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The Killer ClownJohn Wayne Gacy
By: Julie McDonald
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Childhood
• Born in Chicago Illinois on March 17, 1942• Troubled relationship with his father– Physically abusive– Alcoholic
• Age 11 he was hit in the head with a swing and he had severe head trauma what would go unnoticed until he was 16 when they found a blood clot that had been forming in his brain– He was put on medication to dissolve the clot
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Teenage Years and Older
• Attended 4 high schools– Never finished his senior year– Dropped out and ran away from family and home
• Returned when he ran out of money• Never went back to high school, but enrolled
and graduated from Northwestern Business College
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1st Marriage• Married Marlynn Myers
– Parents owned franchises of KFC, Gacy was offered a manager position
– Had 2 children: son and daughter • Rumors began about his homosexuality • Gacy cheated on his wife regularly• “Gacy’s Club”
– A place where teenage boys could come and drink, Gacy would try and make sexual advances towards them
– 2 boys accused him of sexual assault- he paid another boy to beat up his accusers.
• Sentenced to 10 years
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While in Prison/ Starting Over
• Wife filed for divorce shortly after he was convicted• Never saw his children again• Father died• Paroled after 18 months– Lived with his mother– Hide his criminal records
• New job– Chief at a Chicago restaurant
• Bought a new house
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• February 12, 1971- A teenage boy claims Gacy forced him into his car and forced him to have sex with him. Charges where dropped when the boy never came to court.
• Chicago police didn’t follow up on the case
• June 22, 1972- A teenage boy accused Gacy of flashing a police badge and forcing him to have sex. Charges were Dropped.
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2nd Marriage
• Married Carole Hoff- who already had 2 daughters– Hide his past from his new family
• Gacy started his own business– PDM Contractors
• New trouble– Gacy would stay out all night – Carole found disturbing items
• IDs from young men, items of clothing..
• Divorced in March 1976
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Disappearing Employees
• John Butkovich- went missing and was never found
• Gregory Godzik- parents urged police to talk to Gacy, nothing happened
• John Szyc- a man who knew all the victims disappeared
• Lead to clues from other attacks on young boys
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Gacy’s Downfall
• He killed a boy in his neighborhood • Robert Piest– 15 years old– Old a friend he was going to a house to talk to a man
about a construction job• Police searched Gacy’s house and found
suspicious items– Class rings, small clothing, handcuffs, drivers licenses
• An odor was coming from under the house
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Gacy’s Downfall cont.
• He confessed to an employee to over 30 killings
• Police searched his house and found human bones in the crawl space
• Confessed to the police to over 30 killings that were mostly buried under his house– Drew the police a diagram to how he buried them
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Confessing All• Told police– He would pick up teenage males or
male prostitutes– Handcuff them at his house and
muffle their screams with stuffing clothing in their mouths
– He would kill them by strangling them with a rope
– He would keep the bodies with him for as long as possible- until they decomposition started taking place
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• Sentenced to death on march 13 1980• Spent 14 years on death row • Executed on May 10, 1994
• He was know as “the killer clown” because he would dress up in a Pogo the clown costume when he would throw block parties in his neighborhood.
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References
• http://crime.about.com/od/serial/p/gacy.htm• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
John_Wayne_Gacy• www.carpenoctem.tv/killers/gacy.htm