John Wayne Gacy Biography

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March 17, 1942 John wayne gacy was born or in other words we could say a killer clown was born.He was born in Chicago Illinois John lived with his parents and had two sisters. As a young man John had a cruel and abusive life. His father was an alcoholic and he used to abuse john as a young boy. Their relationship wasn't good at all John's dad used to get drunk and abuse him for no reason. John's mother on the other hand was a very nice person she loved john with all her heart and she would always try stopping john's dad from abusing him but that wouldn't work.
John's lived a harsh life as a young little boy. Sadly john as a young man was molested by a friend that the family all knew. John also suffered from heart conditions which caused problems in school like not doing so good. When he was just 13 years old he was playing the swing and he fell on his head and it caused a blood clot in his brain but this blood clot wasn't discovered until he was 16 years old that affected John big time. Gacy was bullied lots of times by his neighbors, people in school and many others, because John was overweight that also affected his health big time
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On the other hand a year later John was married to Marylnn Myers and got divorced from her couple years later and then got married to Carole Hoff but also got a divorce from her. Later on in his life John got a job as a clown he would dress up as a clown he named the clown pogo. He would go to parties and even hospitals for entertainment. Johns first murder was on January 22 ,1974 where he picked up a 16 year old boy named John Mccoy from at a bus station, Gacy wanted to show him around but then took john to his house and raped him and after raping him he got a kitchen knife and stabbed the teenager in the chest and buried him under his house. That's when Gacy started rapping boys and committing

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