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NORWOOD PARK JOHN DOE (#5): WM, 23-30, body discovered in the re
sidence of serial killer John Wayne
By: Akoya Date: June 19, 2020, 1:28 pm
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The victim's skeletal remains were located buried in the crawl
space of John Wayne Gacy's home. He was under another victim who
has since been identified.
Altogether, 29 victims' remains were located on Gacy's property.
Four were found in the Des Plaines River, although Gacy
confessed to dumping five bodies in the river. There are 33
known victims, but it is suspected that there may be more.
As of 2019, this victim and five others remain unidentified:
954UMIL, 955UMIL, 957UMIL, 958UMIL, and 962UMIL.
Serial killer Gacy was convicted of his crimes and executed in
1994.
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Re: NORWOOD PARK JOHN DOE (#5): WM, 23-30, body discovered in th
e residence of serial killer John Wa
By: Akoya Date: June 19, 2020, 1:31 pm
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Unidentified Person / NamUs #UP11004Male, White / Caucasian
Date Body Found
December 29, 1978
Location Found
Norwood Park Township, Illinois
Estimated Age Range
23-30 Years
Case Information
Case Numbers
NCMEC Number
--
ME/C Case Number
1455DEC78
Demographics
Sex
Male
Race / Ethnicity
White / Caucasian
Estimated Age Group
Adult - Pre 30
Estimated Age Range (Years)
23-30
Estimated Year of Death
1972-1978
Estimated PMI
--
Height
5' 4"(64 inches) , Estimated
Weight
Cannot Estimate
Circumstances
Type
Unidentified Deceased
Date Body Found
December 29, 1978
NamUs Case Created
February 21, 2013
ME/C QA Reviewed
October 10, 2013
Location Found Map
General Location
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Norwood Park Township, Illinois
County
Cook County
GPS Coordinates
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Circumstances of Recovery
Skeletal remains were found buried - 12/29/1978.
Details of Recovery
Inventory of Remains
--
Condition of Remains
Not recognizable - Near complete or complete skeleton
Physical Description
Hair Color
Brown
Head Hair Description
dark brown to black on autopsy report
Body Hair Description
--
Facial Hair Description
--
Left Eye Color
Unknown
Right Eye Color
Unknown
Eye Description
skeletal remains
Investigating Agencies
CASE OWNER
Cook County Sheriff's Police Department
(708) 865-6244
Agency Case Number
78-803640
Jason Moran, Detective Sergeant
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Cook County Medical Examiner's Office
(312) 997-4500
Agency Case Number
1455DEC78
Kristin Escobar Alvarenga, MD, --
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Re: NORWOOD PARK JOHN DOE (#5): WM, 23-30, body discovered in th
e residence of serial killer John Wa
By: Akoya Date: June 19, 2020, 1:33 pm
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956UMIL - Unidentified Male
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Reconstruction of the victim (Betty Pat Gatliff).
Date of Discovery: December 29, 1978
Location of Discovery: Norwood Park Township, Cook County,
Illinois
Estimated Date of Death: 1972 to 1978 (most likely June 13, 1976
to August 6, 1976 due to being buried under victim #23, who has
since been identified)
State of Remains: Not recognizable - Near complete or complete
skeleton
Cause of Death: Homicide
Physical Description
Estimated Age: 23-30 years old
Race: White
Sex: Male
Height: 5'4", Estimated
Weight: Unknown
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown
Identifiers
Dentals: Available. Two upper front teeth were missing. Wore a
removable denture.
Fingerprints: Not Available.
DNA: Available.
Clothing & Personal Items
Clothing: Unknown
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown
Circumstances of Discovery
The victim's skeletal remains were located buried in the crawl
space of John Wayne Gacy's home. He was under another victim who
has since been identified.
Altogether, 29 victims' remains were located on Gacy's property.
Four were found in the Des Plaines River, although Gacy
confessed to dumping five bodies in the river. There are 33
known victims, but it is suspected that there may be more.
As of 2019, this victim and five others remain unidentified:
954UMIL, 955UMIL, 957UMIL, 958UMIL, and 962UMIL.
Serial killer Gacy was convicted of his crimes and executed in
1994.
