To begin the Gacy Story, a lady (Elizabeth) heads into a pharmacy to ask if her son Rob is there. With no luck, she heads home to let her family know that he is missing. Elizabeth and her husband Harold go to the Police Station to file a report, and the cops say they’ll look into it, not taking it very seriously.
Detective Tovar goes to questions Kim, the pharmacy lady, about what happened to Rob. She tells him a contractor came over, left a card and talked to Rob about giving him a job. Tovar heads to Gacy’s home to question him about Rob, to which Gacy asks him to give him a few hours, since he’s dealing with the death of a relative.
John Wayne Gacy arrives at the station the next day to be interrogated and questioned about his past. After Detective’s Mike and Allen’s unsuccessful search of John’s house, the police discuss what the next steps are. They decide to put two teams on him, one for the day, one for the night. The police then start watching all of John’s movements to let him know they aren’t giving up until he breaks.
John calls an old acquaintance Sam, and asks him to be his defense lawyer. Despite Sam telling Joe Kozenczak that John has grounds for a civil suit for harassment, the detectives still follow him into a restaurant. After running into the detectives, John tells him that there’s word that Rob hitchhiked to Wisconsin. John invites Mike and Allen into his house to warm up and have a chat.
Allen calls Tovar to let him know that John finally did something stupid inviting them in, and that he smelled a body in the house. After John confesses to Sam that Rob was at his place, Sam tells Allen and Mike to make sure they catch him. John tries to escape the detectives, while the police investigate John’s home. While searching the crawlspace of the home, Tovar discovers human bones in the dirt.
This first episode was a good start to the show, however, the editing was a little off. For example, toward the end of the episode when John is trying to escape the detectives, he looks back and the camera strangely zooms in before cutting back to Tovar looking through the crawlspace. It was a weird looking part that kind of stuck out. The other parts of the episode didn’t seem that bad, but still. Hopefully the rest of the show doesn’t have moments like that.
Rating 7/10