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    The killer clown most know as John Wayne Gacy, was a convicted American serial killer who murdered and sexually assaulted 33 teenage and young men's. John Wayne was born on March 17 of 1942 in Chicago Illinois, he was the second son of three of John Stanley Gacy and Marion Elaine Robinson. John had polish and danish heritage since his paternal grandparents were from Poland but immigrated to the Unites States. As a young boy, he was really close to his two sisters and mother but unfortunately he had

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    John Wayne Gacy was a very dark and perverse man. He is one of America’s most notorious serial killers, with over 30 victims. All of his victims were young teen boys. His sexual assaults were uncovered in 1968 and in 1980 he was convicted and found guilty of his crimes, where he was then sentenced to several life and death penalty sentences and in 1994 he was finally executed. On March 17th, 1942 John Wayne Gacy was born to John Stanley Gacy and Marion Robinson in Chicago, Illinois. He was one

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    John Wayne Gacy 's Life

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    John Wayne Gacy was born to a typical Chicago blue collar couple. His father was a World War I veteran who worked as a machinist and his mother was a homemaker. He was the only son of the three children born into the Gacy family. As an adolescent Gacy did not possess the typical attributes of the “popular crowd”. He was over-weight, and un-athletic and what some would describe as “A Mamas Boy”. Though he tried, Gacy could not cultivate much of a positive relationship with his father who is said to

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    John Wayne Gacy was a very manipulative person. He lured his victims with the promise of construction work and good pay, and then captured,assaulted them, then eventually strangled them with rope (Lohr 4). In 1974, Gacy started a contracting business, He hired teen boys to work for him. Explaining to his friends, that hiring young men would keep payroll cost down (Lohr 4). In fact on December 11, 1978, Gacy visited Des Plaines pharmacy to discuss a remodeling deal. He mentioned that his firm hired

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    Gacy opened a club in his basement for the young boys in Waterloo, where he allowed them to drink alcohol and made sexual advances towards them” (criminal motives ). Gacy claim he was innocence, but in August of that year he hired another Waterloo teen to beat up gone of his accusers. The teen was caught and confessed, and Gacy was arrested .He was convicted in 1968 and given a ten year prison term in relation to the sexual assault of two teen boys. During Gacy’s imprisonment his wife’s petition

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    and 15-year-old Robert Piest. The investigation into the disappearance of Gacy's final victim, Robert Piest, ultimately became the demise of serial murderer John Wayne Gacy. While working at a local pharmacy, Piest overheard Gacy talking about a big project his company PDM Contracting was taking on. Interested in working with Gacy, Piest told his mother

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    John Wayne Gacy One of the most horrendous serial killers in modern history would have to be John Wayne Gacy, Jr. He was the second of three children and born in 1942. He lived in Chicago and attended catholic schools, and wasn't a very popular boy in school. Gacy seemed to live a very normal childhood, with exception to his relationship with his father, and series of accidents that effected him. No one could have known what the future held for John, not even his father. When Gacy was eleven

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    John Wayne Gacy was born March 17th, 1942, in Chicago. He was born into a middle waged working class family. He quickly began having issues in the home. His father was an alcoholic and would frequently beat him, but physical abuse was not the worst of it. He had a loving mother and an older and younger sister. Since he could not become close with his father no matter his efforts, he became close with his mother and sisters. His dad took note of that and began adding physical and verbal abuse to his

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    Although unathletic and unpopular, John Wayne Gacy, Jr. was more or less an average child. However, as he grew, Gacy fell victim to numerous accounts of physical and verbal abuse from his father. He was called a sissy, Mama’s boy, and told that he’d probably “grow up queer” (Cahill). In adulthood, Gacy went on to sexually assault and murder a minimum of 33 teenage boys and young men before his capture and execution. Due to the striking similarities between his father’s verbal abuse and his choice

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    childhood. My serial killer Mr. John Wayne Gacy from suffering from a terrible childhood,and an abusive father. He was like every other serial killer; he killed people. However, he did something unique, which earned him the name “ Pogo the Clown”. Serial killers often grow up in harsh environment. This is the case of John Wayne Gacy. John was born on March 17, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, which he was raised by both of his parents Michael and Christine Gacy. As Gacy was growing up he dad became an alcoholic

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