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John Wayne Gacy
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John Wayne Gacy, Jr. (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer and sex offender known as the Killer Clown who assaulted and murdered at least 33 young men and boys. Gacy regularly performed at children's hospitals and charitable events as "Pogo the Clown" or "Patches the Clown", personas he had devised.
thumb|John Wayne Gacy (1978)
Quotes
You know, clowns can get away with murder
Quoted in Wolcott, Martin Gilman The Evil 100 Citadel Press 2004 p. 150.
Girls are no fun to kill. Guys are more interesting to kill.
Quoted by victim and survivor Robert Donnelly in: Sullivan, Terry; Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders (2011), Pinnacle, pg. 284
All the police are going to get me for is running a funeral parlor without a license.
Quoted in Wolcott, Martin Gilman The Evil 100 Citadel Press 2004 p. 150.
The idea that I'm a homosexual thrill killer, that I stroll down the streets and stalk young boys and slaughter them... Hell, if you could see my schedule, my work schedule, you knew damn well that I was never out there.
Biography - John Wayne Gacy: Monster in Disguise. A & E Home Video, 2000. Watched March 1, 2010.
I would definitely not be homosexual. I have nothing against what they do and I don't deny that I've engaged in sex with males but that I'm bisexual.
Biography - John Wayne Gacy: Monster in Disguise. A & E Home Video, 2000.
The dead won't bother you, it's the living you got to to worry about
Robert Ressler interview (1992), seen in John Wayne Gacy: Devil In Disguise
If they want to be convinced or [are] brainwashed into what they believe, then fine, then go ahead and kill me. But 'vengeance is mine saith the Lord' because you would have executed someone who didn't commit the crime.
CBS 2 News interview (1992)
When they paint the image that I was this monster who picked up these alter boys along the street and swatted them like flies I said "this is ludicrous".
CBS 2 News interview (1992)
I don't believe in hitting children.
CBS 2 News interview (1992)
Whether its [David] Berkowitz, whether its [Ted] Bundy, whether its... Wayne Williams down in Atlanta..., or Charlie Manson—I don't comment about other cases for the simple fact is that I wasn't there.
CBS 2 News interview (1992)
That one mother [of victim] that gets on television all the time, who thinks I should get 33 injections, I think she ought to take 33 valiums and go lay down.
CBS 2 News interview (1992)
We've linked 16 of the bodies to one individual. We've linked 14 more to another individual. All these people had keys to the house.
1994 interview with Bill O'Reilly
I am at peace with God.
1994 interview with Bill O'Reilly
Taking my life will not compensate for the loss of the others. The State is murdering me.
Final words before execution by lethal injection. Quoted in Kozenczak, Joseph R.; Kozencz, Karen M.; The Chicago Killer: The Hunt for Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy (2003), Xlibris US, pg. 253
External links
Crimelibrary.com's entry on John Wayne Gacy
Artwork by John Wayne Gacy
"People v. John Wayne Gacy", from the Cook County Clerk of Court website.
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