In the criminological world, the case of serial killers evokes many public reactions. Between horror and fascination, these crimes perpetrated by individuals who are indistinguishable from the masses in the first place have the effect of deeply impressing minds and shocking public opinion. How can it be that in our civilized societies such beings indulge in murder in order to satisfy their lowest instincts ? Are we in the presence of people already predestined to commit this kind of abuse ? In order to answer these questions, we will together dive into the depths of the human psyche, analyzing different profiles. We will go to a place where morality is violated in favour of perversity and vice. So let's get into the head of a serial killer !
John Wayne Gacy
If there is one terrible person who has spread a blue fear in children's minds, with regard to the emblematic figure of the clown, it is John Wayne Gacy. The killer in the puppet suit, since he played for a while the role of Pogo the clown to entertain hospital children, did not have an easy life during his first years of existence. Far be it from me to feel sorry for his fate, for this man has committed many despicable acts. However, he had to endure many humiliations caused by an abusive and alcoholic father. Undoubtedly overwhelmed by the young boy's poor health and extreme weakness, John Stanley Gacy did not hesitate to reprimand him with more than fierce words. It is certain that this iron fist education had irreparable consequences, shaking the child's mental health. At the age of nine, John Wayne Gacy was raped by a close family friend but did not dare to reveal the sexual abuse.
Having suffered all kinds of abuse, the 17-year-old then engaged in necrophiliac sex as part of his professional activity as a janitor in a funeral home. This point of no return led him to be accused, on several occasions, of attempting to rape young adolescents, even though he seemed to find a certain stability by becoming a father. In 1968, John Wayne Gacy was sentenced to 10 years in prison. A pain that he will only do for 18 months, succeeding in persuading the authorities that all this was linked to a political machination following his commitment to the Democratic Party. However, these facts turned out to be true when his wife later discovered gay magazines but also clothes belonging to young teenagers in his dressing room...
It was in 1972 that everything changed and the long descent into hell of this man began. For more than six years John Wayne Gacy perpetrated barbaric acts against young men who had the misfortune to cross his path. Its preferred victims were more generally young workers employed in its own construction company : PDM Contractors. His method was to lure them into his home after a day's work in order to tie them up, torture them, rape them and eventually kill them in cold blood.
The police investigating these rather worrying disappearances, arrested him on 21 December 1978. Strong suspicions hovered above his head. After careful and thorough searches, the officers in charge of this case discovered no less than twenty bodies buried and tied up in the crawl space under his residence in Chicago. Gacy having tried in vain to hide this mass grave by applying lime to the bodies and concreting the whole thing, I let you imagine the vision of horror that this must have caused...
John Wayne Gacy was sentenced to death and will be held in Stateville Penitentiary until his execution in 1994 by lethal injection. During his years in prison, he developed artistic talents. Painting daily fantasy paintings, featuring clowns and other creatures from a magical folklore...
Find the bodies if you can.
John Wayne Gacy