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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.
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 life and crimes of John Wayne Gacy is the subject of an all-new Netflix docuseries from true-crime director Joe Berlinger. On Thursday, the streaming platform released the chilling trailer for ...
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.
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.