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Phillip R Paske 1953 - 1998

Phillip Ronald Paske of Chicago, Cook County, IL was born on June 11, 1953 in Chicago to Ralph L Paske and Shirley Paske. He had a sister Debra L Overland. Phillip Paske died at age 45 years old on November 9, 1998 in Chicago, and was buried at Cremated.

Phillip Ronald Paske

Chicago, Cook County, IL 60657

June 11, 1953

Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States

November 9, 1998

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Philip Ronald Paske is notoriously remembered for a series of evil acts. These include potentially being involved with the kidnapping of Johnny Gosch (the first child to appear as "missing: on a milk carton), an accomplice to serial killer John Wayne Gayce, and his roles working with John D. Norman. identified by police in Chicago, Los Angeles and Dallas as the mastermind of the Delta Project, a Chicago-based prostitution ring that sent young boy across the nation, and with various thefts and murders in Illinois. He was also involved with John's child pornography ring - assisting with distribution of his underage newsletter. Those who knew Philip described him as being tall, blonde, and often dressed as a woman. By the age of 25, Phillip was a convicted murderer and thief who, police said, was on probation and carrying on John D. Norman's pornography ring in Norman's absence. (Norman was serving a four-year sentence at the time in the Illinois state prison at Pontiac.) It is believed that high profile politicians were subscribers to John & Philip's newsletter. The New York Times reported that during a raid in 1973 that "the detectives raided the second‐floor apartment at 3716 Cole Avenue and seized files, pornographic literature, a camera, photo‐engraving equipment, stationery, an electric typewriter and hundreds of booklets with names and addresses. The confiscated material filled a pickup truck." See the full article at Chicago Tribune August 16th 1977. When a request was made for a stack of approx 50,000-100,000 index cards that contained the names of the newsletter subscribers, the State Department of Texas said that there were no records that matched this request. Interesting aside: there exists a recording of serial killer John Wayne Gacy where he describes being upset for taking the responsibility for a series of crimes which involved four other people - including Philip and John D. Norman. Paperwork exists that shows that Philip worked for John Wayne Gacy's construction company on three different occasions. To see more about the link between Gacy, Phillip, and Norman, see the March, 2022 article: How 'pedophile's pedophile' linked two serial killers. Paske died at the age of 45 but there is no report of how he died.
06/11

1953

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June 11, 1953

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Chicago, Cook County, Illinois United States

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Ethnicity & Family History

Phillip was Caucasian.
Nationality & Locations

Born in Chicago Illinois, Philip lived at 4630 N Monticello Ave in Chicago Illinois from 1993 until his death in 1998. Prior to this he lived at 3239 N. Ashland Ave also in Chicago. Phillip also lived in Pennsylvania from 1983, after his last release from prison (for a robbery-murder in 1976 in which he was sentenced to five years probation.)
Early Life & Education

Philip attended Kelly High School in Chicago where he was a member of the Trojan Band.
Professional Career

Phillip worked briefly for serial killer John Wayne Gayce's construction company, perhaps on three separate occasions. He was fired from his job as a children's supervisor at a fire department pool after the Chicago Tribune discovered his involvement with John Norman.
Personal Life & Family

Philip spent a number of years in Cook County Jail Illinois, where he met a future accomplice John Norman, a notorious pedophile. See Police seek '77 killing link to slain youths.
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1998

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November 9, 1998

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Chicago, Cook County, Illinois United States
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Daniel Pinna

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03/15/2021

Chicago Tribune August 16th 1977

A man linked by police to a nationwide child-prostitution ring was fired Monday from his city job as a children's supervisor at a fire department pool. Phillip R. Paske, 25, was dismissed from his job at the city pool at 202 N. Streeter Dr. after The Tribune informed authorities of his suspected involvement in the Delta Project - a Chicago-based homosexual ring that sent boys to clients across the nation for a fee.

Paske is an associate of John D. Norman, 49, identified by police in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Dallas as the mastermind of the Delta Project, a Chicago-based prostitution rin that send young boys across the nation to male clients willing to pay hundreds of dollars for their services.

Police suspect that Paske ran the Delta Project after Norman waws sentenced to four years in a state prison for sodomy. Until July 1, Paske and Norman shared a post-office box that was in both of their names and was used to operate the Delta Project, police said.

