The Truth About John Wayne Gacy's Ex-Wives

Thanks to developing a reputation as a "model inmate," Gacy ended up serving just 18 months of his 10 year sentence, according to Crime+Investigation UK, and was released on parole in June 1970. Two years later, Gacy was already remarried — this time to a woman called Carole Hoff (pictured above with Gacy), a resident of Illinois he had met after moving to live near his mother in the suburbs of Chicago to fulfill the conditions of his parole.

"He swept me off my feet," Hoff, a divorced mother of two, told the New York Times around the time of Gacy's murder trial. However, as reported in the same article, "Then one time, she said, she found several wallets apparently belonging to teen‐age boys in his car. He exploded in anger." Hoff claimed that Gacy would become violent and break furniture. Hoff and Gacy divorced in 1976, by which time Gacy had already claimed the lives of many of his victims.

"I think now, if there were murders, some must have taken place when I was in that house," she told the New York Times.

According to NBC News, the six-part documentary series John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise premieres March 25 on Peacock. (The trailer is posted on Youtube.)

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