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Pogo The Killer Clown
John Wayne Gacy- The Killer Clown- Dressed as Pogo the Clown. IN May 1968 he was charged with an act of sodomy with a teenage boy named Mark Miller. Miller said Gacy had tricked him into being tied up while visiting at Gacy's home and Gacy had raped him. He said that Miller willing had sexual interactions with him in order to earn extra money. Pleaded guilty to the charge if sodomy and received 10 years in the Iowa State Prison at the age of 26. He was divorced shortly after. Was released from prison early for good behavior. He moved back to Chicago, worked in a restaurant and got remarried in June 1972. When the next door neighbors came over, they complained of a horrible stench. IN1974, He started his own contracting business and hired young men so he could keep the pay roll low. Or so he told. He soon confessed to his wife he was more attracted to young men that women for which, she divorced him. Tried politics but his career was ruined by rumors of his interest in young men. Robert Piest, 15, vanished just outside the pharmacy he worked at. His mother began to worry so she called the police. It turned out the contractor who had offered him a job was John Gacy. Gacy said he knew nothing of the disappearance. The policeman who was leading the investigation did a background check on Gacy and he was surprised to find he had done time for sodomy with a teenage boy. Got a search warrant, when Gacy was not home, he went though his house. They found a box containing marijuana, pills, a stained piece of rug, a number of books with homosexual and child pornography themes, a pair of hand cuffs, police badges, sexual devises, hypodermic needle, a small brown bottle, clothing that was too small for Gacy, nylon rope, and a box containing two drivers licenses and several rings. One of the ring was engraved with Main West High School Class of 1975 and the initials JS. The police entered the crawl space and found that the soil had been sprinkled with lime. Gacy contacted his attorney and was told not to sign anything. Police had nothing to charge Gacy with so they released him but he was put under 24-hour surveillance. Then they decided to charge him with possession of marijuana. While he was being charged with possession, police and investigators came up with critical evidence against him from the items they took from his home. One of the rings found in Gacy house belonged to a teenager that disappeared about a year before. His name was John Szyc. Also, a receipt for a roll of film had belonged to one of Robert Piest's co-workers. This receipt had been given to Piest on the day he disappeared. Detectives returned to Gacy's home. Gacy finally confessed to police that he had killed someone 'in self defense'. Gacy told police the body was buried under his garage. Before digging under the garage, investigators searched the crawlspace and found the first corpse. For the next several days, the sight was searched under the Cook County's medical examiner's watch. On December 22, 1978, detectives told Gacy they had dug under his house and he confessed that he had killed at least 30 people and most of them were buried under his house. He explained how he had tricked his victims into being handcuffed then sexually assault them. He would then stuff a sock or their underwear in their mouths and kill them with a rope or board against their throats. Gacy also admitted to having kept the corpses under his bed or in his attic for hours or even days before he buried them. The police found 27 under his house, and a total of four were found in the Des Plains River, in the concrete of Gacy's patio, and under Gacy's recreation room. After all the bodies were taken out the house was destroyed. Robert Piest's body was found in the Illinois River. The total dead was 33. All but nine of the dead young men were identified. He was put to death on May 9, 1994.
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