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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.
A few hours later, in the early hours of January 3, 1972, McCoy was stabbed to death by Gacy and was buried in the crawl space of his home. Gacy would go on to become a serial killer , murdering, raping and torturing at least 32 more victims between 1974 and 1978.
Body 10, buried beneath the entrance to Gacy's home, [116] remains unidentified; he is estimated to have been between 17 and 21 years old and between 5 ft 7 in and 5 ft 11 in (170 and 180 cm). [239]
Gacy abducted, sexually assaulted and killed at least 33 young men between 1972 and 1978, when he was finally caught. He was found guilty of 33 counts of murder in 1980 and sentenced to death. His ...
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 ...
Years ago, actor Jack Merrill spoke to a Hollywood movie executive about telling the story of the harrowing night in 1978 when he was abducted by serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
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 ...
The series is inspired by the 2021 Peacock/NBC News Studios docuseries “John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise,” with the scripted series sharing the same name. More from Variety