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  1. Jun 16, 2023 · Childhood. John Wayne Gacy was born on March 17, 1942, in Chicago to John Stanley Gacy and Marion Elaine Robison. His father, an auto repair machinist and World War I veteran, struggled...

  2. Mar 23, 2021 · Just like many serial killers who came before and after him, Gacy had a rough childhood. He grew up with an alcoholic father who physically and verbally abused him even into young adulthood, but as he admitted before his execution, he never stopped loving his father despite his violent behavior.

  3. Sep 15, 2020 · John Wayne Gacy was born into an upper-middle-class family in Chicago in March 1942. His father, John Stanley Gacy, was an auto-repair machinist who named his son after John Wayne, a Hollywood icon who starred in Westerns and was considered a paragon of American masculinity.

  4. Childhood. John Wayne Gacy was born at Edgewater Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, on March 17, 1942, the second of three children and only son of John Stanley Gacy and Marion Elaine Robison. His father was an auto repair machinist and World War I veteran, and his mother was a homemaker.

  5. Mar 13, 2022 · The Early Life of John Wayne Gacy. John Wayne Gacy was born in 1942 in Chicago. His father was physically and verbally abusive throughout most of his childhood, repeatedly telling Gacy that he was a disappointment to his family. Gacy was unathletic and overweight, and took his aggression out in unfavorable ways.

  6. Oct 5, 2022 · A Look at the Serial Killer's Beginnings. On March 17, 1942, John Stanley Gacy named his newborn son after the iconic country star John Wayne. The man hoped his son would grow up to be the epitome of masculinity like John Wayne was, a beacon of manhood. How wrong John Stanley Gacy was.

  7. Jun 17, 2024 · Gacy was born into a blue-collar family and seems to have had a fairly ordinary childhood. But he exhibited a growing tendency toward sadism, which resulted in several encounters with the law in the 1960s.

  8. John Wayne Gacy was born on March 17, 1942, in Chicago Illinois. According to the book Killer Clown, by Terry Sullivan and Peter Maiken, Gacy seemed to have a regular childhood with the exception of his turbulent relationship with his father, John Wayne Gacy Sr.

  9. Jul 3, 2019 · Gacy's Childhood Years. John Gacy was born on March 17, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois. He was the second of three children and the only son born to John Stanley Gacy and Marion Robinson. From age 4, Gacy was verbally and physically abused by his alcoholic father.

  10. Aug 10, 2021 · From Gacy's first sexual assault conviction to his eventual execution, here are the key moments from one of the most notorious murder sprees in U.S. history.

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