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Armed with the signed search warrant, police and evidence technicians drove to Gacy's home. They found Gacy had unplugged his sump pump, flooding the crawl space with water; they replaced the plug and waited for the water to drain. Evidence technician Daniel Genty then entered the 28-by-38-foot (8.5m ×11.6m) crawl space, crawled to the southwest area and began digging. [2] Within minutes, he uncovered putrefied flesh and a human arm bone. Genty shouted to the investigators that they could charge Gacy with murder, adding, "I think this place is full of kids." A police photographer uncovered a patella in the northeast corner. The two then began digging in the southeast corner, uncovering two lower leg bones. [45] All the victims discovered at Gacy's house were in an advanced state of decomposition. Dental records and X-ray charts helped Stein identify the remains. [229] [240] Twenty-three were identified via dental records and two via skeletal trauma. These id On December 30, Gacy abducted 19-year-old college student Robert Donnelly from a Chicago bus stop at gunpoint. [125] Gacy drove him to his home, where he raped, tortured, and repeatedly drowned Donnelly to unconsciousness in a bathtub as he made statements such as, "Aren't we playing fun games tonight?" [78] Donnelly later testified at trial that he was in such pain that he asked Gacy to kill him. Gacy replied "I'm getting 'round to it." [125] After several hours, Gacy drove Donnelly to his workplace and released him, warning him that if he complained to police, they would not believe him. [78] 1978 Jeffrey Rignall testified for the defense on February 21. [180] Rignall wept repeatedly while describing Gacy's torture of him in March 1978. [181] During specific cross-examination relating to the torture, Rignall vomited and was excused from further testimony. [182] On February 29, Donald Voorhees testified to his ordeal at Gacy's hands and his assault at Gacy's behest. Voorhees felt unable to testify but did briefly attempt to do so before being asked to step down. [183] Robert Donnelly testified the week after Voorhees, recounting his ordeal at Gacy's hands in December 1977. Donnelly was visibly distressed as he recalled the abuse. [78]John Butkovich was labelled as Body 2; he was among the first to be identified, on December 29, 1978. [121] [167] On December 23, investigators returned to unearth the three corpses which had been buried in the same trench as Body 1. [221] Body 3 (John Szyc) was buried in the crawl space directly above Body 4 (Gregory Godzik); both were identified December 29, 1978. [99] [121] Body 5 was buried directly beneath Body 1; [112] this victim was discovered 36 inches (910mm) below the surface of the soil, indicating he was the first to be buried in this common grave. [222] Gacy was executed for his crimes in 1994, but many questions remain unanswered. How many victims were there? Did Gacy act alone? And what drove John Wayne Gacy to murder? What caused the seemingly normal Gacy to sexually assault, torture and murder at least thirty-three young men and boys? When John Wayne Gacy was convicted in 1980, he had the dubious distinction of boasting the largest number of murder convictions for a single individual in United States history. Between 1972 and 1978, Gacy killed at least 33 men and young boys, burying the bodies of 26 of his victims in the crawlspace of his home in a Chicago suburb.

Cahill, Tim; Ewing, Russ (1986). Buried dreams: inside the mind of a serial killer. Bantam Books. ISBN 978-0-553-05115-5. After being informed that the police had found human remains in his crawl space and that he would now face murder charges, Gacy told officers he wanted to "clear the air". [45] In the early morning hours of December 22, and in the presence of his lawyers, Gacy provided a formal statement in which he confessed to murdering approximately thirty young males—all of whom he claimed had entered his house willingly. [45] Some victims were referred to by name, but Gacy claimed not to know or remember most of the names. [166] He claimed all were teenage male runaways or male prostitutes, the majority of whom he had buried in his crawl space. [45] Gacy claimed to have dug only five of the graves in this location and had his employees (including Gregory Godzik) dig the remaining trenches so that he would "have graves available". [136] When shown a driver's license issued to a Robert Hasten which had been found on his property, Gacy claimed not to know him but admitted that this license had been in the possession of one of his victims. [167] In January 1979, he had planned to conceal the corpses even further by covering the entire crawl space with concrete. [54]Shortly thereafter, Gacy enrolled at Northwestern Business College, despite having failed to complete high school. He graduated in 1963 and took a management trainee position with the Nunn-Bush Shoe Company. [12] [16] In 1964, the company transferred him to Springfield, Illinois, to work as a salesman, and eventually promoted him to department manager. [8] In March of that year, he became engaged to Marlynn Myers, a co-worker. [16] The very idea that this man could have gotten away with an insanity defense and been out on the street again one day makes me shudder. Mr. Sullivan and the rest of the prosecution team proved their case as the last of the book shows. NamUs - National Unidentified Persons Data System Case Report - 10998". Archived from the original on March 26, 2016 . Retrieved July 31, 2017. I listened to this on audio book and it totals 14 hours. 7 hours of the book was police watching JWG and I could swear it was skipping because it was so god awfully repetitive and boring.

The Forensics Library: John Wayne Gacy". aboutforensics.co.uk. June 30, 2012 . Retrieved February 14, 2017. Cram informed investigators of Gacy's attempts to rape him in 1976. He stated that after he and Gacy had returned to his home after the December 13 search, Gacy had turned pale after seeing a clod of mud on his carpet and had immediately entered the crawl space to look for evidence of digging. When asked whether he had been to the crawl space, Cram replied he had once been asked by Gacy to spread lime down there and had also dug trenches, which Gacy had explained were for drainage pipes. Cram stated these trenches were 2 feet (0.6m) wide, 6 feet (1.8m) long and 2 feet deep—the size of graves. [155] ConfessionNamUs - National Unidentified Persons Data System Case Report - 11004". Archived from the original on April 1, 2016 . Retrieved July 30, 2017. The first half, literally half, of the book is repetitive police accounts of tailing John Wayne Gacy. What the cops ate that day, how erratic JWG drives, how many times he slipped on ice walking to his house, more police stuff, and then more police stuff, then what they ate for lunch again- all which has very little to do with catching JWG or anything to do with his crimes. The prosecutors argued that Gacy was sane and in full control of his actions. [125] They produced several witnesses to testify to his premeditation and the efforts he took to escape detection. Those doctors refuted the defense doctors' claims of multiple personalities and insanity. Cram and Rossi testified that Gacy had made them dig drainage trenches and spread bags of lime in his crawl space. Both said Gacy looked periodically into the crawl space to ensure they and other employees they supervised did not deviate from the precise locations he had marked. [63] [157] Gacy appealed the 1985 decision that he be executed. The Illinois Supreme Court upheld his conviction on September 29, 1988, setting a new execution date of January 11, 1989. [203] After the U.S. Supreme Court denied Gacy's final appeal in October 1993, the Illinois Supreme Court formally set an execution date for May 10, 1994. [204] Execution Gacy's certificate of death