John Wayne Gacy Research Paper

In the year 1984 the world came to know an infamous man named John Wayne Gacy Jr. John Wayne Gacy Jr was born in March of 1942 and lived to be fifty-two years old. John ended up being well known in the state of Illinois where he was put to death by the lethal injection in 1994. John Wayne Gacy Jr who also ended up being known as the Killer Clown was indicted on charges for taking the lives and raping at least thirty-three young males (“John Wayne Gacy Biography,” 2017). Over the span of six years from 1972-1978 John Jr had murdered and raped thirty-three young males. John Wayne Gacy’s first victim he claimed was, “this killing was unintentional, committed in the mistaken belief the youth intended to attack him with a knife from his kitchen” (Cahill, 1986, p. 349). John Wayne Gacy Jr after tasting what it was like to murder someone, continued over the next six years. Except John Jr could not control himself and ended up escalating in his crimes. John Jr was able to go unnoticed as the culprit of the disappearances of young males until the disappearance of John Butkovich,

As with Butkovich, Godzik’s parents asked police to investigate Gacy, one of the last people known to have spoken to the boy. In

The police had no leads until Rignall remembered, “but Rignall remembered, through the chloroform haze of that night, a black Oldsmobile, the Kennedy Expressway, and some side streets. He staked out the exit on the Expressway until he saw the black Oldsmobile, which he followed to 8213 West Summerdale. Police issued a warrant” (Linedecker, 1980, p. 146-150). The police then, “arrested Gacy on July 15. He was facing trial on a battery charge for the Rignall incident when he was arrested in December for the murders” (Linedecker, 1980, p.