Wayne County Colleges

Wayne County Colleges

Wayne County Colleges

The case begins decades ago in Chicago, Illinois, after authorities find 28 young men, mostly teens buried in a crawl space, yard, and under a garage at the home of John Wayne Gacy in 1978. According to Biography.com, John Wayne Gacy was the son “of Danish and Polish parents, Gacy was a self-made building contractor and Democratic precinct captain in the Chicago suburbs in the 1970s. Well liked in his community, Gacy married twice and had two children.” Gacy was the only son and the second of three children born to John Stanley Gacy and Marion Elaine Robinson on March 17, 1942.

Yet, there was a very dark side to the hard working middle class husband and father of two who charmed his neighbors, his community and even co-workers. John Wayne Gacy worked part time as “Pogo the Clown” and he would entertain children at birthday and neighborhood block parties. He bought a home with the help of his mother after his second divorce. That house was located at 8213 W Summerdale Avenue, Norwood Park, Illinois, where Gacy would lure his victims, mostly teenage boys, including several runaways, under the guise of working for his construction company or for sex.