American clowns

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 51. Chapters: Slim Pickens, John Wayne Gacy, Bob Keeshan, Emmett Kelly, Red Skelton, Bozo the Clown, Wavy Gravy, J. P. Patches, Patch Adams, Lou Jacobs, Ronald McDonald, Glen Little, Emmett Kelly, Jr., Otto Griebling, Roy Brown, Bill Irwin, Andy the Clown, Dan Rice, Courtney Ryley Cooper, Bill Ballantine, Bello Nock, Charles Kraus, Larry Harmon, Marshall Brodien, Avner the Eccentric, Tommy the Clown, Ed Alberian, Michelle Matlock, Terry Teene, Alex the Jester, Max Patkin, David Shiner, Myron Noodleman, Jeff Raz, Ed Birchall, Jango Edwards, Quail Dobbs, Clarabell the Clown, Russell Scott, Jean Baptiste Casmiere Breschard, Steve Smith, Felix Adler, Rob Mermin, Greg and Karen DeSanto, Zachary "Skeeter" Reece, Mark Stolzenberg, George Carl, Barry Lubin, Frank Wiziarde, The Banana Man, Sandy Landsman, Bobo Barnett, Robert Edmund Sherwood, Gordoon, Cliffy the Clown. Excerpt: John Wayne Gacy, Jr. (March 17, 1942 - May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer also known as the Killer Clown who raped and murdered 33 teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978. Gacy buried 26 of his victims in the crawlspace of his home and three others elsewhere on his property, discarding the remaining four victims in a nearby river. Gacy became known as the "Killer Clown" due to his charitable services at fundraising events, parades and children's parties where he would dress as "Pogo the Clown," a character he devised himself. John Gacy, pictured around 1950.John Wayne Gacy was born in Chicago, Illinois, the only son and the second of three children born of John Stanley Gacy (June 20, 1900 - December 25, 1969), a machinist and World War I veteran, and Marion Elaine (née Robinson; May 4, 1908 - December 14, 1989). Gacy was of Polish and Danish heritage (his paternal grandparents had been born in Poland). As a child, he was both overweight and nonathletic. He was close to his two sisters and mother (who affectionately called him "Johnny"), but was regularly disciplined by his father, an alcoholic who was physically abusive toward his wife and children, often beating them with a leather belt. Throughout his childhood and adolescence, Gacy continuously strove to make his stern father proud of him, but seldom received his approval; the elder Gacy regularly belittled him, often calling him a "sissy", "stupid" and a "Mama's boy". At the age of nine, Gacy was molested by a family friend. When he was 11, he was struck on the forehead by a swing. The resulting head trauma formed a blood clot in his brain that went unnoticed until he was 16, when he began to suffer blackouts. His father suspected the episodes were an effort to gain sympathy and accused his son of faking. Gacy was prescribed medication to dissolve the clot. Gacy attended four different high schools but dropped out of every one, never actually graduating. At the age of 20, following an argument