BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)

39th year  -  N° 337                 Monday, 2 December 2024         Antwerpen		
Superficial Punctate Keratopathy
Serial killer
John Wayne Gacy
aka The Killer Clown


  • 17 March 1942 (+) is born in Chicago, United States.

  • 20 May 1968 (x) is sentenced for sodomy and sent to the Iowa Men Reformatory in Anamosa, United States.

  • 19 June 1970 (x) is paroled from the Iowa Men’s Reformatory where he was sent on a sodomy-conviction in Anamosa, United States.

  • 12 February 1971 (x) is arrested and charged with assault of a teenage boy in Chicago, United States.

  • 2 January 1972 (-) stabbed to death Timothy Jack McCoy in Chicago, United States.

  • 20 January 1977 (-) killed John Szyc in Chicago, United States.

  • 1 July 1972 (x) marries his second wife Carol Lofgren in Chicago, United States.

  • 31 July 1975 (-) abducted, assaulted and strangled John Butkovich in Chicago, United States.

  • 6 April 1976 (-) raped and strangled Darrell Samson in Chicago, United States.

  • 14 May 1976 (-) sexually assaulted and strangled Randall Reffett in Chicago, United States.

  • 14 May 1976 (-) sexually assaulted and strangled Samuel Stapleton in Chicago, United States.

  • 3 June 1976 (-) strangled Michael Bonnin in Chicago, United States.

  • 13 June 1976 (-) strangled William Carrol in Chicago, United States.

  • 11 December 1976 (-) strangled Gregory Godzik in Chicago, United States.

  • 15 March 1977 (-) strangled Jon Prestidge in Chicago, United States.

  • 5 July 1977 (-) murdered Matthew Bowman in Chicago, United States.

  • 15 September 1977 (-) murdered Robert Gilroy in Chicago, United States.

  • 25 September 1977 (-) murdered John Mowery in Chicago, United States.

  • 17 October 1977 (-) tortured and strangled Russell Nelson in Chicago, United States.

  • 10 November 1977 (-) strangled Robert Winch in Chicago, United States.

  • 18 November 1977 (-) strangled Tommy Boling in Chicago, United States.

  • 9 December 1977 (-) strangled David Talsma in Chicago, United States.

  • 30 December 1977 (x) raped and tortured Robert Donnelly in Chicago, United States.

  • 16 February 1978 (-) strangled William Kindred in Chicago, United States.

  • 22 March 1978 (x) raped, drugged, whipped and tortured Jeffrey Rignall in Chicago, United States.

  • 4 November 1978 (-) strangled Frank Landingin in Chicago, United States.

  • 11 December 1978 (-) murdered Robert Piest in Chicago, United States.

  • 22 December 1978 (x) Start of the excavations in the house of Gacy in Chicago, United States.

  • 22 December 1978 (x) is placed under arrest as a suspect in the abduction of Robert Piest in Chicago, United States.

  • 13 March 1980 (x) is sentenced to death for the murder of 33 boys in Chicago, United States.

  • 15 February 1983 (x) is stabbed once in the upper arm with a sharpened wire by Henry Brisbon aka The I-57 Killer in Chester, United States.

  • 10 May 1994 (-) is executed by lethal injection in Crest Hill, United States.


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