John Wayne Gacy had victims and he was caught.
John Wayne Gacy . His victims were typically lured to his address by force or deception , and all but one of his victims were murdered by either asphyxiation or strangulation with a makeshift tourniquet ; his first victim was stabbed to death . Gacy buried 26 of his victims in the crawl space of his home . Convicted of 33 murders , Gacy was sentenced to death on March 13 , 1980 for 12 of those killings .