A harrowing curation of artifacts linked to the world’s most notorious serial killers—including the “Killer Clown” John Wayne Gacy and H.H. Holmes of The Devil in the White City infamy—anchors a new exhibition, now open in Chicago.
Spanning a massive, 21,000-square-foot space, “Serial Killer: The Exhibition” brings together more than 2,000 items that confront myth with true crime’s gruesome reality. Displays spotlight personal belongings, investigative evidence, authentic artworks and other “murderabilia” that offer an uncanny peek into the lives of roughly 150 killers from dozens of countries who devised and committed unthinkable crimes.
“These are all original,” exhibition consultant John Borowski, a filmmaker and an author who specializes in serial killer histories, tells Fox 32 Chicago’s Leslie Moreno. “Nowhere in the world are you going to see an exhibit like this with artifacts from so many serial killers under one roof.”
Perhaps Chicago’s most well-known serial killer, Gacy features prominently in the exhibition. Throughout the 1970s, Gacy—who worked as a birthday party clown alternately named Pogo and Patches—killed at least 33 teenage boys and young men after luring them to his home on the outskirts of the city, where he buried the remains of 29 of his victims in his basement’s crawl space…