1. The Killer Clown
John Wayne Gacy
By: Julie McDonald

2. Childhood Born in Chicago Illinois on March 17, 1942
Troubled relationship with his father
Physically abusive
Alcoholic
Age 11 he was hit in the head with a swing and he had severe head trauma what would go unnoticed until he was 16 when they found a blood clot that had been forming in his brain
He was put on medication to dissolve the clot

3. Teenage Years and Older
Attended 4 high schools
Never finished his senior year
Dropped out and ran away from family and home
Returned when he ran out of money
Never went back to high school, but enrolled and graduated from Northwestern Business College

4. 1st Marriage Married Marlynn Myers
Parents owned franchises of KFC, Gacy was offered a manager position
Had 2 children: son and daughter
Rumors began about his homosexuality
Gacy cheated on his wife regularly
“Gacy’s Club”
A place where teenage boys could come and drink, Gacy would try and make sexual advances towards them
2 boys accused him of sexual assault- he paid another boy to beat up his accusers.
Sentenced to 10 years

5. While in Prison/ Starting Over
Wife filed for divorce shortly after he was convicted
Never saw his children again
Father died
Paroled after 18 months
Lived with his mother
Hide his criminal records
New job
Chief at a Chicago restaurant
Bought a new house

6. February 12, A teenage boy claims Gacy forced him into his car and forced him to have sex with him. Charges where dropped when the boy never came to court.
Chicago police didn’t follow up on the case
June 22, A teenage boy accused Gacy of flashing a police badge and forcing him to have sex. Charges were Dropped.

7. 2nd Marriage Married Carole Hoff- who already had 2 daughters
Hide his past from his new family
Gacy started his own business
PDM Contractors
New trouble
Gacy would stay out all night
Carole found disturbing items
IDs from young men, items of clothing..
Divorced in March 1976

8. Disappearing Employees
John Butkovich- went missing and was never found
Gregory Godzik- parents urged police to talk to Gacy, nothing happened
John Szyc- a man who knew all the victims disappeared
Lead to clues from other attacks on young boys

9. Gacy’s Downfall He killed a boy in his neighborhood Robert Piest
15 years old
Old a friend he was going to a house to talk to a man about a construction job
Police searched Gacy’s house and found suspicious items
Class rings, small clothing, handcuffs, drivers licenses
An odor was coming from under the house

10. Gacy’s Downfall cont. He confessed to an employee to over 30 killings
Police searched his house and found human bones in the crawl space
Confessed to the police to over 30 killings that were mostly buried under his house
Drew the police a diagram to how he buried them

11. Confessing All Told police
He would pick up teenage males or male prostitutes
Handcuff them at his house and muffle their screams with stuffing clothing in their mouths
He would kill them by strangling them with a rope
He would keep the bodies with him for as long as possible- until they decomposition started taking place

12. Sentenced to death on march 13 1980
Spent 14 years on death row
Executed on May 10, 1994
He was know as “the killer clown” because he would dress up in a Pogo the clown costume when he would throw block parties in his neighborhood.

13. References http://crime.about.com/od/serial/p/gacy.htm