Why are so many Westerners afraid of clowns? -Zhihu

Why are so many Westerners afraid of clowns?

In the history of the United States, there is a real “serial sexual assault and murder case of the clown”. His name, John Wayne Gacy, is directly associated with terror. He is one of the most ferocious and horrible serial killers in the history of the United States. Before he was arrested, he had killed 33 people, most of them children,

according to police data.

As a result, he has become a nightmare for American children, and some of them even suffer from clown phobia.

(1) The clown is my mask. The film “The clown” tells the story of the clown in the orphanage, which could have unlimited possibilities, but after being adopted by his adoptive mother, all the misfortunes followed.

The adoptive mother was not only mentally ill, but also physically abusive. In this way, the

clown is driven to the road of revolution and crime step by step, and can only rely on the role of the clown to shuttle through the crowd. The

movie says, “It’s the city that makes clowns.”. In the 1970s, there was a real clown killer in the

United States.

His name, John Wayne Gacy, is directly associated with terror and has become one of the most vicious and horrible serial killers in American history. Before he was arrested, John Wayne Gacy had killed 33 people,

according to police data. Most

of them are children, so he has become a nightmare for American children, and even some children have clown phobia. A rare execution was carried out in the United States, where the death penalty is

rarely used.

And his last words to the world are: kissmyass. (2) Behind every psychopathic killer, there is always a father who “pays” silently. & # x2F; The dehumanizing clown John Wayne Gacy is very similar to other psychopathic killers. He also suffered a very miserable childhood.

John Wayne Gacy was born in Chicago in 1942. He grew up as a fat boy and didn’t like sports.

So throughout his childhood, he was often bullied by his classmates and neighbors. The bullying

from his classmates and neighbors is only the second, and the most important thing is the domestic violence from his father.

His father never took care of him. In his impression, his father was a drunken man who drank too much. He abused him and his mother

every time after drinking, and he grew up in an environment of abuse and beating.

As a child, John Wayne Gacy was not without love. Every time his father drank and beat people, his mother would try to protect him. The more the

mother tried to protect them, the more the father beat them.

His father said “gay” and “sissy” to him most of the time.

A few years later, something happened that changed John Wayne Gacy completely. John Wayne Gacy, who was 9

at the time, was taken on a field trip by a friend of his parents, who sexually assaulted him in a truck headed for the suburbs. After the

incident, John Wayne Gacy said nothing to anyone, including his mother, who had been protecting him.

This incident is buried deep in John Wayne Gacy’s childhood memory. After

entering middle school, his weight became heavier and heavier, and his physical quality became worse and worse. He often fainted and was found to have heart problems.

So his parents arranged for him to be hospitalized, but during this period, his academic performance has been declining.

His father was furious that he was just pretending to be ill for sympathy. In his father’s scolding and beating, he suffered until he was 18 years old, and then left his hometown independently.

Criminal psychologists believe that John Wayne Gacy’s anti-social behavior, including killing, kidnapping, sexual assault and abuse, has a lot to do with his dark childhood.

In the conversation between the psychologist and John Wayne Gacy, the criminal psychologist found that he did not hate his father. His answer was that all the anti-human behavior was just to make his father proud of him. When

John Wayne Gacy’s father threw him out of the house, he worked as a hospital morgue caretaker for a time, sleeping mostly in duty room behind the morgue’s freezer.

For ordinary people, there is basically fear in the face of corpses, but John Wayne Gacy is not like this. Not only was

he not afraid of the existence of the corpse, but whenever he saw the corpse, there was a kind of inexplicable excitement in his heart. Once

he climbed into the coffin of a dead young man, stroked and hugged the body, and felt a little relieved. After graduating from

high school, John Wayne Gacy began to participate in political life. He once served as an assistant to the Democratic candidate in the city. With continuous efforts, he also became the Democratic candidate for the district. After

graduation, he went to work in a consulting company. It was here

that he met his first wife, Marlyn Myers.

