John Wayne Gacy by Judge Sam Amirante Page B

from the home, he received a welcome call from his trusted employee and friend David Cram. Gacy was particularly happy to hear from David because he had no desire to stay in the house. He was worried that he was being watched, and he was uncomfortable with the mess. He also wanted help with the cleanup. Although his car and his snowplow truck had been confiscated, one of the PDM vans was available, and he used that to go pick up David Cram that night. Cram was still shaking in his boots from his chance meeting with the Des Plaines police earlier that day when they came to Mr. Gacy’s home to execute the search warrant. Gacy grilled him about that.
    Mr. Cram later gave a statement to Officers James Pickell and Ronald Adams regarding the activities of the evening following the search of Gacy’s home and other matters.
    After spending some time at the Golden Bear Restaurant on Forest Preserve Drive near Harlem Avenue where he and Gacy feasted on cheeseburgers and coffee, and David listened to Gacy grouse on about the fucking cops, they returned to Gacy’s house. Cram tells the police officers what happened next and about a variety of other things:
     
    Officer: “Did he walk through the house?”
    Cram: “Yes he did.”
    Officer: “Where did he go?”
    Cram: “Crawl space.”
    Officer: “Down under the house?”
    Cram: “Yes.”
    Officer: “Did you see him go down there?”
    Cram: “Yes I did.”
    Officer: “When he went down there, what did he do while he was down there?”
    Cram: “Okay, he seen the mud on the floor. Complained about that. Went into the crawl space with a flashlight and the lights were on also. Went down in there, walked about, didn’t even take a full step. He just went around in a complete circle and came back out.”
    Officer: “Did he walk around at all down there?”
    Cram: “No, he went down into the crawl space, crouched down, ’cause there’s not much clearance to stand up under there. He went around in a complete circle. All he did was check it out and then came back up into the house.” Officer: “Did he go anywhere else in the house?”
    Cram: “Attic, bedrooms, bathroom, laundry room, kitchen, back room, every space in the house.”
    Officer: “And did he indicate that he found anything else to be missing?”
    Cram: “Just what I said, and he’d have to stumble over it.
    You know, if there’s anything else.”
    Officer: “Okay, what time did you leave John’s house?”
    Cram: “Oh, about I’d say 1:30, quarter to two. 1:30 quarter to two somewhere in there.”
    Officer: “Would that be in the morning, or …”
    Cram: “Ah, yeah that would be morning, early.”
    Officer: “On which date?”
    Cram: “Ah, Wednesday.”
    Officer: “So, are we talking about the early morning hours? Would that be Wednesday or Thursday?”
    Cram: “The early morning would be on Thursday. Thursday morning.”
    Officer: “Did he ask you anything about while you were in his house and the police officers were there?”
    Cram: “Yes he did. He said what were they looking for. What did they take? And also they had a few bags. There were probably other bags, because they were like mailing envelopes of some sort, brown, and he said those were the books. He said were there about five of them and I said; ‘yeah,’ and he goes what have they done with the books and I said they might have taken them with.”
    Officer: “Did he say what kind of books they were?”
    Cram: “He said dirty books.”
    Officer: “Dirty books?”
    Cram: “Like that would be Playboy, all the way down the line, who knows?”
    Officer: “Okay, do you recall what time you left John’s house?”
    Cram: “Approximately quarter to two.”
    Officer: “Okay, where did you go?”
    Cram: “We took a ride past the police station to see if his truck was, his car was left in the lot.”
    Officer: “Did he tell you what his intention was?”
    Cram: “Yeah, if they were there, that he wanted to pick them up, the truck up,