John Wayne Gacy – also known under the moniker of Killer Clown – is a serial rapist. Over a decade, he is said to have murdered over 33 young male adults. Born in 1942, he grew up in a Chicago neighborhood with abusive parents. His father would beat and taunt him to the point of being violent. His father was never pleased with his academic performance. As he aged, his father often beat and molested him – causing him to lose consciousness at times – as well as by friends of the family. However, his dad would not do anything about it. As a result, his behavior changed. When he reached the age of 7, he was caught touching another child, and he received an incredibly harsh beating.
Gacy suffered from heart and appendix conditions as a result of his childhood trauma and other medical conditions. He also had seizures during high school. In addition to being bullied and beaten in school because he couldn’t play sports, this was due to his traumatic childhood and previous conditions. As a young man, he helped a Democratic Candidate in Chicago with his campaign. His father would constantly pester him for the smallest reasons. John Gacy was a very active member of the community. He ran for the Democratic party representative of his Chicago district, but he lost. Gacy, who had married Marlynn in 1968, moved to Iowa and worked at the KFC of her father. He also began a family. In 1968, Gacy was working at a KFC restaurant in Iowa when he married Marlynn Myers. He also started a family. In 1971 he was freed on the condition that he maintained good behavior. As a result, Myers and his children had been separated.
John Wayne Gacy returned after his prison term to Chicago. There he opened a successful construction business. He also ran as a Democratic district captain and was elected. Gacy married Carole Hoff in 1972. He was a philanthropist who made many contributions. Rosalynn Carter even posed with him once. Gacy, dressed as clown at times, entertained children in costume for events like birthdays and similar occasions. This was the origin of some Gacy’s murders. He killed his first victim in 1972 when he invited a young boy to stay the night at home that he had met on a bus stop. Tim McCoy was 15 when he woke in the middle night to cook something for dinner. Tim McCoy, 15 years old, was about to wake Gacy up to ask if he would like to eat when he suddenly appeared holding a knife. Gacy, who was just waking up, grabbed the blade from the boy’s hand, subdued and killed him by stabbing twice in the abdomen. Gacy was only able to use a knife once. His modus operandi involved getting his victims into handcuffs before he raped and killed them.
John Gacy strategically hid his bodies, storing them in his Chicago attic or walls. This was to store as many bodies as possible. Gacy confessed that he experienced sexual pleasure as he murdered the boy. He then began to wonder how he could gain lust by killing. Gacy began to explore his homosexuality and finally told his wife he will no longer have sexual relations with his. Hoff claimed that she found pornographic material in the garage. Carole divorced Gacy with his children in 1976. John Gacy began to spend more time attracting, attacking and killing young males. In 1978, Gacy continued to kill boys, including those he had met through his company and others he had picked up in the streets, as well as children at parties that he attended. Gacy was arrested by police after a victim’s mother reported that her son had not returned home from a job interview at Gacy’s construction company. After a strong dead-body odor was found in the house, the police obtained a search warrant. They then located the bodies. He confessed that he had raped and tortured over 33 people, leading to the murder of one. He revealed that he had assaulted more boys but not killed them. Many of these cases of homicide or assault remain unsolved.
John Wayne Gacy was convicted of 33 counts in total, including murder, sexual assault and sodomy. Gacy was executed in May 1994 after he failed to appeal.
