He was thirty-six when he was arrested he is fifty-two now.
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The part of the prison where Gacy is confined sits on a hill above the river, but he cannot see the river he has no windows in his cell. Chester is on the Mississippi River, about eighty-five miles southeast of St. Gacy lives on death row at the Menard Correctional Center, near Chester, Illinois. The hitchhiker said that he would exchange sex for money, but Gacy decided not to. On the way to the bridge with a body in the trunk, he once picked up a hitchhiker. He thought that one of the bodies might have landed on a barge. The last four bodies he dropped at night off a bridge above the Des Plaines River, about seventy-five miles south of Chicago. When no room was left in the crawl space, Gacy thought for a while about keeping corpses in his attic. In some of the graves, the bodies were buried on top of each other. The bodies in the crawl space were buried so close together that when the police dug up the first one they found the head of another at its feet. He buried one of the boys in his yard and another beneath the floor of his garage. He poured acid on some of the corpses and lime on others, then buried them in graves about a foot deep.
Sometimes he kept a boy’s corpse in his closet for a day before burying him. A few times, Gacy killed two boys in one night. Gacy discussed the job, and when he returned the boy was dead on the floor and had lost control of his bladder. The person on the other end of the line was a contractor calling about a job. When he left the room to answer it, the boy was still standing. Once, as he was turning the stick the phone rang. He tied three knots in the rope and inserted a stick between two of them, then tightened the noose by turning the stick. Saying that he was going to show them a trick, he persuaded them to allow him to loop a rope around their necks. Some were hustlers from an area of Chicago called Bughouse Square, some worked for Gacy, and some had run away from home to Chicago and encountered Gacy and agreed to service him for money. The boy from the bus station was stabbed, the others were strangled. Boys who seemed to feel bad about having had sex with him fell into the second category. He killed the ones who raised their prices after striking an agreement, and those who he thought might tell his neighbors how he obtained his sexual satisfaction.
Sometimes he only brought them to his house and took off his clothes and talked to them and gave them advice and drinks and something to eat. After Gacy was arrested, he said that he had paid a hundred and fifty boys for sex. A neighbor said that now and then she heard screams from the house in the middle of the night she called the police, but whenever they knocked on Gacy’s door he told them that nothing was wrong. All the murders took place in his house, nearly all between three and six in the morning. He says that twelve people-a cleaning woman, some friends, a bookkeeper, and some carpenters who worked for the small contracting company he owned-had keys to his house and could have buried bodies in the crawl space while he was travelling on business. When Gacy says that he knows nothing about the murders, it’s impossible to tell if he really has no memory of them or is just saying that he doesn’t. On occasion, he has said that the only crime he is guilty of was operating a cemetery without a license. Then he began saying that he knew nothing about any of the murders except one, that of a boy he brought home from a Greyhound bus station and had sex with, then killed after the boy attacked him with a knife from his kitchen. He told them more the next day and more on the day after that. On the night he was arrested, he gave the police an account of the murders his lawyers asked him not to, but he insisted. For the others, he was sentenced to death.
Twenty-one of the murders were committed before Illinois had enacted a death penalty, and for those Gacy was sentenced to twenty-one terms of life in prison. About many of the murders there was a suggestion of sexual torture. Twenty-seven of the bodies were buried in a crawl space beneath the house where Gacy lived, in a neighborhood out by O’Hare Airport. No one else in America has ever been convicted of killing so many people. The murders took place between 19, when he was caught and arrested. On March 12, 1980, he was convicted in Chicago of killing thirty-three boys. John Wayne Gacy is obsessively fond of defending his innocence, which is imaginary. He says, “I didn’t know how to think like a con it wasn’t part of my nature.” A snapshot taken of Gacy on death row in Illinois.
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