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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 in Norwood Park Township, near Chicago, Illinois. He became known as "the Killer Clown" due to his public performances as a clown prior to the discovery of his crimes.
Robert Kenneth Ressler (February 15, 1937 – May 5, 2013) was an American FBI agent and author. He played a significant role in the psychological profiling of violent offenders in the 1970s and is often credited with coining the term "serial killer", [2] though the term is a direct translation of the German term Serienmörder coined in 1930 by Berlin investigator Ernst Gennat.
Gacy killed 33 young men, but only 25 of the victims were ever identified using personal belongings, medical records and Gacy’s admissions, confessions and known relationships with some of the men.
Between 1972 and 1978, John Wayne Gacy assaulted and murdered over 30 young men and boys. His last victim was Robert Piest , a 15-year-old boy who worked at a pharmacy in Des Plaines, Illinois.
Timothy Jack McCoy (May 14, 1955 – January 3, 1972) was an American murder victim from Omaha, Nebraska. [1] He is the first known victim of serial killer and sex offender John Wayne Gacy, who raped, tortured and murdered at least 33 young men and boys in Norwood Park Township, near Chicago, Illinois, between 1972 and 1978.
Investigators remove a body from John Wayne Gacy's house near Chicago in 1979. Gacy was eventually charged with the murder of 33 young men, 26 of whose remains were found buried on his property.
Actor Jack Merrill has some ideas about why he survived a harrowing encounter with serial killer John Wayne Gacy.. In his one-man show The Save, a performance of which was attended by Us Weekly on ...
True crime documentary series on Netflix, Conversations with a Killer: John Wayne Gacy, publicizes recordings of U.S. serial killer John Wayne Gacy who assaulted and killed 33 young men in the 1970s.