John Wayne Gacy: References & Edit History

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: College of Southern Idaho Pressbooks Network - Uncovering Serial Killers - John Wayne Gacy “Killer Clown”. Sep 18, 2026
Anniversary information added. May 06, 2026
Anniversary information added. Mar 13, 2026
Add new Web site: CBS News - Chicago - CBS 2 Vault: John Wayne Gacy Speaks. Jan 16, 2026
Add new Web site: College of Southern Idaho Pressbooks Network - Uncovering Serial Killers - John Wayne Gacy “Killer Clown”. Nov 25, 2025
Revised the Top Questions section. Oct 16, 2025
Noted the release of the docuseries Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy. Oct 16, 2025
Added a cross-reference to an article on his artwork. Oct 10, 2025
Revised the Top Questions section. Oct 08, 2025
Media added. Oct 07, 2025
Article thoroughly revised. Sep 05, 2025
Questions and answers added. Feb 18, 2025
Add new Web site: Marquette Law Scholarly Commons - The Legal Legacy of John Wayne Gacy: The Irrebuttable Presumption that Juries Understand and Follow Jury Instructions (PDF). Oct 24, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Apr 26, 2024
Add new Web site: Scalar - Alliance for Networking Visual Culture - John Wayne Gacy: True Crime Background. Jan 04, 2024
Add new Web site: State University of New York at Oswego - The Chronological Dissection of Dissection of Pogo the Clown. Nov 17, 2023
Add new Web site: Rolling Stone - John Wayne Gacy: Inside Peacock�s New True-Crime Docuseries. Aug 23, 2022
Article revised and updated. Oct 31, 2019
Add new Web site: ThoughtCo. - John Wayne Gacy, the Killer Clown. Feb 20, 2018
Add new Web site: Crime Museum - Biography of John Wayne Gacy. Dec 18, 2017
Media added. Aug 30, 2017
Added new Web site: American Hauntings - Weird and Haunted Chicago - The Clown That Killed. Feb 28, 2007
Added new Web site: American Hauntings - Weird and Haunted Chicago - The Clown That Killed. Feb 28, 2007
Added new Web site: The Crime Library - John Wayne Gacy. Feb 28, 2007
Added new Web site: The Crime Library - John Wayne Gacy. Feb 28, 2007
New article added. Nov 02, 2006
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