John Wayne Gacy Research Paper

The Killer Clown

John Wayne Gacy had been viewed as being an ordinary man, all while being a married man with children and having a successful job as an building contractor and Democratic precinct. The perfect cover-up to his dark, chilling and twisted serial killer ways, where he raped and strangled his victims to death. Born March 17, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois, to Danish and Polish parents, living in a household where his dad was an alcoholic that beat Gacy and his siblings and even sometimes his wife when they misbehaved. Further on Gacy found it hard to play with his due to his congenital heart condition, further then into his teenage years, he experienced great struggle with his sexuality, which would then later affect his crime sprees. As well Gacy was a clown performer at children's parties; when he killed, he sometimes dressed as his alter ego "Pogo the Clown”, hence giving him the serial name “The Killer Clown.”

In which he got convicted of of and later released after serving 18 months of his 10 year conviction, due to good behavior. After finding this out his first wife then filed for divorce against Gacy. Then in 1975 Gacy continued with his offenses, after working long hours, then driving around to look for male prostitutes, and as well as runaway male teenagers. Of which he would then hide the bodies in the floorboards of his house, or when he ran out of room in his floorboards he would then throw them in the river down the street. With the stress of the murders the murders, Gacy got careless by offering a teenage boy (15 yrs old, Robert Piest) a better job than what he was working for. Piest then told his mother about this job offer and went to meet Gacy. After not returning home, his mother filed a missing persons report. In which led to investigation, of which the detective then recognized the pungent smell of rotting