Less than four weeks later, Gacy murdered 16-year-old Robert Winch and buried him in the crawl space. Francis Wayne Alexander was most recent victim to be identified, via forensic genealogy in October 2021. Investigators always believed that Houston serial killer Dean “Candyman” Coryll was the killer clown’s template.

Gacy was found guilty of 33 charges of murder; he was also found guilty of sexual assault and taking indecent liberties with a child, both in reference to Robert Piest.He was tried in Cook County, Illinois, before Judge Louis Garippo; the jury was selected from Rockford because of extensive press coverage in Cook County. Both Body 11 and Body 12 were found with ligatures around their necks and buried beside each other in the center of the crawl space; [112] on September 11, 1979, they were identified as Robert Winch and Tommy Boling, respectively.

When questioned, Gacy told officers that Szyc had sold the car to him in February, saying he needed money to leave town.

Gacy had previously been convicted in 1968 of the sodomy of a teenage boy in Waterloo, Iowa, and was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment, but served eighteen months. paperback, covers bumped/scuffed, binding tight, text clean/unmarked water damage not too bad + Butcher.