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"The Killer Clown"John Gacy
Status
Identification Status	Identified
Criminal Status	Executed
Personal Information
Full Name	John Wayne Gacy
Born	March 17, 1942 Chicago, Illinois, United States
Died	May 10, 1994 (aged 52) Crest Hill, Illinois, United States
Cause of Death	Executed by lethal injection
Height	5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
Gender	Male
Race/Ethnicity	White
Political affiliation	Democrat
Parents	John Stanley Gacy Marion Elaine Gacy (née Robison)
Spouses	Marlynn Myers (m. 1964; div. 1969) Carole Hoff (m. 1972; div. 1976)
Children	2
Criminal Information
AKA	"The Killer Clown" "Pogo The Clown" ”Patches The Clown”
Offender Type	Serial Killer Serial Rapist
Organized Type	Organized
Method of Killing	Strangulation Torture
Modus Operandi	The "Handcuff trick" and the "Rope trick"
Accomplices	Possibly Michael Rossi and David Cram
Convictions	Sodomy Murder (x33) Sexual assault Indecent liberties with a child
Criminal penalty	Death (12 counts)
Victims	33+
Span of crimes	1972 - 1978
Country	United States
State	Illinois
City	Chicago
Date apprehended	December 21, 1978
Imprisonment	Anamosa State Penitentiary Menard Correctional Center — Chester, Illinois Stateville Correctional Center (Death)
Gacy's Signature

“ A clown can get away with murder. „

~ John Wayne Gacy

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Born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1942 to a Polish father and a Danish-Scottish mother, John was the second child of three, but the only boy. All of the Gacy children attended parochial school and Catholic church community. John was well liked by his teachers, held various part-time jobs, and was an active member of the Boy Scouts. Although his relationship with his father was strained because John could never gain his approval, along with the father being abusive, and some serious medical problems (a clot in the brain undiscovered from age eleven to sixteen, at seventeen unspecific heart troubles) his childhood was relatively normal.

After an unhappy experience in Las Vegas, early in the peace and love generation of the 1960s he enrolled in college in Chicago and gained a degree in business. During this time he excelled at the art of selling. After promotions and accolades at his new job, Gacy settled down, got married, ending up managing a Kentucky Fried Chicken for his father in law.  In 1968, Gacy was convicted of molesting a minor working for him at Kentucky Fried Chicken.

This was the beginning of what would be one of the most notorious killers in American history. He served 18 months in prison during which time his wife divorced him. After serving his time, John remarried, became heavily involved with the Jaycees, had three children, and was viewed as a fine upstanding member of society. What no one knew was that he was homosexual, and preferred violent homosexual sexual relations to heterosexual relations.

Gacy went on to murder 33 boys from 1975 to 1978, hiding them in the crawlspace of his house. He hired young boys to spread lime around his basement to deal with the odor of decay. Even though there were bodies under the house, this did not stop John from having barbeques with the mayor attending among other prominent people in town. If anyone questioned the smell, it was explained away as a sewage problem.

Death

Gacy spent his final days in an Illinois prison and was put to death by lethal injection on May 10, 1994, at the age of 52. His final meal consisted of fried chicken, french fries, fresh strawberries, and a soft drink. According to WTVR, his last words were "kiss my ass," but this was not corroborated by witnesses.

His remains were cremated, and the ashes were given to the family. The Chicago-based psychiatrist Dr. Helen Morrison is currently in possession of Gacy's preserved brain. Dr. Morrison spent about 50 hours with Gacy at Cermak Hospital before his trial and was given the brain to see if there was perhaps a physical reason that could help explain what drove Gacy to murder 33 boys and young men, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Victims

