Despite the ten years he was supposed to be in jail, he got out in after 18 months. He was to serve the rest of his time on probation. While he got remarried during this time, it seemed he had discovered his inner sadist. Just a year later he was arrested again for assault, but the charges were dropped. This ability to wiggle out of trouble with the law allowed him to keep his killing streak going far longer than it should have gone.
Police officers were being inundated with missing men cases from the surrounding countries and states, many with ties directly to Gacy. However, they could never get any of the young men to admit that Gacy was doing anything wrong if they walked away from his house at all. Between there were a couple of cases where a young man went to the cops saying Gacy kidnapped him at gunpoint and forced him to do sexual acts. In one case the prosecutor just dropped the case. In another, he was only charged with a misdemeanor.
On December 11, , Robert Piest was a year-old who told his Mom he was going to talk to Gacy about a job he had been offered. The boy never returned from this meeting. On December 19, , Gacy invited 2 police officers to have breakfast in his home. The officers smell death in the house.
December 21, and Gacy is arrested for selling marijuana to a gas station cashier. He had told people for years there was a mold problem with the house to explain the stench.
While he was being interviewed at the police station, he admitted to having killed and raped 27 the real number ended up being 33 young boys and men. He drew a diagram of where the bodies had been hidden. Most of them were in trenches under the crawlspace of his house. The house had to be dismantled for the bodies to be recovered. A forensic anthropologist and a dental expert are brought on to help with identifying the bodies.
John Wayne Gacy was an American serial killer and rapist who took the lives of at least 33 young males in Cook County, Illinois, burying most under his house. Other bodies were recovered from the nearby Des Plaines River. After being convicted of sexual assault in , Gacy's murders were discovered. Gacy was born on March 17, , in Chicago, Illinois. The son of Danish and Polish parents, Gacy and his siblings grew up with an alcoholic father who would beat the children with a razor strap if they were perceived to have misbehaved.
His father physically assaulted Gacy's mother as well. Gacy's sister Karen would later say that the siblings learned to toughen up against the beatings, and that Gacy would not cry. Gacy suffered further alienation at school, unable to play with other children due to a congenital heart condition that was looked upon by his father as another failing. He later realized he was attracted to men, and experienced great turmoil over his sexuality.
Gacy worked as a fast-food chain manager during the s and became a self-made building contractor and Democratic precinct captain in the Chicago suburbs in the s. Well-liked in his community, Gacy organized cultural gatherings and was active in political organizations and the Jaycees civic group.
He was married and divorced twice and had two biological children in addition to two stepdaughters. Gacy was a member of a Chicago-area "Jolly Joker" clown club and frequently performed in clown attire and makeup at children's parties, charity fundraisers and other events as his alter egos "Pogo the Clown" or "Patches the Clown.
In , Gacy was convicted of sexually assaulting two teen boys and given a year prison sentence. He was released on parole in the summer of , but was arrested again the following year after another teen accused Gacy of sexual assault.
The charges were dropped when the boy didn't appear during the trial. By the middle of the s, two more young males accused Gacy of rape, and he would be questioned by police about the disappearances of others. On December 11, , year-old Robert Piest went missing.
It was reported to police that the boy was last seen by his mother at a drugstore where he worked before he headed out to meet Gacy to discuss a potential construction job. Ten days later, a police search of Gacy's house in Norwood Park, Illinois, uncovered evidence of his involvement in numerous crimes, including murder.
It was later discovered that Gacy had committed his first known killing in , taking the life of year-old Timothy McCoy after luring the youth to his home. Some Chicago history stories come out of the archives and make you marvel at the fact that the tale hasn't been retold times to you by now.
Charles Cramer, alias Charles Kramer or Charles Conway, was an itinerant circus performer in the early 20th century. He and his wife took up with a vacationing couple in , one of whom was an heiress. When the heiress was found strangled to death in a rooming house, the Cramers vanished, and a nationwide dragnet was launched as police searched for Mr.
Cramer, whose main identifying characteristic was a peg leg he'd lost one leg below the knee in an accident and declined to get a proper prosthetic. When captured, Cramer is said to have joked with the jailed. Though a first-degree murder charge had sent plenty of men to the gallows, Cramer was given a life sentence in Joliet. The wooden foot didn't seem to slow him down: He escaped from jail in and doesn't seem to have ever been found.
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