Sunday, June 06, 2004
Gacy Paintings on Display at Antique Store (phillyBurbs.com)
Gacy Paintings on Display at Antique Store
The Associated Press
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Some paintings by executed serial killer John Wayne Gacy are on display at a South Florida antiques store despite objections from some who say profits from selling the art is "blood money."
Nineteen paintings - including a $195 image of a bird and a $9,500 depiction of dwarfs playing baseball against the Chicago Cubs - are for sale.
The collection represents about one-tenth of the Gacy paintings collected by Steve Koschal, a celebrity autograph expert who corresponded with Gacy during the final four years of his incarceration in Illinois.
"You'd be surprised who buys these paintings," Koschal said. "You might think some tough motorcycle gang off the street, but it's doctors, lawyers, professional people, Hollywood and media types."
Gacy, a building contractor and amateur clown, was convicted of luring 33 young men and boys to his home in the Chicago area for sex and then strangling them between 1972 and 1978.
Gacy Paintings on Display at Antique Store
The Associated Press
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Some paintings by executed serial killer John Wayne Gacy are on display at a South Florida antiques store despite objections from some who say profits from selling the art is "blood money."
Nineteen paintings - including a $195 image of a bird and a $9,500 depiction of dwarfs playing baseball against the Chicago Cubs - are for sale.
The collection represents about one-tenth of the Gacy paintings collected by Steve Koschal, a celebrity autograph expert who corresponded with Gacy during the final four years of his incarceration in Illinois.
"You'd be surprised who buys these paintings," Koschal said. "You might think some tough motorcycle gang off the street, but it's doctors, lawyers, professional people, Hollywood and media types."
Gacy, a building contractor and amateur clown, was convicted of luring 33 young men and boys to his home in the Chicago area for sex and then strangling them between 1972 and 1978.
