From 1972 to 1978, John Wayne Gacy murdered at least 33 young men in the suburbs of Chicago, a horror buried beneath a veneer of respectability. He was the friendly neighbor, the contractor, the volunteer clown who entertained children. Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy, the new eight-part limited series from showrunner Patrick Macmanus, revisits this nightmarish story through a lens that is more empathetic, more introspective, and far less exploitative than most true crime dramatizations.