A North Carolina man who moved to Chicago was one of the victims of John Wayne Gacy, who was convicted of killing 33 young men and boys in the 1970s, authorities said Monday.
Francis Wayne Alexander would have been 21 or 22 years old when Gacy killed him sometime between early 1976 and early 1977, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said at a news conference in announcing the identification of Alexander's remains."They just loved him, but they thought that he wanted nothing more to do with them, so that's why there was never a missing person's report," Dart said.
Alexander's remains were among 26 sets that police found in the crawl space under Gacy's home just outside the city. Three other victims were found buried on Gacy's property and another four people whom Gacy admitted killing were found in waterways south of Chicago. The details of Alexander's life in Chicago are sketchy. Born in North Carolina, he moved to New York, where he was married, and then on to Chicago in 1975, where he was soon divorced.
Between the genetic testing, financial records, post-mortem reports and other information, investigators were able to confirm that the remains were Alexander's. And determining when he was killed largely stemmed from knowing when the victim who was buried on top of him went missing.
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