Premise: John Wayne Gacy . He sexually assaulted , tortured and murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978 in Cook County , Illinois ( a part of metropolitan Chicago ) . 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 .
Hypothesis: John Wayne Gacy lacked victims.
Label: CONTRADICTION