In an interview with him in the 1990s, Gacy said that he felt "exhausted" after killing mccoy, but at the same time he said that he was extremely excited when killing mccoy. He said, "at that time, I realized that death can bring me the greatest pleasure." .
Gacy's second murder occurred in 1974+0. The victim was an unidentified teenager with brown skin and curly hair, aged between 15 and 17. He was strangled by Gacy. Before the body was buried, Gacy put it in the closet. Gacy later claimed that when the body was hidden in the closet, liquid from his nose and mouth stained his carpet. Therefore, in future crimes, he usually puts a piece of cloth or the victim's underwear into their mouths to avoid the same thing. The unknown victim was buried about 15 feet from the barbecue grill in Gacy's backyard.
By 1975, Gacy's career has made great progress. He started working 12 or even 16 hours a day to finish the contract he signed. Most of his employees are middle school students or young people. One of them is Tony Antonucci, 15 years old. He became an employee of Gacy on May 1975. In July of that year, Gacy came to the boy's house. Antonucci hurt his foot at work the day before, and rested alone at home. Gacy drank a lot of his wine, then knocked him to the ground and handcuffed the boy behind him. The handcuffs on Antonucci's right wrist were a little loose. After Gacy left the room, the boy took them off his right hand. When Gacy came back, Antonucci hit him in the face, threw him to the ground and handcuffed him. Gacy cursed the boy loudly and threatened him, but then calmed down and promised that if he opened the handcuffs, he would leave Antonucci's house immediately. The boy agreed and Gacy left at once.
One week after this incident, on July 29th, 1975, another employee of Gacy, John Butkovic, aged 17, disappeared mysteriously. The day before he disappeared, Butkovic threatened Gacy because he was two weeks behind on his salary. Afterwards, Gacy admitted that Butkovitch was lured to his home and strangled on the grounds of settling his salary. At that time, Gacy's wife and stepdaughter were not at home. They went to Arkansas to visit his sister. Gacy hid the body under the cement in the garage.
Butkovic's car was later abandoned in a parking lot. Butkovic's father called Gacy, who said he was happy to help, but it was a pity that Butkovic "ran away from home". Regarding Butkovic's disappearance, the police also summoned Gasi. Gasi said that Butkovic and his two friends had been to his house because of the salary problem, but they had left after solving the salary problem. Since then, Butkovic's parents have reported to the police more than 100 times, hoping that the police will continue to investigate in depth.
Eight months later, Gacy divorced his second wife. Because the house was owned by him after the divorce, he began to kill people. 1976 From May to August, Gacy killed at least eight young men, two of whom could not be identified. Seven people were buried under the floor. Four of them were buried under the laundry room (and a teenager was killed after Gacy was buried under the laundry room). One of them was buried under the floor of Gai Western Restaurant. Six of the eight young people killed during this period have been identified, and their ages are between 14 and 18. The other two unidentified teenagers are between 15 and 19 years old, and between 22 and 30 years old.
1On July 26th, 976, Gacy hired David Cram, who was 18 years old. On August 2 1 day of the same year, Cramer moved to live with Gacy. The next day, Cramer was drunk. Gacy tricked Cramer into putting on handcuffs, and then told Cramer to rape him. Cramer spent a year in the army and kicked Gacy to the ground. A month later, Gacy appeared in Cram's bedroom and still tried to rape Cram. Gacy said, "David, you don't know who I am. You better give me what I want. Cramer refused Gacy, and Gacy left his bedroom. Cramer then moved out of Gacy's home and resigned from his job in Gacy Company. On June1978 65438+February1Kloc-0/,Gacy came to Des prance Pharmacy to discuss with the owner Phil Torf. When the shopkeeper was discussing a potential transaction, Robert Jerome Piest, a 5-year-old employee of/kloc-0, overheard their conversation and learned that Gacy's company hired teenagers.
After Gacy left, Piest told his mother that "a contractor wants to discuss a job with me". Piester left home and said that he would come back soon. But then he disappeared. Piest's parents reported the disappearance of their son to the local police station. The drugstore owner mentioned that Gacy was a contractor, and Piest was most likely to discuss his work with him.
When the police investigated Gacy, Gacy refused to admit talking to Piester and lied that he would go to the police station to prove his innocence later because of his uncle's death. At 3: 30 the next morning, Gacy came to the police station covered in mud and claimed that she had an accident. That day, he refused to admit that he had something to do with Piest's disappearance and that he would be offered a job.
