Disclaimer: "I am in no way trying to condone or justify the crimes these people have committed. My heart goes out to the families that lost loved ones to these killers. I am not trying to embodied them as a hero or a villain. I am trying to embodied them as a human. These posts are simply here to get a better understanding as to why they could do such awful crimes. Maybe one day we can put an end to this horrific lifestyle."
John Wayne Gacy was born on St. Patricks Day of 1942 to Danish and Polish parents. Grew up in a working-class neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. His father, John Wayne Gacy Sr was a raging alcoholic who beat him and his siblings along with his mother constantly. As Gacy grew up, the non stop verbal abuse he would get from his father made him develop a identity crisis, doubting his own masculinity. At the age of 11, he suffered a blow to the head from a swing and because of that he had frequent blackouts for the next five years. The doctors found a clot in his brain as a result from the blow and removed it with medications. Following that, he would fake 'heart problems' for attention. John was a shy kid growing up and even though he wasn't very popular, he was well liked by his teachers and fellow classmates in school.
John later went on to graduate from business college and started work as a shoe salesman. Gacy married a co-worker, whose family just so happen to own a KFC in Waterloo, Iowa and began to work there as the Manager. He gradually earned the respect of the local Jaycees.He was well liked in his community and was a Democratic precinct captain in the Chicago suburbs in the 1970s. Gacy married twice and had two children. May, 1968 he was arrested for sexual misconduct with a young male employee. Gacy actually hired a thug to beat up the witness, which ended up failing and only increased the charges against him. He plead guilty to sodomy and was sentenced to 10 years. Gacy was a model prisoner and was paroled in 1970 after serving only 18 months.
He then moved to Chicago where he began his new life as a building constructor. Gacy became popular with his new neighbors and colleagues. He would throw theme parties and often dress up as "Pogo the Clown" for children parties and visit the sick children in the hospital. Gacy was once again charged with sexual misconduct towards a young man on February 12, 1971. The witness did not show up in court and the charges were dropped. He finished his parole on October 18th, 1971 and committed his first murder on January 3rd, 1972. He would drive around town looking for fresh meat. Often young male runaways, ex-jailbirds or even male prostitutes. Gacy's victims ranged in age from 9 to 20 years. In order to lure his victims to him, he went down the typical route of a Serial Killer. He would pretend to be a cop by showing them a badge or a gun and arrest them. He would later befriend them and take them home where he would show them magic tricks.
Once he had subdued his victim he would go on to torture, sodomize and garrote them. He would dispose of the bodies by burying them in a crawl space beneath his house. He would start to dump bodies in neighboring rivers once he ran out of room in the crawl space. in 1976, the killings escalated cause he had the house to himself after he divorced his second wife. On December 12th, 1978 he killed his 33rd and last victim. A 15-year-old boy named Robert Piest who happened to live in the same neighborhood as Gacy. Robert told someone that he was going to see his "Contractor" about a job and was never seen again. The "Contractor" turned out to be Gacy. When the police dropped by his house they noticed the smell from the decomposing corpses underneath. After they ran his police record, it wasn't hard for them to get a search warrant of his house. 29 bodies were found in his crawl space and 5 more in a nearby river, 9 of which remained unidentified. Gacy tried to justify himself by claiming he suffered from multiple personality disorder and the murders were made by his alternative personality Jack Hanson. During some of the murders he would be dressed up as his alter ego Pogo the Clown.
While Gacy was in Prison, he spent most of his time making oil paintings. He would paint Disney characters like "The Seven Dwarfs", Michelangelo's "Pieta" or even self-portraits as "Pogo the Clown". After his execution these paintings have become trendy collectors items. Film director John Waters and actor Johnny Depp are some celebrities who own his paintings. His art dealer was Rick Staton of Grindhouse Graphics.
On Friday, December 22, 1978, Gacy finally confessed to police that he killed at least thirty people and buried most of the remains of the victims beneath the crawl space of his house. His first killing took place in January, 1972. He further confessed that he would lure his victims into being handcuffed and then he would sexually assault them. To muffle the screams of his victims, he would stuff a sock or underwear into their mouths and kill them by pulling a rope or board against their throats, as he raped them. Gacy admitted to sometimes keeping the dead bodies under his bed or in the attic for several hours before eventually burying them in the crawl space. During his trail in 1980, psychiatrists testified Gacy was not a multiple personality and he was judged sane. After that, he was convicted of all 33 deaths, making him the worst serial killer in U.S. History. He was put to death by lethal injection on May 10th, 1994 at the age of 52.
Execution lasted 18 minutes after one of the IV lines clogged.
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