After four decades, investigators were able to identify another victim of the US serial killer John Wayne Gacy. Francis Wayne Alexander was killed when he was 21 or 22 years old. Between 1976 and 1977 he was another victim of the most notorious killer in the United States. His body lay in Gacy’s basement along with numerous other bodies.
Corpse found in the basement
According to a report by the US TV station “CNN“A non-profit organization,” DNA Doe Project “(DDP), in cooperation with the police in Chicago, has been evaluating the DNA of the victims of the US serial killer Gacy since 2011. They want to locate the families of the corpses from the 1970s. Genetic genealogy is supposed to Finally, they identified another victim of Gacy’s: Using the DNA of a tooth of the murdered Alexander, his second cousins could be found, and finally his mother and half-brother.
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“It is very difficult, even 45 years after, to find out about the fate of our beloved Wayne. He was killed by a hideous, evil man,” the family said in a statement. According to the “Washington Post“I didn’t miss the Alexander family, they believed all these decades that he didn’t want to have anything to do with them anymore.
33 corpses: the most notorious serial killer in the USA is up to mischief in Chicago
The US serial killer Gacy kept the Chicago area in suspense for six years. He kidnapped young men or boys, raped them and ended up killing them. Mostly male prostitutes, but also hitchhikers and people at bus stops, were his target. He lured them to his suburban Chicago home with fabricated jobs, drugs, alcohol, or paid sex. Gacy was caught in 1978, convicted two years later, and executed in 1994. To this day, one can only guess at the extent of his murders.
27 bodies were found in Gacy’s basement under his house. Another under his garage and one in the back yard. The killer threw four bodies into the Des Plaines River – Gacy told the investigating officers at the time that he had run out of space.
Child clown and serial killer – Gacy shocks entire generations
Gacy became known as a killer clown, although he never wore such a costume in his murders. Rather, he made his name for himself because he had led an inconspicuously normal life before his murders – and often appeared as a clown for children at street parties. He was also otherwise socially committed and highly respected in his job. Therefore, it was all the more shocking for everyone involved to see what deeds such an inconspicuous man was capable of.
A six-part documentary was shot about the serial killer, and he also inspired Stephen King for his famous horror novel “It”, which is about a clown who murdered children.