Links

 

Link to CNN Article Regarding Serial Killers

 

Homicidal Triad from Psychology Today

 

References

​

1900 United States Federal Census, database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7602/: accessed 26 April 2024, entry for Nicodem Gaka, Chicago, Illinois.

​

1910 United States Federal Census, database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7884/: accessed 26 April 2024, entry for Veronica Gaca, Chicago, Illinois.

​

1920 United States Federal Census, database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/6061/: accessed 26 April 2024, entry for Veronica Gacia, Chicago, Illinois.

​

1930 United States Federal Census, database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/6224/: accessed 26 April 2024, entry for Veronica Gaka, Chicago, Illinois.

​

1940 United States Federal Census, database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2442/: accessed 26 April 2024, entry for Veronica Gaca, Chicago, Illinois.

​

Another Gary Still Unearthed, The Lake County Times, Hammond, In, 9 Jun 1921 p. 11 column 2; imaged, GenealogyBank (https://www.genealogybank.com/nbshare/AC01210325033932249981718827624 : accessed 19 June 2024).

​

Ardrea, M, “The Societies of St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish, Chicago,” Polish American Studies 9, no. 1/2 (1952): 27–37; digital image, JSTOR (http://www.jstor.org/stable/20147284 : accessed 17 June 2024).

​​

Chicago Historical Society, Encyclopedia of Chicago, database with images, (https://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/10605.html : accessed 12 May 2024), Chicago Historical Society Identifier ICHi-31337, "Rand McNally & Co. Map of Chicago, 1886."

​

Cook County Clerk Genealogy Records, "Cook County, Illinois, US Marriage Index, 1860 - 1920," database, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/311569:60984?ssrc=pt&tid=197318855&pid=352584184531 : accessed 25 April 2024), entry for Nikodem Gatza and Veronika Jagodzinska,25 Jan 1893,Cook, Illinois.

​​

Duke University Press, “About the Journal,” Demography, e-journal (https://read.dukeupress.edu/demography/pages/About : Accessed 13 May 2024), website introduction to the journal.

​

"Edward Gacy Obituary,"  Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Ill, 27 Feb 1964, p 98, column 7; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune/146119350/: accessed 26 April 2024).

​

Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI Records: The Vault, database with images (https://vault.fbi.gov/John%20Wayne%20Gacy/John%20Wayne%20Gacy%20Part%201%20of%201/view : accessed 19 June 2024) database entry for Federal Bureau of Investigation , File Number 62-5154, "Subject: John Wayne Gacy."

​

Find A Grave, database (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 19 June 2024), memorial page 242651399, Nikodem Gaca (1868–Jul 1905), created by Garrett; citing Saint Adalbert Catholic Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, USA. No image posted.

​

Find A Grave, database (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 29 April 2024), memorial page 253165826, Veronica Gaca (unk–1948), created by Prof. Klimczak; citing Saint Adalbert Catholic Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, USA. No image posted.

 

"Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871-1968", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7X2-12G : Sun Mar 10 2024), Entry for Nekodem Gatza and Veronika Jagodyenska, 1893.

​

"Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N3C4-LZB : 9 Mar 2024), Entry for Leo Gacy, 5 March 1931.

​​

Institute for Justice, (ij.org/issues/school-choice/blaine-amendments/: accessed 17 June 2024), “Blaine Amendments.”

​

Julie Byrne, “Roman Catholics and Immigration in Nineteenth-Century America,” at Department of Religion, Duke University, Teacher Serve, National Humanities Center (https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo/nromcath.htm : accessed 18 June 2024).

​

Leo Gacy, "Illinois, U.S. Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916 - 1947," Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 29 April 2024) entry originally from FamilySearch, Salt Lake City Utah, 2010 who copied and indexed the original records.

​

"Listy Polski na poczcie,"  Dziennik Chicagoski, Chicago, Ill, 30 March 1897, p 2, column 5; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/dziennik-chicagoski-polish-letters-at-po/146115272/ : accessed 26 April 2024).

​

"The Parish that Moved an Expressway - St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish," (https://ststanschurch.org/history accessed May 18, 2024), “The History of St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish.”

​

"Parish of the Poles," The Inter Ocean, Chicago, Ill, 11 June 1899, p. 28, columns 1-3; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-inter-ocean-1899-parish-of-the-poles/149519407/ : accessed 17 June 2024).

