John Wayne Gacy

Born March 17, 1942, Gacy was convicted in 1968 for the sodomy of a teenage boy in Waterloo, Iowa, serving eighteen months of a ten-year sentence. He killed his first victim in 1972. By the end of 1975 he had murdered twice more; after his second divorce in 1976, the pace accelerated to at least thirty victims. His method was consistent: lure them to his Norwood Park Township home, trick them into handcuffs under the pretence of a magic demonstration, then rape, torture, and kill by asphyxiation or garrote. Three victims were buried on his property, four dumped in the Des Plaines River. The De…