A Malden mans guilty pleasure of investing in murderabilia has come back to haunt him thanks to a cursed clown painting by serial killer John Wayne Gacy, which the collector claims turned his life into a three-ring circus.
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td height="8"><spacer type="block" height="8" width="8"></td></tr></tbody></table> I just want to get rid of it, said musician Nikki Stone about the late Gacys signed self-portrait of his terrifying alter ego, Pogo the Clown.
Since he plunked down $3,000 in 2001 to buy the framed oil from national murderabilia merchant Arthur Rosenblatt, Stone said his beloved dog has died and his mother found out she had cancer.
When a friend offered to store the painting at his house, the friends neighbor was killed in a car crash. A second friend who kept the painting for Stone attempted suicide, Stone said.
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td height="8"><spacer type="block" height="8" width="8"></td></tr></tbody></table> Ive never even hung it, said Stone, who hopes a less superstitious buyer will at least cover the $3,000 he blew - even if only to burn the true-crime artifact.
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td height="8"><spacer type="block" height="8" width="8"></td></tr></tbody></table> The creepy conversation piece is now in the care of Stones pal Shawn McCarron, a consignment art dealer and owner of Kaleidoscope Tattoo & Art in Cambridge.
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td height="8"><spacer type="block" height="8" width="8"></td></tr></tbody></table> McCarron has had his own share of bad luck: His mother, Maureen, 58, was murdered in Malden in 1999.
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td height="8"><spacer type="block" height="8" width="8"></td></tr></tbody></table> Im not afraid of it, McCarron said of the painting. I dont believe in the hocus-pocus and the bad mojo that comes with it.
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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td height="8"><spacer type="block" height="8" width="8"></td></tr></tbody></table> I just want to get rid of it, said musician Nikki Stone about the late Gacys signed self-portrait of his terrifying alter ego, Pogo the Clown.
Since he plunked down $3,000 in 2001 to buy the framed oil from national murderabilia merchant Arthur Rosenblatt, Stone said his beloved dog has died and his mother found out she had cancer.
When a friend offered to store the painting at his house, the friends neighbor was killed in a car crash. A second friend who kept the painting for Stone attempted suicide, Stone said.
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td height="8"><spacer type="block" height="8" width="8"></td></tr></tbody></table> Ive never even hung it, said Stone, who hopes a less superstitious buyer will at least cover the $3,000 he blew - even if only to burn the true-crime artifact.
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td height="8"><spacer type="block" height="8" width="8"></td></tr></tbody></table> The creepy conversation piece is now in the care of Stones pal Shawn McCarron, a consignment art dealer and owner of Kaleidoscope Tattoo & Art in Cambridge.
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td height="8"><spacer type="block" height="8" width="8"></td></tr></tbody></table> McCarron has had his own share of bad luck: His mother, Maureen, 58, was murdered in Malden in 1999.
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td height="8"><spacer type="block" height="8" width="8"></td></tr></tbody></table> Im not afraid of it, McCarron said of the painting. I dont believe in the hocus-pocus and the bad mojo that comes with it.
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