John Wayne Gacy During The 1970's

During the 1970s, a dark reality emerged. Terrible people lurking in the shadows would not only kidnap, but then torture and kill people. Throughout history, man has been allowed to do anything and everything they want. Sometimes it's good and beautiful things like the Eiffel Tower, or the moon landing with Apollo 11, and other times it destroys lives. An example of this is in the 1970s, when some people, like Ted Bundy, or John Wayne Gacy had the opportunity and ran with it, killing dozens of innocent people without getting caught. These dark truths forced the government to impose laws to try to prevent the past from recurring. But who were the first people to slide through these laws, and somehow manage to break them without being caught? Although the deaths of

Another case that was revolutionary in changing the judicial system in the 1970s was People V. Gacy because it aided in improvements in forensic techniques for gathering information. John Wayne Gacy, uncoincidentally, also had a poor early life. With an abusive father, John Stanley Gacy, who was an alcoholic, frequently physically and verbally abused him and his two sisters as well as his mother. As a result, John struggled to connect with his father, who never seemed to approve of him, and did not have a male role model to help his development. At the mere age of 11, Gacy suffered a head injury from getting hit in the head so hard that it resulted in gaps in Gacy’s memory and blood clots. Gacy’s poor childhood led to several mental health concerns, including obesity. It was also rumored that between the ages of six and ten, “A teenage daughter of one of his mother’s friends reportedly undressed and played with him,” (Biography.com). After not graduating from high school due to poor grades, Gacy enrolled in NorthWestern Business College in Chicago and