John Wayne Gacy was an American serial killer who assaulted and murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978 in Chicago, Illinois. He would lure victims to his home by posing as a contractor with job opportunities. Once there, he would overpower, torture, rape, and murder them, burying 29 bodies under his home. He was convicted and sentenced to death, being executed by lethal injection in 1994.