John Wayne Gacy:
John Wayne Gacy was convicted of
the torture, rape and murder of 33 males between 1972 until his arrest
in 1978. He was dubbed the "Killer Clown" because he entertained kids at
parties as "Pogo The Clown." He was eventually convicted and sentenced
to death. On May 10, 1994, Gacy was executed by lethal injection.
Gacy's First Known Attack:
The first known account
of John Gacy's sadistic behavior began after his marriage to Marilynn
Myers in 1964 in Iowa. He was working in management at his
father-in-law's restaurant and somehow lured a young boy to the back and
tried to sodomize him when he refused to perform oral sex. The boy
reported Gacy to the police and he ended up doing 18 months of a 10 year
prison sentence on a sexual molestation conviction.
Divorced and Disgraced:
After
prison, divorced and disgraced, he decided to return to his hometown
Chicago and start a new life. He remarried but the marriage ended
quickly, leaving Gacy alone to feed his sadistic fantasies. By 1978 he
was actively cruising for homosexual young men and luring
them to his home where he would then torture, rape and brutally kill
them.
Looking for Work:
Another tactic he
used to get young men to his home was through posting jobs at his
construction company. He would lure them to his house on the pretext of
talking to them about a job. Once the boys got inside his home he would
overpower them, knock them unconscious and begin his gruesome crime of
torture, rape and murder.
Care for a Cup of Coffee?:
The
police became suspicious of Gacy when a mother of one boy who was to
meet Gacy about a job never returned home. When the police saw Gacy's
criminal record they began to keep a close eye on him. Gacy, in his
usual bizarre behavior, invited the police in for coffee. The police
accepted the invitation and once inside they became overwhelmed by a
strong odor which they recognized as possibly coming from a decaying
dead body.
Bodies Found Under the Crawlspace:
The
police then obtained a search warrant and uncovered 29 bodies in the
crawlspace of Gacy's house. The bodies were all male and ranged in age
from nine years old to their mid-20s. Later Gacy admitted to more
killings in which he dumped the bodies into a nearby river. In searching
for all possible victims, the police excavated Gacy's yard and gutted
the house, eventually tearing it completely down.
Executed in 1994 by Lethal Injection:
After
he was convicted and sentenced to death in 1980, he continued to taunt
authorities with different versions of his story about the murders in an
attempt to stay alive. Authorities were not swayed and on May 10, 1994
his execution by lethal injection was carried out.
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