INTRODUCTION
In the current media and television, Serial killers are becoming an increasingly popular Phenomenon . Movies are being made about many of them, such as “IT” which was created is in relation to John Wayne Gacy ‘ The Killer Clown’. Many professionals such as criminologist, Academics and Psychologists have been searching for reasons, as to why a person would feel the urge to engage in committing heinous crimes and sequential murders.
Wright (2003) states that, very little academic attention has been focused on the childhood characteristics of serial killers. Most of the literature excludes childhood characteristics and focuses on definitions and adult motivations of serial murder.
It is said that it is a combination of factors that create a serial killer. Despite this there is still minimal research available on the particular factors that impact serial killers. One of the main
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He was unable to cub his homosexual perversions. Gacy lured his victims into his car with marijuana than narcotised them with chloroform and tied them to his bed. Subsequently he kept his victims underneath his house ( Simon 2015 ). His thirty-three victims were raped, sodomised, brutally beat, tortured and murdered ( Berry-dee 2010 ).
At just 4 years old, Gacy was whipped with a belt by his father. It was a thrashing John Wayne would remember for the rest of his life ( Berry-Dee, 2010). “Childhood trauma may create irreversible changes in the structure of the brain, it begins to think In a different way.” ( Simon 2015 ). Without doubt, John Wayne Gacy staggered with faltering steps into his teens, continuously subjected to countless acts of mental and physical abuse by his bullying father, he could only rely on the often misguided support of his mother to protect him ( Berry- Dee,