John Wayne Gacy : A Serial Killer

America notious serial killer is John Wayne Gacy also known as the clown man . John Wayne was born on March 17, 1942 in , Chicago ,illnois. he is son ofMarion Elaine Robinson and John Stanley Gacy. John is the only boy and he is the second oldest out three kids. He is of polish and Danish heritage Gacy and his siblings grew up with a drunken father who would beat the children with a razor strap if they would misbehave. He came from a middle class family . at the age of 11 john suffered from

Although unathletic and unpopular, John Wayne Gacy, Jr. was more or less an average child. However, as he grew, Gacy fell victim to numerous accounts of physical and verbal abuse from his father. He was called a sissy, Mama’s boy, and told that he’d probably “grow up queer” (Cahill). In adulthood, Gacy went on to sexually assault and murder a minimum of 33 teenage boys and young men before his capture and execution. Due to the striking similarities between his father’s verbal abuse and his choice

John Wayne Gacy, who was also referred to as the serial killer clown was born on March 17, 1942. He was born in Chicago, Illinois to the late Marion Elaine Robinson and John Stanley Gacy. Unfortunately, he didn’t have a good relationship with his father being that he was an abusive alcoholic who was also strict since he was Irish and Catholic. During his childhood, he would constantly get beaten by his father, and being that he had certain health conditions he wasn’t allowed to do any school sports

KEISER UNIVERSITY Killer Stories H.H. Holmes, “Ted” Bundy & John Wayne Gacy Faraz Garcia 10/16/2017   Abstract When you tell children scary stories they shouldn’t be able to come true but unfortunately for the people victimized by the vicious killers in this paper those horror stories did come true. Traveling and staying in a “Hotel” owned by a wealthy “doctor” got them tortured, experimented on and ultimately killed, helping a seemingly helpless man put things in his vehicle lead them

John Wayne Gacy in his early years was shown to have a minor biological impairment. At the age of 11, Gacy was playing near a swing set and was hit in the head causing an accidental blood clot in the brain. The blood clot was not discovered until he was 16 years old and he suffered from blackouts from the clot from the ages of 11 until it was discovered. There was a brain blockage that medications were able to dissolve. Gacy also had a series of health problems that kept him hospitalized for a significant

Infamous serial killer, John Wayne Gacy, was born on March 17, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois. Gacy, born into an abusive environment, was assaulted physically along with his siblings, with a razor strap if they were perceived to have misbehaved by their alcoholic father. In addition, Gacy’s mother was physically abused as well throughout her marriage and during the children’s upbringing. During John Wayne Gacy’s childhood education, he suffered further alienation due to a congenital heart condition

The acts of serial killers are repulsive, yet many still feel drawn to study them. John Wayne Gacy is the name of the serial killer being studied here. For those who study serial killers, Gacy is a renowned killer who has been given nicknames such as “Pogo the Clown” or “Killer Clown”. Gacy was given these nicknames because he would go to hospitals and parties to entertain children as a clown named Pogo (Montaldo 2017). The torture, rape, and ultimately murder of 33 young men between 1972 and 1978

these types of people. There is the control, differential-association, labeling, psychological and strain theories that may determine why criminals chose to act in deviant ways. Serial killers such as John Wayne Gacy fall into some of the theories of deviance. The theories John Wayne Gacy falls into are the control theory

A serial killer is described as a person who has murdered three or more people over a time period of more than a month, there are at times where the killer will become dormant between murders. Typically when there is a break between murders it seems as though the killings are not connected, unless the killer has a style or signature when murdering their victims. More often than not a serial killer victim is chosen at random. Since serial killers do not usually know their victims it suggests that

escape a way to get out, and lastly having a way to avoid capture (Bartol, Bartol, 2016).. While engaging in the criminal offense criminals tend to form or show habits or patterns, which can be detected by forensic phycologist or the investigator. Serial offenders often prefect their Modus Operandi they evolve from their mistake the