![]() During the early 1960’s, Gacy enrolled in a business college and developed a talent for salesmanship. Unhappy in Vegas, he returned to Chicago a few months later. While there, he worked part time as a janitor for Palm Mortuary. After attending four high schools during his senior year and never graduating, Gacy dropped out of school and left Chicago for Las Vegas. He suffered from blackouts until the age of 16, when a doctor diagnosed him with a blood clot on the brain and corrected the condition with medication. Lindecker, Gacy was struck in the head with a playground swing when he was 11 years old. According to the book The Man Who Killed Boys by Clifford L. The authors describe Gacy as deeply loving his father and wanting desperately to gain his approval and attention, but failing to win him over. The authors describe the father as an unpleasant, abusive alcoholic prone to physically and verbally assaulting his children. 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. He had two sisters, one two years older and the other two years younger. ![]() ![]() Gacy, a middle child, was born in Chicago in 1942 into a blue-collar family. ![]() Nor would his childhood in any particular way set off red flags that a monster was in the making. Not many people who knew him would have suspected that John Wayne Gacy, a respected member of the Junior Chamber of Commerce in Des Plaines, Ill, a performing clown at neighborhood children's parties, a precinct captain in the local Democratic party, and the owner of his own contracting business would come to be known as one of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. ![]()
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