John Wayne Gacy And The Case Of John Wayne Gacy

Born March 17, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, John Wayne Gacy led a troubling life as a child. Gacy grew up with a drunken father who regularly beat him, his siblings, and even their mother. Up into adulthood, John practiced a normal life. According to The Digital Research
Library of Illinois History, Ph. D Neil Gale wrote an article regarding Gacy, it is said that Gacy grew up manage a fast food restaurant in the 1960’s and in the early 1970’s he became a self- made contractor and a Democratic precinct captain of Chicago’s Norwood Park Community.
Gacy was well known member of his community who would even dress as a clown for children's birthday parties (Gale 2017). John married and divorced twice and had children from both marriages. Despite leading

During questioning, John Wayne Gacy admitted to killing approximately thirty people and that some were even buried in the crawl space in his home and that some of the bodies were at the Des
Plaines and others in the Illinois river (People v. Gacy 2017). Police had minor difficulty when it came to obtaining another search warrant. It was said that, “Defendant contends first that the circuit court erred in denying his motion to suppress the evidence seized as the result of the search warrant issued on December 13, 1978, and argues that both the complaint for the search warrant and the search warrant itself were defective (People v. Gacy 2017). Gacy himself complained that the search warrant “failed to satisfy the ‘basis of knowledge’” (People v. Gacy
2017).
Gacy’s trial began February 6, 1980 (Gale 2017) took a good while to be presented in court but it did not take the jury long to convict him. In the opening statements, the People naturally examine the facts and information gathered by the Des Moines police during Gacy’s interrogation. Gacy tried many tactics to get out of going to prison, he even tried to

The same jury sentenced Gacy to death for 12 of these killings, the only 12 that the

Shelley3 prosecution could prove had been committed after Illinois enacted its post-Furman death penalty statute. The Supreme Court of Illinois affirmed. People v. Gacy, 103 Ill. 2d 1, 82 Ill.Dec. 391,
468 N.E.2d 1171 (1984), cert. denied, 470 U.S. 1037, 105 S. Ct. 1410, 84 L. Ed. 2d 799 (1985).
That court also rejected a collateral attack, 125 Ill. 2d 117, 125 Ill.Dec. 770, 530 N.E.2d 1340
(1988), cert. denied, 490 U.S. 1085, 109 S. Ct. 2111, 104 L. Ed. 2d 671 (1989). A United States district court has decided that Gacy is not entitled to collateral relief” (John Wayne Gacy 2017).
Ultimately after the short deliberation, jurors found Gacy guilty and was sentenced to serve twelve death sentences and twenty-one natural life sentences. He later died by lethal injection at the Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill, Illinois May 10, 1994 (Gale