Serial Killers
... out and worked as a janitor. He wasn’t satisfied with his life, so Gacy moved back to Chicago and enrolled in a business college. In 1964, Gacy married and took over his father-in-law’s restaurant and became a well-known member of the community. Gacy threw elaborate parties and even volunteered at the local hospitals. He got his first felony in 1968 for trying to get an employee to coerce in homosexual activities. When he was sentenced to 10 years in Iowa’s State Men’s Reformatory, his wife filed for divorce. Eight months later, Gacy was released on parole and returned to Chicago, where he was then charged with attempted rape and disorderly conduct. The charges against him were dropped when the victim failed to appear in court. About five years later, a teenage boy came up missing and Gacy was the last person seen with him. When investigators searched his house they found a ring and noticed it belonged to a teen that had gone missing from the previous year and a roll of film that belonged to the other victim. Gacy got scared and went to the police to confess. He told them that he had multiple personalities, “The Four Johns”, John the contractor, John the clown, John the politician, and Jack the killer. He explained the methods of which “Jack” used to lure his victims. He said first he handcuffed his victims, telling them that it was a special clown trick, and then killed them by pulling a rope against their throats while raping them. After he killed his victims he stashed them under his bed or in the hallway for a few hours until he buried them in his crawl space under his stairs. By the end of his confession, he admitted to over two-dozen murders, but Gacy said he couldn’t answer all the questions and told the police to ask “Jack”. He had a five-week trial that called more than 100 witnesses. They found him guilty for murdering 33 people and they didn’t believe that Gacy had multiple personalities. On May 10, 1994, Gacy was executed by lethal injection. The last person I am going to write about is Edward Gein. Edward Gein was born August 27, 1606 in La Crosse, Wisconsin. His father was a drunk and beat his mother. Because Gein wasn’t the most attractive kid in school, he was subjected to the other kids’ jokes. In 1940, Gein’s father died of pneumonia. In 1944, Edward Gein’s older brother died in a “forest fire”, but examinations showed that the “forest fire” wasn’t the cause of his death; they said his brother’s head was the only part of his body that was severely burned. In 1945, Gein’s mother died, making Gein the last living member of his intermediate family. While under investigation in 1957, Gein told Earl Kileen, the District Attorney, that for eighteen months after his mother's death, he started visiting local graveyards at night, raided the graves of women that had recently died, and took them home with him. He said continued to do this for ten years. On November 16, 1957, Law Enforcement Officers entered Edward Gein’s farmhouse and searched it. They were investigating a disappearance of another woman. The Pine Grove Police, who were still working on the case of Mary Hogan, then joined them. Mary Hogan was a 54-year-old woman that had disappeared in Pine Grove, Wisconsin. Edward Gein was locked up while the officers searched the farmhouse. They said they had found what appeared to be masks made out of human faces. There was also many heads, some stuffed with newspaper, some soaked in oil. The police thought that the oil was to keep the skin from decaying. Then in a brown paper bag a deputy found the head of Mary Hogan. They had also found chairs, lampshades, mobiles, belts, and dishes made of human body parts. A sheriff from a nearby county was convinced that that Gein was a serial killer, saying that Gein wasn’t capable of moving the headstones by himself. November 22, 1957, Gein was charged with robbery and a $10,000 bail was set. He stayed at Central State until 1968, when he was found fit to stand trial. He was charged with first-degree murder, but his lawyer put in the defense of insanity and was found to be insane again. He was returned to Central State. Edward Gein was said to be a model prisoner and was well liked by the staff. In 1978, Central state was turned into a prison so Gein was moved...