The Murder Of John Gacy's Pogo The Clown

John Gacy, also known as the killer clown was convicted of 33 murders in 1980. Gacy told police he had an alternate personality which led to his murders. Later, scientist at discovered that there were no abnormalities in his brain.

The way gacy lured his victims into his home was by saying he had a construction job and he would like to hire them.Gacy sexually assaulted and strangled most of them with rope. When he killed his victims he sometimes dressed as his alter ego "Pogo the Clown." 15 of his victims were buried under his house and 8 of them were unknown. He confessed to the police that he had killed 30 young men and children he later said that he would handcuff them and hold a board or rope to their throats while raping them until they died and that he would keep them under his bed for several hours. …show more content…
Throughout his childhood, John Gacy was beat by his father even though he strove to make his father proud of him, but barely received his approval. One of Gacy's earliest childhood memories was being beaten with a leather belt by his father at the age of four for accidentally putting car engine components in the wrong place his father had assembled. On another occasion, his father struck him across the head with a broomstick. He was regularly belittled by his father and often compared unfavorably with his sisters. Gacy also remembers being called "dumb and stupid". The hated from his father was constant in his childhood and adolescence