By the age of twenty-five, John Wayne Gacy and his wife Marlynn had moved to Waterloo, Iowa. Gacy managed three Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) franchises owned by his father-in-law. During their time in Iowa, the couple had two children: Michael was born in March 1967, followed by a daughter named Christine in September 1968. While in Waterloo, John remained heavily involved in the local Junior Chamber of Commerce organization.
Until this point in his life, John Wayne Gacy had kept his first two homosexual encounters tightly under wraps, and they remained that way until an interview was conducted from prison in the spring of 1992. During the interview, John confessed that during his stint at the mortuary in Las Vegas he had crawled into the coffin of a deceased teenage male and had caressed the corpse. He also stated that he had conducted experiments on dead bodies and memorized the embalming process in the few months of his employment there. Gacy also recounted consuming a large amount of alcohol with a fellow Springfield Junior Chamber of Commerce member who then performed oral sex on Gacy while he was drunk in 1964. However, on December 3, 1968, a glimpse into John Wayne Gacy's alternative lifestyle was publicly exposed when John was first arrested and accused of sexually …show more content…
Among the victims killed were 19-year-old PDM Construction employee John Szyc, 20-year-old Jon Prestidge. John Wayne Gacy conducted a majority of his 1977 killings during the later half of the year, including the murders of 19-year-old Matthew Bowman, 18-year-old Robert Gilroy, 19-year-old United States Marine John Mowery, 21-year-old Minneapolis architecture student Russell Nelson, 16-year-old Robert Winch from Michigan, 20-year-old Tommy Boling, and 19-year-old David Talsma. There were two murders with unidentified victims that took place at some point in
Until this point in his life, John Wayne Gacy had kept his first two homosexual encounters tightly under wraps, and they remained that way until an interview was conducted from prison in the spring of 1992. During the interview, John confessed that during his stint at the mortuary in Las Vegas he had crawled into the coffin of a deceased teenage male and had caressed the corpse. He also stated that he had conducted experiments on dead bodies and memorized the embalming process in the few months of his employment there. Gacy also recounted consuming a large amount of alcohol with a fellow Springfield Junior Chamber of Commerce member who then performed oral sex on Gacy while he was drunk in 1964. However, on December 3, 1968, a glimpse into John Wayne Gacy's alternative lifestyle was publicly exposed when John was first arrested and accused of sexually …show more content…
Among the victims killed were 19-year-old PDM Construction employee John Szyc, 20-year-old Jon Prestidge. John Wayne Gacy conducted a majority of his 1977 killings during the later half of the year, including the murders of 19-year-old Matthew Bowman, 18-year-old Robert Gilroy, 19-year-old United States Marine John Mowery, 21-year-old Minneapolis architecture student Russell Nelson, 16-year-old Robert Winch from Michigan, 20-year-old Tommy Boling, and 19-year-old David Talsma. There were two murders with unidentified victims that took place at some point in