The activities of Norman, Paske, and the Delta Project were included in a Tribune series in May on the nationwide impact of child pornography. City records show that Paske was hired by the city as a summer employee July 28 and assigned to the fire department gymnasium pool at 202 N. Streeter Drive, near Navy Pier.

Charles Pounian, city personnel director, said Paske was hired for the $4,75-an-hour job under the federal Comprehensive Employment Training Act. Pounian said that because the jobs are of short duration, applicants are assigned to duties before a screening committee can complete an investigation to determine whether they are suitable for their jobs.

The fire department said it received a screening committee report Monday recommending that Paske be rejected. Fire Department officials also said the the Streeter Drive pool has more direct supervisors than any other pool in the city and that Paske was under strict control throughout the time he was on the job.

The Cook County state's attorney's office and Chicago police have said that Norman's Delta Project was born in Cook County Jail last spring, while he was awaiting trial. They said that, unknown to jail officials, Norman used jail printing facilities to send out three "newsletters" about the project to homosexual clients throughout the country and to those who answered his advertisements in pornographic publications.

Authorities said Paske, also a jail inmate at the time, worked with Norman on the project. Paske was in jail for his role as driver of a getaway car in the robbery-killing of a stamp collector here. Originally charged with murder, he later pleaded guilty to attempted armed robbery as a result of plea bargaining with prosecutors.

Police said he operated the Delta Project after being freed on probation.

- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) Tuesday, August 16, 1977 on page 31.

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Daniel Pinna

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03/15/2021

Phillip Paske in 1976

A mugshot of Philip Paske taken in 1976.

Date & Place: 1976

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Daniel Pinna

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Phillip Paske Mug Shot 1971

Photo taken of Philip Paske in 1971 shortly after being arrested.

Date & Place: 1971

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Police seek '77 killing link to slain youths

Daniel Pinna

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02/27/2023

Police seek '77 killing link to slain youths

Chicago and Homewood police are investigating a possible link between the three youths whose bodies were found stabed (sp) to death Sunday and a Homewood youth whose fatal stabbing two years ago was never solved.

One of the youths found slain Sunday was to have testified in the forthcoming trial of John D. Norman, who police have said is the leader of a nationwide child pornography ring.

In the earlier killing, Kenneth Hellstrom, 17, of 18511 Lexington Av., Homewood, had started home on Jan. 20, 1977, from his job at a gas station several blocks away when he was attacked and stabbed six times in the back. He made his way home and collapsed. He died several hours later.

The Homewood youth had implicated Norman on child molesting charges in 1973. Norman pleaded guilt and was sent to prison for four years.

In the Sunday stabbings, three youths were found dead in a car parked in an alley at 1460 W. Pensacola Av. about 3 a.m. Each of the youths had been slashed many times and their throats cut in what police described as an "almost ritualistic" stabbing.

The victims were identified as Michael Salcido, 17, a ward of the state who lived at Maryville Academy in Des Plaines; his brother, Arthur, 19, a former state ward who lives in Princeton; and Frank Mussa, 16, the son of a Princeton grocer.

Michael was the youth scheduled to testify at Norman's upcoming trial. Witnesses told police that 30 minutes before the bodies were found, they had seen six males and a female in and around the car.

Norman was arrested last June in his apartment at 68511/2 Wrightwood Av. after two boys told police he had photographed them naked and performed a sex act with them. Norman, on parole at the time for the child-molesting conviction, was charged with contributing to the sexual delinquency of minors.

Although Norman was in prison the night Hellstrom was killed, police want to question his allged accomplice in the child prostitution ring, Phillip R. Paske, who was once tried for murder but later pleaded not guilt to theft after plea-bargaining with prosecutors.

Informants have told police that Paske often dresses as a woman. Investigators are divided about whether the three victims were killed in the car, as suggested by the positions of their bodies when found, or whether they had been killed elsewhere, as suggested by the relatively small amount of blood in the car.

- Written by Philip Wattley and Patricia Leeds and appeared in The Chicago Tribune on Wednesday February 28th 1979.