Investigating Agency(s)
Agency Name: Cook County Medical Examiner's Office
Agency Contact Person: Jason Moran
Agency Phone Number: 312-666-0500
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: 1455DEC78; LE: #26; 78-803640
NCIC Case Number: U205909331
NamUs Case Number: 11004
Information Source(s)
NamUs
Cook County Sheriff's Office
John Wayne Gacy
Cook County Medical Examiner's Office
Admin Notes
Added: 4/4/07; Last Updated: 2/4/19
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Re: NORWOOD PARK JOHN DOE (#5): WM, 23-30, body discovered in th
e residence of serial killer John Wa
By: Akoya Date: June 19, 2020, 1:34 pm
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HTML https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180723/new-images-of-two-unidentified-gacy-victims-released
New images of two unidentified Gacy victims released
New images of unidentified John Wayne Gacy victims John Doe #10,
left, and John Doe #13 were released Monday by the National
Center for Missing & Exploited Children and Cook County
Sheriff's Office.
New images of unidentified John Wayne Gacy victims John Doe #10,
left, and John Doe #13 were released Monday by the National
Center for Missing & Exploited Children and Cook County
Sheriff's Office.
7/23/2018 3:48 PM
New facial reconstruction images have been released of two
unidentified victims of serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and Cook
County Sheriff's Office released the images Monday, showing what
the victims may have looked like.
They are among the six Gacy victims who remain unidentified.
Both were found in December 1978 in the crawl space of Gacy's
Norwood Park Township house. He ultimately was convicted of
murdering 33 boys and young men between 1972 and 1978, and
executed in 1994.
"Hopefully, based on that reconstruction or that approximation,
we'll get some more leads," Sheriff's Detective Sgt. Jason Moran
said in a video also released Monday detailing the office's
efforts to identify the remaining victims.
One of the victims, labeled John Doe #10, was a white male 17-21
years old and 5'7" -- 5'11" tall, with unknown hair color and
eye color. Authorities say he suffered an injury to his left
clavicle before his death that had healed well over time. He
also was treated by a dentist in life, as a few dental fillings
were observed.
The other victim, labeled John Doe #13, was a white male 18-22
years old and 5'9" -- 6'2" tall, with dark brown wavy hair. One
of his upper teeth was displaced behind another tooth --
something officials say would have been noticeable to others
that knew him well.
Officials estimate both victims died sometime between 1972 and
1978, and say the young men could have been from anywhere, since
Gacy found some of his victims hitchhiking and at bus stops.
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart launched a renewed effort in 2011
to identify eight unknown victims by using DNA technology that
wasn't available when Gacy was caught in 1978. That led to the
identification later in 2011 of 19-year-old William George Bundy
of Chicago, and last year, of 16-year-old James "Jimmie" Byron
Haakenson of Minnesota.
"At the very minimum, what we owe them is to let them know that
their lives mattered," Dart said in the video released Monday.
Anyone with information about the victims can contact the
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children at (800)
843-5678 or the sheriff's office at (708) 865-6244.
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Re: NORWOOD PARK JOHN DOE (#5): WM, 23-30, body discovered in th
e residence of serial killer John Wa
By: Akoya Date: June 19, 2020, 1:35 pm
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John Wayne Gacy
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Re: NORWOOD PARK JOHN DOE (#5): WM, 23-30, body discovered in th
e residence of serial killer John Wa
By: Akoya Date: June 19, 2020, 1:42 pm
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HTML https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20181221/40-years-later-six-victims-of-john-wayne-gacy-are-still-unidentified
40 years later, six victims of John Wayne Gacy are still
unidentified
Images of John Doe #10, left, and John Doe # 13, right, are
facial reconstructions of two of John Wayne Gacy's unknown
victims.
Images of John Doe #10, left, and John Doe # 13, right, are
facial reconstructions of two of John Wayne Gacy's unknown
victims.
12/21/2018 5:30 AM
Since his department's initial attempts seven years ago to
identify the remaining unknown victims of convicted serial
killer John Wayne Gacy, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says some
have suggested those efforts waste money and resources.
Dart disagrees.
"I didn't realize there was a time limit when we stopped caring
about the victims of homicide," he said.
Now, on the anniversary of Gacy's arrest on Dec. 21, 1978, for
the murder of Maine West High School sophomore Robert Piest,
Dart once again seeks the public's help.
The deaths of 33 young men eventually were tied to Gacy.
Four decades later, six still have not been identified.
Dart asks anyone with a blood relative who went missing between
1970 and 1978 and who fits the profile of a young, white male to
provide a DNA sample in the hope of finally identifying the six
victims.
In 1978, Gacy's Norwood Park Township home revealed horrible
secrets. Authorities found 26 bodies in the crawl space and
three others elsewhere on Gacy's property. Four were found in
the Des Plaines River. A jury convicted Gacy of the murders in
1980. He was executed by lethal injection in 1994.
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On Dec. 21, 1978, authorities began converging on the Norwood
Park Township home of John Wayne Gacy. They eventually tied him
to the murders of 33 young men, most of them buried in the crawl
space. - Daily Herald file photos
Technological advances over the last 40 years include DNA
comparisons, which, if they turn up a match, "bring closure or
some type of finality" for surviving family members who might
have spent decades unsure of the fate of a missing young man,
Dart said.
