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Babwin, Don (October 17, 2011). "Sheriff: Solid leads in effort to ID Gacy victims". The Boston Globe . Retrieved October 26, 2011. The very idea that this man could have gotten away with an insanity defense and been out on the street again one day makes me shudder. Mr. Sullivan and the rest of the prosecution team proved their case as the last of the book shows.
When John Wayne Gacy was convicted in 1980, he had the dubious distinction of boasting the largest number of murder convictions for a single individual in United States history. Between 1972 and 1978, Gacy killed at least 33 men and young boys, burying the bodies of 26 of his victims in the crawlspace of his home in a Chicago suburb.
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NamUs - National Unidentified Persons Data System Case Report - 11006". Archived from the original on December 15, 2017 . Retrieved July 30, 2017. Donnelly reported the assault, and police questioned Gacy on January 6, 1978. Gacy admitted to having had a " slave-sex" relationship with Donnelly, but insisted everything was consensual, adding that he "didn't pay the kid" the money he had promised him. [126] The police believed him and filed no charges. [67] The following month, Gacy killed 19-year-old William Kindred, who disappeared on February 16 after telling his fiancée, who knew Gacy, [127] that he was going to a bar. [67] Kindred was the final victim buried in the crawl space. [54] [57]
Shortly thereafter, Gacy enrolled at Northwestern Business College, despite having failed to complete high school. He graduated in 1963 and took a management trainee position with the Nunn-Bush Shoe Company. [12] [16] In 1964, the company transferred him to Springfield, Illinois, to work as a salesman, and eventually promoted him to department manager. [8] In March of that year, he became engaged to Marlynn Myers, a co-worker. [16] On March 11, final arguments by both prosecution and defense attorneys began. Prosecuting attorney Terry Sullivan outlined Gacy's history of abusing youths, the testimony of his efforts to avoid detection and describing his surviving victims—Voorhees and Donnelly—as "living dead". Referring to Gacy as the "worst of all murderers", Sullivan stated, "John Gacy has accounted for more human devastation than many earthly catastrophes... I tremble when thinking about just how close he came to getting away with it all." [102] [167] Much of PDM's workforce consisted of high school students and young men. [59] Gacy would often proposition his workers for sex, or insist on sexual favors in return for lending his vehicles, financial assistance or promotions. [49] [60] Gacy also claimed to own guns, once telling an employee, "Do you know how easy it would be to get one of my guns and kill you—and how easy it would be to get rid of the body?" [61] Overall: 3 stars. A serious, no-frills account of the John Wayne Gacy case with a bit of a meandering chronological approach: could have used a bit more editing.
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Shortly before Christmas of 1978, a teenage boy disappeared from the drugstore where he worked. He would be the final victim of John Wayne Gacy's horrifying compulsion.
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