User blog comment:BeholderofStuff/Pure Evil Removal Proposal:John Gacy (Gacy)/@comment-1705775-20190706215501

abusive upbringing does NOT excuse serial killers, it is really damn infuriating that so many people keep saying this - do you have any idea how many people are abused and DON'T become sadistic pieces of crap whose only joy in life is torturing others? so no.. that's not enough at all.

loved his wife and kids? yeah, so much so that instead of resisting his perverse love of killing to raise them and care for them he just kept going anyways.. whether or not he provided for them is null and void.. he left home, murdered and butchered.. then came home and played the loving father / husband.. but he can't love.. he can't have empathy.. if he did he would be incapable of the murderous stuff he did.