5.0 Case #2: John Wayne Gacy

Question 1

What is Gacy convicted of?

Answer 1

Murdering 33 young men and boys

Question 2

What is his Father’s name?

Answer 2

John Stanley Gacy

Question 3

What is his mother’s name?

Answer 3

Marion Elaine Robinson

Question 4

He struggled with health issues including

Answer 4

a heart condition

Question 5

T or F. He was often bullied.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

Where did he committed all his murders?

Answer 6

His ranch house

Question 7

Who’s often his target victims?

Answer 7

Young men and boys

Question 8

He had a total of ______ victims

Answer 8

33

Question 9

How many victims were buried in his crawl space?

Answer 9

26

Question 10

How many victims were buried in his crawl space or beneath their house

Answer 10

26

Question 11

By 1978, John Wayne Gacy had run out of space in his crawl space to conceal bodies, prompting him to dispose of his victims in the ________________ from a bridge of Interstate 55.

Answer 11

Des Plaines River

Question 12

Who’s disappearance led to a police search of Gacy’s Norwood Park house?

Answer 12

Robert Piest, 15 y.o.

Question 13

Breakthrough of the case?

Answer 13

Investigators discovered human remains buried in his space

Question 14

In the 1980s, his trial began. what is he mainly charged of?

Answer 14

Murder

Question 15

T or F. He was found guilty of committing 33 murders.

Answer 15

True

Question 16

He was executed on and by?

Answer 16

May 10, 1994 by Lethal Injection

Question 17

What forensic evidence played a crucial role in linking Gacy to the murders?

Answer 17

Dental records & human remains

Question 18

A nonprofit that uses genetic
information to locate relatives of dead people who have not been identified.

Answer 18

DNA Doe Project

Question 19

Bundy or Gacy. Who died first?

Answer 19

Bundy

Question 20

What is his alias? AKA?

Answer 20

Pogo the Clown. The Killer Clown.

Question 21

T or F. Gacy’s Father was alcoholic and abusive.

Answer 21

True

Question 22

T or F. As a child, Gacy is very weak and always sick.

Answer 22

True

Question 23

In 1968, he was first imprisoned for?

Answer 23

Sexual assault

Question 24

Who is his first victim?

Answer 24

Timothy Jack Mccoy

Question 25

Who was his last victim?

Answer 25

Robert Jerome Piest

Question 26

There’s a total of _____ unidentified victims.

Answer 26

5

Question 27

Who’s the recently identified victim?

Answer 27

Francis Wayne Alexander

Question 28

Where did his trial took place?

Answer 28

Cook County, Illinois

Question 29

T or F. Gacy’s father apologized to him and for everything he had done to him.

Answer 29

True

Question 30

Who’s the FBI Profiler in 1980 that suspected his involvement in multiple murders?

Answer 30

Robert Ressler