Born March 17, 1942 in Chicago Illinois. His father, John Wayne Gacy Sr. was said to be an abusive alcoholic who was prone to physically and verbally assaulting his children. Besides that Gacy Jr. had a pretty normal childhood.

After attending four different high schools during his senior, never graduating, he dropped out of school and left Chicago for Vegas. In Vegas he worked as a janitor for Palm Mortuary. Gracy had become unhappy in Vegas so he returned home to Chicago a few months later.

 

   Gacy eventually enrolled in a business college and had developed a talent for salesmanship in the early 1960’s. He could talk his way in and out of basically any situation. After graduating college he went to work as a management trainee at Nunn Bush Shoe Co in downtown Chicago. He had excelled in his position and within a few weeks he was transferred to Springfield, Illinois to manage a men’s clothing outlet for the company. There he had remained employed for nearly a year.

 

   Gacy however was arrested for the first time with a felony charge for attempting to coerce a male employee into homosexual acts in 1968. This became a huge surprise to those who thought they knew Gacy. He had pled guilty and was sentenced to ten years in the Iowa’s State Men’s Reformatory in Anamosa. Following the sentencing his wife had filed for divorce. This made Gacy mad so he informed her that he did not want to see his children again and would henceforth consider the two kids and her, dead.

 

   After Gacy had served eighteen months in jail he was paroled in 1971 and decided to move back to Chicago. There he went to work as a construction contractor which made him eventually form his own construction business. Not too long after he remarried to a recently divorced woman he had met through mutual friends. Gacy was charged again in 1971 with attempted rape of a young man. These charges had been dropped when the victim did not show up to court for the hearing.

 

   Eventually Gacy’s second wife had divorced him in March of 1976 because she felt like she could no longer cope with the marriage due to her husband’s bizarre obsession with homosexual magazines and unpredictable moods. This couple however did not have children.

 

   On December 12, 1978 the police had been focusing their attention on Gacy. Shortly after that on December 22, 1978 when he had discovered that all of his secrets were going to be revealed, Gacy had confessed to the police that he had murdered about 33 young men over the past seven years. He even drew them a detailed map to the locations of 28 shallow graves under his garage and house. On March 13, 1980 Gacy was sentenced to death.

Gacy was executed May 10, 1994 by lethal injection. The final words he had snarled were “Kiss my ***”.