John Wayne Gacy was a cold-blooded serial killer from the early 1940s until the late 1990s. This cold-blooded killer was a master manipulator, a sex offender that tortured, raped, and murdered young men and boys. All the murders took place in the state of Chicago, Illinois, in the town of Norwood Park. “Over the period of a few years, Gacy murdered 33 people, 29 of whom were found underneath Gacy’s house – 26 in the crawlspace, and 3 other bodies were found in other areas of his house.” (Crime Museum) John Wayne Gacy took on another version of himself that he called Pogo the Clown. John Wayne Gacy led a double life, engaging in charitable and political activities at the same time he was committing a series of sadistic torture murders. Pogo …show more content…
John’s father was unlike any father, he was abusive to his wife and his children and would punish anyone who would mess something up or get in the middle of a fight that he and his wife were having. Gacy was the oldest child and looked after his mother and younger siblings. For Gacy, it was devastating growing up and watching his mother get tortured and beaten over the smallest of arguments and stuff that John’s father did not agree with. John would try to break up fights countless times and try to make everything okay. Using Differential Association Theory, growing up with Gacy, I notice that there is a similar trait that Gacy picked up from his father, the torture, and the pain. Gacy carries that pain that his father put on him and his family and uses it close enough, like his father did on his crimes, he uses that to his advantage. Gacy gaslights and manipulates young men and boys, lures them to his home and kills them. He buries the bodies all under his house, particularly in the crawl space. He took the pain he had felt from the upbringing of his childhood onto his