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For the next few years he lived the life of a teenage hobo. He committed crimes and was the victim of them; he was sent to reform schools and broke out of them. When he was sixteen, in 1907, he joined the army but refused to accept the discipline and was then caught trying to desert with a bundle of stolen clothing. He was dishonourably discharged and sent to the fearsome Leavenworth Prison, where he spent two hard years, breaking rocks and becoming a very strong and very dangerous man. On his release, he returned to his roaming.
His childhood was largely uneventful. Look a little closer, though, and there were signs of troubles. John Gacy Sr was a misanthropic man who frequently took out his anger on his son through physical beatings and verbal abuse. John Gacy Jr in turn became very close to his mother. Aged eleven, he sustained a nasty accident when he was struck on the head by a swing. It caused him to have regular blackouts during his teens. During his teenage years he also first complained of heart problems, though this seems likely to be just a symptom of a lifelong tendency to hypochondria – whenever he was under pressure he would claim to be on the brink of a heart attack.
MAKING A DEAL The police were delighted to have the Strangler presented to them on a plate in this way. However, various problems remained. In particular, none of the witnesses who had seen the Boston Strangler, including his one surviving victim, were able to pick DeSalvo out of a police line-up. In the end DeSalvo, represented by the infamous lawyer F. Lee Bailey, made a deal with the police: he received a life sentence for the Green Man rapes, but was never formally charged with the Strangler murders.