
Gacy later speculated his decision to become involved in politics was actually to seek the acceptance from others that he never received from his father. This led to more criticism from his father, who accused his son of being a " patsy". In 1960, at age 18, Gacy became involved in politics, working as an assistant precinct captain for a Democratic Party candidate in his neighborhood. According to the friend, Gacy never struck his father back during these altercations. Gacy's mother attempted to intervene as her son simply "put up his hands to defend himself". On one occasion in 1957, he witnessed Gacy's father emerging drunk from the family basement to begin belittling, then hitting his son for no apparent reason. One of Gacy's friends in high school recalled several instances when his father ridiculed or beat his son without provocation. Although his mother, sisters, and few close friends never doubted his illness, Gacy's medical condition was never conclusively diagnosed. His father suspected these episodes were an effort to gain sympathy and attention and openly accused his son of faking the condition as Gacy lay in a hospital bed. Gacy later estimated that between the ages of 14 and 18, he had spent almost a year in hospital and attributed the decline of his grades to missing school. He was hospitalized on occasion because of these episodes and also, in 1957, for a burst appendix. During the fourth grade, Gacy began to experience blackouts. Because of a heart condition, he was told to avoid all sports at school. Gacy was an overweight and unathletic child. Gacy never told his father about this, afraid that his father would blame him. The same year, a family friend and contractor would sometimes molest Gacy in his truck. His father whipped him with a razor strop as punishment. In 1949, Gacy's father was informed that his son and another boy had been caught sexually fondling a young girl. Despite this mistreatment, however, Gacy still loved his father, but felt he was "never good enough" in his father's eyes. His mother tried to shield her son from his father's abuse, which only resulted in accusations that he was a " sissy" and a "mama's boy" who would "probably grow up queer". One of Gacy's earliest memories was of his father beating him with a leather belt for accidentally disarranging components of a car engine he had assembled. His father also belittled him, calling him "dumb and stupid" and comparing him unfavorably with his sisters. Gacy was close to his mother and two sisters, but endured a difficult relationship with his father, an alcoholic who was physically abusive to his family. His paternal grandparents (who spelled the family name as "Gatza" or "Gaca") had immigrated to the United States from Poland (then part of the German state of Prussia). Gacy was of Polish and Danish ancestry, and his family was Catholic. His father was an auto repair machinist and World War I veteran, and his mother was a homemaker. John Wayne Gacy was born in Chicago, Illinois, on March 17, 1942, the second child and only son of John Stanley Gacy (1900–1969) and Marion Elaine Robison (1908–1989). 9.1 Identification dispute of Michael Marino.He was executed by lethal injection at Stateville Correctional Center on May 10, 1994. On death row at Menard Correctional Center, he spent much of his time painting. Gacy was sentenced to death on March 13, 1980. His conviction for thirty-three murders (by one individual) then covered the most homicides in United States legal history. The investigation into the disappearance of Des Plaines teenager Robert Piest led to Gacy's arrest on December 21, 1978. He murdered his first victim in 1972, had murdered twice more by the end of 1975, and murdered at least thirty subsequent victims after his divorce from his second wife in 1976. Gacy was convicted of the sodomy of a teenage boy in Waterloo, Iowa, in 1968 and was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment, but served eighteen months. Twenty-six victims were buried in the crawl space of his home, and three others were buried elsewhere on his property four were discarded in the Des Plaines River. He would then rape and torture his captive before killing him by either asphyxiation or strangulation with a garrote. Typically, he would lure a victim to his home and dupe him into donning handcuffs on the pretext of demonstrating a magic trick. Gacy committed all of his murders inside his ranch-style house near Norridge, a village in Norwood Park Township in suburban Chicago. He became known as the Killer Clown due to his public services as a clown prior to the discovery of his crimes. Gacy regularly performed at children's hospitals and charitable events as "Pogo the Clown" or "Patches the Clown", personas he had devised.
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John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured, and murdered at least 33 young men and boys.
