81. John Wayne Gacy - Part 1

If you have ever taken a deep look at a serial killer and their entire story before, you know that there are many things that people believe are parts of building a person who is capable of killing and becoming a serial killer.  The more that you study the psychology and the childhoods of these killers you really do start to see a lot of similarities across many stories.  One of those similarities is the fact that many serial killers have some sort of childhood trauma within their lives.  Many studies have led scientists to believe that during the formative years things like trauma can teach the brain to suppress empathy and emotional impulses.  Over the next few weeks we are going to cover a serial killer who had trauma in his past and the ability to fool everyone around him into believing that he was someone different than he truly was.  The question though in this story is whether the trauma was a pressure point or not for the murders that he committed.  This week we are going to cover the life of one of the worst serial killers of all time on our way through a series where we will talk about everything that is pertinent.   GBNF on Patreon GBNF on Facebook GBNF on X GBNF on Instagram GBNF on YouTube GBNF on TikTok Intro Music: Provided by Gallagher Music