John Wayne Gacy Abusive Father

Gacy was a well respected man who wouldn’t be suspected of committing multiple murders. “His first known killing was in 1972, taking the life of Timothy McCoy after luring the teen to his home” (Biography 1). Gacy’s strategy into luring kids (mostly boys) into his home was to roam the streets in search for these young kids and force them to go with him. In 1978 Robert Piest who was 15 years old went missing. His mother said Robert had went to Gacy’s home in search of a job but Robert never came back. “This time the Des Plaines police got involved and searched Gacy’s home” (Crime museum 1). When the police got involved they found things that weren’t his and items that were suspicious. Later on, “On December 22, 1978, facing mounting physical evidence against him from subsequent searches of his home, Gacy confessed that he had killed thirty-three young men and boys and buried most on his property” (Luongo 1). Gacy would torture, strangle, and rape these young men. Gacy was found guilty on all of the murders he committed and he was sentenced to the lethal injection.

Marion Elaine Robinson, a pharmacist, and John Stanley Gacy, a mechanic and World War I veteran, were married on January 7, 1939. On March 17, 1942, the couple gave birth to their second child, and only son, John Wayne Gacy in Edgewater Hospital, Chicago Illinois. Gacy was reportedly born with a congenital heart defect, an enlarged heart. John Sr. suffered with severe alcoholism, believed to stem from his military service in World War I. As a toddler, Gacy watched his father physically abuse his mother, including observing his father knock out Marion’s dental crowns. While at the age of four, John Wayne Gacy recalls being physically abused by his father for the first time after he was found “playing house” with a mentally disabled girl from the neighborhood. During his very young and impressionable years, Gacy recollects being beaten by his father on a second occasion for messing with car parts, beginning the physical and emotional abuse than continued throughout Gacy’s childhood. By five years of age, John began having seizures that were treated with strong anti-seizure medication.

When you first think of a serial killer or you think of a psychopath you realize that they both have something in common even though they have different words to describe similar characteristics of a “monster”. John Wayne Gacy had an abusive childhood and struggled with his sexuality at a very young age, which these factors helped him become the person he did.

In Johnny Got His Gun, Trumbo illustrates the relationship between a father and his son as it changes through an internal transition that occurs in the son. The son’s natural and universal transition is conveyed through the nature of the campsite. The fishing rod symbolizes the close relationship between the father and the son, and illustrates how two people can grow apart physically while still preserving their tight bond with each other.

According to the literature and social learning theory, the family is an important institution that can be used to explain John Wayne Gacy’s criminality. Statistics stated that witnessing violence and being the subject of physical abuse were strongly correlated with psychological, emotional and behavioural problems. Additionally, criminality and aggression were two well researched long term affects of exposure to violence. John Wayne Gacy witnessed and was the subject of physical abuse by his father and I believe that these events lead to his serial killing criminality.

Bragg’s grandfather learned to find out the young man ways “he lived long enough to see the true nature of his son-in-law’s character emerge, saw the cruelty, and his first inclination was to hunt him down and kill him” (35). Bragg’s mother felt that her husband would change for the better the more chances she gave him. Every time Bragg’s father would come back for his wife he would leave her in the end without any money and to expect another child on the way (66). Bragg’s mother and the children knew that the father could become dangerous at any time “he would strike out at whoever was near, but again it always seemed that she was between him and us, absorbing his cruelty, accepting it” (66). Bragg knew that his mother was not trying to bring the family in harm, only his mother wanted the family life and for her boys to grow up with a father.

John's life seemed to be one major drama after another; he didn't have a good male role model as a kid, and it seems he never was able to get on track. What was amazing about his life was the number of problems that he seemed to get into and how he wriggled out of them (with the help of a friendly person who just happened to meet him) only to run into more problems.

