Alright, so now that clowns are menacing people all around the great US of A, they’re also becoming a menace in the UK as well. But the BBC wonders – how deadly ARE clowns?
As it turns out, there are 3 cases of deadly clowns – but only 2 cases occurred with clown make up/costuming actually on the killer.
The most famous of these, as I’m sure we’re all aware, is John Wayne Gacy, also known as Pogo the Clown. He did NOT actually murder people while in his Pogo persona (at least, as far as we know). But he DID murder 33 men and boys over the course of his reign of terror, hiding their bodies in his home. Gacy had a mild obsession with clowns and his clown paintings became prized possessions among his fans. Yes, serial killers have fans. It’s kind of weird.
There was also a clown who seemed to randomly murder a woman in her home back in the 80s. He shot her after she opened the door and left behind a balloon that said “You’re the Greatest!”
And then there was a man who was dressed as a clown when he murdered a major drug trafficking kingpin in Baja, California.
These last two clowns were never found and they seem to have never resurfaced again.
Yeah, so that’s it! 3 murderous clowns! I think we probably have more to fear from fear itself than clowns. Just my thought.