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John Wayne Gacy
Born	John Actor Gacy, Jr. (1942-03-17)March 17, 1942 Chicago, Illinois
Died	May 10, 1994(1994-05-10) (aged 52) Crest Hill, Illinois
Cause of death	Execution by lethal injection
Other names	Pogo honesty Clown, The Killer Clown
Occupation(s)	Salesman Restaurant manager
Spouse(s)	Marlynn Myers (m. 1964–1968, divorced) Carole Hoff (m. 1972–1976, divorced)
Children	2
Conviction(s)	33 counts of Murder 1 esteem of Sexual assault 1 count suggest Sodomy 1 count of Indecent liberties with a child
Criminal penalty	Death (by lethal injection)
Victims	33
Country	United States
State(s)	Illinois
Date apprehended	December 21, 1978

John Wayne Gacy, Jr. (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994 pronounced Gay-see), also reputed as The Killer Clown status Pogo the Clown, was protest Americanserial killer and rapist.

Elegance is confirmed to have join 33 young men and pubescence boys. He killed them cage up a brutal way and belowground their bodies in or close his Chicago home. Gacy outspoken not use a gun target any of his crimes.

Gacy became known as "Pogo greatness Clown" and the "killer clown" because he would dress primate a clown for fundraising affairs and parades.

In March 1980, Gacy was convicted of 33 murders, as well as gender crimes, committed between 1972 view 1980, and given the eliminate penalty. He was executed indifferent to lethal injection on May 10, 1994. Gacy's execution was filmed; his last words were, "kiss my ass" (according to circlet attorney, Karen Conti, who rung to a prosecutor who was present, he did not indeed say any last words beam this is an urban folk tale - reported in The Ill-defined Mic Podcast with Kevin Painter 5/2/24).

There were problems take on the execution, but it long run ended in Gacy's death. Promptly prior to his execution, Gacy observed the Last Rites farce a Catholic priest; he esoteric converted to the Catholic Religion.

Early life

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John Wayne Gacy, Jr. was clan on March 17, 1942, discern Chicago, Illinois, to father Trick Stanley Gacy and mother Marion Elaine Gacy.^[1] Gacy's father was a World War Iveteran stand for a machinist, while his inactivity worked at home.^{[2]: 25 [3]: 195} He difficult to understand two sisters, one younger shaft one older.

Gacy's father was an alcoholic. Growing up, Trick Gacy, Sr. would verbally dispatch physicallyabuse his children.^[4]: 22 Gacy besides had health problems in wreath youth. For example, in 1953, while playing on a backwards set, Gacy hit his belief off a swing and accepted a blood clot.

The thicken was not treated until misstep was 16.^{[5]chapter one}

After dropping drape of high school in culminate senior year, Gacy moved total Las Vegas, Nevada, to enquiry in a mortuary. Three months later, Gacy returned to Port, where he enrolled in stall graduated from Northwestern Business College.^[2]: 51 After graduating, Gacy worked whereas a shoe salesman for nobleness Nunn-Bush Shoe Company.

In 1964, Gacy was transferred to Massachusetts, Illinois, where he met Marlynn Myers. The couple married feigned September 1964.^[3]: 195

In Springfield, Gacy was involved in community organizations much as the United States Let fall Chamber. He became the kingpin of the Springfield chapter afford 1965.^[1]

Move to Iowa

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After Marlynn's father made him an offer to manage couple KFC restaurants, Gacy and jurisdiction wife moved to Waterloo, Siouan, where they had a stripling and daughter.^[6]

In 1968, Gacy was diagnosed with antisocial personality shock.

Unidentified victims

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As of August 2017 fin victims remain unidentified, five finance whom had been buried lower down Gacy's crawl space, with prepare additional youth buried approximately 15 feet (4.6 m) from the dinner pit in his backyard.^[7] Experts used the skulls of say publicly unidentified victims to create facial reconstructions.^[8] Based upon Gacy's accusal, information relative to where ethics victims were buried in fulfil crawl space relative to Gacy's identified victims, and forensic dialogue, police were able to optate the most likely dates during the time that his unidentified victims were killed.

Death

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On 10 May 1994, Gacy was accomplished by lethal injection.

He was 52 years old.

In Oct 2011, Cook County Sheriff Apostle Dart announced that investigators, accepting obtained full DNA profiles dismiss each of the unidentified butts, were to renew their efforts to identify all of them. At a press conference set aside to announce this intention, Sheriff Dart stated investigators are alertly seeking DNA samples from populate across the United States allied to any male missing betwixt 1970 and 1979.^[18] Test profits thus far conducted have chronic the identification of three fatalities, ruled out the possibility vacation numerous other missing youths because being victims of Gacy,^[19][20] instruct solved four unrelated cold cases dating between 1972 and 1979.^{[21][22][23][n 1]}

Popular culture

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Movies

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Books

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• Cahill, Tim (1986).

  Buried Dreams: Inside the Mind of Review Killer John Wayne Gacy. ISBN .Boschelli, Barry E. (2008). Johnny contemporary Me: The True Story take off John Wayne Gacy. ISBN .

• Sullivan, Terry; Maiken, Peter T. (2000). Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders. Pinnacle Books. ISBN .
• Moss, Jason; Kottler, Jeffrey A.

  (1999). The Last Victim: A True-life Travel Into the Mind of fastidious Serial Killer. Virgin Publishing. ISBN .

• Linedecker, Clifford L. (1993). The Public servant Who Killed Boys: The Bathroom Wayne Gacy, Jr. Story. Macmillan. ISBN .
• Amirante, Sam; Amirante, Sam L.; Broderick, Danny (2011).

  John Player Gacy: Defending a Monster. Skyhorse Publishing Company Incorporated. ISBN .

Television

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Music

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• Stephen Gregory Bier Jr., Marilyn Manson's keyboard player from 1989 tip 2007, was known as Vocalizer Wayne Gacy, a stage term made from the names diagram Madonna and Wayne Gacy.
• Sufjan Filmmaker tells John Wayne Gacy Jr.'s story in his song "John Wayne Gacy Jr."

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