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    Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy Introduction “A serial killer is a person who murders three or more people, usually due to abnormal psychological gratification, with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant break between them” (Wikipedia). Notorious serial killer and sex offender Jeffrey Dahmer killed 17 men between 1978 and 1991. Dahmer was sentenced to 15 consecutive life terms, and then murdered by a fellow prison inmate in 1994 (“Jeffrey Dahmer…

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    normal considering they get a “Orgasm” from killing people. John Wayne Gacy also known as the “Killer Clown,” said after he killed his victim he had an “orgasism.” Serial killers are seen as blood-thristy which is true, serial killers have been known to enjoy seeing victims suffer from being stabbed and seeing blood run everywhere. Although, some serial killers such as John Wayne Gacy didn’t like making a mess while killing people. Gacy told police after his capturing, that he would put victim…

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    John Gacy Case

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    On June 22, 1972, Gacy would yet again be arrested on charges of aggravated battery and reckless conduct. According to Linedecker, “A young man told police that he was standing on the street corner when Gacy swung his car toward the curb, flashed a badge and identified himself as a sheriff’s deputy. The young man was order into the car un the threat of arrest…After he got into the car he was forced to perform oral sex on the driver” (1980, p. 61). The case was never brought to trial, but for the…

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    Due to the unique methods and the improving technologies over the year’s cases such as John Wayne Gacy, the World Trade Center disaster, and the Hardin Cemetery Flood have given families closure to their loved ones whom remains were once marked as un-indefinable. In this following report, the reader will be introduced to the inside clues and techniques…

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    Serial Killer Case Study

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    fluent meaning throughout humans history, today that changes. The definition of evil is not one that is easily defined nor readily available to us as a human species. However through the study of serial killers such as Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and Albert Fish. and their treatment in the court system, one facet of a very large topic can be explored in an attempt to place a dialectic definition on such an arbitrary topic as evil. Through the case study of Serial Killers, one…

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    Frank Gacy Revenge Case

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    This illusion that Gacy had continued to portray for years as the good neighbor, citizen, and friend would eventually come to end upon the disappearance of Robert Priest in December of 1978. According to Cartel, “Gacy was supervising a drug store construction job in nearby Des Plaines when he spotted fifteen year old Robert Piest. Gacy told the boy that he would pay him five dollars an hour if he worked for him during that 1978 summer. When Robert’s mother came to pick him up he told her…

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    phenomenon. The reasons as to why John Wayne Gacy, one of the most notorious serial killers, murdered and raped 33 young boys can be explored. Some of them being: his abusive father, trouble with his sexuality, and a constant need to feel accepted or praised. To begin with, the crimes of John Wayne Gacy had consisted of 33 murders of young men. However, before the murders, Gacy had served time in prison for the sexual assault of a fifteen year old named Donald Voorhees. Gacy invited Voorhees,…

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    profilers only begin with these generalizations. The rest of their portraits become more accurate as evidence becomes available. For example, a serial killer’s victim can act as a window into who the killer is. Serge-Moses Pakhomou, a researcher at the John Jay…

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    John and his siblings were always brutally criticized and abused by there alcoholic father. John seemed to always be a disappointment to his father no matter how much John tried to please his father he always failed. John suffered a lot accepting his sexuality because he knew he was going to be even a bigger disappointment to his father if he knew that he was attractive to men instead of woman. Johns rage and motive for killing began after Johns father died and stated to…

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    IN the mind of the worst of the human race We all fear something, don’t we? Yes, yet it is hard to say things that we are afraid of do not intrigue us, make us wonder. Where it came from what made it what it is well this paper is my dive into the mind of something that intrigues me personally yet I am also afraid of. The mind of the serial killer the monsters among men we all fear people that can take a human life but why do they well in my research I found some similarities such as personal…

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