Gacy was later found guilty of his crimes and sentenced to execution by lethal injection at Stateville Prison in Crest Hill, IL on May 10, 1994. The nine unidentified victims were all buried in individual graves with headstones reading "We Are Remembered". He is also known to have raped two males of the same age, one in 1968 and one in May 1978, both of whom were left alive. It is reported that Gacy killed 33 young men between 19. This proved to be false as he had already claimed responsibility for the murders of the young men years prior. Gacy claimed that his employees set him up. Later in an interview on Death Row shortly before his execution, Gacy claimed himself to be the 34th victim as he was innocent and had no involvement with the murders and subsequent burials. Psychiatric evaluation proved the claim to be false. During his trial, and in order to lessen his sentence, Gacy began telling officials and prosecutors that he had an alter-ego personality named Jack, who was responsible for the murders. The other remaining victims were found in the Des Plaines River. When police searched his home, the remains of at least 29 people were found buried in various places. Gacy would admit to 25-30 murders in the 1970s. During the search, police found human bones buried in the soil of the crawlspace and, at that point, they placed Gacy under arrest for murder. The second search would target the crawlspace in which police ripped up the floorboards and began to dig into the earth of the crawlspace. The police obtained a search warrant for Gacy's home, where they discovered a powerful odor and numerous items belonging to other missing young men.Īuthorities then suspected Gacy of murder and would soon obtain a second search warrant.
After many years of murdering, Gacy was eventually apprehended in Des Plaines following the disappearance of 15-year-old Robert Priest who was last seen with Gacy. He soon murdered a co-worker name, John Butkovich. He started with a young juvenile named Tim McCoy, whom he allegedly killed in self-defense. Shortly thereafter, he would begin his murders. During this time, his involvement in politics eventually landed him clearance by the U.S. His habit of wearing the costume at charity events and parties later led to him being nicknamed the "Killer Clown". In 1975, Gacy created the character "Pogo the Clown", which he used to support himself. Gacy would later become involved in political activism, construction, and several other fields, all the while racking up minor criminal charges. He became active in local Springfield organizations, joining the Jaycees and rising to vice-president of the Springfield chapter by 1965. There he met coworker Marlynn Myers, and they married in September of that year. A management trainee position with the Nunn-Bush Shoe Company followed shortly after graduation, and in 1964, Gacy was transferred to Springfield, Illinois. Without returning to high school, he enrolled in and eventually graduated from Northwestern Business College in 1963. Though Gacy was not identified as the culprit, he began to save money for the return trip to Chicago and quit three months later. This lasted until the director became suspicious and called the police one day. Gacy was shown how the bodies were cleaned, treated, and embalmed at night, when everyone else left, he would pull out the drawers and examine the bodies, talk to them, and undress them, neatly folding their clothes next to the caskets. Because Gacy could not afford lodgings with his new pay, he was also allowed to sleep at night in the premises, a fact that would cause considerable speculation of necrophilia when his crimes were discovered, years later.
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When the staff learned the truth, they terminated Gacy's employment as a driver but offered him an alternative post as a mortuary assistant, in which he would move corpses and material from the hospital to the funeral home. After running out of money in Las Vegas, Nevada, Gacy lied about his age and applied for a job as an ambulance driver at the Palm Mortuary Memorial Park, for which the minimum age was 21. After attending four different high schools, Gacy dropped out before completing his senior year and cut off all contact with his family, heading west. He was close to his sisters and his mother, who called him "Johnny". Gacy was raised by an abusive, alcoholic father, who referred to him as "sissy", and a passive mother.
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