Actor Jack Merrill claimed he was kidnapped and raped by John Wayne Gacy and miraculously survived to tell this harrowing story.
Merrill said in a devastating interview that she was attacked by Gacy in 1978 and had been quietly dealing with the trauma. people He told the magazine that only a dear friend had ever told him about his recollection of Gacy putting a loaded firearm in his mouth the night he was raped and tortured at a ranch outside Chicago. The “Kings” actor claimed that Gacy drugged him, violently raped him, and somehow saved his life. A few months later, Gacy was charged with murder in connection with 33 young men.
Merrill told People that when she was 19 years old, she was walking home after swimming at the YMCA when a man asked her if she wanted a ride. Gacy eventually asked if he had ever played “poppers,” also known as amyl nitrite.
“He pulled out a brown bottle, poured some liquid on a rag, and shoved it in my face. I passed out and when I woke up, he was handcuffed,” he told People magazine.
“I saw the exit for Cumberland on the highway near the airport, and the next thing I knew, we were outside his house.”
Merrill claimed she got through the ordeal by not fighting back, but by going along and pretending to trust Gacy.
Serial killer John Wayne Gacy posed for the Des Plaines Police Department mug shot shown above in December 1978. (Photo courtesy of Bureau of Prisons/Getty Images)
“We had beers, and he had a strong pot, and he put the handcuffs back on and dragged me down the hallway. He put this homemade contraption around my neck. “There were ropes and pulleys that went around my back and passed through my handcuffs, and if I struggled I would have been suffocated,” Merrill told People magazine, recalling the alleged ordeal. told.
“At one point I did, but I started deflating. He put a gun in my mouth. Then he raped me in the bedroom,” the actor claimed.
LOS ANGELES, CA – NOVEMBER 19: Jack Merrill performs at “From California With Love” in support of hurricane relief efforts through Team Rubicon held at Pico Playhouse on November 19, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. Attended “A Night of One Act Plays”. (Photo by Greg Doherty/Getty Images)
“I knew that if I fought him, I wouldn’t have much of a chance. I never freaked out or screamed. I also knew he didn’t necessarily want to do what he was doing, but he couldn’t stop.” I felt bad for him in a way because I thought he wasn’t there,” Merrill told People magazine.
“We were there for hours. Finally I could see that he was tired. Suddenly he said, ‘I’ll take you home,'” the actor recalled.
“I didn’t call the police. I didn’t know at the time that he was the murderer,” Merrill said. “I made a promise to myself that I would get through this situation. I wasn’t going to leave my happiness in that house.”
The actor told People that he discovered Gacy was the killer months later when he read a newspaper. He called the paper to claim he was one of the rape victims, but refused to give his name for fear of involving his family in the situation since his father owned the store. (Related: Serial killer Robert Pickton suffers life-threatening injuries in prison assault)
“I thought if the police needed my help, I would come forward. They found all these bodies under that house, and years later he was convicted. But , like I said, if they needed me, I would have come forward. I read that he went to prison,” he said.
Gacy became known as one of the most notorious serial killers of all time. Although he received a lethal injection in 1994, it remains unclear why Merrill survived, according to his account.
