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  JOHN WAYNE GACY -- THE CLOWN THAT KILLED
Gacy had told his friends earlier that the police were trying to charge him with murder but that he had nothing to do with it.
Gacy told the police that he had started disposing of bodies in the river because he was running out of room in his crawl space and because all of the digging was bothering his chronic back problem.
Gacy received the death penalty and was sent to the Menard Correctional Center to await execution.
www.prairieghosts.com /gacy.html   (6284 words)

  
  John Wayne Gacy
John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 - May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer.
Gacy was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois.
During the trial Gacy's plea of not guilty by reason of insanity was rejected and he was found guilty on March 13 and sentenced to death.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/John_Wayne_Gacy.html   (382 words)

  
 Boy Killer: John Wayne Gacy by David Lohr
Gacy, a middle child, was born in Chicago in 1942 into a blue-collar family.
Gacy would tell his victim that he wanted to show him a "pair of trick handcuffs" he used in his clown act, claiming there was a special way to unlock the cuffs and daring the youth to break out of them.
Gacy went on to make voluntary confessions to over two dozen murders, although he couldn't answer all the questions posed by the police, often responding, ''You'll have to ask Jack that.'' He also drew them a detailed map to the locations of 28 shallow graves under his house and garage.
crimemagazine.com /boykillergacy.htm   (2029 words)

  
 John Wayne Gacey
John Wayne Gacy is thought to have killed and sexually assaulted 32 boys between 1976 to his arrest in December 1978.
John Wayne Gacy would use his contracting business to attract young men eager for work, many of whom were subjected to rape.
John Wayne Gacy was convicted of murder with a recommendation for the death penalty.
www.allserialkillers.com /john_wayne_gacey.htm   (280 words)

  
 The Biography Channel - John Wayne Gacy Biography
John Wayne Gacy Junior was born into a middle class Irish Catholic family on 17th March 1942, the second child of Marion and John Gacy Snr.
Gacy maintained his innocence, claiming that the sex had been consensual, and that there were factions within his Jaycee group that were fabricating evidence to spoil his chances of becoming president.
Gacy had another close brush with the law, when he was charged with forcing a young boy to commit sexual acts, but the charges were dropped when the boy failed to appear at the court proceedings.
www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_home/722:0/John_Wayne_Gacy.htm   (1677 words)

  
 iCorrection.com -- John Wayne Gacy
Gacy was born and raised a Catholic in Chicago, Illinois.
Gacy's execution also proved problematic when the chemicals used in the lethal injection were mixed in a way that caused them to solidify, and as a result, he reportedly took 27 minutes to die (afterwards, Illinois adopted a different method of lethal injection).
John Wayne Gacy was programmed as one of one-hundred and eighty-three personalities within SID 6.7, the nanotech android from the 1995 film Virtuosity.
www.icorrection.com /gacy.html   (1371 words)

  
 The Wacky World Of Murder: John Wayne Gacy
Gacy was a hypochondriac - in childhood he was hit in the head with a swing, and had a blood-clot on the brain, once this was removed he seemed to just invent any illness so people would pay attention.
John became a well known and liked member of the community, and his arrest in 1968, on a charge of attempting to coerce a male employee into homosexual acts came as a big surprise to everyone, especially his wife.
Gacy ran into trouble with the police again in February, 1971 when he was charged with the attempted rape of a young man. This charge was dropped as the victim never appeared in court at Gacy's hearing and the charges were dropped.
www.users.on.net /~bundy23/wwom/gacy.htm   (782 words)

  
 BBC - Crime Case Closed - John Wayne Gacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
John Gacy Sr appeared to have something of a chip on his shoulder and he took it out on his children, especially John Jr.
John Sr was an alcoholic with a violent hatred of homosexuals.
Gacy and his new wife settled down to a comfortable life and she gave birth to a son and daughter.
www.bbc.co.uk /crime/caseclosed/gacy.shtml   (1728 words)

  
 John Wayne Gacy
Gacy paid another boy to have this witness beaten for testifying against him, and was given a ten year prison sentence.
Although Gacy had homosexual tendencies, as shown by his repeated sexual attacks on males, the fact that his father used to call him a "sissy" may have made Gacy feel that these urges were wrong and needed to be supressed.
Gacy suffered a head injury during childhood, severe enough to cause periodic flouts for years, and this is a feature of many serial killers.
www.angelfire.com /dbz/killerpsychology/gacy.html   (1085 words)