After securing the outside perimeter, Crime Scene Investigators meticulously searched inside the dwelling; taking videos, photographs, and collecting over 1,000 fingerprints. The bedrooms had been ransacked but very few items of value had been taken. In fact, other items of value were left untouched such as cash (which was left in the open) and a safe, leading investigators to believe that robbery was not the motive. Among all of the evidence collected, two pieces of evidence

After finding out about the crimes Gacy had done, he quickly obtained a search warrant for Gacy’s home on December 13, 1978. While searching his house item’s were found, such as a box containing two drivers licenses and several rings, one specifically with a high school name engraved on it. Other items that were found were hypodermic needles in brown bottles, marijuana, pills, along with a stained rug, handcuffs, rope, sexual devices, clothes that were too small for Gacy, and a number of books with homosexual and child pornography themes. Besides the items they found in his house, the police confiscated three automobiles, which in one of them had pieces of hair that were later matched to be Robert

On March 17, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois, John Wayne Gacy, a murderer to be, was born. He came from Danish and Polish parents, Marion Robinson and John Stanley Gacy, and had two sisters, Karen and Joanne Gacy. John, as an overweight child, tended to isolate himself from his peers; he did not participate in any athletic activities and had very few friends. John’s father would oftentimes come home in the early mornings intoxicated, waking up his family as he stumbled through the door. Most nights, he would hit his children with a razor strap or anything else he could get his hands on, and he would then proceed to physically beat his wife as well. After years of beatings, the children learned to toughen up against him, and Gacy would even continue

Jeffrey Dahmer killed and committed acts of necrophilia on 17 males between 1978 and 1991. In the article “Jeffrey Dahmer Biography”, it states that “Dahmer initially pleaded not guilty to all charges, despite having confessed to the killings during police interrogation, but he eventually changed his plea to guilty by virtue of insanity” (Biography.com). His defense then described all the gorey details of his behavior and murders, trying to prove that only someone who had psychopathic tendencies could commit such horrendous acts, but the jury decided to believe the prosecution's statement that Dahmer was fully aware that his acts were evil and chose to commit them anyway. The trial was so complicated that “on February 15, 1992, they returned after approximately 10 hours' deliberation to find him guilty, but sane, on all counts” (Biography.com). He was then sentenced to 15 life sentences in prison, which were going to be run consecutively, with a 16th term added on in May. Another well known serial killer was John Wayne Gacy. Gacy would dress up as “Pogo the Clown” and perform for children’s birthday parties, but no one knew that he would eventually murder and rape 33 boys. He would then hide the bodies in a crawl space in his house and kept them there for years until he was caught. The article states that “the discovery of his murders and subsequent arrest shook the community as he

On the first day that the police began their digging, they found two bodies. One of the bodies was buried under the garage. The other body was the one found in the crawl space. As the days passed, the body count grew higher. Some of the victims were found with their underwear still lodged deep in their throats. Other victims were buried so close together that police believed they

Gary Ridgway grew up like any other ordinary suburban kid. He had a problem of wetting the bed which his mother would make fun of him and embarrass him in front of family and friends. As a young teen, he was always getting into trouble such as stabbing a six year-old boy in the ribs when he was a young teen. In high school Gary continued to go down hill and get bad grades. Gary graduated high school and joined the Navy. While he was in Vietnam, he discovered prostitutes and ended up getting sexually transmitted diseases. Soon after being home from Vietnam, Gary was killing and raping prostitutes on the streets of Seattle, Washington. Gary would go on to murder about 71 young women who he targeted because they were either prostitutes or runaways.

betrayal, and violence. His father abandoned him seeking to find a life less confrontational to a

Thursday, December 11th, 2014 at approximately 9:49 a.m., a non-custodial interview was conducted by Detective R. Hutchins with Jalen Walters. During the course of the interview, Walters stated he recalled Ashleman and Parks coming over to his friend’s house, Thomas Murdock, on the 15th, of August to purchase marijuana from him. Ashleman and Parks arrived in a small white vehicle which belonged to Parks girlfriend Lovette. Walters then was given a one hundred dollar bill by Ashleman and was asked if he had change. Ashleman then told Walters the money belonged to a dead man. Walters, Ashleman and Parks then sat at the kitchen table and smoked some marijuana. While smoking marijuana Ashleman proceeded to tell Walters he had killed some guy named