Actor Jack Merrill starred. Grey’s Anatomy And Law and OrderShe said she was kidnapped and raped by serial killerJohn Wayne Gacy 46 years ago.

Contractor Gacy, who also played the role of Pogo the Clown, was convicted of raping, torturing and murdering at least 33 young men and boys. ChicagoIllinois in the 1970s. He was executed by lethal injection in 1994.

Don’t write People, Merrill, now 65, says the terrifying incident happened one night when he finished swimming at the YMCA. She was walking home in Evanston, Illinois, when a man pulled over and said: “Would you like to go for a ride?” It was Gacy.

The then 19-year-old said yes. He thought they would drive around the block a few times, but Gacy started driving at speed and turned into a dangerous neighborhood.

Gacy told him: “Lock your door. “This is dangerous.” The actor had never gotten into a stranger’s car before. The killer pulled up next to a highway entrance ramp and asked Merrill if he had ever made “poppers” or amyl nitrate. Gacy then pulled out a rag, splashed a liquid on it, and pushed it into the young man’s face, knocking him out.

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

Gacy told him to be quiet. Merrill later realized how dangerous the man was.

“I knew I couldn’t make him angry,” Merrill wrote. “I just had to diffuse the situation and pretend everything was okay.”

Merrill thought the dark house was a trap.

Gacy asked if the actor trusted him. That’s what he answered. Gacy then removed his handcuffs. The two drank beers before Merrill was dragged into the hallway.

“He put this homemade device around my neck. “It had ropes and pulleys and it went around my back and passed through my handcuffed hands so hard that if I struggled I would drown,” he wrote.

“He put a gun to my mouth. Then he raped me in the bedroom. I knew I wouldn’t have much chance if I fought him. I was never afraid or shouted. In a way, I felt sorry for him too, it was like he didn’t want to do what he was doing but he couldn’t stop.”

The men were at home for hours. Eventually Gacy got tired 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 back together sometime,'” Merrill continued.

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

It wasn’t until Gacy was arrested several months later in December 1978 that Merrill realized the potential seriousness of his narrow escape.

He read a headline in the newspaper Chicago Sun-Times, reading: “Bodies Found in Suburban Complex.” He noticed the same highway exit on the map printed by the newspaper. She called the paper and told a staff member: “That man raped me.”

The employee replied: “What did you say your name was?” Merrill hung up the phone.

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

She told the magazine that the show was “relieving” and that she was “proud of my journey.”