John Wayne Gacy, an American man known as the "Clown Killer", said he was a killer because he killed 33 people in a row in a six-year period from 1972 to 1978; The origin of the clown is because Gacy often played the role of clown in children's hospitals and charity events to win the hearts of children and adults. No one expected that such a loving man would be a serial killer and rapist.
The childhood of John Wayne Gacy
Unlike other notorious serial killers in history, Gacy sexually assaulted and killed 33 young men in 6 years, and from the gender of the victims, it is easy to conclude that Gacy's sexual orientation is male, but Gacy had a complete family and was a father of two. I believe friends will ask, what happened to Gacy that would cause him to be so perverted and murderous?
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Gacy was born in Chicago in 1942, the second oldest in his family, and had an older sister and sister. It stands to reason that as the only son in the family, Gacy should enjoy the unique love of his parents, but on the contrary, his father did not like him, and often abused and beat the young Gacy, Gacy was especially eager to be approved by his father, but his father often belittled him as inferior to his sister and sister, and Gacy was never good enough in his father's eyes, but he still loved his father very much.
Because his father was too strict with him, Gacy became reticent, coupled with his overweight at the time, he was a complete little fat man, so he was also ridiculed at school, which made Gacy even more inferior and had less communication with his parents. In fact, Gacy's childhood was very pitiful, when he was 7 years old, he was molested in a truck by his father's male friends, but because Gacy was afraid of being scolded by his father, he hid it, and as a result, he was molested many times after that.
As Gacy grew up, he experienced things that other children did not experience, coupled with being beaten and scolded by his alcoholic father, Gacy slowly showed violent tendencies. In today's terms, Gacy was born into a blue-collar family, so the material conditions are quite good, and if he can receive normal treatment and education, then Gacy will not become a demon later.
Running away from home
At the age of 18, he joined the Democratic Party as an assistant governor, and Gacy's father approved of it at first, but soon after he returned to his usual attitude and scolded Gacy for being unworthy of the position, calling him the scum of the organization. Fed up with his father's scolding and slander, Gacy was exhausted, and eventually he quit his position and left the family, fleeing to Las Vegas, Nevada.
It was this decision that made Gaicha discover his own special proclivities! Gacy went to Las Vegas to work in a hospital, and was later assigned to the morgue, so in the following days, he often spent the night alone in the morgue, during the work he saw many dead people, slowly he found himself interested in the corpses, and on the last night of the job, he finally made a bold decision, he got into the coffin of the morgue.
In this coffin was placed the body of a young man, he did not fear but touched the cold corpse, in the process he had a sexual drive, which he was very confused and shocked, so the next day he quit his job and returned to his parents, and this incident was deeply imprinted in his heart, constantly torturing him. After returning home, Gacy forgot about the morgue and continued his studies, and eventually he was accepted to a university.
Coming out and marriage
He graduated from college in 1963, when he was 21 years old. After graduating, he got a job and worked hard to become the head of a department, Gacy, whose career was on the rise, met his favorite girlfriend Marilyn, and in September 1964 the two married and began a happy family life, after which Gacy and his wife Marilyn moved to Waterloo, Iowa, and began to manage three restaurants owned by Marilyn's father.
In order to further his management knowledge, Gacy then joined a local consortium called the University of Waterloo, and with his outstanding skills, he quickly made a name for himself and was elected to the board of directors. After entering the organization, Gacy discovered that there was a dark side to the organization, some members of the organization would take drugs in private, exchange wives, etc., Gacy also took the initiative to join after learning of this situation, and he began to awaken his inner side.
This side he showed once in the morgue many years ago! In private, he began to socialize and make physical contact with young men, and it goes without saying what his friends should know. Gacy, who opened his heart, was out of control, and his wife Marilyn was pregnant during that time, which may also be considered a kind of cheating. In 1967 and 1968 , Gacy's wife gave birth to a son and a daughter.
What Gacy did not expect was that his happy life ended with the birth of his daughter. It turned out that during his wife's pregnancy, Gacy became violent in his sexual treatment, he began to drink people and force young men to serve him, and afterwards he was undaunted and relented, and in 1968, a boy named Voorries told his family about his molestation by Gacy, and then the police launched an investigation into Gacy.
That same year, Gacy was sentenced to 10 years in prison for molesting multiple men! The life Gacy had worked so hard to create collapsed.
slaughter
The 10 years of prison were fast and fast, during which Gacy's father died, his wife filed for divorce, and the two children never visited him in prison. However, because of his good performance during his sentence, he was released on parole in 1971, and he only spent 3 years in prison for 10 years in prison, and the American penal system is also incomprehensible, of course, the premise of his release must be able to pay bail. In fact, if he had been serving his sentence in prison, the murder after that might not have happened.
Shortly after his release from prison, he began to rebuild his life with his mother in Chicago, but soon after he tried to molest a boy, and the boy's family called the police, but because the murdered boy did not testify, the police charges against him were dropped and Gacy was acquitted. In 1972, an unexpected event gave Gacy an unprecedented physical orgasm, and since then he has been trying to kill.
That year, he inadvertently killed a man with a knife, and Gacy later stated that during the killing, I was extremely excited and reached an intense physiological orgasm.
Timothy Jack McCoy, the first man Gacy killed, met Gacy at the station and invited McCoy to his house to rest, but McCoy agreed. After McCoy's death, Gacy buried him behind his house, after which he began trying to lure more young people into his home, then abused and molested them, and finally killed them and buried them behind his house.
In the process, in order to re-establish his image, he began to participate in community activities, and in order to increase friendship with neighbors, he would dress up as a clown at other people's birthday parties and children's hospitals to win the affection of children and adults. Ashamedly, the neighbors recognized Gacy, but they didn't know that this man, who looked like a philanthropist by day, became a bloodthirsty sadistic killer at night.
Madness and arrest
Gacy's second marriage in 1972 , Gacy married a high school classmate Carol Hoff, although Carol Hough knew about Gacy's previous sentence, but she believed Gacy's nonsense, Gacy told her that he had reformed himself and rehabilitated. But soon after marriage, she discovered that Gacy had no interest in women, and that he was keen on gay magazines. In 1975, Gacy divorced his second wife, Carol Hoff.
The divorce was also a relief for Gacy, after all, the behavior he did was extremely dangerous, and if he was not careful, his wife would find out, and then his future life would be over. So after the divorce, Gacy made full use of his image as a good neighbor in the community, constantly deceived the trust of different men, and continued to molest and kill young men to obtain his own physical orgasm and satisfaction. According to investigations, Gacy killed 29 people from 1972 to 1978 and hid their bodies under his house.
Gacy confessed that he had thrown four other bodies into a local river. Because of the increasing number of male disappearances, the local police began to investigate the matter, but until 1978, although Gacy killed 33 people, the police still did not catch Gacy, they had suspected Gacy, and took the police dog to search his house, but unfortunately failed to uncover Gacy's hypocrisy. It was not until December 1978, when police conducted a second search of Gacy's home, that clues were found.
Gacy was later arrested and confessed to the course of each case, during which Gacy explained how he used feigned magic to restrain the victims and handcuff them, then he shoved socks or underwear into their mouths, put a board with a chain, placed it on their chest, and then wrapped the chain around their necks, after which he would molest them and strangle them to death.
In February 1980, Gacy was tried for killing 33 men and was finally sentenced to death, and on May 9, 1994, the magistrate executed by lethal injection, and at the moment of confession before death, Gacy said the following:
Please hit me in the ass!