They married in 1966, and his wife Marilyn’s family was well-off. In order to support the couple’s economy, his father-in-law invested in three KFC stores as a gift to John Wayne Gacy.

But they don’t know much about Gacy himself.

However, they think he has a good head for business and may have the potential to rise in the world.

So his father-in-law let him into his home in Iowa. After

his marriage, John Wayne Gacy joined the local Chamber of Commerce and eventually became its vice president.

From then on, he came into contact with politics.

(Gacy is the one in the middle.) While their careers are booming, the couple have welcomed two children.

His achievements have finally won the praise of his father, and his career and family are very happy.

At this time, the seeds of evil hidden in his heart are slowly growing, and his various bad habits are being cultivated.

He got what many men wanted, but he was not satisfied with it. He began to have a strong interest in having sex with men and put it into action, but when he had sex with men, he mostly forced the other party. There are all kinds of scandals at the top of the

United States, and the top of John Wayne Gacy’s Chamber of Commerce is also full of all kinds of dirty lives. Wife

swapping, whoring, sex parties and drug use are all common things.

John Wayne Gacy began to be consumed by this life.

He met many teenage friends in the Junior Chamber of Commerce. They often held parties in the club in the basement of the restaurant. The parties attracted many teenagers. He also experienced homosexual love for the first time here.

He occasionally performed oral sex on drunken teenagers, and if someone rejected his sexual advances, he would turn them into a joke.

(3) He was caught sexually assaulting the same sex and started his second marriage. It was not a day’s cold. His accumulated special hobbies made him embark on the road of crime.

In 1968, John Wayne Gacy was arrested.

The reason is that in 1967, he sexually assaulted a 15-year-old teenager.

John Wayne Gacy denied the crime in court, saying it was a witch hunt because the teenager’s father had opposed him when he elected the president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, and that the incident was an act of revenge.

The judge did not accept his rebuttal. During the

trial, John Wayne Gacy underwent a psychiatric evaluation by a psychiatrist. According to the

evaluation report, John Wayne Gacy has an anti-social personality.

At this time, the seeds of evil hidden in his heart had grown up. Gacy was sentenced to 10 years in prison

in 1968.

At the same time, his wife dissolved the marriage with him.

In 1970, John Wayne Gacy was paroled after 18 months in prison for good behavior. After his

release, he returned to Chicago, where he lived with his mother and worked as a chef in a restaurant.

In 1971, he was accused by a teenager. The cause of

action is that John Wayne Gacy sexually assaulted him on a bus. The complaint was dismissed

because the juvenile did not appear in court.

In the same year, he walked out of prison and was sponsored by his mother. After

buying a house, they had a second marriage.

He opened his own construction company, and with continuous efforts, the company has achieved good results.

At the same time, he also paid attention to the relationship with the community people and actively participated in various community services, so he became the local constituency director of the Democratic Party.

In 1978, he was photographed at a Constitution Day parade in Poland with then-First Lady Rosalynn Carter and received her autograph.

(4) The Joker was finally born. In the 1950s, Bozo the Joker, a character on American television, was very popular.

McDonald’s also bought one of the show’s characters to sell hamburgers and fries for McDonald’s in Ronald Mcdonald’s version, and the clown became a favorite of children. In addition to raising money and hosting events,

John Wayne Gacy has also joined a local clown club.

Members regularly dress up as clowns, hold charity sales and fundraisers, and sometimes visit children in orphanages.

John Wayne Gacy created his own image called Pogothe Clown Clown Berg, which is different from the general clown’s silly image. The general clown draws a round smiling face, while Clown Berg draws sharp corners on his mouth and eyes, leaving a big mouth in the shape of a bat. The image is weird.

When I put on the clown’s coat, I become another me.

(5) The Devil Awakens Completely In 1972, Gacy met a teenager named Timothy Jack McCoy at the bus terminal.

