This is Gacy, John Wayne Gacy jr.
John Wayne Gacy, Jr. was born in Chicago, Illinois, the second of three children, to John Wayne Gacy, Sr. (June 20, 1900 – December 25, 1969), a machinist, and Marion Elaine Robinson (May 4, 1908 – December 14, 1989). Cook County marriage records provide his mother’s name as Marion E. Robertson. He had a troubled relationship with his father, an alcoholic who was physically abusive and repeatedly called his son a “sissy”. He was close to his sisters and mother, who affectionately called him “Johnny”. When Gacy was 11, he was struck on the forehead by a swing. The resulting head trauma formed a blood clot in his brain that went unnoticed until he was 16, when he began to suffer blackouts. He was prescribed medication to dissolve the clot. He was later convicted and later executed for the rape and murder of 33 boys and young men between 1972 and his arrest in 1978, 27 of whom he buried in a crawl space under the floor of his house, while others were found in nearby rivers. He became notorious as the “Killer Clown” because of the many block parties he threw for his friends and neighbors, entertaining children in a clown suit and makeup, under the name of “Pogo the Clown”.
THOUGHT: Maybe this is why Bruce Nauman’s Clown Torture is in a permanent collection in Chicago?
