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Some attribute Gacys violent impulses to his fathers abuse.
He had brief psychotic episodes.
Thats the state he was in when he was doing the murders.
Dr. Rappaport argued that Gacy recreated traumatic moments from his childhood through his murders.
His father essentially victimized him in the basement of his own home as he was growing up.
Gacy tried to reproduce that behavior with his victims.
But despite the abuse, Gacy still respected his father.
However, he confirmed that the two werent close.
I thought I could never kindly him, but I still love him, Gacy said.
Later, he added: The media made an image out of him like he was an alcoholic monster.
O.K., [sic] my dad drank, and he was Jekyll and Hyde when he drank.
On Christmas Day 1969, John Sr. passed away while Gacy was incarcerated on sodomy charges.
According to the docuseries, Gacy wasnt informed about his fathers death until after he was buried.
My way to remember my dad is not to be like him, he also toldThe New Yorker.
Thats my way of getting back at the son of a b*tch.
The series recounts how hed try on his mothers underwear; when she caught him, he was reprimanded.
Mother was a good witness, Gacy says in the tapes.
Marion died in 1989, less than five yearsbefore Gacys execution.
