The study of personality is one of the major topics of interest in psychology. Personality is generally stable, although it can be influenced by environmental factors. An individual`s personality causes them to react to certain scenarios and people. Personality theories study how an individual develops their personality and can be utilized in studying personality disorders. Numerous personality theories exist and most of the major ones fall into one of four major perspectives. Each of these perspectives on personality attempts to describe different patterns in personality, including how these patterns from and how people differ on an individual level. The four personality theories are: psychoanalytic, humanistic, trait perspective, and behaviorist theory.
Gacy was known by a lot of people locally to be an eager worker and being dynamic in local area legislative issues. His job as “Pogo the Clown” the comedian started in 1975 when Gacy joined a neighborhood “Chipper Joker” jokester club that routinely performed at gathering pledges occasions.
On January 3, 1972, Gacy carries out his most memorable homicide of Timothy McCoy, a 16-year old kid going from Michigan to Omaha. Guaranteeing that McCoy went into his room employing a kitchen blade, Gacy gets into an actual squabble with McCoy prior to cutting him over and over in the chest. Subsequent to understanding that McCoy had absentmindedly strolled into the room with the blade while attempting to get ready breakfast, Gacy covers the body in his unfinished plumbing space. Gacy conceded in the meetings following his capture that killing McCoy gave him a “mind-desensitizing climax”, expressing that this murder was the point at which he “understood demise was a definitive rush” (Cahill and Ewing 349). Just about 2 years after the fact, Gacy carries out his second homicide of a unidentified teen. Gacy choked the kid prior to stuffing the body in his wardrobe prior to covering him (Cahill 349).
In 1975, Gacy’s business was developing rapidly and his hunger for young fellows developed with it. Gacy frequently baited young fellows under his work to his home, persuading them to place themselves in binds, and assaulting and tormenting them prior to choking them (Cahill 169-170). The vast majority of Gacy’s killings occurred somewhere in the range of 1976 and 1978, the first of this time occurring in April 1976. A significant number of the young people that were killed during this time were covered in an unfinished plumbing space under Gacy’s home. Until the end of the killings, Gacy conceded to losing five bodies the I-55 scaffold into the Des Plaines River; be that as it may, just four of the bodies were at any point recuperated (Linedecker 152).
In December 1978, Gacy meets Robert Jerome Piest, a 15-year old kid working at a drug store and offers him a task at Gacy’s firm. Piest educates his mom regarding this and neglects to return that night. The Piest family records a report for someone who has gone missing and the drug specialist illuminates police that Gacy would doubtlessly be the man that Jerome addressed about a task. At the point when addressed by the police, Gacy denied any contribution in Piest’s vanishing. Nonetheless, the police were not persuaded, and Gacy’s set of experiences of sexual maltreatment and battery provoked the police to look through his home. Among the things found at Gacy’s home were a 1975 secondary school class ring with the initials J.A.S., numerous driver’s licenses, cuffs, clothing that was excessively little for Gacy, and a receipt for the drug store that Piest had worked at. Throughout the following couple of days, agents got various calls and tips about Gacy’s rapes and the baffling vanishings of Gacy’s representatives. The class ring was in the end followed back to John A. Szyc, one of Gacy’s casualties in 1977. Futhermore, after looking at Gacy’s vehicle, specialists found a little bunch of strands looking like human hair, which were shipped off the labs for additional investigation. That very evening, search canines were utilized to identify any hint of Piest in Gacy’s vehicle, and one of the canines showed that Piest had, as a matter of fact, been available in the vehicle.
On December 20, 1977, under the pressure of consistent police reconnaissance and examination, Gacy admits to more than 30 killings and illuminates his legal counselor and companion where the bodies were covered, both in the unfinished plumbing space and the waterway. 26 casualties were found in the unfinished plumbing space and 4 in the waterway. Gacy is captured, indicted for 33 homicides, and condemned to death by deadly infusion. He endeavored a craziness supplication yet was denied, and was executed on May 10, 1994.
There were a few criminological markers that specialists used to attach Gacy to the homicides. A portion of these include fiber examination, dental and radiology records, utilizing the decay cycle of the human body, and facial recreation in recognizing the people in question. Examiners found strands that looked like human hair in both Gacy’s vehicle and close to the unfinished plumbing space where the bodies were covered. Notwithstanding these hair tests, examiners likewise tracked down filaments that contained hints of Gacy’s blood and semen in a similar region. Blood having a place with the casualties was found on a portion of the strands, which would later straightforwardly attach Gacy to the violations. The filaments in Gacy’s vehicle were broke down by criminological researchers and matched Piest’s hair tests. Moreover, the pursuit canines that verified that Piest had been in Gacy’s vehicle showed this by a “passing response”, which let specialists know that Piest’s dead body had been within Gacy’s vehicle.