Confirmed victims

#	Name	Age	Date of Death	Cause of Death	Recovery number	Recovery location
1	Timothy McCoy	16	January 3, 1972	Stabbing	Body 9	Crawlspace
2	John Doe #28	14-18	1974	Strangulation	Body 28	Backyard, under BBQ pit
3	John Butkovich	18	July 31, 1975		Body 2	Garage
4	Darrell Samson	18	April 6, 1976		Body 29	Dining room
5	Randall Reffett	15	May 14, 1976		Body 7	Crawlspace
6	Sam Stapleton	14	May 14, 1976		Body 6	Crawlspace
7	Michael Bonnin	17	June 3, 1976	Strangulation	Body 18	Crawlspace
8	William Carroll	16	June 13, 1976		Body 22	Crawlspace
9	John Doe #26	23-30	June–August 1976		Body 26	Crawlspace
10	James Haakenson	16	August 5, 1976		Body 24	Crawlspace
11	Rick Johnston	17	August 6, 1976		Body 23	Crawlspace
12	John Doe #13	17-22	Summer or fall 1976		Body 13	Crawlspace
13	John Doe #21	15-24	Summer or fall 1976		Body 21	Crawlspace
14	Kenneth Parker	16	October 25, 1976	Strangulation	Body 15	Crawlspace
15	Michael Marino	14	October 25, 1976	Strangulation	Body 14	Crawlspace
16	William Bundy	19	October 26, 1976		Body 19	Crawlspace
17	Wayne Alexander	21	c. December 1976		Body 5	Crawlspace
18	Gregory Godzik	17	December 12, 1976		Body 4	Crawlspace
19	John Szyc	19	January 20, 1977		Body 3	Crawlspace
20	Jon Prestidge	20	March 15, 1977		Body 1	Crawlspace
21	John Doe #10	17-21	Spring or summer 1977		Body 10	Crawlspace
22	Matthew Bowman	19	July 5, 1977		Body 8	Crawlspace
23	Robert Gilroy	18	September 15, 1977		Body 25	Crawlspace
24	John Mowery	19	September 25, 1977		Body 20	Crawlspace
25	Russell Nelson	21	October 17, 1977		Body 16	Crawlspace
26	Robert Winch	16	November 10, 1977		Body 11	Crawlspace
27	Tommy Boling	20	November 18, 1977		Body 12	Crawlspace
28	David Talsma	19	December 9, 1977		Body 17	Crawlspace
29	William Kindred	19	February 16, 1978		Body 27	Crawlspace
30	Timothy O'Rourke	20	June 1978		Body 31	Des Plaines River
31	Frank Landingin	19	November 4, 1978		Body 32	Des Plaines River
32	James Mazzara	20	November 24, 1978		Body 33	Des Plaines River
33	Robert Piest	15	December 11, 1978		Body 30	Des Plaines River

Survivors

Name	Age	Date of Attack
Donald Voorhees, Jr.	15	August 1967
Tony	15	1970
Anthony Antonucci	15	July 1975
David Cram	18	August 22, 1976
Robert Donnelly	19	December 30, 1977
Jeffrey Rignall	26	March 21, 1978
Jack Merrill	19	1978
Steve Nemmers

Suspected victims

Name	Age	Disappeared	Body Found	Cause of Death
Rickey Enochs	18	June 30, 1977
Charles Hattula	25	May 13, 1978	May 23, 1978	Drowning

Retired Chicago police officer Bill Dorsch also stated he had reason to believe there might be more victims buried in the grounds of the apartment building located at the 6100 block of West Miami Avenue in Chicago — a property where Gacy is known to have been the caretaker for several years before his 1978 arrest.