He went shopping with the teenager and was left overnight by the teenager. When he got up

the next day, he found the teenager standing beside the bed with a knife, and he was so frightened that he grabbed the knife from the teenager’s hand.

In the process of grabbing the knife, the knife stabbed the teenager in the abdomen, and the teenager died in a pool of blood.

To Gacy’s surprise, when he went to the kitchen, he found that the teenager had made breakfast for him, and the teenager just went to wake him up. The death of the

young man made his inner demons come out completely. He said, “Death can bring him pleasure.”.

(Some of the victims show) John Wayne Gacy has become a real evil since the accidental killing in 1972.

He travels from city to city, targeting homeless, attractive and gullible young men, most of whom are strangled to satisfy his perverted desires.

Sometimes, he commits multiple crimes on the same night.

As the number of missing people increased, the police were concerned about the seriousness of the incident.

They didn’t know that John Wayne Gacy was the killer and had worked with him.

It was not until December 1978 that a missing person’s clue was connected to John Wayne Gacy, and 15-year-old Robert disappeared. When

his mother arrived at the police station, she described to the police that her son was going to work for a man named John Wayne Gacy, and she never heard from him again.

When police contacted John Wayne Gacy, he said his family had just died and he didn’t have time to recruit young people. When the

police interviewed him again, he entered the police station wearing a muddy coat, and this time he did not admit his relationship with Robert. By this time,

however, the police had turned their attention to John Wayne Gacy and began to investigate his past.

From the file, the police found that he was not simple, so they decided to search his house.

(6) 29 bodies buried underground, as young as 14 years old. In the house, the police searched for the remains of many missing persons: school commemorative rings, several driver’s licenses belonging to different people, handcuffs, syringes, men’s clothes of very small sizes. .. The crime committed by John Wayne Gacy is also gradually emerging, and the truth is getting closer to people. The

police detained him and sealed off his company.

When John Wayne Gacy’s house was broken open, police dug through his garage, underpass, floor, backyard and dining room for nearly half a month.

As the depth of the excavation increased, the bodies hidden under the house were dug up, and the total number of bodies was more than 29. John Wayne Gacy’s house has become a mass grave. By

1978, at least 33 people, mostly teenagers between the ages of 14 and 21, had been sexually assaulted and murdered by him, most of them buried under the house of John Wayne Gacy.

According to the results of the inquiry, the police linked him to the case of dumping a body in the river many years ago and the case of the disappearance of a high school student.

Gacy had no choice but to plead guilty.

As they were all strangled to death, the victims’ necks were still tied with the rope that had strangled them when they were buried.

Some of the victims had their mouths filled with gauze, and the gauze was blocked deep in their throats.

Some of the victims had drugs inserted through their anus. The youngest of

the victims was only 14 years old, and some of the victims were from John Wayne Gacy’s construction company.

Although he had committed the most heinous crimes, he was still justified in court in an attempt to get rid of the death penalty on the grounds of his tragic childhood and mental illness. Lawyers for

both sides argued for four hours, with the prosecution lawyer angrily accusing him of being a sociopath in 1968 and showing no remorse for his past sins.

(7) Before the execution, he said that the name of John Wayne Gacy caused a sensation in the United States overnight because of the greater impact of the kissmyass incident.

Because of his sin in reality and the pressure from public opinion, the court sentenced John Wayne Gacy to death, and the defense of mental illness was invalid. He was sentenced to death in

1980 and was not executed until 1994.

And he also left a sentence for people: kissmyass. To be able to say this sentence shows that the devil is the devil, and there is no possibility of becoming a man from the devil. After

he was executed, the storm did not seem to have subsided. During his years in

prison, he produced many paintings.

One of them was auctioned for as much as $9,500, and the painting was even exhibited in galleries around the world. Although the

devil has left the world, the influence of the devil still exists.

For the fans, there are advantages, but for the families of the victims, the devil is regarded as a saint, which is tantamount to giving them a second injury. Attention is not lost ~