The Legal Legacy of John Wayne Gacy: The Irrebuttable Presumption
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John Wayne GacyBy: Taylor Gallagher
What makes a serial killer?
•Most have an unstable home as a child•Might have had problems as a child like
head injuries or physical ailments• Don’t have a conscience and have had a
lack of loving or nurturing relationships •Might have been abused as a child
What is Evil?
• Evil is the intent to cause harm on other people • The acts that Gacy committed that were “evil”
were rape and murder• He knew what he was doing while killing the
boys/men but that didn’t stop him from killing them
Who he killed and why?• John Wayne Gacy killed up to 33
boys/young men• Killed boys/ young men or
suspected homosexuals• Most of the victims worked for Gacy• His first attack was on Jeffery Ringall
on May 22, 1978• He kidnapped him, knocked him
out with chloroform, and raped him
• On December 28th, twenty-seven of the bodies were found under the crawl space of Gacy’s house, two were found in the concrete of his patio, and one was found in the Illinois River
• He also confessed to keeping the bodies under his bed for hours before burying them
Some victims of John Wayne Gacy
Childhood• Gacy was born on March 17th, 1942 and
was the second of three children• Had a bad relationship with his father• At age 11, he was hit in the head by a
swing, causing a blood clot in his brain, which wasn’t found until age 16• This caused blackouts
• He also had a non-specific heart ailment• He did have friends, but he was
frequently made fun of• His father was an alcoholic and he
abused his kids• Beaten regularly by his father• He was also molested by a family
friend• He never graduated high school but he
went to business school and graduated from there
Gacy as a child
Gacy’s Life• He had different health issues as a child
• Non-specific heart aliment and blood clot• Was also abused and molested
• He also had hired a boy to go and beat up another boy
• He went to the Iowa State Reformatory for men for ten years after being convicted for sodomy• Was there for 18 months and then got
early parole• Was depressed when he was released• After being released he was charged with
disorderly conduct with a boy, but the charges were dropped
• He was an insomniac • He was married to Marlynn Myers
• Had two children • Was a business man who hosted elaborate
parties for his neighbors where he dressed up as “Pogo the clown”
• Lived a normal life, had friends and a family, and had a good job
Gacy dressed as “Pogo the clown”
Media Attention• He was known as the “killer
clown” • He was in a few interviews
after he was convicted• There were multiple books
written and a movie made about him
• He didn’t put anything in the media about his killings while he was killing people
Gacy during a interview
What type of serial killer?
• John Wayne Gacy was a power/control serial killer• He killed some of the boys/men because they
were suspected of being homosexuals• He might have done this because he was abused
and molested as a child
Victims• He lured the victims to his
home by promising construction work and then he sexually assaulted, tortured, and strangled then with a rope before burying them in his crawl space
• Most of his victims were young men/boys who worked for him
• He buried them under the crawl space of his house and on his property
Where the victims of Gacy were dug up
Where is he now?• He confessed to the killings off 33
boys/young men and burying them under his house and on his property
• Gacy’s trial started on Wednesday Feb. 6th, 1980 in Illinois
• He plead that he was insane during the killings and that he had not killed the boys/men, but his alternate personality, Jack Hanson, had killed them.
• Psychologists determined that Gacy was sane during the killings
• It took only 2 hours of deliberation to find Gacy guilty
• He was sentenced to serve 12 death sentences and 21 natural life sentences
• He died by lethal injection on May 10th, 1994
Gacy’s house after demolition
Remains of bodies being removed from Gacy’s home
Bibliography • http://
www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/gacy/gacy_1.html
• http://www.biography.com/people/john-wayne-gacy-10367544
• http://www.prairieghosts.com/gacy.html