Law & Order star reveals he was kidnapped and raped by notorious serial killer John Wayne Gacy

Actor Jack Merrill, who has appeared in Grey’s Anatomy and Law and orderhas spoken out about having been kidnapped and raped by serial killerJohn Wayne Gacy 46 years ago.

Gacy, a contractor who also played Pogo the Clown, was found guilty of raping, torturing and murdering at least 33 young men and boys in chicagoIllinois in the 1970s. He was executed by lethal injection in 1994.

writing in People, Merrill, now 65, says the horrific incident occurred one night as he finished swimming at his YMCA. She was walking home in Evanston, Illinois, when a man stopped and said, “Do you want to go for a walk?” It was Gacy.

The 19-year-old said yes. He thought they would go around the block a couple of times, but Gacy started driving quickly and turned into a dangerous neighborhood.

Gacy told him: “Close the door. “It’s dangerous.” The actor had never gotten into a stranger’s car before. The killer stopped near a freeway on-ramp and asked Merrill if he had ever used poppers or amyl nitrate. Gacy then took out a rag, sprayed a liquid on it, and pushed it into the young man’s face, knocking him unconscious.

When Merrill woke up, he was handcuffed. He saw the highway exit and then stopped in front of Gacy’s house.

Gacy told him to shut up. Merrill then realized how dangerous the man was.

“I knew I couldn’t make him angry,” Merrill wrote. “I just had to calm the situation down and act like everything was fine.”

Merrill thought the dark house was a trap.

Gacy asked if the actor trusted him, he wrote. He answered yes. Gacy then removed the handcuffs. The two then had a beer before Merrill was dragged down the hallway.

“He put this homemade contraption around my neck. It had ropes and pulleys, and it went around my back and through my handcuffed hands in a way that if I struggled, I would suffocate,” he wrote.

“He put a gun in my mouth. Then he raped me in the bedroom. He knew that if he fought him, he didn’t have much of a chance. I never got scared or screamed. I also felt sorry for him in a way, like he didn’t necessarily want to do what he was doing, but he couldn’t stop.”

The men had been in the house for hours. Finally, Gacy had enough and said he would take Merrill home.

Merrill got out of the car not far from where Gacy had picked him up hours earlier.

“He gave me his phone number and said, ‘Maybe we’ll get together again someday,’” Merrill continued.

“When I got home, I flushed the number down the toilet and then took a shower. I didn’t call the police; At that time I didn’t know he was a murderer.”

It wasn’t until several months later, when Gacy was arrested in December 1978, that Merrill realized the potential severity of what he had narrowly escaped.

He read a headline in the Chicago Sun-Times, that said: “Bodies found in a suburban site.” He noticed the same highway exit on a map the newspaper printed. He called the newspaper and told a staff member: “That guy raped me.”

The employee responded, “What did you say your name was?” Merrill hung up.

The actor said he has forgiven Gacy. So far, he has only told his closest friends what happened. Merrill has written a one-man show about his life called The Save. It will be performed at the Electric Lodge in Los Angeles from October 24 to November 3.

He told the magazine that performing the show is “cathartic” and that he is “proud of my journey.”