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Date	Age	Event
March 17, 1942	0	John Wayne Gacy is born.
March 4, 1968	25	Gacy is convicted of sexually assaulting two teenage boys in Waterloo, Iowa, and is sentenced to 10 years at the Anamosa State Penitentiary.
June 18, 1970	28	Gacy is granted parole after serving 18 months of his 10-year sentence. He returns to Chicago.
February 12, 1971		Gacy is charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy. The charges are dropped however when the boy fails to show up to the trial.
June 22, 1971	29	Gacy is arrested and charged with aggravated sexual battery of a youth. The youth attempts to blackmail Gacy, and the charges are dropped. The Iowa Board of Parole is not informed of these events.
October 18, 1971		Gacy's parole ends.
January 2, 1972		Gacy leaves a family party and upon seeing Timothy McCoy, who was waiting for a bus to Omaha, Nebraska, invited him on a sight-seeing tour of Chicago. McCoy agrees, and eventually the two arrive at Gacy's house, where McCoy could stay the night, after which Gacy would return him to the bus stop the next day.
January 3, 1972		Gacy wakes up to find McCoy silhouetted in his bedroom doorway holding a knife. Upon seeing this, Gacy panics and assumes the worst. The two engage in a struggle, which Gacy wins. Upon pinning McCoy to the ground, he stabs him repeatedly in self-defense. Upon entering the kitchen to put back the knife, he finds that McCoy had simply given Gacy the wrong impression, as McCoy had actually made breakfast for two. Gacy regarded this killing as euphoric, and pointed to it as what began the ensuing chain of events.
1973	30/31	Gacy and one of his teenage employees travel to Florida, where Gacy rapes his employee. Upon returning to Chicago, the employee finds Gacy and beats him in his front yard. Gacy dismisses his wife's concerns by alleging that the employee was angry that he had not been paid, as he had done poor painting.
January, 1974	31	Gacy commits his second murder. John Doe #28 becomes his second victim.
May, 1975	33	Gacy, who had hired Anthony Antonucci, knew that Antonucci had injured his foot. Knowing this, he went to Antonucci's house, where they drank wine and watched a movie, during which, Gacy wrestled Antonucci to the ground and cuffed him, accidentally failing to close them all the way. While out of the room, Antonucci freed himself, and when Gacy returned, Antonucci, a high-school wrestler, beat Gacy in a second scuffle, got the key and cuffed Gacy. Gacy then convinced Antonucci that he would leave if Antonucci would release him, which Antonucci allowed. Gacy would not attack him again.
July 31, 1975		John Butkovich, 18, disappears after an argument with Gacy over unpaid wages.
March 2, 1976		Carole Hoff divorces Gacy. His attacks increase in frequency due to his living alone. He dubs the remainder of his kills as part of his "Cruising Years."
April 6, 1976	34	Darrell Samson, 18, disappears in Chicago.
May 14, 1976		Randall Reffett, 15, returns home from the dentist's office and disappears, his friend, Samuel Stapleton, 14, disappears on his way home. They become Gacy's fifth and sixth victims respectively.
June 3, 1976		Michael Bonnin, 17, disappears on his way to Wakugen, Illinois after stopping in Chicago, Illinois.
June 13, 1976		Gacy murders William Carroll, a 16-year old, and Gacy's eighth victim.
August 5, 1976		Following a phone call to his family, possibly from Gacy's home, James Haakenson, 16, disappears.
August 6, 1976		Gacy murders Rick Johnston, 17, who becomes Gacy's tenth victim.
August 21, 1976		18-year old David Cram, one of Gacy's employees, moves into Gacy's home with him.
August 22, 1976		To celebrate Cram's 19th birthday, the two have drinks together with Gacy dressed as Pogo the Clown. He tricks Cram into putting on handcuffs, locked in front rather than behind. Gacy grabs the cuff chain and whips Cram around, informing him that he is going to rape him, however, Cram kicks Gacy in the face and frees himself.
August/October, 1976		Sometime during this period, Gacy murders John Doe #13 and John Doe #21.
October, 1976		Gacy makes another attempt to rape Cram, Cram successfully resists Gacy's advances, and forces him to back off.
October 5, 1976		David Cram moves out of Gacy's house, Michael Rossi quickly takes his place.
