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Gacy's first known murder occurred on January 3, 1972. According to Gacy's later account, following a family party the previous evening, he drove to the Civic Center in the Loop in the early morning to view a display of ice sculptures. [85] He then lured 16-year-old Timothy Jack McCoy from Chicago's Greyhound Bus Terminal into his car.
John Wayne Gacy – Serial killer and rapist convicted of the murders and rapes of 33 boys and young men in 1980. Transferred from the Menard Correctional Center to Stateville Correctional Center for execution by lethal injection on May 9, 1994, and declared dead at 12:58 a.m. the following morning.
On March 13, Gacy was found guilty of 33 counts of murder, as well as one count of indecent liberties with a child and deviate sexual assault. He was sentenced to execution and was transferred to the Menard Correctional Center , where he remained on death row for 14 years before being executed by lethal injection at the Stateville Correctional ...
Several months later, on Dec. 21, 1978, Gacy—a contractor who also performed as Pogo the Clown—was arrested and eventually charged with the murder of 33 young men. Gacy was executed by lethal ...
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 ...
Gacy, who was executed in 1994, also buried three victims in his yard and disposed of four other bodies in Chicago-area waterways. This 1978 file photo shows serial killer John Wayne Gacy, who was ...
Gacy never fully acknowledged his attack on Rignall - he described most of his sexual assaults as consensual encounters - and never explained why he released Rignall alive, but killed at least 33 other men and boys. Gacy was sentenced to death and was executed by lethal injection on May 10, 1994, at Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill.
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 ...