In 2011, those advances led to the identification of 19-year-old
William George Bundy of Chicago as one of Gacy's victims. Last
year, a DNA match identified 16-year-old James "Jimmie" Byron
Haakenson of Minnesota.
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John Wayne Gacy
"I felt confident, if the stars aligned, maybe we'd identify one
victim. Now we've identified two," Dart said.
An unexpected result of the department's efforts under the
leadership of sheriff's detective Sgt. Jason Moran has been
solving 11 unrelated cold cases in jurisdictions around the
country, he said.
Dart cites the case of 21-year-old Daniel Raymond Noe from
Washington, Illinois, near Peoria, who had been working in
Washington state and was hitchhiking back to Northwestern
University in Evanston. He never made it, Dart said.
His family thought he might have been passing through northern
Cook County where Gacy hunted victims, so they submitted DNA.
Authorities matched his DNA to an unidentified hiker whose
remains were found in 2010 on a steep slope on Mount Olympus in
Utah, Dart said. Authorities speculated the avid climber stopped
to hike, suffered an injury, died and remained there until other
hikers discovered his remains.
That revelation brought relief to his family, which Dart said is
another reason he encourages people to supply DNA. For more
information, call the Cook County sheriff's office at (708)
865-6244 or see
cookcountysheriff.org/unidentified-victims-john-wayne-gacy/.
The bodies of the six unidentified young men offered a few
clues: height range, sometimes hair color, previous injuries,
condition of teeth. The National Center for Missing & Exploited
Children and the sheriff's office this year released facial
reconstruction images of two of the unidentified victims.
Even if it turns out your loved one wasn't a Gacy victim, Dart
said, DNA might reveal the fate of a long-missing relative.
"We as a society should never stop caring about identifying
victims and making sure families who have been victimized are
made whole," he said.
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Re: NORWOOD PARK JOHN DOE (#5): WM, 23-30, body discovered in th
e residence of serial killer John Wa
By: Akoya Date: June 19, 2020, 1:43 pm
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Authorities release new clues on two Gacy victims
Most recent identification from 40-year-old case was made last
year
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children along
with the Cook County, Ill. Sheriff’s Office released new facial
reconstructions for two of John Wayne Gacy’s unknown victims.
(Source: NCMEC)
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children along
with the Cook County, Ill. Sheriff’s Office released new facial
reconstructions for two of John Wayne Gacy’s unknown victims.
(Source: NCMEC)
Four decades ago, 29 bodies were exhumed from the yard and a
crawl space of John Wayne Gacy’s home in Norwood Park, Ill. Six
remain unidentified.
Investigators, still hoping to provide names to the victims of
the Gacy serial killings, have released facial reconstructions
of two victims, labeled as “John Doe 10” and “John Doe 13.” The
reconstructions were developed by a forensic artist with the
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and released
in cooperation with the Cook County, Ill., Sheriff’s Office.
John Doe 10 is a white male whose age is estimated at 17 to 21.
His hair and eye color are unknown, but investigators say they
think he was just under 6-foot tall. Because of the presence of
new teeth fillings, investigators believe he had recently
visited a dentist. He also had a previous and well-healed left
clavicle injury.
John Doe 13 is also a white male, believed to have been between
18 and 22 at the time of his death. He could have been just
below or just above six feet tall. He had dark brown, wavy hair,
and one of his upper teeth was displaced behind another tooth.
Both of these young men are believed to have fallen victim to
Gacy during his killing spree that spanned 1972 to 1978. During
that time Gacy, a native of Waterloo, looked for potential
victims at bus stations, concert halls and gay bars.
Because one of the previously unidentified Gacy victims was
determined last year to be 16-year-old James “Jimmie” Haakenson,
originally from St. Paul, Minn., investigators believe the new
reconstructions could be of other Midwestern young men who
traveled to the Chicago area. In addition to the two victims
with facial reconstructions, four more victims remain
unidentified.
As most readers will remember, Gacy was tried and convicted of
33 murders of teenage boys and young men in 1980. After serving
14 years on death row, he was executed by the state of Illinois
in 1994, taking with him any additional information about those
he tortured and killed.
The investigation into the unknown victims was reopened by Cook
County Sheriff Thomas Dart in 2011, resulting in the
identification of two Gacy victims. The effort also has solved
four unrelated cold cases, helped find five missing people alive
and two others who had died.
Recent events have proved that remains can be identified, and
that there are families still needing to know what happened to
their loved ones.
