Psychologist has Gacy's brain in her basement

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By Jane Fritsch
Tribune staff reporter
Published May 29, 2004

The problem with having John Wayne Gacy's brain in your basement is that people want to see it. Or at least they think they want to see it. Certainly, they want to know how you got it and why you keep it there.

These are issues facing Helen Morrison, a psychiatrist who has had the serial killer's brain in the basement of her Chicago home for the last decade, resting, more or less, in peace.

Gacy was executed after being convicted of murdering 33 young men and boys during the 1970s and burying most of their bodies in the crawl space under his house in Norwood Park Township, an unincorporated area surrounded by Harwood Heights and the Far Northwest Side of Chicago

His body was either cremated or buried in a location that has never been disclosed by his mother--now dead--or sisters who, overwhelmed by the magnitude of the tragedy, have managed to stay well out of public reach.

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greataunt's comment: Yecchhhhh!!!!

[H2O Man]

1. Yikes!!!

I's say the psychiatrist is in need of psychiatric help. People are strange at times. I mentioned on a post two days ago that I had met with three elderly brothers in upstate NY, who had human remains and grave goods from an "archaeological site." It's difficult for me to understand why people would think they have the right to have another human being's remains in a box in their home. I think these fellows are willing to return the remains for reburial. And, while there may indeed be significant differences between the Indians and this recent murderer, there are not great differences between the brothers and the psychiatrist. They are grave-robbers.

[ForrestGump]

2. She'd better make sure that nobody gets hold of it

[Zuni]

3. There is a real chilling book out about Gacy

called "the Last Victim". In it, a true story, a teenaged boy starts a correspondence with Gacy and eventually meets him in Prison, where Gacy threatens him, assaults him and treats the kid like he is going to be Gacy's last victim. The kid gets away, but it is absolutely chilling to read.
Very in depth view of Gacy's disturbed psyche.