October 24, 1976		Kenneth Parker and his friend, Michael Marino, both 14, are killed by Gacy, becoming his 13th and 14th victims respectively.
October 26, 1976		William Bundy, 19, an alleged employee of Gacy's, informs his parents he will be attending a party, he goes missing whilst out.
November/December, 1976		After calling his family, Francis Alexander goes missing. He is not reported missing, as he is believed to have moved to California.
December 1976		After finalizing what he believed to be "drainage ditches" in Gacy's crawl space, 17-year old Gregory Godzik is killed, and becomes Gacy's 17th victim.
January 20, 1977		Gacy offers to buy 19-year old John Szyc's Plymouth Satellite and invites him over, where he kills him, turning a profit on Szyc's car by selling it to Michael Rossi.
March 15, 1977		Jon Prestidge, 20, a recent hire of Gacy's disappears.
Spring/Summer 1977	35	Gacy kills his 20th victim, Jon Doe #10.
April, 1977		Michael Rossi moves out of Gacy's house.
July 5, 1977		Matthew Bowman disappears, whilst waiting at a suburban train station for the train to Harwood Heights, Illinois.
August, 1977		Michael Rossi attempts to steal gasoline, suspecting the car to have been stolen from Syzc, they track it back to Gacy, who informs them it was sold to him by Syzc. The police do not pursue this matter further.
September 12, 1977		Gacy leaves Chicago, and goes to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for business.
September 15, 1977		The son of a police sergeant, 18-year old Robert Gilroy, goes missing. As Gacy was not in Chicago at the time, it is believed Gilroy's abduction was made by someone else.
September 16, 1977		Gacy returns to Chicago from his trip to Pennsylvania.
September 25, 1977		19-year old U.S. Marine, John Mowery, disappears after leaving his mother's house.
October 17, 1977		Russell Nelson, a 21-year old looking for contracting work, disappears.
October/November 1977		Gacy kills his 25th victim, 16-year old Robert Winch.
November 18, 1977		Tommy Boling, 20, disappears after leaving a bar.
December 9, 1977		David Talsma, a 19-year old U.S. Marine, tells his mother he is going to a rock concert in Hammond, Indiana. He never returns home.
December 30, 1977		Gacy abducts Robert Donnelly, 19, at gunpoint and takes him back to his house. Here he tortures Donnelly by repeatedly attempting to drown him, before releasing him at his (Gacy's) business.
January 6, 1978		Robert Donnelly reports the attack to the police. Gacy avoids arrest by convincing the authorities they have a slave-sex relationship, and that he simply hadn't paid Donnelly.
February 16, 1978		William Kindred, a 19-year old acquaintance of Gacy disappears after telling his fiancée he is going drinking. He is the final victim to be buried in Gacy's crawl space.
March 21, 1978	36	Gacy abducts Jeffrey Rignall, 26, and takes him back to his house. He proceeds to rape and torture Rignall before dumping him in Lincoln Park, Chicago, battered, but alive.
June, 1978		Timothy O'Rourke, 20, goes missing while shopping for cigarettes. He is the first victim to be thrown into the Des Plaines River.
July 15, 1978		Due to Rignall's account, Gacy is charged with battery by the State Attorney, but is not arrested. No further developments come from this charge.
November 4, 1978		Gacy commits his 30th murder. Frank Landingin, a 19-year old, and he is dumped into the Des Plaines River.
November 12. 1978		Landingin's body is discovered by duck hunters near an inlet of the Des Plains River.
November 24, 1978		Following a Thanksgiving dinner with his family, James Mazzara leaves and disappears.
December 11, 1978		Robert Piest, a 15-year-old boy, informs his mother to wait whilst he talks to a contractor about a job, and does not return. Gacy murders him an hour later. His mother files a missing person report that night, and police speak to Piest's boss at Nisson Pharmacy. This leads police to investigate Gacy, making him a suspect.
December 12/13, 1978		Due to the police investigation, Gacy successfully convinces the police that his uncle had just died, and he would arrive at the station later. Gacy used the time between then to discard Piest's body into the Des Plaines River. Following this, Gacy was in a minor accident that resulted in his car sliding off the road, which needed to be pulled from the mud, which resulted in Gacy arriving at the station covered in mud.
