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- Gacy's defense attorney disputes these claims. He tells WGN that Gacy confessed to all 33 murders to police and that it wasn't until he was behind bars that the condemned killer began to change his tune.
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John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer whose murders of 33 boys and young men in the 1970s received international media attention and shocked his suburban Chicago community, where he was known for his sociability and his performance as a clown at charitable events and childrens’ parties.
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Richard Speck (born December 6, 1941, Kirkwood, Illinois,...
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Gacy contended that, although he had "some knowledge" of five of the murders (those of McCoy, Butkovich, Godzik, Szyc and Piest), the other 28 murders had been committed by employees who had keys to his house while he was away on business trips.
- A Secret, Tortured Past
- The “Killer Clown” Tries to Have A Normal Life
- John Wayne Gacy’s House of Horrors in Chicago
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- John Wayne Gacy’s Victims Receive Justice
Those who knew John Wayne Gacy would never have expected him to turn out as he had. Almost everyone who met him described him as a mild-mannered and likable man. For most of his life, he worked in customer service, first managing three of his father-in-law’s KFC franchises, then starting his own construction business. His customers remembered him a...
After graduating from Northwestern Business College, John Wayne Gacy met Marlynn Myers, a coworker at a shoe company in Springfield, Illinois. The couple married in 1964 and Gacy took over the management of his father-in-law’s Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises in Waterloo, Iowa, where they lived with Myers’ parents. He and Myers had two children an...
Months after his release, when he and his mother were living in Des Plaines, Illinois, John Wayne Gacy lured a teenage boy into his house and tried to rape him. Gacy was charged with sexual assault, but the charges were dropped when the boy failed to show up to court. Gacy had technically violated his parole, but somehow his parole officer was neve...
At about 9 PM on December 11, 1978, Elizabeth Piest drove to pick up her son, a high school sophomore and honor roll student named Robert, from his job at a pharmacy in Des Plaines. Robert Piest went outside and told her to wait a few minutes; he wanted to talk to a customer about a summer contracting job that would pay him twice what he was curren...
Three years later, the “Killer Clown” used an insanity plea during his trial, hoping for a not guilty verdict. The jury didn’t buy it. Gacy was sentenced to death and dropped the friendly facade he had maintained for all those years. He didn’t seem to have any remorse for his victims. “He looked at his victims like he was taking out the trash. He h...
Mar 18, 2021 · Between 1972 and 1978, Gacy tortured and murdered at least 33 teenagers and young men inside his own home. At the time of his arrest, he was known as the largest mass murder in the history of the...
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Jun 16, 2023 · Gacy committed all the murders in his Norwood Park home, luring his victims there with the promise of construction work or some other ruse, then sexually assaulting and torturing them...
Nov 13, 2009 · On December 22, 1978, John Wayne Gacy confesses to police to killing over two dozen boys and young men and burying their bodies under his suburban Chicago home. In March 1980, Gacy was...
Aug 7, 2024 · Serial killer John Wayne Gacy was convicted of murdering 33 victims, some of which have only recently been identified — but his true death toll may be much higher.
