John Wayne Gacy
Chicago was the home of John Wayne Gacy’s practice from 1972 to 1978. A total of 33 boys and men were brutally abused and murdered by him. Pogo the Clown or Patches the Clown was a clown who made appearances at treatment centers and philanthropic events. Before strangling them with a tourniquet, he promised his captives labor or money.
In the basement beneath his house, the Burial King interred 26 corpses before disposing of their remains in the Des Plaines River. Prior to his lethal injection on May 10, 1994, he had been on death row for 14 years.
