Why Is John Wayne Gacy Abusive

John Wayne Gacy was born on March 17, 1942. Growing up Gacy lived in an abusive home. Although he was very close with his mother and his two sisters, he wasn't close with his father. Gacy’s father was abusive to him mentally, physically, and verbally. John Wayne Gacy’s father would call him overweight, uncoordinated, unathletic, and insisted that he was a disappointment. This type of behavior caused Gacy to desperately try and impress his father and fail to please him. Gacy’s father drank heavily and referred to his son as a “Sissy”. After being mocked, humiliated, and abused by his father, Gacy said he still loved his father. Gacy dropped out of highschool after attending 4 different schools and still not graduating and left home and moved

He disappeared while walking home from his sister's residence and never returned home. He was later found in the crawl space of Gacy’s home. Although most victims do not have as many details or are unidentified they are still relevant in the case. John Butkovich was one of Gacy’s employees; he was 18 at the time and on July 31, 1975 Butkovich was headed to Gacy’s home to demand his paycheck. Gacy failed to pay the 18-year-old for months but John Butkovich was never seen again. Yet those were just 3 of the 33 murders John Wayne Gacy committed.

Kenneth Parker and Michael Marino were longline friends at the time. They were hanging out together near a restaurant, an intersection where John Wayne Gacy picked up many of his victims; the boys were reported missing the next day after being kidnapped by Gacy. Both boys had been strangled to death and were believed to be killed at the same time because they had a common grave under Gacy’s home. They were killed October 25th, 1976, but soon things would come to an end for

He would promise work, money, pleasure, etc. He tricked them into being handcuffed or having ropes tied around their necks. The men were not only murdered they were raped for hours, tortured then stranglend to death. On December 11, 1978 15 year old Robert Piest went missing. It was reported that Piest was last seen heading to meet Gacy about a construction job and never returned. Ten days after Piest went missing police searched Gacy’s home in Norwood Park, Illinois due to his record of sex crimes. Police discover evidence of Gacy being the prosecutor of numerous crimes including murder. After days of investigation, investigators found several trenches filled with human remains in the crawl spaces, finding 29 corpses on his property as well as 4 more that he dumped in nearby rivers after running out of room at home. John Wayne Gacy confessed to killing 30 people. When news got out of Gacy’s murders it shocked his suburban community where he was known as a “Man of the community” . In 1980 Gacy pleaded guilty to all 33 killings. Gacy spent 14 years on Death Row before receiving the lethal injection in May of