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Wayne Gacy

Childhood - Second of three kids - Raised in a small Chicago suburb - Never had a great relationship with father - Would rather cook with sisters or garden with mom than fish with his Father (abused by father) - Heart condition (weak heart) - Hit hard in the head by a swing causing trauma to his head - Never finished high school - Ran away from home - Graduate of Northwestern business college followed by a job selling shoes - Feb 1966 while wife was in labor he was drinking (oral sex wife male coworker) Jobs - Sold shoes at first - Wife’s family owned a chain of KFC’s and so he managed at one of them - Clown to entertain kids - Started his own contracting business - Chaplain of the Jaycees (Junior Chamber of U.S) Things that led to murders - Rumors of him being gay - Spent a lot of time with drugs, male prostitutes - Opened a bar in his basement for young boys (tried to get with the boys) - Arrested for sodomy (Sentenced to 10 years-1968)- Donald Voorhees - Paroled after 16 months - Divorced by wife (never saw kids again) - John’s dad fought cirrhosis of the liver (died Christmas morning) Murders - January 2 1972 Tim McCoy (greyhound bus stop, lured him to his house had sex, Gacy stabbed him in the chest, buried under house) - July 1975 John Butkovich (disappeared) (suffocated him) (found body in 1978-wife of Gacy told police about him) - January 1977 John Szyc (disappeared) - David cram (drunk, handcuffed by Gacy, escaped from him-alive) - March 1977 Jeffrey Rignall (chloroformed, raped, tortured, dumped alive) (warrant issued arrested July 15-battery charge) - (While on battery charge on Rignall) December 1977 19 year old boy (kidnapped at gunpoint, raped) - 33rd victim-15 year old Robert Piest December 1978 (warrant issued by Des Plaines police) (disappeared) (checked his record- found the sodomy charges) - Found miscellaneous items around Gacy’s house (1975 high school class ring-Szyc, driver’s licenses of other men, handcuffs, 2x4 with holes in it, syringe, small clothing, photo receipt from where Piest worked and a super offensive smell coming from crawl space under house - Further searching found that Gregory Godzik disappeared - Gacy was arrested for drug possession (warrant allowed police to search house again and found human bones buried in the crawl space.) ˜(Confessed to about 25-30 murders (stored under the crawl space under house) - After four months 29 bodies were found, most identified, some too decomposed to be named - Named worst serial killer in the world Types of people he murdered - Teenage runaways (males) - Male prostitutes - Bounded and gagged victims as he raped them Motives - Abusive childhood - Power thirst - Sexual desires - Like of handcuffs Trial - For murders of 33 young boys - People baffled by personalities - Fit no particular categories - March 13 1980 found guilty and sentenced to death - Sent to death row at the Menard Correctional Facility - May 10 1994 died by lethal injection - 12: 40 a.m. injected- 18 minutes later he died - After injected his brain was removed for research - Entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity - Says bodies were planted by employees