Biography And Trial Of John Wayne Gacy

Abstract

This paper goes over the successful yet cringing details of John Wayne Gacy’s life on results from research found from various internet websites. Most of the websites found had very similar details throughout but some are more valued. Some websites talked mainly on the subjects of Gacy’s victims, going over the relationship to the victims and age of the victims. Other sources are more directly focused on John Wayne Gacy’s biography and trial as a whole.

Introduction John Wayne Gacy was an american serial killer convicted of 33 murders; mostly teenage boys. He was sentenced to death for 12 of those murders and to natural life in prison for the others. Most of the victims bodies were unearthed in the crawl

Police put Gacy under surveillance, and when it was learned that two teenage employees of Gacy also had recently disappeared, the police obtained a search warrant for Gacy's home. A roll of film belonging to Piest was seized in the ensuing search. A second search warrant was executed and three lime-covered bodies were found in the crawl space. Gacy pointed officers to the precise locations of certain bodies in the crawl space and stated that he havictims to hisd lured the home. A total of 29 bodies were recovered on the property and 4 more were discovered in a nearby river. Gacy recanted his confession and did not testify at trial, where he asserted an insanity defense

He was occasionally hospitalized because of these seizures. Gacy later estimated that he spent almost a year in the hospital for these episodes between the ages of 14 and 18, and attributed the decline in his grades to his time out of school. His father suspected the episodes were an effort to gain sympathy and attention; on one occasion, he openly accused his son of faking as the boy lay in a hospital bed. Although his mother, sisters, and few close friends themselves never doubted his illness, Gacy's medical condition was never conclusively diagnosed. At the age of 18, Gacy became involved in politics, working as an assistant precinct captain for a democratic candidate in his neighborhood. This decision earned more criticism from his father, who accused his son of being a "patsy". Gacy later speculated the decision may have been an attempt to seek the acceptance from others that he never received from his