John Wayne Gacy Junior was no ordinary man. He was born in Chicago, Illinois he was the second of three children (Amirante). He was married twice during his lifetime and divorced both times. He had two kids with his first wife that he never saw again after the divorce. He started his own company and was a clown as a side job, which was part of his numerous clubs that he was in (Amirante). During a three year time period, he viciously murdered and raped over thirty boys and hid them under his house and in the local river. This is the life of John Wayne Gacy Junior
John was born on St. Patrick’s Day in 1942, two years after his older sister, Joanne. John Jr. and his family grew up with an abusive father, John Stanly Gacy (Amirante). He watched his father continuously abuse his mother, Marion Elaine Gacy and two sisters Joanne and Karen. He also got physically abused along with verbally. His father would often tell him that he was a “sissy” or a “mama’s boy” and that he was a failure. Throughout John’s childhood he sought for his father’s approval, but seldom did he get it (Amirante).
Him and his two sisters attended Catholic schools in the north side of Chicago; at this time John worked a series of jobs. Among his jobs were newspaper …show more content…
A young boy named Tony was one of Gacy’s victims that worked for him. Tony was one of the few that made it out alive after a sexual encounter with Gacy. He fought his way free with a chair and when Gacy told him to put on handcuffs he put them on loose enough so that his hands could slide free (Mills). After Gacy thought they were on Tony took off the cuffs, wrestled Gacy to the ground and out the cuffs on him. Tony took the handcuffs off after Gacy promised to leave him alone. Gacy never touched him again and Tony continued to work for him up to a year after the incident