CRIME CORNER #3 John Wayne Gacy Jr AKA "The Killer Clown"

[b]EDIT: Poll is up in my group for what the next post will be on[/b] Before this starts just want to say that I know I missed a post, I will be making it later today. I want to give this post some time to breathe, I will also be skipping most if not all of the murders as some contain sick things done to children and don't contribute to this behavior as he didn't escalate too much. [i]The dead won't bother you, it's the living you have to worry about. -John Wayne Gacy [/i] [u][b]SUMMARY[/b][/u] Born: March 1942 Died: May 1994 by lethal Injection Murdered 33-34 young men [u][b]EARLY LIFE[/b][/u] Gacy was born with 2 other brothers, him being in the middle and his father was a WW1 veteran, I can't find much about his mother but it seems she was the cliche 40's women who was unemployed and looked after the home. His father 'John Gacy Sr' was an alcoholic and was known to abuse his wife and children physically and verbally. Gacy's mother was very protective of him shielding and often taking the brunt of the abuse for him. At school he was often teased for this being called things like 'mumma boy' or received homophobic slurs/death threats. At a young age Gacy was sexually assaulted by one of his fathers friends, he wouldn't tell his dad about this as he feared he would be blamed. He would then go on to attempt to molest other people (still in his teens) his father then whipped him with a belt with razors tied to it. Gacy had a heart condition that meant he had to avoid most physical activities, this only made him more introverted and anti social. He would get 'blackouts' regularly resulting in lots of time spent at the hospital At 18 Gacy joined the local democratic party leading to more ridicule from his father [u] [b]M.O:[/b][/u] Gacy would lure young men into his home using various tricks or promises, sometimes dressed as a clown saying he would show them clown tricks. When in the home Gacy would put handcuffs on himself and show that they were locked, unknowingly to the victim he had a key and would unlock them. He would get the victim drunk and get them to put on the handcuff he took off, saying that they should try taking them off. It is reported that he would wave the key around their face before throwing it away and attacking them while they were restrained. He would then hide the bodies in his crawl space, his backyard or in a river. [u][b]ARREST[/b][/u] Gacy was seen talking to a boy before his disappearance, this led police to investigate Gacy. A background check showed that he had previous sexual assault charges. Police in an unmarked police car would follow him around and keep him under 24/7 surveillance. Gacy quickly caught on to this and would start conversations with the officers, even giving them food, repairing their car and telling them where he would be if they lost him. After deciding this wasn't working out Gacy was brought into the police station for questioning, he denied involvement. What he didn't know was that police were searching his house, eventually finding human remains. These remains matched young men who went missing around the area. More and more human remains were being found, Gacy who was now under arrest first denied involvement. A more detailed background check also showed he had outstanding charges of assault in Chicago. Gacy was charged with 21 life sentences and 11 death sentences, he was killed by lethal injection claiming he had no memories of the murders.