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John Wayne Gacy was an American serial killer who raped, tortured and murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978 in Cook County, Illinois . All of Gacy's known murders were committed inside his Norwood Park ranch house. His victims were typically induced to his address by force or deception, and all except one of his victims were murdered by either asphyxiation or strangulation with a makeshift garrote, as his first victim was stabbed to death. Gacy buried 26 of his victims in the crawl space of his home. Three other victims were buried elsewhere on his property, while the bodies of his last four known victims were discarded in the Des Plaines River.

Convicted of 33 murders, Gacy was sentenced to death on March 13, 1980 for 12 of those murders. He spent 14 years on death row before he was executed by lethal injection at Stateville Correctional Center on May 10, 1994.

Gacy became known as the "Killer Clown" because of his charitable services at fund-raising events, parades, and children's parties where he dressed as "Pogo the Clown" or "Patches the Clown", characters that he had created. Wikipedia  

✵ 17. March 1942 – 10. May 1994
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Famous John Wayne Gacy Quotes

“The idea that I'm a homosexual thrill killer, that I stroll down the streets and stalk young boys and slaughter them… Hell, if you could see my schedule, my work schedule, you knew damn well that I was never out there.”

John Wayne Gacy

Biography - John Wayne Gacy: Monster in Disguise. A & E Home Video, 2000. Watched March 1, 2010.

“GG Allin is an entertainer with a message to a sick society. He makes us look at it for what we really are. The human is just another animal who is able to speak out freely, to express himself clearly. Make no mistake about it, behind what he does is a brain.”

John Wayne Gacy

John Wayne Gacy on Todd Phillips: Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies, Skinny Nervous Guy Prod, 1994. 2007 DVD re-release watched March 1, 2010.

“That one mother [of victim] that gets on television all the time, who thinks I should get 33 injections, I think she ought to take 33 valiums and go lie down.”

John Wayne Gacy

Source: CBS 2 News interview (1992) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YqB_4N6erE

“I would definitely not be homosexual. I have nothing against what they do and I don't deny that I've engaged in sex with males but that I'm bisexual.”

John Wayne Gacy

Biography - John Wayne Gacy: Monster in Disguise. A & E Home Video, 2000.

“The dead won't bother you, it's the living you got to to worry about”

John Wayne Gacy

Robert Ressler interview (1992), seen in John Wayne Gacy: Devil In Disguise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUi-m3Ugo-g

“Girls are no fun to kill. Guys are more interesting to kill.”

John Wayne Gacy

Quoted by victim and survivor Robert Donnelly in: Sullivan, Terry; Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders (2011), Pinnacle, pg. 284

John Wayne Gacy Quotes

“Whether its [David] Berkowitz, whether its [Ted] Bundy, whether its… Wayne Williams down in Atlanta…, or Charlie Manson—I don't comment about other cases for the simple fact is that I wasn't there.”

John Wayne Gacy

CBS 2 News interview (1992) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YqB_4N6erE

“All the police are going to get me for is running a funeral parlor without a license.”

John Wayne Gacy

Quoted in Wolcott, Martin Gilman The Evil 100 https://books.google.com/books?id=AqAtjVMGnLIC&pg=PA150&lpg=PA150&dq=john+gacy+funeral+parlor+license&source=bl&ots=koZRMY2U1t&sig=ACfU3U0Xvi5XTOq4hbVXOKgS5ZCkpW977A&hl=en&ppis=_e&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiHzZC_ntfmAhWGKs0KHbNBCQAQ6AEwDXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=john%20gacy%20funeral%20parlor%20license&f=false Citadel Press 2004 p. 150.

“You know, clowns can get away with murder.”

John Wayne Gacy

Quoted in Wolcott, Martin Gilman The Evil 100 https://books.google.com/books?id=AqAtjVMGnLIC&pg=PA150&lpg=PA150&dq=john+gacy+funeral+parlor+license&source=bl&ots=koZRMY2U1t&sig=ACfU3U0Xvi5XTOq4hbVXOKgS5ZCkpW977A&hl=en&ppis=_e&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiHzZC_ntfmAhWGKs0KHbNBCQAQ6AEwDXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=john%20gacy%20funeral%20parlor%20license&f=false Citadel Press 2004 p. 150.

“Taking my life will not compensate for the loss of the others. The State is murdering me.”

John Wayne Gacy

Final words before execution by lethal injection. Quoted in Kozenczak, Joseph R.; Kozencz, Karen M.; The Chicago Killer: The Hunt for Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy (2003), Xlibris US, pg. 253

“I don't believe in hitting children.”

John Wayne Gacy

CBS 2 News interview (1992) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUT5DxbUJHs

“Who's the real clown now.”

John Wayne Gacy

CBS 2 News interview (1992) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUT5DxbUJHs

“When they paint the image that I was this monster who picked up these alter boys along the street and swatted them like flies I said "this is ludicrous."”

John Wayne Gacy

Source: CBS 2 News interview (1992) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2EhSJM33HI

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