Gruesome Murders In Big Cities Essay

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Many people believe that the larger the city is, the more danger there is. In most cases that is true, but not all. There have been a great amount of gruesome murders in large towns, but there have been a few gruesome murders in small towns as well. Some killers will be mentioned, such as Ed Gein, John Wayne Gacy, and Patrick Tracy Burris. When they had struck their town with fear, each killer had claimed at least two lives. Does the population of a city affect its homicide rate? First, Ed Gein had murdered people in Plainfield, Wisconsin, although they think the body count is higher, they know for sure that he had killed at least two people. He murdered the two girls and had performed necrophilia, he also robbed graves after his mother had died. Gein had loved to feel powerful, he loved being dominant and that is why he had killed the girls, because he was attracted to them and they feared him and he felt an excitement at the thought of …show more content…

The population in Chicago in the 1970’s was 3,366,957. Gacy had killed 33 boys and young men. He would lure his victims to his home by either by offering them a job, or dressing as Pogo the Clown. After Gacy had gotten his victims to his house, he would convince them to let him tie them up, which he then murdered him. Gacy also had a gruesome killing spree in a large city, but did the population of the city drive him to do what he did? No, psychologists think that he had fallen over the edge. They said that Gacy he would have killed people, no matter the population. It didn’t matter if he was in Chicago with a lot of citizens, or if he were in Bristol where it is a small community, either way, he would have killed people. Unlike other killers, Gacy had performed more than a minority of the killings that year in Chicago. He is known as one of the ghastliest, horrendous serial assassins in

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