But Des prance police are convinced that Gacy and Piest's disappearance must have something to do with it. An investigation of his records showed that he had a criminal record in Chicago and was sentenced to prison for raping teenagers. After applying for a search warrant, the police searched his house and found some suspicious items: a middle school student ring engraved with 1975 JAS, different driver's licenses, handcuffs, books about gay men, clothes too small for Gacy and receipts from the pharmacy where Piest worked. The police decided to confiscate Gacy's Oldsmobile and other companies' motor vehicles, and sent two groups of two-person investigation teams to follow Gacy.
The next day, investigators received a phone call from Michael Rossi and learned that the bodies of Gregory Gozke and Charles Hattula (another employee of Gacy) were found in a Chicago river a year ago.
1978 12 15, Des Plaine conducted a more in-depth investigation on Geysey's criminal record and learned that Jeffrey Rignall had reported that Geysey had lured him into his car and was abused and raped by him. In a conversation with Gacy's ex-wife, the police learned of John Butkovich's disappearance. At the same time, the ring found in Gacy's home was also proved to be the ring of the missing male student John A. Szyc. At the same time, the investigators also noticed that an employee of Gacy was driving a car similar to Szyc. The investigation of this car proves that it used to belong to Szyc.
1978 12 17, the police held a formal meeting with Michael Rossi and learned that Gacy sold Szyc's car to him, because the latter indicated that Szyc needed money to move to California. At the same time, in the investigation of Oldsmobile in Gacy, the police found a handful of fibrous tissue that may be human hair. These fibers were sent for inspection. That night, the police used three well-trained police dogs to investigate whether Piester had ever appeared in Gacy's car. One of the police dogs was lying in the passenger seat of Gacy Oldsmobile, suggesting that the body of police Piest appeared here.
19781978 On February 20th, Gacy drove to his lawyer Amirante. At the destination, he asked the other party to give him a bottle of wine. On the way back, Amirante asked him how the investigation was going. Pointing to a copy of the Daily Herald, he told his lawyer, "This boy is dead. He is in the river. In the last few hours of free time, Gacy knew that his arrest was inevitable. He tried to visit his friends and say goodbye. After leaving the lawyer's office, he drove to the gas station, refueled his rented car and handed Lance Jacobson a bag of marijuana. Jacobson gave the marijuana to the police and told them that Gacy told him, "My time has come, and these people will come to kill me. ".Then, Gacy drove to the home of his colleague Ronald Rhode. There, he hugged his friend and wept bitterly: "I killed thirty people." Then he drove to find Michael Rossi and David Cramer. When he was driving, the police noticed that he was holding a rosary and praying while driving.
The next day, the police got a second search warrant. Considering Gacy's abnormal behavior before, the police were worried that Gacy would commit suicide, so they arrested him for illegally hiding and distributing marijuana.
The police found a large number of bodies in Gacy's house. 1978 On February 22nd, Gacy admitted to the police that he had killed about 25 teenagers, runaways and prostitutes since 1972. Most people were lured or kidnapped by him from Chicago bus stops or streets through work, money or violence. After being told that the police had found a body in his underground pipe space and that he would face murder charges, Gacy told the police that he wanted to "purify the air" and said that after spending the night on the sofa in the lawyer's office, he understood that arrest was inevitable.
In the early morning of June 22nd, 1978, 165438+, Gacy surrendered himself to the police. He admitted that until June 1972, he had killed about 25-30 people. Most of these people are fugitives or male prostitutes, who were found by Gacy from Chicago station or street and lured home. He either promised to work and pay these people, or kidnapped them by violence.
Once returned to Gacy's home, the victim will be handcuffed or tied in other ways, and will be gagged with a rope when sexually assaulted. Gacy often puts cloth in victims' mouths to stop them from screaming. Many victims were strangled by tourniquets. Gacy called it the rope trick. Sometimes, the victim will have a spasm for an hour or two after being strangled by a rope. After the police found two bodies bound by Gacy, they asked Gacy why he did it. He said he was inspired by reading about the Houston Massacre. Victims are usually lured to their own homes alone, but there have been three cases of what Gacy called "double arrest", that is, killing two victims at the same time in one night.
