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Why Serial Killers Do What They Do
begging them to stop, they ing put into play, it makes
have to lose consciousness people wonder, why do Mr. Conroy discusses in
and serial killers kill? Is it an article titled “What
something that they are Makes A Serial Killer?”
have a limp body, so the born with? Maybe some- weather serial killers have
killer knows what they thing genetically passed some type of gene that
are doing. According to
the Chicago Tribune,
Gacy murdered 33 young
men, 29 of which were
buried in and around his
own home (Chicago Trib-
ute, n.d.). The remaining
4 were found in rivers
throughout Illinois (Chi-
cago Tribute, n.d.).
Gacy would lure young
men to his house, kill
them and then bury then
on his property (10 Most
Deranged Serial Killers
of All Time, n.d.). It was
as if he wanted to keep
the bodies as prizes he
won from the carnival.
Police personnel exca- Photo Courtesy of google.com
vated 27 bodies from the on? Or maybe something was given to them or if it
crawl space located inside happened to make them was from the type of en-
the home of John Wayne do these awful, unfore- vironment, they were in.
Gacy, one body was ex- seen acts. As we take a He discusses that majority
cavated from under the step deeper into the serial of the serial killers have
garage and one more was killer territory, we begin something in common,
located in his backyard by walking with J Oliver which is they go through
(Perry, 2018). Conroy, a writer/journalist some sort of traumatic
With all these facts be- from New York. experience within their
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