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| ILM781228G/Bundy, William; December 28, 1978 in Norwood Park | |
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| PorchlightUSA | Apr 13 2007, 06:24 PM Post #1 |
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Reconstruction of Victim by Betty Pat Gatliff Unidentified White Male The victim was discovered on December 28, 1978 in Norwood Park, Illinois Estimated Date of Death: July - September 1977 Skeletal Remains -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vital Statistics Estimated age: 18-20 years old Approximate Height and Weight: 5'1" - 5'6" Distinguishing Characteristics: Brown hair. Fracture of right elbow within 2 months prior to his death. Dentals: Available. Both upper eye teeth extracted prior to death. Fingerprints: Not available DNA: Not Available -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Case History The victim was located on December 28, 1978 in Norwood Park, Illinois. One of 9 unidentified victims of convicted and executed serial killer John Wayne Gacy. Twenty-nine of Gacy's victims were located buried in the crawl space of his home or under his garage. Four were found in the Des Plaines River. There are 33 known victims. It is suspected that there may be more. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Investigators If you have any information about this case please contact: You may remain anonymous when submitting information. NCIC Number: N/A Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case. Source Information: Cook County Medical Examiner http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/961umil.html |
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| PorchlightUSA | Apr 13 2007, 06:25 PM Post #2 |
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| PorchlightUSA | Jun 19 2010, 02:32 PM Post #3 |
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(312) 666-0500 2121 W Harrison St Chicago, IL 60612 41.8739 -87.6795 cook county medical examiner |
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| PorchlightUSA | Oct 12 2011, 04:15 PM Post #4 |
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/12/g...3_lnk1%7C103855 CHICAGO -- More than 30 years after a collection of skeletal remains was found beneath John Wayne Gacy's house, detectives have secretly exhumed bones of eight young men who were never identified in hopes of answering a final question: Who were they? The Cook County Sheriff's Department says DNA testing could solve the last mystery of one of the nation's worst serial killers, and authorities planned Wednesday to ask for the public's help in determining the victims' names. Investigators are urging relatives of anyone who disappeared between 1970 and Gacy's 1978 arrest – and who is still unaccounted for – to undergo saliva tests to compare their DNA with that of the skeletal remains. Detectives believe the passage of time might actually work in their favor. Some families who never reported the victims missing and never searched for them could be willing to do so now, a generation after Gacy's homosexuality and pattern of preying on vulnerable teens were splashed across newspapers all over the world. "I'm hoping the stigma has lessened, that people can put family disagreements and biases against sexual orientation (and) drug use behind them to give these victims a name," Detective Jason Moran said in one of several interviews he and others in the sheriff's office gave to The Associated Press before the department disclosed the exhumations publicly. Added Sheriff Tom Dart: "There are a million different reasons why someone hasn't come forward. Maybe they thought their son ran off to work in an oil field in Canada, who knows?" After so many years, the relatives could be anywhere, so the sheriff's department is setting up a phone bank to field calls from across the country. Gacy, who is remembered as one of history's most bizarre killers largely because of his work as an amateur clown, was convicted of murdering 33 young men, sometimes luring them to his Chicago-area home for sex by impersonating a police officer or promising them construction work. He stabbed one and strangled the others between 1972 and 1978. Most were buried in a crawl space under his home. Four others were dumped in a river. He was executed in 1994, but the anguish caused by his crimes still resounds today. Just days ago, a judge granted a request to exhume one victim whose mother doubted the medical examiner's conclusion that her son's remains were found under Gacy's house. Dart said other families have the same need for certainty. "They were young men with futures, who at some point had families that cared about their kid," he said. Until the dead are identified, "it's like they didn't even exist." The plan began unfolding earlier in the year, when detectives were trying to identify some human bones found scattered at a forest preserve. They started reviewing other cases of unidentified remains, which led them back to Gacy. "I completely forgot or didn't know there were all these unidentifieds," Dart said. It was not a cold case in the traditional sense. Gacy admitted to the slayings and was convicted by a jury. But Moran and others knew if they had the victims' bones, they could conduct genetic tests that would have seemed like science fiction in the 1970s, when forensic identification depended almost entirely on fingerprints and dental records. After autopsies on the unidentified victims, pathologists in the 1970s removed their upper and lower jaws and their teeth to preserve as evidence in case science progressed to the point they could be useful or if dental records surfaced. Detectives found out that those jaws had been stored for many years at the county's medical examiner's office. But when investigators arrived, they learned the remains had been buried in a paupers' grave in 2009. "They kept them for 30 years, and then they got rid of them," Moran said. After obtaining a court order, they dug up a wooden box containing eight smaller containers shaped like buckets, each holding a victim's jaw bones and teeth. Back in June, Moran flew with them to a lab in Texas. "They were my carry-on," he said, smiling. Weeks later, the lab called. The good news was that there was enough material in four of