John Wayne Gacy & others that have ties to Iowa (Des Moines: crime, home)

[Goleftrighthere]

Iowa Serial Killer Victims: 53

John Wayne Gacy spent time in the Anamosa State Penitentiary.

Gacy was convicted of sodomy on December 3 and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment, to be served at the Anamosa State Penitentiary. That same day, Gacy's wife petitioned for divorce, requesting she be awarded the couple's home and property, sole custody of their two children, and alimony. The Court ruled in her favor, and the divorce was finalized on September 18, 1969. Gacy never saw his first wife or children again.

Other evil people who have ties with Iowa including other serial killers:

1. John Wayne Gacy - Ties to Anamosa, IA - Iowa State Prison
2. Tommy Carroll - Bank robber - Waterloo, IA.
3. Charles Ray Hatcher - ties in Missouri, California, IA, NE.
4. Robert Hansen - born in Estherville, Iowa - Murders were in Anchorage, AK.
5. Jeffery Dahmer - The only tie he had to Iowa was that his dad went to Iowa State University in Ames. Murders and conviction were in Milwaukee, Wi
6. Robert Ben Rhoades - Truck Stop Killer. Born in Council Bluffs, IA. Ties in Texas, Mississippi, IL, Utah, Arizona
7. Randy Steven Kraft - Known as The Freeway Killer, Southern California Strangler or The Scorecard Killer. The vast majority of his crimes were committed in California., however a few were killed in Oregon and Michigan, and one of his victims was in Iowa.
8. Gayno Gilbert Smith - was a mass murderer from Iowa, who killed six people in 1961 and 1962.
9. Jake Bird - In his travels, Bird murdered people, mostly women, in Illinois, Kentucky, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas, South Dakota, Ohio, Florida, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, and Washington.
10. Donald Dean Studey (Born Donald Dean Study - Ties in Thurman, IA, spent time in prison in Missouri for petty larceny - Convicted of drunk driving in Nebraska.
11. The Polk County John Doe - Later identified as John Clifton Downey - murders/convictions in Des Moines, IA
12. Whoever this was: The Villisca Axe Murders shocked the nation June 10, 1912 with the brutality and mystery of the crime. Eight people were slain in their sleep, including two adults and six children. They were butchered viscously with an axe by an unidentified assailant, and the crime was never solved.
13. Steven Sueppel - The Iowa City Sueppel murders was a family annihilation perpetrated by Steven Sueppel, a 42-year-old former banker, at his residence in Iowa City, Iowa.

I'm sure there's more, but I'm tired lol.

[mlulu23]

And? What does this prove? Evil people live everywhere. And this is what we should do.....

"He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?" Micah 6:8

[merv1225]

One could make a similar list of unsavory evil characters with ties to every other state as well.