Straight out of the he's-such-a-nice-guy file, Johnny was the type of man
who liked to dress in a homemade Pogo the Clown outfit to entertain
kids. A lonely and sadistic contractor, Johnny also liked to entertain
young boys privately in a very different fashion. The prototypical
organized killer, he had all aspects of the murder worked out before
each kill. Once he entered his murderous fantasy, there was no turning
back.

He enjoyed handcuffing his victims, anally raping them, beating them to
a pulp, offering to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, reciting
verses from the Bible and strangling them to death. In 1978 he was
tracked down by the police in Chicago. Thirty bodies were found buried
in the crawl space underneath his house, explaining his wife's
complaints about the constant stench. As a prisoner, Johnny Boy started
a new career as an artist, painting mostly colorful clown pictures, which
have been shown in galleries nationwide. He was executed by lethal
injection in 1994.