Podcast 16: Genealogy of Serial Killers, Cult Leaders, Murderers, and Miscreants: John Wayne Gacy’s Adult Years
Supplemental and Source Materials
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Rossi Transcript
Rossi Transcript, which gives insight into Gacy's daily dealings
Family Tree
Family Tree
Genogram
Using genograms to help identify specific traits is a great way to identify strengths and weaknesses
Newspaper Articles About
Gacy's Murders
Newspaper Articles about Gacy's Murders, only touches the surface of the number of articles available
Early Adulthood Newspaper Articles
Articles about Gacy before his Murder Charge(s)
Sources, References and External Links
This has all the reference material compiled into one location.
References for Podcast 16
​​​"2 Charges in Beating Case," The Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Iowa, 10 September 1968, p. 4, column 4; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-des-moines-register-2-charges-in-bea/147885960/ : accessed 22 May 2024).
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"4 Slaying Victims found; 28 more are feared dead," Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Ill, 23 December 1978, p., 1 Column 3; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune/146313046/ : accessed 29 April 2024).
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"4 Slaying Victims found; 28 more are feared dead con't," Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Ill, 23 December 1978, p., 5 Column 1; imaged, Newspapers.com https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune/146313580/ : accessed 29 April 2024).
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"All appeals fail; Gacy is executed," Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Ill., 10 May 1994, p. 1, column 6; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-1994-may-10-gacy-execute/154714390/ : accessed 4 Sept. 2024).
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"Anamosa Reformatory Gets a Golf Course," The Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Iowa, 2 November 1969, p.91, columns 1-3; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-des-moines-register-anamosa-reformat/147880235/: accessed 22 May 2024).
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"Authorities hunt more bodies in Gacy home," The Courier, Waterloo, Iowa, 24 Dec 1978, p 1, columns 1-3; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-courier-1978-authorities-hunt-more-b/147875683/ : accessed 22 May 2024).
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​CBS. CBS 2 Vault: John Wayne Gacy Speaks, May 11 - 15, 1992. Archived. Video and audioclip. https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/cbs-2-vault-serial-killer-john-wayne-gacy-walter-jacobson-1992/ : 2024.
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Christopher Berry, Serial Killers: Up Close and Personal: Inside the world of Torturers, Psychopaths, and Mass Murderers (Berkeley, CA: Ulysses Press, 2007), pp 288 - 294; imaged, Google Books (https://books.google.com/books?id=R7wvl1xEXX4C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false : accessed 8 October 2024).
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“City Jaycees Name Gacy Man of the Year," Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Ill,29 April 1965, p45, column 4; imaged, GenealogyBank (https://www.genealogybank.com/nbshare/AC01210325033932249981716489042 : accessed 23 May 2024).
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​Colin McEvoy & Biography.com editors, "John Wayne Gacy," Biography.com (https://www.biography.com/crime/john-wayne-gacy#career-and-family-life : accessed 10 Oct 2024), updated 16 June 2023, full article.
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"Conscience Test uses Chair, Shock," Daily Independent Journal, San Rafael, California, 25 Oct 1963, p. 14, column 4 - 5; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-independent-journal-milgram-obedie/158453134/ : accessed 4 Nov 2024).
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Cook County Clerk Genealogy Records, "Cook County, Illinois Marriage Index, 1930 - 1960," database, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1500/ : accessed 24 April 2024), entry for John Gacy and Marion E. Robertson, 6 Jan. 1939, Marriage License 1590071, Cook,Illinois.
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"Dad beat Gacy, home life was stormy, mom says," The Capital Times, Madison, Wisconsin, 26 Feb 1980, p 4, column 1; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-capital-times-dad-beat-gacy-home-li/147873967/ : accessed 22 May 2024).
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​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."
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“Former acquaintances recall Gacy serial killer’s years in Waterloo,” Waterloo Courier, Waterloo, Iowa, 1 May 1994, p. 8, columns 1-5; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-courier-1994-gacy/156969094/ : accessed 11 October 2024).
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"Four Charges Against Gacy are Dismissed," The Courier, Waterloo, Iowa, 11 December 1968, p 8, column 2; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-courier-four-charges-against-gacy-ar/147884869/ : accessed 22 May 2024).
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"Gacy," The Courier, Waterloo, Iowa, 1 May 1994, p 8, columns 1-5; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-courier-indict-gacy-for-sodomy/147879850/: accessed 22 May 2024).
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"Gacy ex-employe: 'Why didn't he kill me?, '" Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, 24 December 1978, p. 10, columns1 -6; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-1978-gacy-why-didnt-he/156954775/ : accessed 11 Oct 2024).
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”Gacy’s faces: Nice neighbor, brutal rapist,” Evansville Press, Evansville, Indiana, 22 February 1980, p. 6 columns 1-2; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/evansville-press-1980-gacy-rignall-and-n/156967426/ : accessed 11 October 2024).
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"Gacy Honored by Jaycees," Illinois State Register, Springfield, Ill,11 May 1964, p3, column 4; imaged, GenealogyBank (https://www.genealogybank.com/nbshare/AC01210325033932249981716488768 : accessed 23 May 2024).
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"Gacy loses 3 appeals to block execution," The Pantagraph, 7 May 1994, p. 2, column 1; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-pantagraph-gacy-loses-3-appeals-to-b/158919525/ : accessed 12 Nov 2024).
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“Gacy Testimony," West Bend News, West Bend, Wisconsin, 27 February 1980, p 3, column 1; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/west-bend-news-1980-karen-gacy-kurma-si/147874538/ : accessed 11 October 2024).
