This week in 1994

“Kiss my ass.”

— John Wayne Gacy, convicted of rape and murder, lethal injection, Illinois.
Executed May 10, 1994

Gacy became one of the most notorious serial killers in U.S. history after his conviction for the murder of thirty-three boys, many of whom he sexually molested and strangled. He hid most of his victims under his house, and others were found nearby. To friends Gacy was “Pogo the Clown,” because he liked to entertain neighborhood children. The press labeled him “the Killer Clown.”