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After returning to Chicago, this employee drove to Gacy's house and beat him in his front yard. Gacy told his wife he had been attacked for refusing to pay him for poor quality painting work. [44] In May 1975, Gacy hired 15-year-old Anthony Antonucci. Two months later, he went to Antonucci's home, knowing the youth had an injured foot.
On Dec. 11, 1978, serial killer John Wayne Gacy walked into Nisson Pharmacy in Des Plaines, Ill., to discuss a remodeling job with the store owner. Little did anyone know at the time, he was about ...
Jeffrey D. Rignall (August 21, 1951 – December 24, 2000) was an American memoirist who wrote 29 Below about surviving a 1978 attack by serial killer John Wayne Gacy and his subsequent search to find his attacker. Rignall's testimony during Gacy's trial helped to secure the latter's conviction and death sentence.
John Wayne Gacy, one of the world’s most notorious serial killers who famously posed a clown to lure his victims, is the subject of Peacock’s chilling six-part true-crime documentary, Devil in ...
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.
Gacy was eventually charged with the murder of 33 young men, 26 of whose remains were found buried on his property. He was executed by lethal injection on May 19, 1994.
The Des Plaines Police did a check of John Wayne Gacy's criminal background and found out that Gacy had a battery charge in Chicago and had also been sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1968 in Waterloo, Iowa, after being found guilty of sodomizing a then 15-year-old boy named Donald Voorhees Jr., who was the son of Donald E. Voorhees, in 1967 ...
In 2022, the small town of Thurman, Iowa learned one of the most prolific serial killers in American history may have lived within their borders.