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John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American and who raped, tortured, and murdered at least 33 young men and boys in a suburb of . He became known as the Killer Clown due to his public performances as "Pogo the Clown" or "Patches the Clown", personas he had devised, prior to the discovery of his crime Gacy committed all of his murders inside his in Norwood Park Township. Typically, he would lure a victim to his home and dupe him into donning on the pretext of demonstrating a . He would then rape and torture his captive before killing him by either or with a . Twenty-six victims were buried inside of his home, and three others were buried elsewhere on his property; four were discarded in the the des plaines river Gacy had previously been convicted in 1968 of the of a teenage boy  and was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment, but served eighteen months. He murdered his first victim in 1972, had murdered twice more by the end of 1975, and murdered at least thirty subsequent victims after his divorce from his second wife in 1976. The investigation into the disappearance of teenager Robert Piest led to Gacy's arrest on December 21, 1978.

EARLY LIFE

John Wayne Gacy was born at Edgewater Hospital in , , on March 17, 1942, the second child and only son of John Stanley Gacy (1900–1969) and Marion Elaine Robison (1908–1989). His father was an auto repair machinist and veteran, and his mother was a homemaker. Gacy was of and ancestry, and his family was catholic 

CHILDHOOD

Gacy was close to his mother and two sisters, but endured a difficult relationship with his father, an who was to his family. The elder Gacy frequently belittled his son, calling him "dumb and stupid"and comparing him unfavorably with his sisters. One of Gacy's earliest memories was of his father beating him with a leather belt for accidentally disarranging components of a car engine he had assembled. His mother tried to shield her son from his father's abuse, which only resulted in accusations that he was a "" and a "" who would "probably grow up ". Despite this mistreatment, however, Gacy still loved his father, but felt he was "never good enough" in his father's eyes. In 1949, Gacy's father was informed that his son and another boy had been caught sexually fondling a young girl. His father whipped him with a leather belt as punishment. The same year, a family friend and contractor would sometimes Gacy molest in his truck. Gacy never told his father about this, afraid that his father would blame him Gacy was an overweight and unathletic child. Because of a heart condition, he was told to avoid all sports at school. During the fourth grade, Gacy began to experience blackouts He was hospitalized on occasion because of these episodes and also, in 1957, for a burst appendix . Gacy later estimated that between the ages of 14 and 18, he had spent almost a year in hospital and attributed the decline of his grades to missing school His father suspected these episodes were an effort to gain sympathy and attention and openly accused his son of faking the condition as Gacy lay in a hospital bed. Although his mother, sisters, and few close friends never doubted his illness, Gacy's medical condition was never conclusively diagnosed. One of Gacy's friends in high school recalled several instances when his father ridiculed or beat his son without provocation. On one occasion in 1957, he witnessed Gacy's father emerging drunk from the family basement to begin belittling, then hitting his son for no apparent reason. Gacy's mother attempted to intervene as her son simply "put up his hands to defend himself". According to the friend, Gacy never struck his father back during these altercations.

CAREER ORIGINS 

In 1960, at age 18, Gacy became involved in politics, working as an assistant for a candidate in his neighborhood. This led to more criticism from his father, who accused his son of being a "". Gacy later speculated his decision to become involved in politics was actually to seek the acceptance from others that he never received from his father.

The same year Gacy's political involvement began, his father bought him a car. He kept the vehicle's title in his own name until Gacy had finished paying for it. These monthly payments took several years for him to complete. His father would confiscate the keys to the vehicle if Gacy did not do as he said. In April 1962, Gacy purchased an extra set of keys after his father confiscated the original set. In response, his father removed the , keeping the component for three days. Gacy recalled he felt "totally sick" and "drained" after this incident. 

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