Did Jeffrey Dahmer ever meet John Wayne Gacy?
JEFFREY Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy both murdered young men and boys in the 70s and were in prison at the same time.
Both serial killers infamously murdered and raped young men, so is it possible they met?
Did Jeffrey Dahmer ever meet John Wayne Gacy?
Born on March 17, 1942, John Wayne Gacy began his crime spree with a string of sexual assaults and was convicted in 1968.
He would lure his victims in with the promise of construction work.
When he was released from prison in 1970, Gacy faced multiple sexual assault allegations, until eight years later when 15-year-old Robert Piest went missing.
Police were led to the home of Gacy, who was known as The Killer Clown, ten days later and uncovered evidence of many more murders, spanning back to 1972.
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Gacy was arrested in 1978 - the same year Jeffrey Dahmer, the Milwaukee Cannibal, killed his first victim, Steven Hicks.
Gacy was sentenced to death on March 13, 1980.
While Gacy was serving his sentence on death row in Menard Correctional Center in Illinois, Dahmer was murdering more victims in Wisconsin until his capture in 1991.
began his prison sentence in Wisconsin in 1992, while Gacy was still on death row.
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Gacy was finally executed on May 10, 1994. At the time was incarcerated at Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin.
While Gacy killed his victims at his home in Chicago, Illinois, Dahmer's murders mainly took place in Milwaukee.
The two never met.
Is John Wayne Gacy in Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer story?
does appear in the hit Netflix series, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, in the final episode of the season.
Gacy's character is depicted drugging and killing one of his victims in 1977, and Dahmer, played by Evan Peters, is portrayed watching a Gacy prison interview on TV.
The Monster episode also shows character discussing Gacy with a prison minister and explaining how they are similar in many ways.
The last time Gacy's character is seen on the show is when his execution is portrayed.
Who was John Wayne Gacy?
John Wayne Gacy was found guilty of 33 murders in Cook County, Illinois, from 1972 to his arrest in December 1978.
Gacy was born in 1942, in Chicago, Illinois and had an abusive upbringing under his alcoholic father's care.
According to , Gacy was the son of Danish and Polish parents.
Gacy and his siblings grew up with an alcoholic father who would beat the children with a razor strap if they were perceived to have misbehaved.
Biography.com claims that the father physically assaulted Gacy's mother as well.
His first known murder was that of 16-year-old Timothy McCoy, and most of Gacy's victims were found buried in crawlspace underneath his house, or discovered in the nearby river, Des Plaines.
The serial killer would disguise himself in a clown costume when he committed his brutal crimes, leading to the infamous nickname, The Killer Clown.
He even worked as a clown prior to his crimes and was reported telling people that "clowns can get away with anything. Clowns can get away with murder".
Gacy was sentenced to death on March 13, 1980 ,and executed by lethal injection at Stateville Correctional Centre on May 10, 1994.
His last words were televised and he said: "Kiss my ass."
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Cook County authorities have since used DNA evidence to identify the eight unknown victims whose bodies were found in 1987.
In 2017, one of those men, “Victim No. 24,” was identified as 16-year-old James "Jimmie" Byron Haakenson.