John Wayne

processes, which could explain why a serial killer can make themselves appear “normal” at times to lure their victims in. Many serial killers such as Ted Bundy, Gary Ridgeway, Tom Lynn Sells, John Wayne Gacey, Jeffery…

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…

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…

the police had done a thorough background check each time Gacy’s name was brought into question by the parents of the missing victims, he may have been able to be stopped much earlier than December of 1978. For example John Butkovich was a sixteen year old boy, who had worked for John Gacy at his construction company. Numerous young men who worked for Gacy would show up to work for him one day, and be vanished the next, as was the case with Butkovich. Although many individuals noticed this…

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…

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…

These types are separated by the motives of the killer. The FBI, along with Leonard G. Johns et. Al, have created general categories for the motives of serial killers to fall into. These include anger, ideology, financial gain, power/thrill, sexually-based and psychosis, among others. A serial killer driven by anger seems to detest certain…

A strong worn leather belt with deep notches carved every few centimeters is draped on a hook behind an old wooden door. A young boy sits cross-legged in a small, square garage, curiously staring at a collection of assembled metal. Slowly the four year old begins moving the heavy pieces with a desire to learn of their purpose. Heavy footsteps cause the young boy to be brought back to reality, just in time for him to feel a forceful tug on his arm, hear the sound of the belt whizzing through the…

The movie The Green Berets starring John Wayne was directed and written by him and Ray Kellogg in 1968. The film is about a group of Green Berets who are led by Colonel Mike Kirby, played by John Wayne, along with a skeptical journalist who go into south Vietnam to help with humanitarian effects and to stop the spread of Communism from the north Vietnamnese people. George Beckworth, the skeptical journalist, comes along with the Colonel and his group of special forces to see if these is a need…

Factors That Contribute to The Chances of a Specific Individual Becoming a Serial Killer. Societies all around the globe are full of deviance. Whether it is a crime or just an immoral act, there’s always an explanation to one’s behavior. In most illegal activities, especially homicides, there is a motive, unless it is an accident. The reasons behind an intentional killing are numerous: jealousy, revenge, hate, greed, and so forth. But the means to a murder are different when it comes to…