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John Wayne Gacy was married twice before his death in 1994

His first marriage was to Marlynn Myers, with whom he welcomed two children before she filed for divorce in 1968

He then remarried to Carole Hoff in 1972 before splitting four years later

John Wayne Gacy lived a disturbing double life until he was convicted of murdering at least 33 teen boys and young men throughout the 1970s.

Before his imprisonment and eventual May 1994 death at an Illinois correctional facility , Gacy was perceived as a friendly community man who often entertained children as “Pogo the Clown” at birthday parties and in hospitals — a persona that later earned him the nickname the "Killer Clown."

While he was a vicious sexual predator and serial killer who raped and tortured his victims, Gacy

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