According to a number of documentaries: Crime Stories, and Monster in my Family, John Wayne Gacy lived through a troubled childhood. Gacy’s father was an alcoholic with a bad temper, who frequently beat his wife and children, in particular, John. In the documentary series, Monster in my Family, John Wayne Gacy’s little sister, Karen Kuzma, stated that her family lived in constant fear and that she learned to “shut [her] mouth” when her father was around. However, Gacy was not as lucky as his sisters as he somehow always found a way to trigger his father in whatever he did. Upon reaching his late adolescent years, Gacy decided he had had enough of his father and ran away from home, relocating to Las Vegas in search for work. During his stay in Las Vegas, Gacy found a job as a mortuary attendant and after a life changing event, in which he slept with one of the corpses of a deceased boy, he suddenly returned home, as his sister recalled, was “totally different... more into himself”. Gacy eventually got married, had children of his