the containers to provide what is called a nuclear DNA profile, meaning that if a parent or sibling or even cousins came forward, scientists could determine whether the DNA matched. But with the other four containers, there was less usable material. That meant investigators had to dig up four of the victims. Detectives found them in four separate cemeteries and removed their femurs and vertebrae for analysis. At a meeting last week, the men who investigated and prosecuted Gacy reminded the sheriff that many victims were already lost when Gacy found them. One had not even been reported missing when his body was found floating in the Des Plaines River. "I can almost guarantee you that one or two of these kids were wards of the state," said retired Detective Phil Bettiker. "I don't think anybody cared about them." Most of them were 17 or 18 years old and had been "through God knows how many foster homes and were basically on their own." At the same time, they recalled, other people repeatedly insisted their loved ones were among Gacy's victims, but no evidence ever came to light confirming it. "It's very conceivable that a kid in his teens didn't have dental records," said Robert Egan, one of the prosecutors who helped convict Gacy. "There could have been parents who would have loved to have brought in dental records but they didn't have any." Dart doubts that all eight victims will be identified. But he is confident that the office will finally be able to give some of them back their names. "I'd be shocked if we don't get a handful," he said. "The technology is so precise." |
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| tatertot | Nov 29 2011, 07:05 PM Post #5 |
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http://www.suntimes.com/news/9135438-418/a...nt-missing.html A Gacy victim finally identified — three decades later By FRANK MAIN Staff Reporter / fmain@suntimes.com November 29, 2011 10:48AM Updated: November 29, 2011 5:38PM For years, Laura O’Leary has visited the graves of her family members in southwest suburban Justice, but she didn’t know her brother was buried in the same cemetery — as an unidentified victim of serial killer John Wayne Gacy. O’Leary recently learned her missing teenage brother, William George Bundy, was one Gacy’s eight unidentified victims more than three decades ago. He was buried in Resurrection Catholic Cemetery where his grandparents and an aunt were also laid to rest. On Tuesday, O’Leary hugged Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart to thank him for a DNA initiative that led to her brother’s identification on Nov. 14. “Today is a terribly sad day for my family. But it is also a day that provides closure,” she said at a news conference with Dart. O’Leary, who lives in Chicago, said her family plans to put a new marker on her brother’s grave during a memorial service in the spring. She choked up as she remembered her brother as an outgoing, handsome athlete who excelled in diving and gymnastics. “All my girlfriends wanted to date him,” she said of her brother, who she called Bill. Bill Bundy, a 19-year-old North Sider and Senn High School dropout, was among at least 33 people Gacy killed in a spree that lasted from 1972 to 1978. Gacy was executed in 1994. In October, Dart announced an effort to use DNA to put names to the eight unidentified victims, whose bodies were quietly exhumed by his office earlier this year. The sheriff’s office has received about 125 tips from people like O’Leary who provided the names of missing people they suspected were Gacy victims. She and her brother Robert Bundy submitted DNA samples that allowed the University of North Texas to link one of the unidentified bodies to Bill Bundy. Tests on four other unidentified victims didn’t result in matches, Dart said. Test results for the rest of the unidentified victims are pending, he said. Bundy was reported missing in October 1976 after saying he was going to a party. He left his wallet at his family’s home in the 4100 block of North Clarendon in Buena Park. Bundy had dropped out of high school as a junior and did construction work. Gacy was known to lure some victims by offering to hire them to work for his home renovation company, Dart said. When the bodies were found on Gacy’s property in 1978, Bundy’s sister suspected her brother was among them. She persuaded her mother to seek her brother’s dental records. But the dentist had retired and destroyed his files, so no records were available for a match at the time. For the rest of her life, Bundy’s mother Elizabeth Bundy remained in denial that her son could have been one of Gacy’s victims, O’Leary said. Elizabeth Bundy died in 1990. Her former husband Robert Bundy died five years ago. “To help bring some sort of closure and maybe peace to a family is something we are all hopeful for,” Dart said, adding that he wishes he “could have provided some sort of closure for William’s mother and father before they passed away. I do hope and pray that Laura and Robert might find some peace and closure with the news today.” Bundy’s remains were previously labeled Victim No. 19 by investigators because he was the 19th victim taken from the crawl space of Gacy’s home. At 5-foot-4, Bundy was the shortest of Gacy’s victims. He was among 29 victims found in 1978 on Gacy’s property at 8213 W. Summerdale in unincorporated Norwood Park Township. Four other Gacy victims were found in the Des Plaines River. Gacy told the police he dumped a fifth victim in the river, but that body was never recovered. Dart said investigators found vials of Gacy’s blood in an evidence room earlier this year and plan to enter those samples in a nationwide DNA database. Gacy had traveled extensively throughout the country, Dart said. If Gacy committed murders in other states in the 1970s, there’s a slim chance police there saved evidence that could be compared with his DNA, Dart said. |
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| tatertot | Nov 29 2011, 07:10 PM Post #6 |
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http://cookcountysheriff.org/sheriffs_police/gacy/gacy.html Per the previous article from the Sun Times, Bundy was identified as victim #19 on the Cook County Sheriff's site. Rest in Peace, Bill.
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