Unidentified vics of infamous serial killer JOHN WAYNE GACY continue to be dug up from their still graves to be identified in the cold light of day!
One of history’s most bizarre sickos, Gacy who worked as an amateur clown, was convicted of murdering 33 young men, often luring them to his Chicago home for sex by impersonating a police officer or promising them construction work.
Gacy then stabbed one and strangled the others between 1972 and 1978. Most of the victims were buried in a crawl space under his home. Four others were dumped in a river.
Gacy was executed in 1994, but a collection of skeletal remains discovered in his home have baffled detectives for three decades.
In 2011, investigators secretly exhumed the bones of eight young men who were never identified in hopes of answering the question: Who were they?
The Cook County Sheriff’s Department says DNA testing could solve the last mystery of one of the nation’s worst serial killers.
Law enforcement and authorities wants the public’s help in determining the victims’ names.
Investigators are urging relatives of anyone who disappeared between 1970 and Gacy’s 1978 arrest – and who are still unaccounted for – to undergo DNA saliva tests to compare their genetic makeup with those of the skeletal remains.
Since after three decades, the relatives could be anywhere, the sheriff’s department is creating a phone bank to field calls nationwide.
Plus, detectives feel the stigma of being one of Gacy’s victims and brazen homosexuality, may have softened over time.
“I’m hoping the stigma has lessened, that people can put family disagreements and biases against sexual orientation [and] drug use behind them to give these victims a name,” Detective Jason Moran told Associated Press.
“I can almost guarantee you that one or two of these kids were wards of the state,” said retired Detective Phil Bettiker.
“I don’t think anybody cared about them.” Most of them were 17 or 18 years old and had been “through God knows how many foster homes and were basically on their own.”
