John Wayne Gacy
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John Wayne Gacy was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured and murdered at least thirty-three young men and boys between 1972 and 1978 in Norwood Park Township, a suburb of Chi
1978 mugshot of Gacy
Gacy (second left), pictured with his first wife (far left) at the 1967 Waterloo Jaycees Christmas party
Gacy as Pogo the Clown
Gacy with First Lady Rosalynn Carter on May 6, 1978, six years after his first murder and seven months before his final arrest
Garrote
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A garrote or garrotte, or garrote vil, is a weapon and a method of capital punishment. It consists of a handheld ligature of chain, rope, scarf, wire, or fishing line, used to strangle a person.
John Wayne Gacy
…of demonstrating a magic trick. He would then rape and torture his captive before killing his victim by either asphyxiation or strangulation with a garrote. Twenty-six victims were buried in the crawl space of his home, and three were buried elsewhere on his property; four were discarded in the Des Plaines…
From the torture museum of Freiburg im Breisgau
In this 15th-century depiction of the burning of Albigensians after an auto da fé, the condemned had been garrotted previously. It is one of the first depictions of a garrotte. Pedro Berruguete, Saint Dominic Presiding over an Auto-da-fé.
Execution by garrotte in Spain
Execution by garrotte of a murderer in Barcelona