  
 John Wayne Gacy; Serial Killers A-Z   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
John Wayne Gacy was born in Chicago in 1942.
His father was verbally abusive toward him and the young Gacy suffered from dizzy spells often in his youth, the result of being hit in the head by a swing at the age of 11.
Gacy was free to go on with his killing and had no doubt learned an important lesson.
www.geocities.com /verbal_plainfield/a-h/gacy.html   (772 words)

  
 Dark Actors ~ John Wayne Gacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Born to Elaine Robinson and John Wayne Gacy Senior at Edgewater Hospital in 1942, John Wayne Gacy Jr.
At the tender age of eleven, Gacy was hit on the head with a swing causing a blood clot in his brain which was not discovered until he was sixteen years of age.
Gacy pleaded guilty to the sodomy charges and received ten years and was divorced by his wife on the grounds of breach of their marriage vows.
www.gothicrevue.com /Gacy.html   (1387 words)

  
 John Wayne Gacy
Gacy was sentenced to serve ten years, but was out by 1971.
Gacy dismissed it as a broken sewer pipe and claimed to have put lime on it to kill the smell (Cahill, 1986, p.234).
The state asked that Gacy be given the death penalty for the twelve murders known to have occurred since the Illinois statute of capital punishment became effective in 1977 (Linedecker, 1980, p.237).
www.iejs.com /Criminals/john_wayne_gacy.htm   (1453 words)

  
 John Wayne Gacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gacy began a double life: respected member of the community by day, sexual predator and murderer by night.
Also, Gacy had made an earlier confession to police, and was unable to have this evidence suppressed.
Gacy's execution proved problematic when the chemicals used in the lethal injection were mixed in a way that caused them to solidify, and as a result, he reportedly took 27 minutes to die.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy   (1428 words)

  
 JOHN WAYNE GACY: TRUE CRIME BOOKS ABOUT JOHN WAYNE GACY, SERIAL KILLER
The night his son was born Gacy had sex with a man he met at a bar; he recalled feeling exhilarated and ashamed by their encounter.
Gacy was a Jekyll-and-Hyde figure, leading an outwardly normal life, but secretly brutalizing dozens of young men in a hidden lair, and concealing their bodies under the floorboards of his suburban home.
A politician, a clown, an entrepreneur, a family man--these were the roles played by John Wayne Gacy to hide the fact that he was a serial killer who murdered 33 boys and young men.
www.true-crimes.com /gacy.html   (1383 words)

  
 John Wayne Gacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
John Wayne Gacy was arrested for sexually assaulting a young boy in 1968.
In 1978 Gacy was again arrested after being identified as the man that had used Chloroform to take advantage of a young man. The man told the police that he was taken to a house, sexually assaulted and beaten with a whip.
Gacy was arrested and began to confess to as many as 30 murders.
www.geocities.com /quietlyinsane5/johnw.html   (459 words)

  
 John Wayne Gacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
John Wayne Gacy was always overweight and constantly ill as a child.
Gacy was an active member in the Jaycees and a upstanding citizen.
Gacy, despite some accusations made by male prostitutes made in Feburary 1971, was released from parole in October 1971.
home.ptd.net /~annal/sproject/gacy.htm   (600 words)

  
 John Wayne Gacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
John Wayne Gacy was born in N. Chicago in 1942.
Gacy's first killing occured in January 1972, the second took place in January 1974 (a year and a half after his first marriage).
John Wayne Gacy tried in 1980 and was sentenced to death.
www.angelfire.com /fl5/gacykillerklown   (303 words)

  
 Handwriting-L - Handwriting Analysis Archive (John Wayne Gacy)
Gacy had an overbearing, abusive and alcoholic father whose normal method of teaching John a lesson was severe punishment.
Gacy's IQ according to tests given while he was court ordered to undergo psychiatric evauation on a sodomy charge.
Gacy's disconnection also suggests that he may have developed more than one personality to deal with the deep held neuroses that were employed to try to defend against perceived deficiencies.
www.handwriting.org /archives/98jan_01.html   (836 words)

  
 John Wayne Gacy Biography - Biography.com
The son of Danish and Polish parents, Gacy was a self-made building contractor and Democratic precinct captain in the Chicago suburbs in the 1970s.
Within days, Gacy confessed to killing 33 boys and young men, the majority of whom had been buried in his crawl space.
Gacy lured his victims to his home with the promise of construction work, eventually sexually assaulting, torturing and strangling them with rope.
www.biography.com /search/article.do?id=10367544   (240 words)

