As a child Gacy experienced a hard life of trying to please his father, whom Gacy said was never satisfied. His father, a drunk who constantly beat Gacy and his siblings with a belt if they were even thought to have misbehaved, would also frequently torment and humiliate Gacy. (Scott, Crime Library Ch.6) Calling him a failure and attribute his mother’s defending him as a sign that he was weak and that he would grow up to become queer. Later a family friend, who would often take Gacy for rides, sexually
within his home. At the time of arrest, police found human body parts in refrigerator and in acid-filled vats and human skulls in his closet when his eighteen intended victim, Edwards, escaped and tell a police patrol car passing by him. In 1922, court found Dahmer guilty on his fifteen killings and sentenced him fifteen terms of life custody. After two years in 1924, Dahmer died inside the jail by another prisoner, Christopher Scarver, at the Columbia Correctional
and function of the human body. My fascination with the anatomy of the human body has led to my interest in forensic cases like John Wayne Gacy and “Zoo man” Huskey. Though the crimes which they committed were thought-provoking, it was the way the crimes were solved by teams of forensic anthropologists which really captivated me. The anthropologists who worked on John Gacy’s case were able to determine the age, sex and identity from the bones of the victims in the mass grave under his house. Anthropology
Popular TV shows such as CSI, NCIS, Dexter, and Criminal Minds contain plots based on homicides, and many times, serial killers. Such programs provide the needed storyline and developing characters, but also expose its audience to perpetrators that hide behind masks of normality. Notorious psychopaths, sociopaths, and other rampant murderers that premeditate murder and result in killing three or more people are most commonly referred to as serial killers; however this definition has been tainted
not being the first, the man who’s had the biggest impact on Criminal Profiling in recent history is John Douglas. Douglas was the head of the FBI’s Investigative Support Unit for over 25 years and developed the modern approach to criminal profiling. He developed his profiling technique by interviewing and studying dozens of serial and violent offenders including Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy, David