Most of the victims were abandoned in the underground passage of Gacy's house. He regularly pours quicklime to promote the decomposition of the body. Gacy said that he didn't know how many victims were buried there, and the five victims of 1978 were all thrown into the Des prance River from the I-55 bridge because his underground space was full of bodies. When asked about ·P(Robert P, Gacy confessed to strangling the young man, adding that he was interrupted by a colleague's phone call. He also admitted that P's body was thrown into the Des prance River, and said that when he finished disposing of the body and hurried to meet an official in Des prance, a minor traffic accident happened, so he came to the local police station in the early hours of 65438+65438+February+March. He also admitted that he buried John Butkovic's body in his garage. Gacy drew a schematic diagram of the basement to help the police search for buried bodies. 1978 On February 22nd, accompanied by the police, Gacy returned to her home and pointed out to the police where Butkovic's body was hidden in the garage. After that, the police drove to I-55 Bridge, where Gacy abandoned Piester and four other victims. 197812 from 22nd to 29th, * * * found 27 bodies in Geysey's house. Among them, 26 bodies were found in the underground space, and 1 body of John Butkovic was found under the concrete floor of the garage. Due to the heavy snowfall in winter in Chicago, the excavation work was temporarily postponed to June 1979 and resumed in March, although Gacy insisted that all the bodies of the victims buried in the house had been found.
1978 On March 9th, the body of the 28th victim was found in a pit near the barbecue grill in the backyard, packed in several plastic bags. There is a ring on the ring finger of his left hand, which indicates that he may be married. A week later, on March 16, another victim's body was found buried under the dining room floor, bringing the total number of bodies in Gaixi's room to 29. A month later, Gacy's house was demolished.
From June 1978 to February 18, three other bodies were found in Desplance River, and they were also confirmed to be victims of Gacy.
When some bodies were found, the rope that strangled them was still tied around their necks. In other cases, the cloth stuck from the mouth to the depth of the victim's throat. The investigation shows that some victims died of suffocation, not suffocation. In some cases, some items, such as prescription bottles, were found in the victim's pelvic area, which indicates that these items were stuffed from the anus. PDM Manufacturing Company contacted some victims with Gacy, while others were identified because their personal belongings were found in San Modahl 82 13. 17 years old 17 years old, Michael Bonin, who disappeared on the road from Chicago to Wauke on June 3, 1976, was identified as a victim because his fishing license was found in Gacy's home; Another young man, Tim Rourk, talked about getting a job from a contractor before he disappeared. The youngest victims of Gacy are Samuel Stapleton and Michael marino, both of whom are only 14 years old. The oldest are Russell Nelson and James Ma· Sarah, both of whom are 265,438+0. So far, the identities of the seven victims have not been confirmed.
19 On April 9th, 1979, the body of Robert P was found on the banks of Des prance. The autopsy report showed that his throat was stuffed with paper materials before he died. 1On February 6th, 980, Gacy was brought to the trial court and charged with 33 counts of murder.
One year before the trial, at the request of his defense lawyer, Gacy spent more than 300 hours in Meinard Correctional Center, undergoing various psychological tests to determine whether he was mentally capable of being tried. Gacy tried to convince doctors that she had multiple personality disorders. His lawyer tried to prove his innocence on the grounds of his insanity, and invited some psychiatrists who had studied Gacy to testify. Three psychiatrists attended the trial and testified that Gacy was a paranoid schizophrenic and a patient with multiple personality disorders.
The prosecution believes that Gasi is rational and can completely control his behavior. The prosecution invited several witnesses to testify that Gacy had established plans and behaviors to avoid the investigation, and even called the doctor to defend herself that she had multiple personality and mental disorders. Two witnesses, both employees of PDM, said Gacy forced them to dig tunnels in their underground space. One of the employees, Michael Rossi, testified that in August 1977, Gacy marked a position in the underground passage space with a stick and asked him to dig a drainage ditch.
When asked about his excavation in underground space, the court showed a schematic diagram of Gacy's house. The picture shows that the body was found in the underground space and other parts of the house, and the location of an unidentified victim named "Body 13" was marked. Rossi said that he did not dig any other ditches, but supervised other PDM employees to continue digging in underground space according to Gacy's requirements.
Rossi also testified that Gacy would regularly check the underground passage to ensure that the employees' excavation did not deviate from the position marked by him. After his arrest, Gasi said that he only dug the graves of five victims. Later, he asked his employees (including Gregory Gotz) to continue digging so that he "had enough graves".
In the third week of the trial, Gacy's defense team raised the possibility that all 33 murders were accidental suffocation due to pornography. Cook County Coroner retorted that there was evidence that this statement was impossible.
1980 On February 29th, a young man who was sexually assaulted by Gacy in 1967 testified that he had been brutally treated by Gacy, and was later attacked by a young man hired by Gacy with spray and mace to prevent him from testifying in court. The young man tried to explain the problem briefly, but he failed to testify before being invited to the witness box.
