Early Life:
-John Gacy was born in Chicago,
Illinois.
-He was the second of three children.
-As a child he was
overweight and
nonathletic
-He was close to his two sisters and mother,
but had a difficult
relationship with his father.
-His father was an
alcoholic, who was physically abusive toward John’s mother and the
children.
-John always strived to make his father proud of him, but seldom received his approval.
-One of Gacy’s earliest childhood memories was being beaten with a leather belt by his father, for accidentally disarranging car engine components his father had assembled.
-At the age of 9, Gacy was molested by a family friend, a contractor who would take Gacy for rides in his truck, then fondle him.
-When John was in grade four he started experiencing blackouts, and had to be hospitalized as a result of seizures.
-He also was hospitalized for a burst appendix.
-Gacy’s medical condition was never conclusively diagnosed.
-At the age of 18, Gacy became involved in politics, working as an assistant precinct captain for a Democratic Party candidate in his
neighborhood.
-His father of course, like anything else he did, disapproved of this job.
-In 1962, Gacy drove to Las Vegas, where he found work within the ambulance service before he was transferred to work as a
mortuary attendant.
-He worked in this role for three months before returning to Chicago
-As a mortuary attendant, Gacy slept in a cot behind the embalming room.
-He later confessed to the fact that on one evening while alone, he had clambered into the coffin of a deceased teenage male, embracing and
caressing the body before experiencing a sense of shock.
-With this sense of shock he called his mother and asked to return home.
-In 1963 Gacy graduated from Northwestern Business College.
-In 1964 he got engaged to Marylnn Myers, a co-worker of his.
-In 1965, John was named as the third most outstanding Jaycee within the State if Illinois.
-In 1967 Gacy’s wife gave birth to two children during the time the couple lived in Lowa.
-John’s father-in-law gave him a managing job of three Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants.
-John’s life was turned around and going very well for him.
-John later got involved in wife swapping, prostitution, pornography and drugs.
-He also ran a “club” in his basement, where he allowed employees to drink alcohol and
play pool.
-Although he employed teenagers of both sexes at his restaurants, he socialized only with his male employees.
-Many were given alcohol before Gacy made sexual advances toward them, which he would dismiss as a
joke if the teenager rebuffed his advances.
-John Gacy was born in Chicago,
Illinois.
-He was the second of three children.
-As a child he was
overweight and
nonathletic
-He was close to his two sisters and mother,
but had a difficult
relationship with his father.
-His father was an
alcoholic, who was physically abusive toward John’s mother and the
children.
-John always strived to make his father proud of him, but seldom received his approval.
-One of Gacy’s earliest childhood memories was being beaten with a leather belt by his father, for accidentally disarranging car engine components his father had assembled.
-At the age of 9, Gacy was molested by a family friend, a contractor who would take Gacy for rides in his truck, then fondle him.
-When John was in grade four he started experiencing blackouts, and had to be hospitalized as a result of seizures.
-He also was hospitalized for a burst appendix.
-Gacy’s medical condition was never conclusively diagnosed.
-At the age of 18, Gacy became involved in politics, working as an assistant precinct captain for a Democratic Party candidate in his
neighborhood.
-His father of course, like anything else he did, disapproved of this job.
-In 1962, Gacy drove to Las Vegas, where he found work within the ambulance service before he was transferred to work as a
mortuary attendant.
-He worked in this role for three months before returning to Chicago
-As a mortuary attendant, Gacy slept in a cot behind the embalming room.
-He later confessed to the fact that on one evening while alone, he had clambered into the coffin of a deceased teenage male, embracing and
caressing the body before experiencing a sense of shock.
-With this sense of shock he called his mother and asked to return home.
-In 1963 Gacy graduated from Northwestern Business College.
-In 1964 he got engaged to Marylnn Myers, a co-worker of his.
-In 1965, John was named as the third most outstanding Jaycee within the State if Illinois.
-In 1967 Gacy’s wife gave birth to two children during the time the couple lived in Lowa.
-John’s father-in-law gave him a managing job of three Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants.
-John’s life was turned around and going very well for him.
-John later got involved in wife swapping, prostitution, pornography and drugs.
-He also ran a “club” in his basement, where he allowed employees to drink alcohol and
play pool.
-Although he employed teenagers of both sexes at his restaurants, he socialized only with his male employees.
-Many were given alcohol before Gacy made sexual advances toward them, which he would dismiss as a
joke if the teenager rebuffed his advances.