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John Wayne Gacy was born at Edgewater Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, [1] on March 17, 1942, the second of three children and only son of John Stanley Gacy and Marion Elaine Robison. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] His father was an auto repair machinist and World War I veteran, and his mother was a homemaker.
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.
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 ...
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.
Woman mysteriously vanished from her work without a trace and they found her body a few weeks later. ... of John Wayne Gacy’s victims who went missing while Gacy was confirmed to be out of town ...
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.
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 ...
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.