John Wayne Gacy Research Papers

John Wayne Gacy is one of America’s most well-known homosexual serial killers and rapist to date. He was tried and convicted on killings of 33 teenage boys from 1972-1978. Gacy was born on Saint Patrick’s Day, March 22, 1942 in

Chicago Illinois. Growing up Gacy had a pretty rough childhood. By the time he was 9 years old he had been molested which he had never told anyone about. To go along with the molestation, Gacy’s father was a very abusive alcoholic. His life was tough and wouldn’t get much better till he got older. He lived in a modest suburban home in Des Plaines, Illinois. He was quite well known in his community, liked by his neighbors, and remembered for his performances in clown costume at children's parties. He was active in

Gacy was paroled in 1971 and moved back to Chicago. This is when he made his own construction business. That July he remarried a recently divorced women he had met through mutual friends and, with financial assistance from his mother, moved into a house in Des Plaines. In February 1971, Gacy again ran into trouble with the law. He was charged with the attempted rape of a young man. The charges were dropped when the victim failed to appear in court for the hearing. On December 12,1978 , the police again focused their attention on John Wayne Gacy. Robert Piest, a teenage stock boy at a local Des Plaines pharmacy, had come up missing. Gacy was the last person seen with the boy prior to his disappearance. He had offered the boy a job with his constuction company and had the boy come to his home. When investigators ran a background check on Gacy, they were surprised to discover that he had previously served time for committing sodomy on a teenage boy. With this incriminating information, investigators were able to obtain a warrant to search Gacy’s house. During the execution of the warrant, investigators entered a crawl space located beneath the home. A rancid odor was quickly noticed. The smell was believed to be faulty sewage lines and was quickly dismissed. Without any noticeable incriminating evidence, investigators returned to headquarters to run tests on the evidence they