John Wayne Gacy: Politics, Clowning Around, & Murder

John Wayne Gacy was thought to be a fine, upstanding member of his Illinois community. He was an outspoken Democrat, he dressed as a clown to entertain sick children at the local hospital, & he ran his own local construction business. He was close to his mother, although his father thought of him as a sissy due to his overweight, non-athletic physique. As a result, Gacy developed a love-hate relationship with his homosexual desires. In fact, he would only go so far as to declare himself bisexual, though he clearly wasn't into enjoying female companionship, despite his 2 attempts at marriage.



Gacy may have seemed a nice, friendly guy to the teenage boys around his neighborhood. He would hire them for jobs at his business, he would buy them booze, & make sexual jokes to humor them. He bought gay porn that he would leave around the house to perhaps ease the boys into trying it out. If they weren't interested & called him on it, he would play it off as a joke.

Once he got the boys relaxed & boozed up, he would show them a little "trick" with a pair of handcuffs. The trick involved Gacy telling the youth that he would show him a trick if the youth would put on the handcuffs. Once the young man had the handcuffs on, Gacy would tell him that the "trick" was that Gacy had the keys. The victim was sufficiently unable to defend himself & that was when the horror began. Gacy would bring out his collection of sex toys, & anally rape the young man while reading the bible to him, including this passage: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me." (Psalm 23:4) He would then strangle the victim to death.



When Gacy was finally caught in 1978, police found 26 victims buried in the crawl space under his house. Gacy is thought to have run out of room & then thrown 4 more victims into the Des Plaines river. John Wayne Gacy was sentenced to death in 1980 and executed in 1994. He had clearly worn a disguise for many years, making him appear to be someone he was not. He was not human in the way we understand humans to be. He was nothing more than a monster, masquerading as human.



“I should never have been convicted of anything more serious than running a cemetery without a license.” ~John Wayne Gacy