December 13, 1978		After obtaining a warrant, police search Gacy's house, assuming that Piest is being held prisoner there. They are unable to locate Piest, but find a number of suspicious items.
December 14, 1978		Gacy's vehicles, both his personal car, and his business vans, are confiscated. Michael Rossi also calls the authorities, informing them of Gregory Godzik's disappearance, and the death of one of Gacy's employees, Charles Hattula. The latter of which has yet to be confirmed as one of Gacy's victims.
December 15, 1978		One of the suspicious items, a class ring engraved with "J.A.S." is traced back to John Szyc. His mother informs authorities that a number of things were also taken from Szyc's apartment.
December 16, 1978		David Cram reveals to the police that, due to poor timekeeping, he had been given a watch from Gacy, who mentioned at the time that he received it "from a dead person."
December 17, 1978		Michael Rossi reveals to the police that he had bought Szyc's car from Gacy, who had informed him Szyc needed money to make a new life in California. A search dog investigation of Gacy's car revealed that Piest's corpse had been transported in the back seat.
December 18, 1978		Due to police surveillance, Gacy began to become stressed, he visited with his lawyer to create a $750,000 civil suit against the Des Plaines police with a demand to end surveillance. One of the other suspicious items, a Nisson pharmacy photo receipt was traced to Kimberly Byers, who told authorities she had borrowed Piest's parka, and had accidentally left the receipt in the pocket before returning it to him.
December 19, 1978		The police obtained a second search warrant on the same day that Gacy's civil suit was filed, which was scheduled for December 22nd. One officer distracted Gacy, whilst the other attempted to check Gacy's Motorola TV's serial number, a suspicious item possibly linked to Szyc, but was unable to get it. Whilst using the bathroom however, the officer noted what smelled like rotten flesh emanating from a heating vent.
December 20, 1978		When questioned where Piest's body may be, Rossi informed the officers of the crawl space, as Rossi had previously been asked to spread ten bags of lime, as well as digging a ditch in there. Cram told officers that he had also been asked to do similar things in the crawl space. That evening, Gacy visited with his lawyers about the upcoming civil suit, while there he became intoxicated, and confessed to the murder of Piest. He continued his confession, stating he had murdered at least 30 others, and dumped five into the river
December 21, 1978		Gacy drove to numerous locations on December 21st, fearing his arrest. At one point he handed cannabis to a gas station attendant, who turned it over to the surveillance team. Over the course of the day, Gacy became increasingly erratic, and fearing a potential suicide, took him into custody for possession and distribution of cannabis. When told his house was going to be searched for Piest, he informed them that his body wasn't there, but he had at one point, killed a boy in self-defense, and buried him in the garage. During this time, the second search warrant reveals human remains in the crawl space belonging to multiple different victims, all of which are too decomposed to be Piest. John Gacy is arrested and is charged with homocide.
December 22, 1978		Gacy formally issues a confession, remarking that he had killed about 30 young men, all of which had entered his home willingly, and were either run-aways or prostitutes. He names some, but claims he could not remember most of them. He claims to have dug five graves, but had his employees later dig trenches, which would act as the graves moving forward. He later confessed that in January of the following year, he would have poured cement into the crawl space to further hide the bodies.
February 6, 1980	37	Gacy is found guilty of 33 murders and is sentenced to death.
February 15, 1983	40	John Gacy is stabbed once in the upper left arm by fellow inmate Henry Brisbon at Menard Correctional Center.
May 10, 1994	52	Is executed by lethal injection.

