John Wayne Gacy was born in Chicago March 17 1942 on St. Patrick's Day. Marion Elaine Robinson Gacy and John Wayne Gacy, Sr. welcomed their first son into the world at Edgewater Hospital. John Wayne Gacy, Jr. was the second of three children. His older sister Joanne was born two years before him and two years later came his youngest siste

Both sides emotionally argued their cases to the jury that sat before them. Each side recalled previous witnesses and experts who had testified. The prosecution reminded the jury of the heinous crimes committed by Gacy, talked of his manipulative behavior, his rape and torture of the victims and how his crimes were premeditated and planned. The defense insisted that Gacy was insane and out of control at the time of the killings and pointed to the testimony given by experts during the trial. After the closing arguments and the testimony of over a hundred witnesses over a period of five weeks, the jury was left to make their decision. It took only two hours of deliberation before the jury came back with its verdict. The Chicago Tribune states that the "courtroom was filled with silence and everyone within stood at attention when the jury marched in with its verdict. We the jury, find the defendant, John Wayne Gacy, guilty." Gacy was found guilty in the deaths of thirty-three young men and as the Chicago Sun-Times states in 1980 he had the "singular notoriety of having been convicted of more murders than anyone else in American history." Gacy received the death penalty and was sent to Menard Correctional Center where, after years of appeals, he eventually was killed by lethal injection.

r Karen. All of the Gacy children were raised Catholic and all three attended Catholic schools where they lived on the northern side of Chicago at 4505 N. Marmara. The neighborhood in which Gacy grew up was middle class. Gacy seemed to have a very normal childhood with the exception of his relationship with his father and a series of accidents that affected him. When Gacy was eleven years old he was playing by a swing set when he was hit in the head by one of the swings. The accident caused a blood clot in the brain. However, the blood clot was not discovered until he was sixteen. From the age of eleven to sixteen he suffered a series of blackouts caused by the clot, yet the blackouts ceased when he was given medication to dissolve the blockage in the brain. At the age of seventeen, Gacy was diagnosed with a non-specific heart ailment.

In September 1964, Gacy met and married a co-worker named Marlynn Myers but the marriage ended when Gacy was imprisoned for ten years a correctional institute in Warterloo, Iowa for various sex and violent crimes against young men. Gacy worked tirelessly performing volunteer work for his community through

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