John Wayne Gacy

Dead

Born: 3/17/1942 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died: 5/10/1994
Age: 52
Cause of death: lethal injection

Full name: John Wayne Gacy Jr.
Noted For: serial killer and clown; confessed to killing 33 boys and young men ages 9-20 in Illinois between January 1972 and December 1978. Buried 28 victims in the crawlspace under his house. Found guilty (1980) and executed by lethal injection (1994).