Gacy was so scared about what his father would do he chose to keep quiet. John Wayne Gacy was guilty of killing 33 people mostly teenage boys and burying them under his house. He got most of his victims by dressing up as pogo the clown. In conclusion I fully believe that that abuse and bullying have a lot to do with how a person reacts.
John Wayne Gacy is a serial killer who killed 33 people in total. He was born on May 17th 1942 in Chicago where he was physically and verbally abused by his father. Since this age he showed unusual behaviours and avoiding society, but then was determined that he has a psychological disorder. He moved to Los Angeles and was living a normal life however he started showing his real face in 1968 where he raped a young, male employee.
Mary had a depressing childhood; her mother was portrayed to be a raging alcoholic and she had an all but absent father (“Mary Bell”). During Mary’s brief childhood, she experienced the torment of abandonment and drug overdoses. On several occasions, Mary suffered frequent drug overdoses that were more than likely distributed by her mother. Betty reportedly suffered from Munchausen by Poxy Syndrome, which is thriving on the attention over her daughter’s horrific “accidents.”
Because of being malnourished, Chikatilo’s stomach was swollen and would get bullied in school because of his appearance. In adolescence, Chikatilo was a model student and an enthusiastic communist and graduated with outstanding grades in 1954, in his teens he had also found out that he suffered from impotence which made him hate himself and become more socially awkward. After graduating he tried to get a scholarship to Moscow University, however he didn’t get in, Chikatilo thought this might have been because of his father being taken prisoner at war, even though this was actually because other students had performed better than him. In 1963 Chikatilo’s sister and her husband arranged his marriage to a woman called
The boyars took him in to watch over him, though they did not do a good job. They only payed Ivan attention when it was required at ceremonies or when it was through varying forms of physical and sexual abuse. Living in poverty, Ivan often witnessed brutal murders and abuse; he was exposed to much court intrigue, family dangers, and took all of this torment out on small animals when he was still young. With birds alone, he would tear off their feathers, pierce their eyes, and slit their bodies. His poor upbringing is believed to be a likely cause for what became his ruthless
Richard’s mother also would beat Richard and his siblings often. At the age of five, Stanley Kuklinski beat Richard’s brother Florian to death ("Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski”). Stanley told his wife Anna to call the hospital and say Florian fell down the stairs ("Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski”). Following that, Stanley
There is also a different account of a man named Alex, who up until his 40 years of age never experienced abnormal sexual preference towards children. He was engulfed with the pleasure of child pornography, prostitution. He restrained himself as much as he could but the sexual advances he made towards his step daughter alarmed his wife. Not to long after that she discovered his secret life he was trying to keep away from his family and friends. On his was to prison he experienced severe headache and was send to the emergency room where he underwent surgery to remove a tumor from his orbitofrontal vortex.
Two characters in the novel that portray this action are Aunt Alexandra and Uncle Jack. Aunt Alexandra does not accept the way he raises Scout and how he lets her go around dressed like a boy. Uncle Jack just disagrees with Atticus' whole view on disciplining his kids. For Atticus to be raising his children on his own he is doing a wonderful
Instead of being sent to a detention centre, his father locked him up in his house and now he is mentally unstable from the years of isolation. The mockingbird also has a compelling importance due to the connections with Boo Radley and Tom Robinson. Harper Lee uses juxtaposition to highlight the contrast of a black man and a white man facing racism and discrimination.
In To Kill a Mockingbird there were many characters who were misjudged such as Tom Robinson, Atticus Finch, and even Calpernia but the character who was most misjudged was Boo (Arthur) Radley because of the incident that he had with his father as a child, which was when people started viewing him as a monster when in reality he wasn’t. Flash back several years before Scout and Jem were even born, Boo Radley liked to hang out with the Cunningham's, who weren't the best group to hang around with, but he did. They ended up doing some not so good stuff, they were charged for " disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace, assault and battery, and using abusive and profane language in the presence and hearing of a female." So right there people started
Arthur J. Shawcross, a notorious serial killer, claimed to have had a very troubled childhood. Without facts to support, he alleges that he was sexually abused by his mother until he decided to run away in the ninth grade. Later, when Shawcross served in Vietnam, he claimed, although he had never served in combat, that he had beheaded a woman. Upon discharge from the U.S. Army, he returned to Watertown, New York. Arthur Shawcross would go on to murder fourteen year old, Jack Blake and eight year old, Karen Hill in 1971 and 1972 as well as eleven women from 1988 to 1989.
Emmett Till, a 14 year old African-American, was brutally murdered racists. When Emmett was little he had a slight studded due to polio. He was born on July 25, 1921 and lived in Chicago, Illinois with his mother, Mamie Till Mobley. Emmett went to visit family in Money, Mississippi where he supposedly whistled at a white women and was brutally murdered after. Though he went to a segregated school he, he faced little racism compared to those in the south.
Gary Leon Ridgway was a serial killer known as the Green River killer that killed many victims in the Seattle, Washington area he was born February 18, 1949 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was convicted of killing 48 separate murders. Gary grew up in a poor environment with parents that were very harsh. Gary married 3 times and during his third marriage starting his killings. He was abusive to his wives.
Edmund Kemper was a serial killer who was known for the murdering of his grandparents, his mother and her friend, and six female hitchhikers. During his childhood, there were many early signs of violence and criminality. Kemper was said to have a “dark fantasy life” and would often dream about killing his own mother when he was younger (Biography.com Editors). Furthermore, Kemper participated in the act of animal torturing at a very young age. When he was ten years old, Kemper “buried a pet cat alive; once it died, he dug it up, decapitated it and mounted its head on a spike”.
Suicide Takes Over A lot of people believe that the world is a bright, colorful happy place, but what they don’t realize is that it’s not as happy and bright as they thought. Imagine living in a world of grey, you always feel as if you have no reason to get out bed in the morning. You feel as if there is this weight on your shoulders that is just too heavy. This is what it feels like to have depression. Nancy Farrell lost her brother Tom to suicide because he had a mid life depression, also known as mid life crisis.