BURIED: Inside the John Wayne Gacy Investigation

In this episode of BURIED: Inside the John Wayne Gacy Investigation, the Des Plaines Police Department continues its investigation into John Wayne Gacy, the man suspected in the disappearance of fifteen-year-old Robert Piest. Although detectives dig deeper into Gacy’s world, the case edges toward a dead end—and it becomes clear that Gacy isn’t the only one playing games to get the information he wants.

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In this episode of BURIED: Inside the John Wayne Gacy Investigation, the Des Plaines Police Department continues to dig through leads uncovered at John Wayne Gacy’s house of horrors. As evidence mounts, detectives uncover shocking examples of how Chicago police repeatedly overlooked warning signs and ignored key reports tied to Gacy’s earlier victims.

Through exclusive interviews conducted by host Bob Motta, listeners hear firsthand from the investigators who tracked Gacy during the final days of the manhunt—revealing how their relentless search exposed systemic failures and missed opportunities that allowed one of America’s most notorious serial killers to operate for years.

The deeper the detectives dig, the more disturbing the pattern becomes—raising haunting questions about accountability, oversight, and how so many young men were lost before anyone connected the dots.

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In this episode of Buried: Inside the John Wayne Gacy Investigation, host Bob Motta continues his exclusive interviews with the detectives who shadowed Gacy during the critical days before his arrest. Listeners hear firsthand what it was like to watch and interact with a man they suspected of unimaginable crimes while struggling to find proof. Through these rare accounts, Buried captures the tense final stretch of surveillance—when investigators sensed the truth was near but had yet to uncover the horror waiting beneath Gacy’s house.

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Featuring exclusive recordings of John Wayne Gacy (The Gacy Tapes) and new admissions from the detectives who investigated him, BURIED is a true-crime podcast that investigates the police investigation, re-examining the John Wayne Gacy case and the police work that uncovered a serial killer. It's the story you never knew, told by the son of Gacy's defense lawyer - Bob Motta, II.

BURIED: Inside the John Wayne Gacy Investigation, presented by Defense Diaries, is the remastered re-release of The Gacy Tapes season. The original Gacy recordings have been professionally remastered for enhanced clarity, bringing new life to this groundbreaking true-crime investigation podcast.

BURIED goes beyond the monster to examine the system that caught him, the John Wayne Gacy trial that defined him, and the secrets that have been buried alongside the victims. If you were intrigued by Peacock’s Devil in Disguise, you’ll find BURIED goes deeper, revealing parts of the Gacy case shared only with its host. It’s a story of depravity, police power, and the dangerous line between justice and truth.

Hosted by criminal defense attorney and host of Defense Diaries, Bob Motta. A Mottafied Sound, LLC production.

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In this episode of Buried: Inside the John Wayne Gacy Investigation, host Bob Motta sits down for exclusive, first-hand interviews with the detectives who tracked Gacy day and night during the ten-day surveillance operation that ultimately brought him down.

Through their own voices, listeners hear what it was like to shadow one of America’s most notorious serial killers, as the detectives watched, waited, and gradually built a strange rapport with Gacy that would ultimately help them uncover the horrifying truth buried beneath his house.

But Bob’s investigation doesn’t stop there. In A Pocket Full of Dimes, he challenges what we think we know about the case, drawing listeners into a powerful retelling of events that leads to a chilling realization.

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In this episode of Buried: Inside the John Wayne Gacy Investigation, the Des Plaines police are searching for missing teenager Robert Piest, and there is one man they are interested in talking to: a local contractor last seen speaking with Robbie inside Nisson Pharmacy moments before he disappeared.

In this haunting episode, listeners hear exclusive, never-before-heard recordings of John Wayne Gacy recounting the night Robbie Piest vanished, casually describing how he left the pharmacy with the teenager and drove down Touhy Avenue. But what follows is even more unsettling. Gacy’s detached recollection of the hours that came after—the phone calls, the routine—reveals a chilling indifference. He coldly describes the aftermath of an abduction and ultimate murder as if it were any ordinary evening.

The result is a chilling portrait, told by the son of Gacy’s defense attorney, of a serial killer so practiced in deception that even his own words sound ordinary.

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On his 21st birthday, Bob Motta II received the most unusual gift imaginable: a box of cassette tapes containing his father’s pre-trial interviews with John Wayne Gacy. For decades, Bob held onto those tapes, unsure what to do with them, or whether the world was ready to hear them.

But the questions never stopped burning in his mind. How did the Des Plaines Police Department catch Gacy in just ten days when Chicago police couldn’t stop him for six years—during which 33 young men and boys were murdered? Why did that happen? How was it allowed to happen?

Years later, those questions became the driving force behind Buried: Inside the John Wayne Gacy Investigation, an investigative podcast where Bob Motta revisits the case his father helped defend, exposes the investigation Chicago police never conducted, and uncovers secrets that the detectives who ultimately caught Gacy kept hidden for more than 40 years.

This premiere episode brings listeners inside the host’s personal story and features never-before-heard pre-trial recordings of Gacy speaking with his defense lawyers about the case against him. These rare tapes, recorded before Gacy ever set foot in court, offer a chilling glimpse into the manipulative calm of one of America’s most notorious murderers.

A groundbreaking true-crime investigation that exposes the story you thought you knew. Until now.

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