Date & Place: February 28, 1979 in Chicago

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Kathy Pinna

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12/13/2022

How 'pedophile's pedophile' linked two serial killers

The following appeared in the Toronto Sun on March 12, 20022:

As the lights were about to be turned out on his violent life, serial killer John Wayne Gacy kept insisting there were others involved in the slayings of 33 boys and young men. Gacy embarked on a homicidal rampage of rape, torture and murder starting in 1972. Many of the victims were runaways and young male prostitutes. The Killer Clown’s reign of terror in Chicago ended with his 1978 arrest. In 1980, he was sentenced to die in the electric chair for his vile crimes.

As the clock ticked towards his date with death — May 10, 1994 — Gacy insisted he was innocent (he wasn’t) but also that he had accomplices. Now, here’s where the story gets interesting. Detectives had eyed two employees of Gacy’s contracting firm. They were Michael Rossi and David Cram. Cops found nothing but there was a third former employee that needed a closer look.

His name was Phillip Paske, a cross-dressing young man who had a penchant for violence and sex with boys. Paste was also the top lieutenant of a man named John David Norman, who Gacy suggested also played a role. “He’s the pedophile of pedophiles,” Dallas Police Det. Arsie Nelson said of Norman in the 1970s.

John David Norman’s twisted history stretched from his hometown of Houston in 1954 with more charges for child pornography and molestation in California, Chicago, Texas, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Colorado and finally back to California. In the early 1970s, Norman was busted for running a nationwide sex-trafficking operation called the Delta Ring based in Chicago and Dallas that supplied underage boys to pedophiles. At the same time, he ran a bustling child pornography business. Two of the boys believed to have been slain by Gacy were last seen near Norman’s home. Coincidence? This added gasoline to the theory the contractor had connections to the sex trafficking ring. After all, Norman was Gacy’s kind of guy. In 1973, Norman was sending children around the United States and the globe to be molested by a small army of pedophiles.

When he was arrested in Dallas that same year, detectives discovered more than 30,000 index cards in his home with the names of pedophiles who paid for sex with young boys, and their sexual preferences. The cards mysteriously disappeared.Norman would allegedly run ads for his operation, which he called the Odyssey Foundation. Accomplices of Dean “Candy Man” Coryll alleged that the Houston killer worked with Norman and bought, sold and murdered scores of young boys. These facts have never been confirmed. Coryll, of course, murdered at least 28 teenage boys and young men in a flurry of blood lust that preceded John Wayne Gacy.

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Kathy Pinna

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12/13/2022

Continuation of story, How 'pedophile's pedophile' linked two serial killers:

In a blockbuster story in the Chicago Tribune, it was reported that Paske was Norman’s closest friend and associate. The Trib noted Paske was a convicted killer. Even Gacy called Paske dangerous.

Even after he was busted in 1973, Norman was shockingly never convicted for sex trafficking; instead he ended up moving to Homewood, Ill., where he was eventually caught luring young boys into an apartment and sexually assaulting them.

In 1976, Norman was sentenced to four years in state prison on sodomy charges. One year later, the Tribune broke the story about Norman’s sex-trafficking ring nationally. Their story named Paske as Norman’s “closest associate” and described him as a convicted murderer who carried on the leadership of the operation after the boss was incarcerated. “Gacy, Norman and Paske are all in Chicago around that time,” Tracy Ullman, an executive producer of the Peacock docuseries John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise, told oxygen.com. “I find it hard for all these things to just be a coincidence.”

One of Gacy’s claims was that Norman’s sex-trafficking ring was making snuff films with young boys. Gacy told detectives they should look through Norman’s videos to see if they recognized any of the victims he’d killed over the years.

“From years of research, we found that pedophiles — like Norman and Gacy — often had lines of communication that tied them together, whether through coded ads in Boys’ Life magazine or actual contact to trade pornography or traffic in humans,” Ullman told oxygen.com. Norman was eventually caged before finally being released on parole in a small town in California in 2009.

Now 81 years old, the twisted urges that had ruled his life shattered six years of rehab. He slipped a note to a supermarket bag boy and placed a personal add in a local newspaper.

That ad stated: “Unique old guy … needs a younger guy as a roommate and companion … is more interested in company than sex … pay little or nothing for room and board.”

Norman was sent back to a state hospital as a result. He died in 2016.

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