John Wayne Gacy

John Wayne Gacy was an American serial killer and rapist. He sexually assaulted, 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 killed inside his Norwood Park ranch house. His victims were typically induced to his address by force or deception, and all but one of his victims were murdered by either asphyxiation or strangulation with a makeshift tourniquet. Gacy buried 26 of his victims in the crawl space of his home. Killing 33 people, Gacy was sentenced to death on March 13, 1980, for 12 of those killings. He spent 14 years on death row before he was killed by lethal injectionat Stateville Correctional Center on May 10, 1994. Gacy became known as the "Killer Clown" because of his welfare services at fund-raising events, parades, and children's parties where he would dress as "Pogo the Clown" or "Patches the Clown", characters he had consived.

John Wayne Gacy Jr. was born in Chicago, Illinois, on March 17, 1942, the only son and second of three children born to John Stanley Gacy, an auto repair machinist and World War I veteran, and his wife Marion Elaine Robinson, a homemaker. His father regularly critisise him and often compared him unfavorably with his sisters, disdainfully accusing him of being "dumb and stupid". Gacy, while regularly commenting that he was "never good enough" in his father's eyes, always vehemently denied ever hating his father in interviews after his arrest.

Gary became serial killer and a rapist because of his Family problems.