Robert donnelly testified a week after appearing in court in forsyth that he was abused twice by Garcy in 1977 and 12. When donnelly recalled Gacy's atrocities, he obviously showed anxiety and nearly collapsed several times. While testifying, Gacy repeatedly laughed at the price paid by donnelly, but the young man finished his testimony. Robert Motta, one of Gassie's defense lawyers, tried to discredit his testimony by questioning him during his testimony in donnelly, but donnelly did not waver.
In the fifth week of the trial, Gacy wrote a personal letter to Judge Gallup, demanding that the trial be declared invalid, and gave several reasons, including that he disagreed with the lawyer's defense about insanity, his lawyer did not allow him to take the witness position, there were not enough witnesses in his defense, and the police lied about the statement made by the detective after his arrest to serve themselves. Judge Gallup replied that according to the law, Gacy has the right to testify after indicating his wishes to the judge.
On March 1980, 1 1, the final debate between the lawyers of the prosecution and the defense began. Terry Sullivan, the prosecutor, first asked for an overview of Gacy's history of abusing teenagers. He tried to avoid being discovered and called the surviving victims-Foces and donnelly-"the living dead".
After four hours' presentation, lawyers Sam Amirant and Robert Motta began to defend Gasi. Motta and Amilante objected to the doctor's testimony provided by the prosecution, trying to portray Gasi as a "person driven by uncontrollable impulses". In order to support this statement, the defense lawyer quoted the testimony of the defense doctor many times and said that he would study the psychological motivation of Gacy's behavior.
After the defense of Amirant and Motta, William Konko testified for the prosecution again. Quink called the insanity theory put forward by the defense "false" and put forward the facts that can prove Gassie's logical thinking ability and behavior control ability. Kunko also mentioned the testimony of a doctor who examined Gacy in 1968. The doctor diagnosed Gacy as an antisocial personality and could commit a crime without remorse. Kunko said that if the doctor's advice was taken seriously, Gasi would not be released. At the end of the presentation, Kunko showed photos of 22 victims and asked the jury not to sympathize with Gasi, but to "uphold justice". Kunko also asked the jury, "Just as Gacy sympathized with these lost lives, you should sympathize with him", and then threw the photos on the trap door of the underpass as evidence at the trial site. After Kunko finished his testimony, the jury retired to consider the verdict.
The jury deliberated for more than an hour, and found Gassie guilty of 33 murders, sexual assault and child molestation. The next day, both the prosecution and the defense presented a verdict to the jury: the prosecution demanded the death penalty, which was based on1Illinois law that came into effect in June 1977; The defense demands life imprisonment.
After more than two hours of deliberation, the jury sentenced Gacy to death. 1On the morning of May 9, 994, Gacy was transferred from Meinard Correctional Center to Stateville Correctional Center for execution. In the afternoon, he was allowed to have a picnic with his family in prison. That night, he witnessed the prayer of a Catholic priest, and was later escorted to the execution room in Stavel, ready to be executed by lethal injection.
Before the execution began, the chemicals used for injection solidified unexpectedly, blocking the needle tube, making the execution procedure quite troublesome. After closing the blinds to avoid onlookers, the executive team replaced the blocked needle tube. 10 minutes later, the shutter reopened and the execution was completed. The whole process takes 18 minutes. The executive doctor blamed this on the inexperience of prison officials, and pointed out that if the execution procedure was correct, this kind of trouble would not happen. Obviously, this mistake led Illinois to look for an alternative way to inject poisonous needles. On this issue, William Kunko, a supervisor of Gacy, said, "He is still more likely to die than any of his victims. In my opinion, he should have died more painfully, but more importantly, he paid the price with his life for the crime. 」
According to the published report, Gacy has been diagnosed as a mental patient, and he has not expressed any remorse for his crime. In his final statement, he said that sentencing him to death could not make up for the losses of others, and thought that the sentence was actually aimed at his murder. It is reported that his last sentence was just "kiss my ass".
The onlookers of the death penalty are estimated to be above 1000 and gathered around the correction center. Most of them claimed to be in favor of the death penalty, although demonstrators who opposed the death penalty also appeared on the scene. Some people who support the death penalty wear T-shirts with the clown image that Gacy once used in community service, with the slogan "Don't cry for clowns" printed on them, while anti-death penalty protesters just hold candlelight vigils in silence. 1May, 994/morning of kloc-0/0/2: 58. After Gacy was confirmed dead, his brain was taken out. This is the suggestion of Dr. Helen Morrison. She interviewed Gassie and other serial killers, hoping to find out the similarities and differences of violent antisocial personality. After gassie was executed, no abnormality was found in brain examination.