Top 10 Gruesome Facts About John Wayne Gacy

Top 10 Gruesome Facts About John Wayne Gacy
Top 10 Gruesome Facts About John Wayne Gacy

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.

10Gacy Worked As A Mortuary Attendant As A Young Man and Had A Troubled Relationship With His Father

John Wayne Gacy worked at a mortuary

9Gacy Was Married Twice

John Wayne Gacy was married twice

8Gacy Was Imprisoned For Sodomy

John Wayne Gacy was arrested for sodomy

7Gacy Was Photographed With the First Lady

John Wayne Gacy met the first lady

6Gacy Had A Number of Victims Who Escaped

Some of John Wayne Gacy’s victims escape

5Police Failed To Connect Him To The Murders.  Despite Many Clues, He Was Arrested Only Because A Victim Tailed His Car

John Wayne Gacy was almost initial caught because he assaulted a young boy

4Gacy Became A Prolific Artist In Prison

John Wayne Gacy painted creepy portraits

3Gacy Killed At Least 33 Young Men

John Wayne Gacy had a very horrible garden

2Gacy May Not Have Worked Alone

John Wayne Gacy’s proteges did his dirty work

1Gacy’s Execution Was Botched; His Brain Was Later Removed

John Wayne Gacy was executed by lethal Injection