John Wayne Gacy / Pogo the Clown
John Wayne Gacy
aka
Pogo the Clown
Name:
John Wayne Gacy Jr
Date of Birth - Date of Death:
1945 - May 10th, 1994
Residence(at time of murders):
Chicago, Illinois
Acts Committed:
Murder
Molestation
Rape
Weapons Used:
Underwear
Socks
Ropes
Handcuffs
Body Count:
33
Victim type:
Young boys
Homosexual males
Middle-aged men.
The Story:
Jonh Wayne Gacy Jr grew up a normal child. He has friends, an after school job, and loved his family. John Gacy Sr abused his wife and verbally assulted his children, but John Gacy Jr still loved him very much and wanted nothing but to please him, but never got the chance. At age 11, John Wayne Gacy Jr was hit in the head with a swing, which cause a blood clot in his brain. This was not known untill he was 16. Between ages 11 and 16 he suffered many black outs. The medicine for the blood clot seemed to stop this. At the age of seventeen, Gacy was diagnosed with a non-specific heart ailment. He was hospitalized on several occasions for his problem throughout his life but they were not able to find an exact cause for the pain he was suffering. However, although he complained frequently about his heart (especially after his arrest), he never suffered any serious heart attack. Gacy then went to four different high schools in just his senior year, and never graduated. He moved to Las Vegas and did not succeed. Eventually he saved up enough money to get a ticket back to Chicago. He then went to buisness college, graduated and became a shoe salesman. The company he worked for transferred him to Springfield Illinios. There, Gacy gained a lot of weight and his heart condition grew worse. He was soon hospitilazed for his heart, and later spinal injury. In September 1964, Gacy met and married a co-worker named Marlynn Myers whose parents owned a string of Kentucky Fried Chicken fast food restaurant franchises in Waterloo, Iowa. Fred W. Myers, Gacy’s new father-in-law, offered him a position with one of his franchises. Soon after that Gacy and his new wife moved to Iowa. However, Gacy managed to find some time with his wife when not working for his father-in-law or doing volunteer work. Marlynn gave birth to a boy shortly after their move to Iowa and soon after the birth of their son, they celebrated the birth of a daughter. The Gacys had every reason to be happy during the first few years in Iowa. They had a nice house in the suburbs and a loving and healthy family. In the spring of 1968, Gacy was indicted by a grand jury in Black Hawk County for allegedly committing the act of sodomy with a teenage boy named Mark Miller. Miller told the courts that Gacy had tricked him into being tied up while visiting Gacy’s home a year earlier, and had violently raped him. Gacy denied all the charges against him and told a conflicting story, stating that Miller willingly had sexual relations with him in order to earn extra money. However, Miller’s were not the only charges that Gacy would have to face. Four months later Gacy was charged with hiring an eighteen-year-old boy to beat up Mark Miller. Gacy offered Dwight Andersson ten dollars plus three hundred more dollars to pay off his car loan if he carried out the beating. Andersson lured Miller to his car and drove him to a wooded area where he sprayed mace in his eyes and began to beat him. Miller fought back and broke Andersson’s nose and managed to break away and run to safety. Soon after Miller called the police, Andersson was picked up and taken into police custody where he gave Gacy’s name as the man who hired him to perform the beating. When the judge finally handed down the sentence, Gacy received ten years at the Iowa State Reformatory for men, the maximum time for such an offence. John Wayne Gacy, Jr. was twenty-six years old when he entered prison for the first time. Shortly after Gacy entered prison, his wife divorced him on the grounds that Gacy violated their marriage vows. While in prison Gacy adhered to all the rules and stayed far from trouble. He was a model prisoner, realizing that there was a high possibility of an early parole if he remained non-violent and well behaved. Eighteen months later, Gacy’s hopes came true, his parole was approved. On June 18, 1970, Gacy left the confines of the prison gates and made his way back to his place of birth in Chicago. In Chicago, Gacy raped and murdered 33 males. Sometimes, he would go to a childrens hospital as Pogo The Clown to entertain kids. Some of the kids, were more than entertained...On Friday, December 22, 1978, Gacy finally confessed to police that he killed at least thirty people and buried most of the remains of the victims beneath the crawl space of his house. Gacy was killed by Lethal Injection.
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