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John Wayne Gacy

At 11 years old he was knocked unconscious by a vicious swing and then it caused him to have black outs throughout his teen years.

He made himself well known in his community for his political work and his help to charitable causes. He often appeared at children's performances dressed as a clown

State of Illinois

Gacy confessed after the police got a search warrant for his house. He basically led the officers to where he hid the bodies and then confessed he had thrown a few of them in a near by river.

Background Info

CRIME

Born : May 17, 1942

Died: May 10 1994

John Wayne Gacy would use his contracting business to attract young men eager for work, many of whom were raped. He would use a special knot to strangle the young men. Thrity three of whom lost thier lives

Gacy met and then married work collague Marylnn Myres in 1964.

Gacy would also keep the bodies in his basement until they decomposed.

He left school and never graduated.

Then traveled to Las Vegas in search of fortunes.

First Known Attack

He was working in management at his father-in-law's restaurant and somehow lured a young boy to the back and tried to sodomize him when he refused to perform oral sex.

Victims

Timothy McCoy, 18, January 3, 1972

John Butkovich, 17, July 21, 1975

Darrell Sampson, 18, April 6, 1976

Randall Reffett, 15, May 14, 1976

Sam Stapleton, 14, May 14, 1976

Michael Bonnin, 17, June 3, 1976

William Carroll, 16, June 13, 1976

Rick Johnston, 17, August 6, 1976

Kenneth Parker, 16, October 25, 1976

Michael Marino, 14, October 25, 1976

Gregory Godzik, 17, December 12, 1976

John Szyc, 19, January 20, 1977

Jon Prestidge, 20, March 15, 1977

Matthew Bowman, 19, July 5, 1977

Robert Gilroy, 18, September 15, 1977

John Mowery, 19, September 25, 1977

Russell Nelson, 21, October 17, 1977

Robert Winch, 16, November 10, 1977

Tommy Boling, 20, November 18, 1977

David Talsma, 19, December 9, 1977

William Kindred, 19, February 16, 1978

Timothy O'Rourke, 20, June, 1978

Frank Landingin, 19, November 4, 1978

James Mazzara, 21, November 24, 1978

Robert Piest, 15, December 11, 1978

Stockholm

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Budapest

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San Francisco

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