John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster: Defending a Monster: The True Story of the Lawyer Who Defended One of the Most Evil Serial Killers in History

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On being sentenced, Gacy was transferred to the Menard Correctional Center, where he remained on death row for 14 years.

He also joined the inmate Jaycee chapter and increased its membership from 50 to 650 men in less than eighteen months. In 1973, Gacy and a teenage employee traveled to Florida to view a property Gacy had purchased; while there, Gacy raped the employee in their hotel room.He doesn’t really settle on the crawl space until 1975 or 1976 and when that’s filled, he turns to the water,” criminologist Michael Arntfield told me.

He was buried directly beneath Body 21, recovered the previous day; this victim, who remains unidentified, is estimated to have been aged between 15 and 24 years old and approximately 5 ft 10 in (180 cm) in height. Bodies 22, 23, 24, and 26 were buried in a common grave beneath Gacy's kitchen and laundry room, [99] with Body 25 (Robert Gilroy, identified January 6, 1979) located beneath Gacy's bathroom. In the 1980s, Gacy informed FBI profiler Robert Ressler that "two or three" PDM employees had assisted in several murders. Moss felt that this misadventure allowed him to understand how a killer's mind works in controlling the vulnerable and forcing them to submission. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on.Most of the victims were buried in a small crawl space underneath his house of horrors, others were thrown into the Des Plaines River. On May 10, 1994 a needle containing a death-inducing cocktail was jabbed into the chubby arm of killer clown John Wayne Gacy, delivering him to oblivion.