“John Wayne Gacy was pronounced dead at 12:58 a.m.” said Howard Peters III, corrections director at Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill, Ill., on May 10, 1994. After spending 14 years in prison, the man responsible for the deaths of 33 young men and boys was finally executed. Outside of the prison, a crowd gathered … Read more
It’s vital to note that any sort of rough childhood never excuses a serial killer’s actions. After all, there are millions of children who grow up in rough or abusive households that choose not to murder innocent victims. Richard Rappaport, the chief psychiatrist for John Wayne Gacy’s defense, believed that John Wayne Gacy’s childhood, particularly … Read more
Four years later in 1968, Gacy and Marlynn were living in Waterloo, Iowa where he was responsible for three “Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises owned by his father-in-law.” Three instances of sexual assault happened while they lived there. One involved strangling a young man until he passed out. When Gacy was caught, he paid a senior … Read more
The post, which has been upvoted nearly 40K times as of the time of writing, spurred hundreds of users to comment, wowed by the pristine glimpse into one of America’s most notorious serial killers’ personal life. “Hmmm, check the crawl space,” joked one user in the comments, referencing Gacy’s history of dumping the bodies of … Read more
The most remarkable thing about John Wayne Gacy is how normal his family life seemed, at least for a time. He had a daughter, Chrstine, and a son, Michael, but they escaped from their father’s world shortly after Christine was born. When Christine was just 1, her father went to prison for sodomy after two … Read more