John Wayne Gacy tortured vulnerable young men to death while playing sick sexual games — and the Chicago psycho got away with his hideous crimes for years! Many of the killer clown’s victims had already decomposed, and Gacy’s hideously high body count has left cops struggling to identify all of the bodies. Now new sketches have been released with facial reconstructions of two more Gacy victims. These young men disappeared as part of Gacy’s grotesque crime spree between 1972 and 1978, when he murdered at least 33 people. Six of those victims have remained anonymous. Authorities believe that’s partly because Gacy often preyed on desperate runaways. Instead of becoming murder cases, the tragic young men remained on the files as missing persons!
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The most recent Gacy victim to identified was in July 2017, with James "Jimmie" Byron Haakenson becoming the 24th named victim of the "killer clown" — who entertained kiddies while secretly luring underage boys into his torture dungeon. ("Pogo the Clown" is seen here in a self-portrait drawn by Gacy.)
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The doomed boy was only 16 years old when he left St. Paul, Minn., for Chicago in 1976 — where Gacy often cruised the streets for vulnerable victims he could lure home before torturing, raping, and killing them. Gacy was convicted for the murder of 33 boys and young men in 1980.
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Sickened authorities found multiple bodies buried in a crawl space beneath Gacy's suburban Chicago home. Haakenson was identified through enhanced DNA identification, using
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Cook County Medical Examiner Dr. Robert Stein believed that some of the victims were buried alive. And in a cruel twist, Haakenson's family had previously been given reason to hope that Jimmie was still living!
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In 2011, a former runaway named Harold Wayne Lovell came forward after learning that he had been listed as a potential Gacy victim. Theodore Szal, also believed to have been lured to his death, went public in 2012 to reveal that he was also alive and well. Yet another alleged victim
was found to be alive in 2013.
The most recent Gacy victim to identified was in July 2017, with James "Jimmie" Byron Haakenson becoming the 24th named victim of the "killer clown" — who entertained kiddies while secretly luring underage boys into his torture dungeon. ("Pogo the Clown" is seen here in a self-portrait drawn by Gacy.)
Photo credit: Getty/Files
The doomed boy was only 16 years old when he left St. Paul, Minn., for Chicago in 1976 — where Gacy often cruised the streets for vulnerable victims he could lure home before torturing, raping, and killing them. Gacy was convicted for the murder of 33 boys and young men in 1980.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Sickened authorities found multiple bodies buried in a crawl space beneath Gacy's suburban Chicago home. Haakenson was identified through enhanced DNA identification, using
jawbones salvaged from the site.Photo credit: Getty Images
Cook County Medical Examiner Dr. Robert Stein believed that some of the victims were buried alive. And in a cruel twist, Haakenson's family had previously been given reason to hope that Jimmie was still living!
Photo credit: Getty Images
In 2011, a former runaway named Harold Wayne Lovell came forward after learning that he had been listed as a potential Gacy victim. Theodore Szal, also believed to have been lured to his death, went public in 2012 to reveal that he was also alive and well. Yet another alleged victim
was found to be alive in 2013.
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