Who Is John Wayne Gacy?

Marion Morrison, also known as John Wayne, is perhaps one of the most popular movie personalities ever. He began as a mere stagehand, but by the end of his career he had developed himself as a very successful actor, producer, and director.

In this society there are many people who suffer from mental illness and others who are deviants. Although many confuse mental illness with deviance they are both very different things that can be related with each other due to the fact that having a mental illness is not normal and being deviant is also not normal. There are many criminals who would be considered deviants. Several theories of deviance seem to describe 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

Criminology is the scientific study of the nature, extent, cause, and control of criminal behavior (Siegel 4). Criminology is not just understanding criminal actions but also studying how to correct and prevent crime, overall. There are five major Criminological theories, (1) Classical Theory, (2) Positivist Theory, (3) Marxist / Conflict Theory, (4) Sociological Theory, and (5) Multifactor / Integrated Theory.

He always thought his father was going to save him and take him away. As time passed by, he saw that things were just getting worse between his mother and him and his father wouldn’t do nothing about it. He lost hope and didn’t care about anything. But he started to dream at night that one day he would get out of the hell hole he was living in. He realized that if he wanted to survive he would have to be strong and beat his mother at her torturing games. He just kept thinking to himself one day I will get out of here. He started building a self-esteem. He started realizing what was happening wasn’t his fault and one day decided to tell someone at school.

In 1957, John was born in Athens, Georgia (Robison, 1). When he was born, both of his parents were in college and his dad was also a preacher (Robison, 1). They moved to different areas until they finally settled down in Amherst, Massachusetts and his father became a professor in Philosophy (1). Throughout John’s childhood, he was always different from his classmates and brother (2). He said he was always sad, a loner and had few friends (Robison, 2). His parents recognized this and tried to help him by having him see therapists and guidance counselors (Robison, 2). At this point in time, Asperger’s Syndrome was not diagnosed yet (Robison, 3). Some therapists thought he was a psychopath because he did not make eye contact with them (Johnelderrobison, 00:00:45-00:01:00). Others said he was lazy or chose to misbehave, when he did not have control over his actions (Robison, 3). Due to all of this negativity and people telling him something was “severely wrong” with him, John dropped out of school in tenth grade (Robison, 3).

John Wayne Gacy was born on March 17th,1943 in Chicago Il. He was the second out of three children to be born to Marion Elaine Robinson and John Stanley Gacy. In his early childhood, Gacy’s father was a very abusive alcoholic not only to him and his siblings, but to his wife as well. Gacy had a lot of love and respect for his father even at a young age. His father often called him degrading names such as ‘’Sissy and Queer’’. He and his sister’s would be beaten frequently if they did anything “wrong” in their father’s eye’s. He was close to his sisters and mother but not as close as a ‘’normal’’ family would be. Gacy stated in an interview he never felt like he fit in when he was younger. When Gacy was twelve years old, he was struck by a swingset

He was used to live in his brother’s shadow, but when the boat accident happened to them, he was the only one to survive. As he was always indentifying himself the less important one, he considered it was wrong that he was the one who would still have a life. As a result of nervous breakdown, he tried to kill himself with cutting his wrists in the bathroom, fortunately his father found out and save him. Then he went to the psychiatric for four months. When he comes back, there are still issues he needs to deal with.

Archie WoodBone was born on the 5th of November, 1982. He was raised in poverty and crime his parents had to rob, steal and event kill for food and money. His dad was a gentle but did what needed to be done, His mom was a drunk, cheating, drug user and a bad mom. But Archie WoodBone was a very angry child he got expelled from his primary school twice. He didn't talk much though he was very good at his work at school, Japanese: A+ , PE (physical education) A* , English A+ and math A+. He turned to crime in his teen years arrested for Robbery and Mugging. But at the age of 16, he decided to stop and join the British Marines, because one day these men came in asking his Dad where was their money and of course my Dad did not have the money and

John at the age of 18 got involved in politics as an assistant precinct captain for a democratic party in his neighborhood, this was an attempt to seek acceptance from others because he has never received from his own father.That same year John have more problems with his father making him leave and go to Las Vegas, Nevada where he work as a mortuary attendant. Working as a mortuary attendant John had and experience in which one day he was alone and climb into a dead body of a teenage male and he start to hold and touching the body until he realized he like that feeling of looking at corpses. He returns back home, he graduated from Northwestern Business College in 1963. In 1964, he got transferred from his previous job to Springfield Illinois

His father, Keith, is very tall (about 5’11), he has dark brown hair, he wears baseball caps all the time, and wears athletic clothes everywhere he goes, even to church. He is a very funny person and can make anyone laugh and smile. He wants the best for his family and will do anything to help them out. One day, he gets a call from his son’s school in Owasso, Oklahoma saying that he was sent to the principle’s office for hitting and calling other students names. Keith was very shocked at this because Braedon always does so well in school. He makes terrific grades and is in advanced reading and math classes for his age, since he is only in second grade.

The situation Georgie is in with his mother and Steve is getting worse and worse. Georgies mother is a very bad alcoholic and needs liquor in her everyday life. Steve is Georgies mother's boyfriend and he brings in all of the money for her liquor, and often abuses Georgie when he is at the apartment. Georgie is a 7 year old kid that gets abused by his parents and is not well taken care of in his apartment and at school. Whenever Georgie is getting abused by Steve she is too drunk to care. Georgie is always told by his mother that Steve will never be allowed back, but he knows it is one big lie after another because she needs Steve's money to buy her liquor. At 7 years old he almost instantly knows that's a lie. Whenever Steve would come to the apartment he would often beat

Wayne Douglas Gretzky also known as the great one was born on January 26, 1961, in Brantford, Canada. Ever since Gretzky was born his father wanted him to be a hockey player but his size discouraged him. He first received his pair of skates at the age of 3. Wayne first learned to skate a river near his grandfather's farm and at public rinks on weekends. But the rink that his father built in his backyard is the place where he really learned to skate. When Gretzky turned 6 he started to play organized hockey, at this time he only scored 1 goal during the season. After that, he began training even harder and with the tricks his dad had taught him he scored 196 goals at the age of 9. His father kept telling him all his hard work would pay off

Jeremy was 19 years old he is from New York his father passed away when he was 11 the only boy of the 2 sisters. One sister was 21 and the other was 15 there mom was a nurse when he lived at home but he moved out when he was 18. His mom is now married again and Jeremy also moved to South Carolina when he turned 18. Jeremy does not have any children nor a wife or even a girlfriend. He went to school to be a brain surgeon and so he he will go to school through the week and he gets off on the weekends he decides to visit his older sister Nala which is 21 she also lives in SC Nala is married and has a daughter. Jeremy was at his sister's house and she asked him if there was any women in his life he said no. Nala has this friend named Krissy she

He walked through the door like John Wayne into the Alamo. His voice was the voice of ultimate command that would cut through the air like a tomahawk missile. He talked like everything he said was going out on a P.A. system. I’ve never heard anyone talk so well before or since

Unfortunately during this stage of development, Keith was not given the appropriate amount of love, affection, care and maternal bonding time, which his mother was emotionally unable to provide due to her traumatized state. Keith states his mother did not seek professional help after being raped and was forced to deal with it all on her own; she constantly sought approval from abusive men, likely repeating the cycle from her childhood, but was not bonded with Keith as a