John Wayne Gacy’s Sex Skull & Other Paintings

While in prison, serial killer and rapist John Wayne Gacy took up painting. He was actually pretty good at it, focusing mainly on self portraits — with and without his notorious clown costume. One painting stands out as particularly creepy — a skull, adorned by a clown collar, made of naked bodies in sexual positions.

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Sex Skull by John Wayne Gacy. Photo: museumsyndicate.com

Gacy as Pogo the Clown. Photo: museumsyndicate.com

John Wayne Gacy self-portrait. Photo: museumsyndicate.com