Kunkle, Jr., Chief Deputy State's Attorney, and Michael E. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (William J. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Richard M. Goldberg, Assistant Appellate Defenders, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Chicago (Ralph Ruebner, of counsel), for appellant. 24 is identified as James Byron Haakenson in July 2017.THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, 19 is identified the following month as William George Bundy, and when Victim No. October 12, 2011: Illinois sheriff seeks to identify more victimsĪrmed with new DNA technology, Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart announces that he has exhumed the remains of the eight unidentified Gacy victims and urges relatives of young men who went missing in the 1970s to come forward and undergo saliva tests. After delivering a final statement on behalf of his innocence, the 52-year-old is put to death just after midnight by lethal injection. His last-second attempts at a stay of execution squashed, Gacy is transferred to Illinois' Stateville Correctional Center, where he is reported to be in a "chatty" mood and enjoys a last meal of fried chicken, shrimp, fries and strawberries. Having already made waves with his clown-themed paintings and sketches, Gacy further raises the ire of officials by unveiling a $1.99-per-minute telephone line which features a recorded interview of him answering commonly asked questions about the case. March 1, 1994: Gacy launches a paid phone line Unlike many of the other runaways and dropouts who wound up in Gacy's clutches in the middle of the night, Piest is a popular high school student with strong ties in the community Gacy's lawyer later theorizes that his client began getting more careless about his killings with the hope of getting caught. When 15-year-old Robert Piest goes missing after telling his mom he intends to see someone about a high-paying job, police follow the trail of witnesses to Gacy's home. December 11, 1978: Gacy's final murder victim puts police on his trail Rignall, who accepts $3,000 to settle the legal charges, goes on to recount the experience in his book 29 Below. March 21, 1978: Gacy attacks a man in his carĪfter luring Jeff Rignall into his car with an offer to smoke marijuana, Gacy subdues the 26-year-old with a chloroform-soaked rag, tortures and rapes him at his home, and then dumps him out in a park. He also picks up the pace on his murderous spree, claiming another two dozen victims from April 1976 through the end of 1977. During this time he begins appearing more frequently around town as his alter ego, Pogo the clown. Photo: Bettmann / Contributor March 2, 1976: Gacy divorces his second wifeĪlready living alone, Gacy has his separation from Carol formalized with their divorce. Attempts to question the young men coming and going from the house fail to uncover any relevant evidence. The complaints beginning to pile up, police camp out at 8213 West Summerdale Avenue after a 9-year-old boy prostitute is reported missing. January 1976: Police stake out Gacy's home Butkovich is later identified as Gacy's third murder victim. His car is found near his parents' home the following day with the key in the ignition. John Butkovich, one of the many young men and teenagers hired for PDM Contractors, disappears after a heated confrontation with Gacy over unpaid wages. July 31, 1975: A young associate of Gacy's goes missing She notices a strange smell coming from the crawl space, but her husband blames it on the runoff from a sewer pipe, and attempts to stifle the smell by spreading concrete and lime in the area. Gacy marries Carol Hoff, a childhood friend. After bringing the teenager home, where they drink and engage in sexual acts, Gacy stabs him to death and buries him in a crawl space. Returning to the bus station, Gacy picks up his first known murder victim, later identified as Timothy McCoy. January 3, 1972: Gacy kills his first victim
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