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"Gruesome Hunt Finds 5 Bodies," Quad-City Times, Davenport, Iowa, 24 Dec 1978, p 3, columns 3-4; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/quad-city-times-1978-gruesome-hunt-finds/147876156/ : accessed 22 May 2024).
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"I'd like to erase it all': Gacy's Mom," Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Ill, 26 Feb 1980, p 1, column 3; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-id-like-to-erase-it-all/146311821/ : accessed 29 April 2024).
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"I'd like to erase it all': Gacy's Mom article con't," Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Ill, 26 Feb 1980, p 14, column 1; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-id-like-to-erase-it-all/146311973/ : accessed 29 April 2024).
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Identify 16th body in Gacy case, Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Ill., 13 April 1979, p 46, columns 1-2; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/386763863/ : accessed 4 Sept. 2024).
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Illinois, Court of Appeals Opinion, No. 64382, Justia US Law Database (https://law.justia.com/cases/illinois/supreme-court/1988/64382-7.html : accessed 18 Sept 2024), The People of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. John Wayne Gacy, Appellant. Opinion filed 29 Sept 1988. (fix this citation)
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"Indict Gacy for Sodomy," The Courier, Waterloo, Iowa, 12 May 1968, p 15, columns 2; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-courier-gacy/147883940/ : accessed 22 May 2024).
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"Jailed on Fifth Felony Charge," The Courier, Waterloo, Iowa, 12 Sep 1968, p 5, columns 3-4; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-courier-1968-jailed-on-fifth-felony/147878146/ : accessed 22 May 2024).
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"John Gacy, The artist," Quad-City Times, Davenport, Iowa, 10 August 1982, p1, columns 3 - 5; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/quad-city-times-john-gacy-the-artist/147877412/ : accessed 22 May 2024).
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"John Gacy Convicted of 33 Murder Charges," Springfield News-Sun, Springfield, Ohio, 13 March 1980, p. 8, columns1 -3; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/springfield-news-sun-1980-march-13-gacy/154713580/ : accessed 4 Sept 2024).
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"Male College Students Needed," The Peninsula Times Tribune, Palo Alto, California, 6 August 1971, p. 31, column 4; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-peninsula-times-tribune-stanford-pri/158447690/ : accessed 4 Nov 2024).
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"Man Arrested for Hiring Youth to Give Beating," The Muscatine Journal and News-Tribune, Muscatine, Iowa, 10 September 1968, p. 1, column 2; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-muscatine-journal-and-news-tribune-m/147885119/ : accessed 22 May 2024).
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"Marion Gacy," The Belleville News-Democrat, Belleville, Ill, 09 Dec 1989, p 12, column 5; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-belleville-news-democrat-1989-marion/146310564/ : accessed 29 April 2024).
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Michael A. Rossi, TR p.578, The people of the State of Illinois vs. John Wayne Gacy, 1 May 1980, Internet Archive (https://ia800709.us.archive.org/32/items/Gacy_trial/Rossi%20trial%20tty.pdf : accessed 15 June 2024), transcript of Michael A. Rossi's testimony, (Indictment Nos. 79-69 to 73, and 79-2378 to 79-2403).
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"Mrs. Carter, Gacy Posed for Picture," The Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Iowa, 22 January 1979, p.4, columns 1-3; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-des-moines-register-1979-mrs-carter/147876442/ : accessed 22 May 2024).
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"Now Gacy is accused mass killer," The Daily Chronicle, De Kalb, Illinois, 16 August 1979, p. 19, columns1 -5; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-chronicle-marlynn-myers-accoun/156890249/ : accessed 10 Oct 2024).
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“Sex-murder investigators discover 8 more bodies,” The Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Iowa, p. 8A, columns 1 – 5; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/131698097/?match=1&terms=piest%20worker%20pharmacy%20gacy : accessed 11 October 2024).
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Sex-Slaying Body Count Rises to 15, The Atlanta Consitution, Atlanta, G.A., 28 December 1978, p. 1, columns 1-4; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-atlanta-constitution-1978-image-gacy/154643391/: accessed 4 September 2024).
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"She knows a different Gacy: 7-year neighbor and friend," Des Moines Tribune, Des Moines, Iowa, 30 Dec 1978, p 12, columns 3-6; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/des-moines-tribune-she-knows-a-different/147875286/ : accessed 22 May 2024).
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"Stanford," Redlands Daily Facts, Redlands, California, 21 August 1971, p. 2, columns 6 -8; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/redlands-daily-facts-stanford-prison-exp/158445893// : accessed 4 Nov. 2024).
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"State Prison ombudsman defends Gacy's Parole," The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 7 March 1980, p.7, columns 1-2; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-1980-state-prison-ombudsman/147877004/ : accessed 22 May 2024).
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"The Clowns House of Horrors," Syracuse Herald Journal, Syracuse, New York, 16 Aug 1979, p.8, columns 1-2; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/syracuse-herald-journal-clowns-house-of/158863326/ : accessed 11 Nov 2024).
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​The Oprah Winfrey Show, “Growing Up with John Wayne Gacy,” Oprah.com (https://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/johny-wayne-gacys-sister-speaks-out/2 : accessed 11 October 2024), web pages 1 – 6.
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"U of C to study Gacy brain for clues in his behavior," Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Ill., 12 May 1994, p. 171, columns 3-6; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-1994-may-12-u-of-c-to-st/154715802/ : accessed 4 Sept 2024).
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"Waterloo Jaycees," The Courier, Waterloo, Iowa, 18 December 1967, p 8, column 2; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-courier-four-charges-against-gacy-ar/147884869/ : accessed 22 May 2024).
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