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The Clown and the Candyman

Two serial killers, Dean Corll and John Wayne Gacy, thousands of miles apart, brutally murdered over 60 teenage boys. The police said the murders were the work of these sole deranged killers, but for the first time we reveal that they were actually con...


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  • Introducing: The Clown and the Candyman

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    Bringing one of America’s sordid secrets to light, The Clown and the Candyman reveals the network of pedophiles that connected two deranged serial killers, Dean Corll and John Wayne Gacy. Episodes will be available weekly starting on December 15. And watch ID's The Clown and the Candyman exclusively on discovery+ starting January 15: discoveryplus.com/clownandcandyman

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  • 2. Ep.2: "Stranger Danger” – How the Oakland County Child Killer stopped American kids from playing outside

    42:43
    Description: When four children were snatched off the street and murdered in Oakland County, police looked for a lone sadistic killer. 47 years later the case is still unsolved but evidence now points to a ring of predators working together.Watch ID's The Clown and the Candyman exclusively on discovery+ starting January 15: discoveryplus.com/clownandcandymanhttps://www.discoveryplus.com/?syc=podcast_id_clownandcandyman&utm_source=id&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=clownandcandyman
  • 1. Ep. 1: “The Candyman” – The inside story of Dean Corll

    37:25
    Houston 1973: America was unprepared for the discovery of 27 boys murdered by a friendly local figure, Dean Corll the Candyman. Jacqueline Bynon takes us inside the case that should have changed how America protected its boys...but didn’t.Watch ID's The Clown and the Candyman exclusively on discovery+ starting January 15: discoveryplus.com/clownandcandymanhttps://www.discoveryplus.com/?syc=podcast_id_clownandcandyman&utm_source=id&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=clownandcandyman
  • 3. Ep.3: “The Original Pedophile Island” – The story of the summer camp that wasn’t

    35:55
    If you thought Jeffrey Epstein was the first sex offender to use an island as a haven for sex exploitation, you’d be wrong. The original pedophile island was in Lake Michigan.Watch ID's The Clown and the Candyman exclusively on discovery+ starting January 15: discoveryplus.com/clownandcandymanhttps://www.discoveryplus.com/?syc=podcast_id_clownandcandyman&utm_source=id&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=clownandcandyman
  • 4. Ep.4: “Scouts Honor” – How the pedo mob infiltrated the Boy Scout

    43:12
    Jacqueline Bynon follows the web of men preying on boys in the 70s all the way to New Orleans. The story of America’s first Boy Scout scandal.Watch ID's The Clown and the Candyman exclusively on discovery+ starting January 15: discoveryplus.com/clownandcandymanhttps://www.discoveryplus.com/?syc=podcast_id_clownandcandyman&utm_source=id&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=clownandcandyman
  • 5. Ep. 5: “The Apex Predator” – The story of a Boy Sex Trafficking Kingpin

    37:14
    His operation stretched across America, he was caught many times, but his clients were never prosecuted. Jacqueline exposes a boy sex trafficker with connections to the Clown and the Candyman.Watch ID's The Clown and the Candyman exclusively on discovery+ starting January 15: discoveryplus.com/clownandcandymanhttps://www.discoveryplus.com/?syc=podcast_id_clownandcandyman&utm_source=id&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=clownandcandyman
  • 6. Ep.6: “Ten Days in December” – The inside story of tracking John Wayne Gacy with the cops who were there

    40:06
    The surveillance operation that tracked John Wayne Gacy for ten days has every element of a 1970s cop show. The inside story... with the Detectives who were there.Watch ID's The Clown and the Candyman exclusively on discovery+ starting January 15: discoveryplus.com/clownandcandymanhttps://www.discoveryplus.com/?syc=podcast_id_clownandcandyman&utm_source=id&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=clownandcandyman