By the mid-1970s, John Wayne Gacy had carefully crafted the image of a friendly neighborhood businessman and community volunteer, even entertaining children as Pogo the Clown at hospitals, parades, and local parties. Behind closed doors at his Norwood Park Township home near Chicago, he lured teenage boys and young men with promises of construction jobs, money, or a place to stay, then assaulted and ended their life, often by strangulation. Over several years, he concealed dozens of bodies in th