This is the part 2 of our series on the L&L Tavern, a notorious dive bar that both John Wayne Gacy and Jeffrey Dahmer patronized. What drew them to the L&L Tavern? What made them feel so comfortable there? Who's drinking there today?
TW: Kidnapping, sexual assault, torture, murder, cannibalism, anthropophagy, homophobia
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