Among the very spookiest of U.S. serial murders was John Wayne Gacy of Chicago, who was found guilty of murdering 33 young men between 1972 and 1978. The remains of 28 of them were found under Gavy's home, and he admitted throwing the bodies of others into nearby rivers.
Rather like a villain in a Batman comic book, the pudgy Gacy, who owned his own construction company, liked to dress the part of Pogo the Clown and entertain sick children. His own depiction of his clown costume appears below.
He sometimes gained control of his victims by luring them to his house, purporting to show them a "magic trick" involving the use of handcuffs, then rendering them unconscious with chloroform. He would sexually abuse them and eventually torture them to death.
The people who knew Gacy had no idea he was such a sadistic monster. He was a cheerful giver to charities, an award-winning Jaycee and politically active, even managing to have his photo taken with President Jimmy Carter's wife Rosalyn.
Gacy was captured after one of his victims, whom he had allow to go free, recognized his car and tipped off police.
Gacy was executed in 1994 by lethal injection.
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