​

Polish Genealogical Society of America, “Death Records – Dziennik Chicagoski Death Notices 1930 – 1970,” indexed information for Weronika Gaca (d. 22 July 1948), (https://pgsa.org/people-death/30856/?surname=Gaca&first_name=&type=match-first&results-start=0 accessed 19 June 2024.)

​

St. Stanislaus Kostka (Chicago, Illinois), “Registrum Baptizatorum in Ecclesia”[Church Baptism Records], original page 49, Entry for Joannem Gatza Or Gaca and Nicodemus Gatza or Gaca, 21 Jun 1900; imaged, "Illinois, Chicago, Catholic Church Records, 1833-1925,” FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2YM-XB26 : accessed 8 May 2024), image 54 of 159, FSL microfilm 1577899.

​

St. Stanislaus Kostka, Religious Marriage Records 1892 - 1893, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-D1P9-59L : accessed May 6, 2024), image 130 of 201; Catholic Church. St. Stanislaus Kostka (Chicago, Illinois).

​​​

U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 (Chicago, Illinois, City Directory, 1897), Nikodem Gaca, database with images, Ancestry, (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2469/ : accessed 26 April 2024), image 381 of 656.

​

U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 (Chicago, Illinois, City Directory, 1900), Nikodemus Gaca, database with images, Ancestry, (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2469/ : accessed 26 April 2024), image 353 of 659.

​

"Veronica Gacy Obituary,"  Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Ill, 25 July 1948, p 32, column 3; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-obituary-veronica-gacy/146117497/: accessed 26 April 2024).

​

Vincent Hoyer, “A Divided City? The entertainment and pleasure culture in Posen around 1900,” at Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, (https://www.copernico.eu/en/articles/divided-city-entertainment-and-pleasure-culture-posen-around-1900: published 31 March 2023,  accessed 10 May 2024).

 

Walter Nugent, The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago, (https://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/962.html: accessed 13 May 2024), "Demography: Chicago as a Modern World City."

​

​

Sources – Baptisms

​

"St. Stanislaus Kostka, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States Records," images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-675S-3QN : May 6, 2024), image 104 of 160; Entry for Rosalia Gacy, Catholic Church. St. Stanislaus Kostka (Chicago, Illinois).

 

St. Stanislaus Kostka, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States Records, images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-DHQF-DM : May 18, 2024), image 63 of 196; Entry for Agnes Gacy, Catholic Church. St. Stanislaus Kostka (Chicago, Illinois).

 

"St. Stanislaus Kostka, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States Records," images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-67J7-6Y4 : May 18, 2024), image 109 of 132; Entry for Edward Gacy, Catholic Church. St. Stanislaus Kostka (Chicago, Illinois).

 

St. Stanislaus Kostka, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States Records, images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-67J7-XT5 : May 18, 2024), image 113 of 132; Entry for Wladystawa Gacy, Catholic Church. St. Stanislaus Kostka (Chicago, Illinois).

 

St. Stanislaus Kostka (Chicago, Illinois), “Registrum Baptizatorum in Ecclesia”[Church Baptism Records], original page 49, Entry for Joannem Gatza Or Gaca and Nicodemus Gatza or Gaca, 21 Jun 1900; imaged, "Illinois, Chicago, Catholic Church Records, 1833-1925,” FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2YM-XB26 : accessed 8 May 2024), image 54 of 159, FSL microfilm 1577899.

 

"St. Stanislaus Kostka, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States Records," images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-675S-3QN : May 6, 2024), image 104 of 160; Leon Gacy, Catholic Church. St. Stanislaus Kostka (Chicago, Illinois).

 

"St. Stanislaus Kostka, Baptism Records 1896 - 1898", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-67J7-KJQ : Accessed May 6, 2024), image 64 of 292; Entry for Apolloniam Gacy, Catholic Church. St. Stanislaus Kostka (Chicago, Illinois).

 

St. Stanislaus Kostka (Chicago, Illinois), “Registrum Baptizatorum in Ecclesia”[Church Baptism Records], original page 49, Entry for Joannem Gatza Or Gaca and Nicodemus Gatza or Gaca, 21 Jun 1900; imaged, "Illinois, Chicago, Catholic Church Records, 1833-1925,” FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2YM-XB26 : accessed 8 May 2024), image 54 of 159, FSL microfilm 1577899.