Top 10 Gruesome Facts About John Wayne Gacy
Are you scared of clowns? Stephen King’s IT may have played to a popular fear of the scary killer clown but if you thought that they were a figment of popular imagination, think again. Truth is always stranger than fiction and America was, for a time, home to a real life killer clown and indeed the life and crimes of John Wayne Gacy inspired King to write the character of Pennywise in IT.
Not funny in the slightest, the disturbed John Wayne Gacy was a complica
ted character. He was at times a precinct captain and candidate for the Democrat party, a leading member of the Jaycees, a mortuary attendant, a KFC franchise manager and the owner of a construction company. He was married twice but his real passion was for young boys whom he often lured into danger with promises of construction work with his firm. He raped and killed his victims by night but hid his depravity behind a façade of a committed philanthropist, attending children’s parties and fundraising for worthy causes in his alter-ego, the personal of the genial ‘Pogo the Clown’.John Wayne Gacy was one of America’s most prolific serial killers, responsible for the deaths of at least 33 young men and the rape and torture of many more. Here are 10 facts you may not have known about the real life Pennywise, America’s very own killer clown.
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