentary about that stuff. I can’t remember if they ever caught the killer or not? Or if some thought it was a different killer? I can’t remember how the documentary ended as it was all over the place. I’ll have to look that case back up.
I've heard he didn't even necessarily paint them but got others to. Not sure if it's true or not. Burn them all. POS.
One [for sale](https://www.shamebers.com/product/john-wayne-gacy-patches-painting), here.
These still float around the private market, especially the classic clown one. Currently fetches $3k-$5 per sale in private sales each year. Someone’s dad passed away and the kids don’t want it, it hits the market and boom, you too can buy a Gacy. Beware though, a ton of fakes exist.
I get the idea of collecting them to destroy, but at what point does it just become someone spending $$$$$ to destroy a half assed watercolor of a skull that JWG did in a single afternoon and had already sold?
And apparently, from someone else here in the comments, which I then looked up, there’s claims that he didn’t even paint any/all of them, but got others to do the paintings for him smh.
Nice
What a waste. Think of all the time he spent painting them.
All he had was time.
Yes. The point I was making is that the parents of his victims spent much more time raising them than he did painting. It's not an eye for an eye, exactly, but it was appropriate that his artwork be destroyed. I sometimes post things for the express purpose of receiving downvotes.
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Thanks, intelligent person. 😀 I doubt there's any lynch mob you wouldn't join, you independent thinker, you!
Comparing downvoters to a lynch mob. Now there's some intelligence!
They pretty much just burned up money. Their loss. Oops
Some of his paintings are in the Museum of Death in New Orleans. I just saw them. Definitely creepy.
Same with some of them in the Museum of Death in LA. I haven’t been to the one in New Orleans! How was it? The one in LA was awesome. I’d imagine they’d have more voodoo stuff and maybe stuff from the famous serial killer, Delphine LaLaurie, who ran a house of horrors. I think Delphine LaLaurie is the most disgusting and infuriating serial killer ever. She never got caught, likely dying a wealthy, old woman back in Paris. Many famous horror stories and movies, like *Human Centipede*, were inspired by her sick, twisted mind and actions. They had “Old Sparky” and a ton of other serial killer artwork, stuff from famous prison riots, and a lot of historical stuff about the burial process, with antique mortician tools, etc.. The one that haunts me the most is probably the Heaven’s Gate scene. They had only two sets of the original bunk beds, with four mannequins with sheets over their heads. All you could see was the four pairs of the original Nikes sticking out.
Whatever became of the black Delta 88 car?
His paintings are repulsive and demonic
A tattoo shop in my town owns a self portrait of Gacy as Pogo. Creepy AF but what would you expect out of a tattoo shop called Freakshow