Degraded Childhood
John Wayne Gacy Jr. is the offspring of Danish and Polish parents and was born on March 17, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois. His father was often intoxicated and beat the children when they misbehaved with a razor strap. Additionally, he physically assaulted Gacy's mother in which he grew up believing that was the behavioral norm. This directly assisted in the development of a psychopath that is related a mental causation.
Gacy also faced alienation at school due to a congenital heart condition that was looked down upon as a failure from his father. Eventually, he realized he was attracted to men and suffered great pains due to his sexuality. |
"A clown can get away with murder."
Assaults to Society
Gacy was convicted in 1968 for sexual assault of two teenage boys which resulted in a 10-year prison term. Less than a year after his release, he was arrested for another teen sexual assault, but the charges were dropped when the boy didn't show during the trial. Within the next five years, two more accusations of rape occurred and Gacy was questioned for their disappearances as well.
His first known killing was in 1972 of Timothy McCoy after convincing him into entering his home. |
Fifteen-year-old Robert Piest went missing December 11, 1978. The young boy was reported to have been heading out to apply for a potential job from Gacy. December 21st commenced a police search of Gacy's house in which it uncovered evidence of his murderous and sexual acts. It was concluded that he had killed a total of 33 young men, that were uncovered beneath the house, garage, and from the nearby Des Plaines River. It was confirmed that after luring victims into his house for "construction work", he capture, strangled, and sexually assaulted the boys.
The Discipline of a Psychopath
After committing 33 murders, Gacy became known as one of the most vicious serial killers in U.S. history. His punishment included 12 death sentences and 21 natural life sentences. Gacy was held at the Menard Correctional Center for 15 years, and offered contradictory statements on the murders during interviews. Although he confessed to his crimes previous to the sentences, he went on to deny being guilty and provided a 12-minute recorded statement "proving" his innocence. He began to learn about visual arts and his paintings are held at an exhibition in a Chicago gallery. However, he went on to die by lethal injection on May 10, 1994, at the Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill, Illinois.
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