John Wayne Gacy Research Paper

Between the years of 1972-1978 there was a string of murders that involved over 33 young men. This man named John Wayne Gacy was also nicknamed the Clown Killer for his activities in the community. Gacy was a very different person, who lived a very hard childhood, that led him to become the monster that he was.

John Wayne Gacy was born in 1942 where he lived in a working class neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. His father John Gacy Sr. was a very difficult man to deal with. He was a very abusive alcoholic who often beat his son during his violent rages. This causing his son to have issues as he grew older. When his son was 11, he suffered a blow to the head from a swing that ended up causing him to have severe blackouts until the

He learned from his last two victims that a witness who is alive, can get him into trouble which is why I believe that he started murdering his victims and escalated so drastically when he was paroled out of prison. The reason that Gacy was considered a suspect was on December of 1978 when the investigation began into the disappearance of Robert Piest. His last known location was with John Gacy at his home because the boy went to talk to him about a job. After learning of Gacy’s criminal history and him being the last one to see the young man alive, Authorities soon set in for a search warrant to search Gacy’s home. As authorities searched the house, they noticed a strong strange smell coming from below the house. They chalked it up to be a sewer pipe that had busted but little did they know that there were twenty-nine dead corpses under their feet. After doing some more investigating they found some several items including a store receipt that linked Gacy to not only Robert Piest missing, but also to several other boys that had been reported missing in the area. Not long after this Gacy confessed to the murders and told the police where all the bodies were located at. After he was convicted he was sentenced to death by lethal injection. He was on death row for 14 years, during which time he started painting. He made paintings of clowns and other figures, which sold for thousands of dollars. On May 10, 1994 after exhausting all of his appeals, the killer dubbed at the “killer clown”, was put to death by lethal