JOHN WAYNE GACY- THE CLOWN THAT KILLED

Looks can definitely be deceiving! This "being" had his family and community fooled! 

To everyone who met him, John Wayne Gacy seemed a likable and affable man. He was widely respected in the community, charming and easy to get along with. He was a good Catholic and sharp businessman who, when not running his construction company was active in the Jaycees and was also a Democratic Party precinct captain, when he had his photo taken with then First Lady, Rosalynn Carter. He also spent much of his free time hosting elaborate street parties for his friends and neighbors, serving in community groups and entertaining children as "Pogo the Clown". He was a generous, hard working, friendly, devoted family man, everyone knew that -- but that was the side of John Wayne Gacy that he allowed people to see.

Underneath the smiling mask of the clown was the face of depraved fiend.

Gacy was born in Chicago on March 17, 1942. Having a protective mother and a harsh father who would often come home, go down to the basement, sit in a stuffed chair, and get drunk; later, drunk, he'd come up for dinner and start beating his wife and children. As a child, John had been struck on the head by a swing, causing a blood clot on the brain, which was undetected for several years. Apart from being a petty thief, he had an uneventful childhood.

He later attended business school, got married, and lived for a time in Iowa. Gacy managed a fried chicken business in Waterloo, where he became a respected community member. Nothing about him seemed abnormal, although he boasting a lot, he seemed a kind and generous man.

Then at aged 26, Gacy was arrested for sexually assaulting a young boy. The trial disclosed that he had forced the handcuffed boy to have sex with him. He then paid his victim to keep quiet about the incident. But the youth testified against him anyway. In response, Gacy hired another young man to beat up the boy. Once found guilty and sentenced to ten years in prison, his wife divorced him. His good behavior won him an early parole in 1971, and he was placed on probation. After his release, he moved to Harwood Heights to begin a new life. He remarried and started a construction business, which he ran from hishouse. He was out of prison for less than a year when he was arrested for soliciting a juvenile male for sex. But the charges were dropped when his victim failed to appear in court.

Again seeking recognition and status, Gacy involved himself in local politics and other community activities. Gacy often donated time and money to help people in need. He even dressed up as a clown to entertain children at different social events.

In 1975, while he was still married, one of his teenage employees vanished; it was after this that his wife noticed an unpleasant smell in the house. After there separation in the following year, Gacy made a habit of picking up teenage homosexuals, or luring young teenagers to his house handcuffing them, and then committing sodomy. They were finally strangled, and the bodies disposed of, usually in the crawl space under the house.

In March 1978, a twenty-seven-year-old named Jeffrey Rignall accepted an invitation to smoke pot in Gacy's Oldsmobile. While there, Gacy clapped a chloroform-soaked rag over his face, and when Rignall woke up he was being sodomized in Gacy's home. Gacy raped him repeatedly and flogged him with a whip; finally, he chloroformed him again and left him in a park. Since Rignal's memory had been fogged by chloroform, he could not pinpoint the location of the house, none-the-less, Rignall was determined to find his assailant. When he spotted the vehicle, he copied down the license plate number and gave it to the police. Gacy was arrested and then released because of lack of evidence.

On December 11, 1978 Gacy invited a fifteen-year-old boy, Robert Piest to his home to talk about a summer job. When the boy failed to return, police were sent to search Gacy's house. Alerted by the odor, they investigated the crawl space and found fifteen bodies and parts of others. Gacy was promptly arrested. Later investigators returned to Gacy's house and began to remove the floors. In the crawl space beneath the house, they discovered several bodies in shallow graves and long trenches. Many of the bodies had been covered with quicklime to hasten their decay. The house was raised, more bodies were found. A total of 28 corpses were eventually unearthed. Gacy admitted to having dumped five more bodies in the nearby Des Plains River. In all Gacy murdered 33 victims.

Gacy went to trial in March 1980 and pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Nobody bought his insanity plea, and he was found guilty and sentenced to die in the electric chair. In 1980 they changed the way of death, from eclectic chair to lethal injection. John Wayne Gacy was executed on 10 May, 1994.

In 1998 police searched a parking lot, located at the back of Gacy's mothers house. Authorities believe they have found the remains of another 3 or 4 bodies.
 

There are a few books published about this "being", I will give you the list:

The Man Who Killed Boys: The John Wayne Gacy, Jr. Story

Book by: Clifford L. Linedecker

Killer Clown

Book by: Terry Sullivan

John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster

Book by: Sam L. Amirante, Danny Broderick and Vincent Bugliosi