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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.
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.
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 ...
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.
CHICAGO — He will ever fascinate, I’m afraid, that arrogant killer named John Wayne Gacy. I have never forgotten being a young reporter and watching as some of the dead bodies of young men and ...
John Wayne Gacy was a serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured and murdered dozens of young men and boys. He was sentenced to death after being convicted of 32 murders and died by lethal ...
John Butkovich (September 16, 1956 – July 31, 1975) was a Croatian American young man who disappeared on July 31, 1975. He was a victim of American serial killer and sex offender John Wayne Gacy, who murdered, raped and tortured at least 33 young men and boys between 1972 and 1978. Butkovich was killed by Gacy on the day of his disappearance ...
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.