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+tags:
+  - Organization
+  - Company
+  - United_States
+  - Illinois
+  - 1970s
+  - John_Wayne_Gacy
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+Painting Decorating Maintenance (PDM) was a construction company owned by [[John Wayne Gacy]] in Norwood Park, [[Chicago|Chicago, Illinois]]. PDM served as both a legitimate contracting business and the site of one of the worst serial murder investigations in American history. After [[John David Norman]] went back to prison in June 1978, [[Phillip Paske]] lost his job as a children's supervisor at a public swimming pool and went to work at PDM. Receipts for three payslips made out to [[Phillip Paske]] from PDM, dated 12 September 1978, 19 September 1978, and 25 September 1978, were found in the archives of the company's financial records from that period.[^1]
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+[[Robert Piest]] disappeared from a pharmacy where he worked part-time. [[John Wayne Gacy|Gacy]] was an acquaintance of the pharmacy owner, and PDM had recently completed a remodelling job there. The crawlspace beneath the PDM premises at 8213 Summerdale Avenue served as a mass grave for [[John Wayne Gacy|Gacy]]'s victims. [[Michael Rossi]], an accomplice of [[John Wayne Gacy|Gacy]] linked to the [[Odyssey Network]] through [[Phillip Paske]] and [[John David Norman]], dug graves in the crawlspace. [[John Wayne Gacy|Gacy]] named Rossi alongside [[David Cram]] and [[Phillip Paske]] as individuals who assisted in his operations. The discovery of 29 bodies at the PDM premises in December 1978 became known as the [[Dean Corll Murders|Houston Mass Murders]]-scale investigation that exposed [[John Wayne Gacy|Gacy]]'s killing spree.[^1]
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+### Footnotes
+[^1]: Dovey, S. (2023). *Eye of the Chickenhawk*. United States: Thehotstar.