WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO JOHN WAYNE GACY'S BRAIN AFTER HIS DEATH
By AIMEE LAMOUREUX
History - Science
Chicago-based psychiatrist Dr. Helen Morrison is currently in possession of the preserved brain of one of the most notorious serial killers of the 20th century, John Wayne Gacy. During Gacy’s trial, she testified that he was legally insane, and after Gacy's execution, Morrison obtained permission from his living relatives to remove his brain for research.
During John Wayne Gacy's autopsy, his brain was removed and given to Dr. Morrison, and it has remained in her home ever since. She remains tight-lipped about the exact location, except to say that it is in "the safest place it can be" in her basement, and she has largely refused morbid curiosity-driven people, including reporters, from seeing the organ.
The unidentified researchers who studied Gacy's brain found that the organ showed no signs of abnormalities that could possibly help explain his abhorrent behavior. "They basically told us that there's actually nothing abnormal, so no tumor, no growth, no sign of any injury. The ventricles are fine; no sign of hydrocephalus," Morrison said.