Bibliography

Literature

• Gacy, John Wayne (1995). A Question of Doubt: The John Wayne Gacy Story, Craig Bowley Consultants. ISBN 978-1878865038
• Sullivan, Terry; Peter Maiken (2000). Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders, Pinnacle. ISBN 978-0786014224
• Amirante, Sam L.; Danny Broderick (2011). John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster: The True Story of the Lawyer Who Defended One of the Most Evil Serial Killers in History,. ISBN 978-1632203632
• Conti, Karen (March 26, 2024). Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy: Defending America's Most Evil Serial Killer on Death Row, Black Lyon Publishing. ISBN 979-8986512471

Articles

• Wilkinson, Alec (April 10, 1994). "Conversations with a Killer". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on March 24, 2020.
• "John Wayne Gacy". Biography (April 27, 2017).
• Charles Montaldo (July 30, 2021). "John Wayne Gacy, the Killer Clown". ThoughtCo.
• Katie Serena (January 29, 2022). The Chilling Story Of John Wayne Gacy, The Real-Life ‘Killer Clown’. All That's Interesting.

Documentaries

Television

• The New Detectives: Case Studies in Forensic Science S2E1: Mind Hunters (March 18, 1997) on IMDb
• Most Evil S1E2: Cold-Blooded Killers (July 20, 2006) on IMDb
• World's Most Evil Killers S1E5: John Wayne Gacy (2017) on IMDb
• Evil Lives Here S5E1: You Know My Brother's Name (January 1, 2019) on IMDb
• The Biography Channel has broadcast a 45-minute documentary on the crimes of John Wayne Gacy.
• Psychic Investigators S3E3: What Lies Below (July 25, 2009) on IMDb
• Born to Kill? S2E2: John Wayne Gacy — The Killer Clown (2011) on IMDb
• Monster in My Family S1E6: Killer Clown — John Wayne Gacy (August 5, 2015) on IMDb
• The Mark of a Killer S2E5: The Smell of Death (May 7, 2020) on IMDb
• John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise (2021) on IMDb, a 6-part documentary from Peacock about the chilling story of one of the world's most notorious serial killers told through the words of Gacy himself, those who were forever changed by his unspeakable deeds and those who believe that the full truth remains concealed to this day.
• The Clown and the Candyman (March 2021) on IMDb, a TV documenatry that reveals the network of pedophiles that connected two deranged serial killers, Dean Corll and John Wayne Gacy.
• Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes (April 20, 2022) on IMDb
• The John Wayne Gacy Murders: Life and Death in Chicago (2024 — ) on IMDb

YouTube Documentaries

• John Wayne Gary: A Real Life Nightmare (World's Most Evil Killers), Real Crime on YouTube
• John Wayne Gacy Jr: The Killer Clown, Biographics on YouTube
• The Killer Clown: John Wayne Gacy (Born To Kill), Our Life on YouTube
• 1 Serial Killer From Every State, Pixels After Dark on YouTube
• The Killer Clown: Unmasking the Twisted Mind of John Wayne Gacy, HorrorBuddiesTV on YouTube

Podcasts

• John Wayne Gacy - Part 1. Serial Killers with Greg Polcyn & Vanessa Richardson.
• John Wayne Gacy - Part 2. Serial Killers with Greg Polcyn & Vanessa Richardson.
• The Clown and the Candyman. An eight-part podcast series narrated by Jacqueline Bynon, investigating the murders committed by John Gacy, Dean Corll, their respective potential links to a nationwide sex trafficking network, and ongoing efforts to identify their victims
• Defense Diaries: The Gacy Tapes. Bob Motta.

In popular culture

Film adaptations

• To Catch a Killer (1992) on IMDb (Trailer on YouTube)
• Gacy (2003) on IMDb (Trailer on YouTube)
• Dear Mr. Gacy (2010) on IMDb (Trailer on YouTube)
• 8213: Gacy House (2010) on IMDb (Trailer on YouTube)
• Gacy: Serial Killer Next Door (2024) on IMDb (Trailer on YouTube)
• "John Wayne Gacy" (202?) on IMDb

Trivia

• Incarcerated serial killer Brian Dugan has identified Gacy as the offender guilty of kidnapping and sodomizing Dugan when he was a teenager.
• In 1978, actor Jack Merrill claimed he was kidnapped, assaulted, and later released by John Wayne Gacy, who gave him his phone number afterward; Merrill didn't report it, unaware Gacy was a killer.
• Disgraced Nickelodeon dialogue/acting coach & producer Brian Peck had a pen pal relationship with John Wayne Gacy.

See also

• Dean Corll

Links

• John Wayne Gacy at Wikipedia
• John Wayne Gacy at Find a Grave
• John Wayne Gacy on IMDb
• John Wayne Gacy. Radford University.
• John Wayne Gacy. Clark County Prosecutor.
• Kimball R. Anderson; Bruce R. Braun (1995). "The Legal Legacy of John Wayne Gacy: The Irrebuttable Presumption that Juries Understand and Follow Jury Instructions". Marquette Law Review. Archived from the original on July 9, 2020.
• FBI Records: The Vault — John Wayne Gacy. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
• 1993 Decision of Gacy's case by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, rejecting his federal appeal.
• John Wayne Gacy's Other Victims, a website detailing the ongoing investigation by Detective Bill Dorsch into the possibility Gacy had committed other murders
• John Wayne Gacy Tapes - FBI Interview Behavior Analysis of a Psychopath, The Behavior Panel on YouTube
• SERIAL KILLERS Walk Among Us: ft. Rex Heuermann, The Behavior Panel on YouTube
• John Gacy Survivor interview-Tony, Soft White Underbelly on YouTube
• John Wayne Gacy. Studying Serial Killers.
• John Wayne Gacy Profile. Killer Updates.