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    John Wayne Gacy was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 17 1942. Gacy had an uneventful childhood up until the age of eleven. While out playing he had been struck on the head by a swing. Subsequently he suffered fainting fits for many years. Gacy graduated from business school and went on to work as a shoe salesman for the Nunn Bush shoe company. Gacy met and then married work colleague Marilynn Myres in 1964. The marriage ended when Gacy was imprisoned for ten years at a correctional institute

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    John Wayne Gacy Jr.

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    all explain at least one behavioral factor that leads to crime. Today, all these theories, and more, are researched and taken into account when trying to understand why a criminal does what they do. John Wayne Gacy was born on May 17 (St. Patrick’s Day), 1942 to Marion Elaine Robinson Gacy and John Wayne Gacy, Sr. at Edgewater Hospital in Chicago. He was the second of three children. His older sister Joanne had preceded him by two years and two years after his birth came his sister Karen. The Gacy

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    John Wayne Gacy Thesis

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    John Wayne Gacy John Wayne Gacy was known to be one of the most infamous serial killers of his time. What were his motives? When brought to court, Gacy was only charged with 12 of the murders that had taken place but what the court really had to prove was not whether he actually committed the murders, but whether or not he was in a controllable mental state. Gacy, without a doubt, knew what he was doing the whole time throughout the span of his murders. John Wayne Gacy was born on March 17th, 1942

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    Who Is John Wayne Gacy?

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    John Wayne Gacy, Jr. was born March 17, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, to both his parents John Stanley Gacy and Marion Elaine Robinson. He was a very quiet child who kept himself involved in some way. was not popular but he was well-liked by his peers at school and boy scout activities. To everyone on the outside looking in, Gacy seemed to have a perfectly normal childhood life but it was the total opposite. At the age of 11, gacy was hit in the head by a swing set while playing and it caused blood

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    John Wayne Gacy was the son of Danish and Polish parents. Gacy and his two siblings grew up with a drunken father who would beat them with a razor strap if they misbehaved; the man physically assaulted Gacy's mother as well. Gacy's sister Karen would later say that the siblings learned to toughen up against the beatings. Because of this abuse, John Wayne Gacy became one of the most ruthless and notorious serial killers of this time period (“Biography,” 2016). Gacy was born in Chicago, Illinois on

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    John Wayne Gacy was a very manipulative person. He lured his victims with the promise of construction work and good pay, and then captured,assaulted them, then eventually strangled them with rope (Lohr 4). In 1974, Gacy started a contracting business, He hired teen boys to work for him. Explaining to his friends, that hiring young men would keep payroll cost down (Lohr 4). In fact on December 11, 1978, Gacy visited Des Plaines pharmacy to discuss a remodeling deal. He mentioned that his firm hired

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    John Wayne Gacy was a very manipulative person. He lured his victims with the promise of construction work and good pay, and then captured,assaulted them, then eventually strangled them with rope (Lohr 4). In 1974, Gacy started a contracting business, He hired teen boys to work for him. Explaining to his friends, that hiring young men would keep payroll cost down (Lohr 4). In fact on December 11, 1978, Gacy visited Des Plaines pharmacy to discuss a remodeling deal. He mentioned that his firm hired

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    became the demise of serial murderer John Wayne Gacy. While working at a local pharmacy, Piest overheard Gacy talking about a big project his company PDM Contracting was taking on. Interested in working with Gacy, Piest told his mother

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    The killer clown most know as John Wayne Gacy, was a convicted American serial killer who murdered and sexually assaulted 33 teenage and young men's. John Wayne was born on March 17 of 1942 in Chicago Illinois, he was the second son of three of John Stanley Gacy and Marion Elaine Robinson. John had polish and danish heritage since his paternal grandparents were from Poland but immigrated to the Unites States. As a young boy, he was really close to his two sisters and mother but unfortunately he had

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    John Wayne Gacy was a very dark and perverse man. He is one of America’s most notorious serial killers, with over 30 victims. All of his victims were young teen boys. His sexual assaults were uncovered in 1968 and in 1980 he was convicted and found guilty of his crimes, where he was then sentenced to several life and death penalty sentences and in 1994 he was finally executed. On March 17th, 1942 John Wayne Gacy was born to John Stanley Gacy and Marion Robinson in Chicago, Illinois. He was one

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