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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Add new Web site: Marquette Law Scholarly Commons - The Legal Legacy of John Wayne Gacy: The Irrebuttable Presumption that Juries Understand and Follow Jury Instructions.	Gloria Lotha	Oct 24, 2024
	Anniversary information added.		May 09, 2024
	First paragraph modernization.	Encyclopaedia Britannica	Apr 26, 2024
	Anniversary information added.		Mar 13, 2024
	Add new Web site: Scalar - Alliance for Networking Visual Culture - John Wayne Gacy: True Crime Background.	Gloria Lotha	Jan 04, 2024
	Add new Web site: State University of New York at Oswego - The Chronological Dissection of Dissection of Pogo the Clown.	Gloria Lotha	Nov 17, 2023
	Add new Web site: Rolling Stone - John Wayne Gacy: Inside Peacocks New True-Crime Docuseries.	Gloria Lotha	Aug 23, 2022
	Top Questions updated.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	May 06, 2021
	Article revised and updated.	Brian Duignan	Oct 31, 2019
	Add new Web site: ThoughtCo. - John Wayne Gacy, the Killer Clown.	Gloria Lotha	Feb 20, 2018
	Add new Web site: Crime Museum - Biography of John Wayne Gacy.	Grace Young	Dec 18, 2017
	Media added.	Amy Tikkanen	Aug 30, 2017
	Added new Web site: The Crime Library - John Wayne Gacy.	Marco Sampaolo	Feb 28, 2007
	Added new Web site: American Hauntings - Weird and Haunted Chicago - The Clown That Killed.	Marco Sampaolo	Feb 28, 2007
	Added new Web site: The Crime Library - John Wayne Gacy.	Marco Sampaolo	Feb 28, 2007
	Added new Web site: American Hauntings - Weird and Haunted Chicago - The Clown That Killed.	Marco Sampaolo	Feb 28, 2007
	New article added.	Michael Levy	Nov 02, 2006