In the case of Jimmie Haakenson, for instance, his mother had
come to police after Gacy was arrested. Technology at that time
did not provide positive identification. The identification was
made last year after law enforcement compared DNA from the
remains to that of Haakenson’s siblings.
It isn’t too late.
Those who may have information about the young men in the
reconstructed photos should contact the Sheriff’s Office at
(708) 865-6244 or the NCMEC at (800) 843-5678.
• Comments: @LyndaIowa, (319) 368-8513,
lynda.waddington@thegazette.com
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Re: NORWOOD PARK JOHN DOE (#5): WM, 23-30, body discovered in th
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By: Akoya Date: June 19, 2020, 1:44 pm
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Re: NORWOOD PARK JOHN DOE (#5): WM, 23-30, body discovered in th
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By: Akoya Date: June 19, 2020, 1:45 pm
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Re: NORWOOD PARK JOHN DOE (#5): WM, 23-30, body discovered in th
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By: Akoya Date: June 19, 2020, 1:46 pm
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John Wayne Gacy
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John Wayne Gacy in May 1978
Born March 17, 1942
Chicago, Illinois, US
Died May 10, 1994 (aged 52)
Stateville Correctional Center, Crest Hill, Illinois, US
Cause of death Execution by lethal injection
Other names
The Killer Clown[1]
Pogo the Clown[2]
Height 5 ft 9 in (175 cm)[3]
Weight 230 lb (104 kg)[4]
Political party Democratic[5]
Spouse(s) Marlynn Myers
(m. 1964; div. 1969)
Carole Hoff
(m. 1972; div. 1976)
Children Michael and Christine Gacy
Parent(s) John Stanley Gacy
Marion Elaine Robinson
John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American
serial killer who raped, tortured and murdered at least 33
teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978 in Cook County,
Illinois (a part of metropolitan Chicago).
All of Gacy's known murders were committed inside his Norwood
Park ranch house. His victims were typically induced to his
address by force or deception, and all except one of his victims
were murdered by either asphyxiation or strangulation with a
makeshift garrote, as his first victim was stabbed to death.
Gacy buried 26 of his victims in the crawl space of his home.
Three other victims were buried elsewhere on his property, while
the bodies of his last four known victims were discarded in the
Des Plaines River.
Convicted of 33 murders, Gacy was sentenced to death on March
13, 1980 for 12 of those murders. He spent 14 years on death row
before he was executed by lethal injection at Stateville
Correctional Center on May 10, 1994.
Gacy became known as the "Killer Clown" because of his
charitable services at fund-raising events, parades, and
children's parties where he would dress as "Pogo the Clown"[6]
or "Patches the Clown", characters that he had created.
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Gacy with First Lady Rosalynn Carter on May 6, 1978, six years
after the killings began and seven months before his final
arrest. A pin indicating special Secret Service clearance is
visible on his jacket.
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The crawl space at 8213 Summerdale. Twenty-six victims were
found buried in this location. 41°58′34″N
87°49′57″W / 41.97619°N 87.832421°W
Unidentified victims
Six victims remain unidentified, five of whom had been buried
beneath Gacy's crawl space, with one additional youth buried
approximately 15 feet (4.6 m) from the barbecue pit in his
backyard. Experts used the skulls of the unidentified victims to
create facial reconstructions.[356] Based upon Gacy's
confession, information relative to where the victims were
buried in his crawl space relative to Gacy's identified victims,
and forensic analysis, police were able to determine the most
likely dates when his unidentified victims were killed.
c. January 1974. Body 28. Backyard. Male aged 14–18.[117][358]
June 13 – August 5, 1976. Body 26. Crawl space. Male aged
23–30.[143][359]
August 6 – October 5, 1976. Body 13. Crawl space. Male aged
18–22.[360][361]
August 6 – October 24, 1976. Body 21. Crawl space. Male aged
15–24.[362][363]
December 1976 – March 15, 1977. Body 5. Crawl space. Male aged
22–32.[162][364]
March 15 – July 5, 1977. Body 10. Crawl space. Male aged
17–21.[365][366]
In October 2011, Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart announced that
investigators, having obtained full DNA profiles from each of
the unidentified victims, were to renew their efforts to
identify all of them. At a press conference held to announce
this intention, Sheriff Dart stated investigators are actively
seeking DNA samples from individuals across the United States
related to any male missing between 1970 and 1979.[367] Test
results thus far conducted have confirmed the identification of
two victims, ruled out the possibility of numerous other missing
youths as being victims of Gacy,[368][369] and solved four
unrelated cold cases dating between 1972 and 1979
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