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==Waterloo, Iowa== ===KFC manager=== Gacy and Myers married in September 1964.{{sfn|Amirante|2011|pp=218β219}} Marlynn's father subsequently purchased three [[Kentucky Fried Chicken]] (KFC) restaurants in [[Waterloo, Iowa]]. The couple moved there so Gacy could manage the restaurants, with the understanding that they would move into Marlynn's parents' former home.{{sfn|Sullivan|2000|pp=256β278}}{{sfn|Linedecker|1980|pp=18β28}} The offer was lucrative: Gacy would receive $15,000 per year (the equivalent of about $152,600 {{as of|2025|lc=y|df=US}}), plus a share of the restaurant's profits.{{sfn|Cahill|1986|pp=49β51}} Gacy opened a "club" in his basement where his employees could drink alcohol and play pool. Although Gacy employed teenagers of both sexes, he socialized only with the males. Gacy gave many of them alcohol before he made sexual advances; if they rebuffed him, he would claim his advances were jokes or a test of morals.{{sfn|Sullivan|2000|pp=256β278}} Gacy's wife gave birth to a son in February 1966 and a daughter in March 1967. Gacy later described this period of his life as "perfect"βhe had finally earned his father's approval. When Gacy's parents visited in July 1966, his father privately apologized for the abuse he had inflicted before happily saying, "Son, I was wrong about you," as he shook Gacy's hand.{{sfn|Cahill|1986|pp=53β54}} ===Waterloo Jaycees=== [[File:John Gacy with First Wife Marlynn Waterloo Jaycees 1967.jpg|alt=|thumb|Gacy (second left), pictured with his first wife (left) at the 1967 Waterloo Jaycees Christmas party]] In Waterloo, Gacy joined the local Jaycees chapter, regularly offering extended hours to the organization in addition to the twelve- and fourteen-hour days he worked managing the restaurants.<ref>{{cite news|title=Holiday Parties Take Over the Limelight|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-courier-john-w-gacy/36974823/|newspaper=[[The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier]]|access-date=February 9, 2024|date=December 18, 1967}}</ref> At meetings, Gacy often provided fried chicken and insisted on being called "[[Colonel Sanders|Colonel]]".{{sfn|Cahill|1986|pp=40β55}} He and other Waterloo Jaycees were also deeply involved in drug abuse, pornography, prostitution and [[wife swapping]].{{sfn|Sullivan|2000|pp=256β278}}{{sfn|Cavendish|1997|p=7}} Although Gacy was considered ambitious and a braggart, the Jaycees held him in high regard for his fundraising work: in 1967 he was named "outstanding vice-president" of the Waterloo Jaycees and served on the board of directors.{{sfn|Linedecker|1980|pp=18β28; 51}} ====Assault of Donald Voorhees==== In August 1967, Gacy sexually assaulted 15-year-old Donald Voorhees Jr., the son of [[Donald E. Voorhees|Donald Edwin Voorhees]], a local politician and fellow Jaycee. Gacy lured Voorhees to his house with the promise of showing him heterosexual [[Stag film|stag films]] regularly played at Jaycee events. Gacy plied Voorhees with alcohol, allowed him to watch a stag movie, then persuaded him to engage in mutual oral sex, adding, "You have to have sex with a man before you start having sex with women."{{sfn|Cahill|1986|pp=40β57}} Over the following months Gacy abused several other youths, including one whom he encouraged to have sex with his own wife before blackmailing him into performing oral sex on him. Gacy also tricked several teenagers into believing he was commissioned to conduct homosexual experiments for scientific research, and paid them up to $50 each.{{sfn|Sullivan|2000|pp=256β278}} In March 1968, Voorhees told his father that Gacy had sexually assaulted him. Voorhees Sr. immediately informed the police, who arrested Gacy and charged him with performing oral sodomy on Voorhees and the attempted assault of 16-year-old Edward Lynch.{{sfn|Sullivan|2000|pp=265β266}} Gacy vehemently denied the charges and demanded to take a [[polygraph test]]. The results of these tests were "indicative of deception".{{sfn|Cahill|1986|pp=65β72}} Gacy publicly denied any wrongdoing and insisted the charges were politically motivatedβVoorhees Sr. had opposed Gacy's nomination for appointment as president of the Iowa Jaycees. Several fellow Jaycees found Gacy's story credible and rallied to his support. However, on May 10, 1968, Gacy was indicted on the sodomy charge.{{sfn|Cahill|1986|pp=65β72}} {{quote box | quote = "The most striking aspect of the test results is the patient's total denial of responsibility for everything that has happened to him. He can produce an "alibi" for everything. He presents himself as a victim of circumstances and blames other people who are out to get him{{nbsp}}... the patient attempts to assure a sympathetic response by depicting himself as being at the mercy of a hostile environment." | source = Section of report detailing Gacy's 1968 psychiatric evaluation.{{sfn|Sullivan|2000|pp=256β278}} | width = 30em }} On August 30, Gacy promised one of his employees, 18-year-old Russell Schroeder, $300 if he physically assaulted Voorhees in an effort to discourage the boy from testifying in court.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36974956/john-gacy/|title=Man is Charged in Beating Plot|work=[[Quad-City Times]]|date=September 10, 1968|access-date=October 31, 2021|archive-date=October 31, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211031000321/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36974956/john-gacy/|url-status=live}}</ref> Schroeder lured Voorhees to an isolated park, sprayed [[Mace (spray)|Mace]] in his eyes, then beat him.{{sfn|Cahill|1986|pp=65β72}}{{sfn|Stone|2019|pp=196β203}} Voorhees escaped and reported Schroeder's actions to police. Schroeder was arrested the next day; initially denying involvement, he soon confessed to assaulting Voorhees, indicating he had done so at Gacy's request. Police arrested Gacy and charged him with hiring Schroeder to assault and intimidate Voorhees.{{sfn|Sullivan|2000|pp=256β278}} On September 12, Gacy was ordered to undergo a [[psychiatric evaluation]] at the Psychiatric Hospital of the [[University of Iowa]]. Two doctors concluded he had an [[antisocial personality disorder]] (the clinical term for [[sociopathy]] and/or [[psychopathy]]), was unlikely to benefit from treatment, and that his behavior pattern was likely to bring him into repeated conflict with society. The doctors concluded Gacy was mentally competent to stand trial.{{sfn|Sullivan|2000|pp=256β278}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/conditions/antisocial-personality-disorder|title=Antisocial Personality Disorder|magazine=[[Psychology Today]]|publisher=Sussex Publishers|date=April 19, 2017|access-date=January 13, 2018|archive-date=October 26, 2014|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141026172632/http://www.psychologytoday.com/conditions/antisocial-personality-disorder|url-status=live}}</ref>
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