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. He never told anyone about this. 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.
As Gacy grew up he became very well known around his hometown not only as
a businessman but a political figure. Gacy also performed as a clown for
children’s birthday parties. He was loved by many, and even met the first lady
Evelyn Carter at one point. There was however a whole side of him that no one
knew about. John Wayne Gacy was truly a psychopath
killer.
Gacy committed his first sexual offence in August of 1967. Gacy sodimized
with a teenaged boy named Mark Miller. He was convicted and sentenced to 10
years in the Anamosy State Penitentiary. This is where it all began. Gacy served
18 months and was then released. This is when the real violence began. Gacy’s
first victim was a 15 year old boy named Timothy McCoy. Gacy picked him up from
the Chicago greyhound bus terminal on January 2, 1972. McCoy had needed a ride
and a place to stay so Gacy being the man he was took him and allowed him to
stay at his house. The next morning he awoke to McCoy standing in his doorway
with a knife in hand, this made him flip. Gacy grabbed the boy, wrestled him to
the floor, and then stabbed him repeatedly in the chest as he straddled him. He
then took him to his crawlspace where he buried McCoy and later covered his body
with concrete. This was his first taste of blood. Gacy would later state that
after the killing he felt "totally drained", but noted that he had experienced
an orgasm while doing so. To Gacy, “death
was the ultimate thrill,".
This was just the beginning of Gacy’s brutal legacy. He would go on to
kill 32 more young men. Sexually assaulting them and eventually killing them. Of
his victims, He had buried 27 of them under his house and threw five into the
Des Plaines River making this one of the most brutal killing sprees in American
history.