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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 57. Chapters: John Wayne Gacy, Nina Hamnett, Frida Kahlo, Benvenuto Cellini, Tamara de Lempicka, Romaine Brooks, Robert Rauschenberg, Cecil Beaton, Miranda July, Eileen Gray, Olga de Meyer, Stephen Daldry, Gwen John, G. B. Jones, Ruth Bernhard, Hannah Hoch, Nan Goldin, Kathleen Bryson, Dora Carrington, Christopher Wood, Anna Span, Minor White, Charles Henri Ford, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Robert De Niro, Sr., Duncan Grant, Colleen Coover, Peter Max Lawrence, Francoise Doherty, Maie Casey, Baroness Casey, Thelma Wood, Manuel Rodriguez Lozano, Stacia, Christa Winsloe, Roberta Gregory, Humphrey Spender, Kevin Sharkey, Arthur Lett-Haines, Eyre de Lanux, Caroline Coon, Mikhaela Reid, Abraham Angel, Colin Campbell, Paul Thek. 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 (nee 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...
