Phillip Paske in 1976

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.