John Wayne Gacy was definitely a prime example of a clown that shouldn’t be trusted. By day, he dressed up as ‘‘Pogo the Clown’‘ and attended children’s parties, putting smiles on their faces. By night, he was abducting young boys, raping them, and burying their bodies in his crawl space. As predicted, the Killer Clown’s childhood was highly tumultuous. He was brought into this world on March 17, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois, the second of three children. While he was close to his mother and two sisters, John had a stormy relationship with his father, also named John Gacy, a raging alcoholic who was abusive toward his family. His father was known to mercilessly beat him over any misdemeanor, and sometimes beat him for no reason at all. The man regularly belittled his son, calling him a ‘’sissy’’, ‘’stupid’’, and saying he would ‘’probably grow up queer’’. Despite the abuse, John admired his father and strove to earn his approval. Another unfortunate incident happened to John. As a child, he was molested by a trusted family friend more than once, but he hid it from his father, afraid he would only be blamed for it and be severely punished. To add to his woes, John suffered from a heart condition as a kid, making overweight and unable to play sports. This caused him to become the brunt of bullying by neighborhood kids and classmates. Since the 4th grade, John was hospitalized frequently for his blackouts, and since doctors were unable to determine the cause, his father accused him of faking it. However, in later years, doctors finally discovered he had a brain clot. In his teenage years, John began experiencing homosexual urges and struggled with his sexual identity. He eventually dropped out of high school as he found it difficult to catch up with everything he missed while hospitalized.Â
Despite his volatile relationship with his father, when John Wayne Gacy received the unfortunate news that his father had died on Christmas Day by prison officials, he allegedly collapsed to the floor and sobbed uncontrollably.Â
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