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Malden
\n man’s guilty pleasure of investing in murderabilia has come back to haunt
\n him thanks to a "cursed" clown painting by serial
\n killer John Wayne Gacy, which the collector claims turned his life into
\n a three-ring circus. <\/p>\n
"I just want to get rid of it," said musician Nikki Stone about the late Gacy’s
\nsigned self-portrait of his terrifying alter ego, "Pogo the Clown."<\/p>\n
Since he plunked down $3,000 in 2001 to buy the framed oil from national murderabilia
\nmerchant Arthur Rosenblatt, Stone said his beloved dog has died and his mother
\nfound out she had cancer. <\/p>\n
When a friend offered to store the painting at his house, the friend’s
\n neighbor was killed in a car crash. A second friend who kept the painting
\n for Stone attempted suicide, Stone said. <\/p>\n
"I’ve never even hung it," said Stone, who hopes a less superstitious buyer
\n will at least cover the $3,000 he blew – even if only to burn the true-crime
\n artifact. <\/p>\n
The creepy conversation piece is now in the care of Stone’s pal Shawn McCarron,
\n a consignment art dealer and owner of Kaleidoscope Tattoo & Art in Cambridge. <\/p>\n
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