Crime & Safety
Cops Still Searching for Gacy Victims
Police are investigating cold case murders from other areas of the country to see if there is a Gacy connection, the Chicago Tribune reports.
Authorities are looking into several murders that have gone unsolved across the country, looking for connections to notorius serial killer John Wayne Gacy, The Chicago Tribune reports.
Among those leads, police are now looking into the murder of two teenage boys from Michigan. Police are studying DNA samples and Gacy's travel history, the Tribune reports.
John Wayne Gacy, of unincorporated Norwood Park Township, was convicted of the murders of at 33 teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978. Police re-opened the Gacy case two years ago in search of additional victims. Gacy buried 26 of his victims in the crawl space of his home in unincorporated Norwood Park Township, and buried three more in other areas of his propety. He was executed in 1994.
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