John Wayne Gacy

I won't pretend to be a fan here, because there's nothing to be a fan of. Gacy is one of those names that turns my stomach: a man who hid behind block-party charm, contractor handshakes, and a painted clown face while doing unspeakable things to dozens of young men and boys in the 1970s. What's always stuck with me is how ordinary he looked to his neighbors, how the friendly "Pogo the Clown" routine became the most chilling detail of the whole case. I think the real weight of this story belongs to his victims and their families, not to him. So my honest take is simple: he's a grim, cautionary chapter in American crime history, the kind of figure you study to understand evil, never to admire.

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Name (English)

John Wayne Gacy

Name (Japanese)

ジョン・ゲイシー

Reading

じょん・げいしー

Born

March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Horse

Origin

Edgewater, New Jersey, United States

Height

174 cm

Occupation

clown / painter / serial killer

High school

Cooley Vocational High School

University

Northwestern College

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Wayne%20Gacy
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B2%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B7%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q298252

Tags

• New Jersey
• clown
• painter
• serial killer

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.