Clowns have made a horrifying sweep across the United States in the last few months. Many have been lurking on dark streets and in alleys at night, and some even showing up on resident’s door steps in the mid-hours of the morning. There have been several clown threats to schools and threatening certain individuals over social media. Policemen are taking all reports seriously, but sometimes scary is not necessarily dangerous. Americans are not putting up with the clowns and are determined to end this once and for all, but can they? On August 21, police responded to reports of clown sightings near an apartment complex in Greenville, South Carolina. In the incident report, the officer on the case wrote: “I was conducting a follow up investigation …show more content…
In the 1970’s and 1980’s there were phantom clown reports, so history does have a fair share of killer clowns. John Wayne Gacy, also known as Pogo the Clown and/or the Killer Clown, was definitely a crazy mass murderer. Between January 1972 and December 1978, Gacy murderer thirty-three young men and teenage boys. He buried most of them in the crawl space under his house. At the same time he was murdering all of these innocent men, he was also appearing as Pogo, the friendly neighborhood clown. He was bringing his own brand of humor to parades, children’s hospitals, birthday parties, etc. John Wayne Gacy was put on death row and executed by lethal injection in …show more content…
This man was not an ordinary victim, though. The sixty-four year-old man shot dead in front of his family and friends had once controlled the drugs trade along the United States border. Although, at the time of his death, his cartel had been severely weakened. The clown’s motive, and choice of costume, remain a mystery. Between 1972 when Gacy began his killing spree and Mrs. Warren’s death in 1990, killings known to have been committed by clowns in the United States accounted for just 0.0088% of all murders, nationally. In the same time frame there were at least double the number of doctors-turned-serial killers. On top of that, arrests of clowns in the United States have tended to be for minor offences only. You are actually more likely to be killed by your kindly local doctor than the slightly creepy clown waiting for you in the shadows. That is a good thing,