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Wisconsin State Journal from Madison, Wisconsin • 17

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Madison, Wisconsin
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17
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SECTION 1, PAGE 17 Mean, 28, testifies Gacy reaped and tortured him GUARANTEED WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1980 200 00 TRADE-IN then leaped on top of me plunged on me with the rag, and I went out again." Rignall said that when he regained consciousness again, he was restrained, and demonstrated to the jury of seven men and five women how his hands were extended from his body and held by a wooden board. "Gacy was making it clear to me that he had total control and would do what he wanted to do with me," Rignall said. Rignall said that Gacy forced him to have oral sex with him and commit ted various sexuul acts against him. He also suid that during the ordeal "someone else was in front and beneath me. All I know, he had brown hair and he noticed I had come to, he disappeared I think he was giggling, sort of." Assistant State's Attorney Terry Sullivan said in court that Rignall's reference to a second person was "unbelievable" and that he'd never mentioned a second person in his statements to police.

Outside the courtroom, Sullivan said that if the prosecution had be- 1 FOUR 1 I i ll YEAR It HI IKCIUSJVS 8 laatio I I WkmNTV John Wayne Gacy lieved the statement, they would have had him as their witness. Rignall said he eventually woke up at the base of a statue in Lincoln Park. He said he was half-dressed and finally stumbled back to his apartment several blocks away. Model E586 25" Color TV with Curtis Matties Super Brlte Picture Tube lor the sharpest, clearest color picture ever. 100 solid stats chassis (uses 23 less power than standard color TV's) Electronic Sensor Touch Tuning one touch on the tuner plate gives you an Instantly excellent color picture with computer speed every time.

CHICAGO (AP) An admitted bisexual sobbed out a story Thursday of being chloroformed, raped and tortured by a man he identified in court as John W.Gacy Jr. Jeff Rignall, 28, was the first defense witness to be called in the trial of Gacy, 37, who is charged with murdering 33 young men and boys. The defense is trying to prove Gacy innocent by reason of insanity while the state says the murders were premeditated and is seeking the death penalty. Several times, Rignall, speaking slowly and hesitatingly, collapsed in violent sobs under questioning by defense attorney Sam Amirante. Brief recesses were taken until he could regain composure.

Rignall, now of Louisville, who has published a book about his experiences with Gacy, said he had been under daily psychiatric treatment since the incident. Rignall told of being on his way to a Chfcago homosexual bar the night of March 21, 1978, when he saw a man he now knows as Gacy in a parked car. He said they struck up a conversation and he was told to get in the car. He said Gacy lit a "joint" of marijuana, passed it to him and after several puffs, "I was hit in the face by a dish cloth or a rag it had a cold feeling and I had a buzzing bee in my head and I went unconscious." Rignall said that at times, when he regained consciousness, he was hit again with the rag, which allegedly contained chloroform. Eventually, Rignall said, he realized Gacy was carrying him into his home and was being placed on a couch in the den.

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