Due to the perverse approach to his crimes, John Wayne Gacy became famous all over the world. The image of a maniac is realized in many films and TV series. This man has become an interesting object of observation for modern science.
Biography
Wayne was born in the early 40s of the last century and became the first and only child. The boy's childhood years passed like everyone else, he attended a Catholic educational institution and earned a living from part-time jobs. But the teenager's family was a complete mess. His father was ill with alcoholism and regularly used violence against his child and wife.
On top of that, the child was found to have a benign growth in the brain and underwent surgery to remove it. As a result, Gacy completely lost touch with the outside world, stopped going to school and interacting with children of his own age.
As a teenager, John became a victim of rape and regularly suffered sexual bullying from an inadequate neighbor. As a result of the above circumstances, the future offender realized that he was attracted to his gender. He did not have a person with whom he could share his accumulated experiences. Wayne began to realize that his passions were not part of social norms and orders.
Gacy's hobbies for a long time remained only in his head, he dropped out of school and went to another US state. There he became a successful businessman in the field of fast food establishments. At that time, absolutely every person around John was sure of his decency. It was during this period of his life that the first prerequisites for committing crimes appeared.
Crimes
Wayne's very first criminal act is considered a series of sexual harassment of his colleague's son, the guy was in his teens. Despite Gacy's threats, the teenager told his father and mother about everything. The maniac tried in every possible way to evade accusations, even set his assistants against the young guy's father. After this act, the investigation became aware of the true culprit and John was put behind bars for 10 years.
After a year and a half, he was released early from prison for good behavior. At this stage, Wayne decided to radically change his life and got a job at a children's entertainment center. He performed in a clown costume, this detail in the biography of the maniac will find many responses in the cinema in the future.
In the early 70s, Gacy began a string of murders that ended only in 1978. The perpetrator kidnapped victims, carried out violent actions, killed and left bodies in the basement of his house. When John was caught red-handed, he surrendered without resistance and showed the police dozens of corpses that had rotted.
Personal life
In 1964, Wayne played a wedding for the first time, the boss's adopted daughter became his chosen one. They had two children, whom the wife chose to take when the maniac first came under investigation.
John's second wife was Carroll Hoff, who used to be a classmate of the man. Their relationship lasted three years, and the wife left the maniac, as she began to notice that he was no longer interested in women.
