With Gacy having confessed to the crimes, the arguments were focused on whether he could be declared insane and thus remitted to a state mental facility. Gacy had told police that the murders had been committed by an alternate personality, while mental health professionals testified for both sides about Gacy's mental state.
After a short jury deliberation, Gacy was ultimately found guilty of committing 33 murders, and he became known as one of the most ruthless serial killers in U. He was sentenced to serve 12 death sentences and 21 natural life sentences. Gacy was imprisoned at the Menard Correctional Center in Illinois for almost a decade and a half, appealing the sentence and offering contradictory statements on the murders in interviews. Though he had confessed, Gacy later denied being guilty of the charges and had a telephone number set up with a minute recorded statement declaring his innocence.
As both anti-death penalty forces and those in favor of the execution made their opinions known, Gacy died by lethal injection on May 10, , at the Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill, Illinois. While imprisoned at the Menard Correctional Center, Gacy took up studying the visual arts, especially painting.
His paintings were shown to the public via an exhibition at a Chicago gallery. Eight other works went unsold. According to Dennehy, Gacy wrote a letter to him from prison, protesting his portrayal in the film and proclaiming his innocence. Gacy's house was located at W. Summerdale Ave. On several occasions, visitors and family members reported that the house had an unusual stench, which Gacy attributed to mold or rodents.
Others were buried in the backyard or dumped in the nearby Des Plaines River. In , with Gacy under arrest, the house was dismantled in an effort to find more evidence. The following year, the house and all structures on the property were demolished, and a new house was eventually built on the property. We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives.
British serial killer John Christie murdered at least six women, including his wife, before being arrested and hanged in In , they exhumed the remains of eight victims in the hopes of identifying them through DNA testing. On Monday, authorities identified the third of those eight people as Francis Wayne Alexander, a North Carolina native who moved with his family to New York State as a child and then to Chicago shortly before he disappeared.
That left the names of five victims still unknown. He stabs one victim. Other Gacy victims were also found stashed under the home, buried elsewhere on his property or in waterways south of Chicago.
He would have been 21 or 22 when Gacy killed him between and , Mr Dart's office said. Gacy was convicted of killing 33 young men between and and burying them on his property. He was executed in He often lured young men to his home for sex by pretending to be a police officer or promising them construction work. In reopening the investigation, Sheriff Dart asked families of youngsters who had vanished between and Gacy's arrest to submit saliva samples to compare DNA with the eight victims who were buried without being identified.
Months later, William George Bundy, a year-old construction worker, was identified as a Gacy victim. In , James Byron Haakenson - a missing teenager from Minnesota - was named as another victim. Alexander's sister, Carolyn Sanders, thanked the sheriff's office for giving the family "closure". He was killed at the hands of a vile and evil man," Ms Sanders said.
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