  
 JOHN WAYNE GACY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Gacy was a community activist, a successful independent contractor, a leader in the Junior Chamber of Commerce and Jaycee-elected 'Man of the Year." He entertained hospitalized children as Pogo the Clown.
In 1977 one victim survived and reported Gacy to the police, but they were too slow to act and only charged him with a misdemeanor.
John Wayne Gacy was executed by lethal injection in 1994, age 52.
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 Gapers Block : Detour : My Dinner With Gacy
John Gacy was a contractor as well as a part-time artist and entertainer.
Gacy was one of the most notorious serial killers in the U.S., if not the world.
John Wayne Gacy continues to be a part of my life; I now relay the more comical aspects of the Gacy/Martello coincidences in my comedy act.
www.gapersblock.com /detour/my_dinner_with_gacy   (1889 words)

  
 John Wayne Gacy
Obviously, Gacy is not an artist of the caliber of a Picasso, who was a wife abuser, or a Caravaggio, who was a murderer, or a Francis Bacon, who was a thief and a prostitute.
Gacy's art highlights moral issues in vernacular, folk and outsider art very well, as art made by other untrained artists, including other criminals could have also done.
The Gacy controversy highlights the difference between the idea of the public art gallery as a temple in which worthy art should be almost worshipped, and the idea that an art gallery as a place to make judgments, almost as if the art were on trial and the gallery were a court room.
www.umanitoba.ca /schools/art/content/galleryoneoneone/gacy.html   (1058 words)

  
 John Wayne Gacy "the Summerdale Dig"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
As twenty-nine bodies of young men and boys, all brutally raped, tortured and eventually slain by the portly building contractor, were unearthed from beneath the concrete floor of his garage, a barbecue pit in his back garden, and the crawl-space beneath his ranch-style home in Norwood Park, Des Plaines, the media watched in horror.
The film runs for 62 minutes, so bear in mind that it is 27 years old and therefore has depreciated slightly in visual quality (jumps around a little and there is a brief pause near the start, before video recommences and loses sound for several minutes towards the end).
However, this is direct from 1978 and drags the terrifying atmosphere of Gacy's dank netherworld to the surface.
www.newcriminologist.co.uk /gacy/index.htm   (362 words)

  
 Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy
Gacy was born in Chicago on March 17, 1942.
As a child, John had been struck on the head by a swing, causing a blood clot on the brain, which was undetected for several years.
Gacy raped him repeatedly and flogged him with a whip; finally, he chloroformed him again and left him in a park.
www.francesfarmersrevenge.com /stuff/serialkillers/gacy.htm   (752 words)

  
 John Wayne Gacy, The Valley of the Shadow of Death
John Wayne Gacy, The Valley of the Shadow of Death
Gacy read the Bible aloud to his victims as he strangled them with a Garrote (JonBenet), and confessed using a Rosary to demonstrate how.
Gacy was ultimately caught over the disappearance of a Robert Piest (Close to Priest), a sophomore at Maine West high school (I went to North Yarmouth Academy, Yarmouth Maine) on (again) December 11 (Same day as Godzik 2 years earlier).
www.kingsolomonsgate.com /ElevenRegrets.htm   (2913 words)

  
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 Asesinos en Serie - John Wayne Gacy- El Payaso Asesino
Incomprensiblemente, Gacy salió de la cárcel un año y medio después, aireando un indulto concedido en atención a su buen comportamiento y las "evidentes muestras de reforma dadas por el reo".
Aunque Gacy negó cualquier relación con Piest, la policía logró una orden de registro de su domicilio en la que se incautó del más completo arsenal de instrumentos de tortura jamás visto en la región.
Pocos días hicieron falta para lograr que Gacy confesara y entregara a la policía un detallado plano del jardín de su casa, en el que había marcado los lugares donde yacían los 33 cadáveres.
www.asesinos-en-serie.com /John_Wayne_Gacy/El_Payaso_Asesino.php   (1349 words)

  
 John Wayne Gacy Jr., famous Chicago serial killer - The Crime library
He was a sharp businessman who had spent his time, when not building up his contracting company, hosting elaborate street parties for friends and neighbors, dressing as a clown and entertaining children at local hospitals and immersing himself in organizations such as the Jaycees, working to make his community a better place to live.
People who knew Gacy thought of him as a generous, friendly and hard-working man, devoted to his family and community.
During a three-year-period, Gacy went on to viciously torture, rape and murder more than thirty other young men, who would later be discovered under the floorboards of his home and in the local river.
www.crimelibrary.com /serial/gacy/gacymain.htm   (694 words)

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