A judge also ruled in her favor of taking full custody of their two young children. Gacy was divorced from his first wife, Marlynn Myers in 1969 near the time he was convicted of sodomy of a teenage boy. As heard in Conversations With A Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes, Gacy's victims would often be lured with the promise of a job at PDM, an offer of drink or shelter, or money for sex. Gacy had killed his first victim, 16-year-old Timothy McCoy, in January 1972. He employed mainly high school students and young men. He was no stranger to the authorities, having served 18 months of a 10-year prison sentence for the sodomy of a teenage boy in Waterloo, Iowa in 1968.Īfter his spell in prison, Gacy moved to Chicago and he set up his own part-time construction business, PDM Contractors, focusing on "Painting, Decorating, and Maintenance" in 1974. Gacy was also a prominent member of the Jaycees (The United States Junior Chamber), a leadership training and civic organization in Illinois and Iowa. He went on to become a manager within Nunn-Bush Shoe Company in Springfield, Illinois, and later, a manager at KFC. Before then, he worked as an attendant at a mortuary in Las Vegas and enrolled at Northwestern Business College, graduating in 1963. Nicknamed "The Killer Clown", Gacy earned the haunting name due to his work as a clown, visiting children's hospitals and performing at charity events. Four were discovered in the nearby Des Plaines River. In total, 26 victims were found in the empty crawl space of his home and three others were found around the property.
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