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Explore the stories of John Wayne Gacy’s victims—read detailed profiles, locate crime scene sites, and find their gravesites and memorials. Honor their memory and learn how each life shaped the investigation.
The Disappearance That Changed Everything Robert Piest, a 15-year-old sophomore at Maine West High School, was working his final shift at Nisson Pharmacy on Touhy Avenue in Des Plaines on what should have been a night of family celebration. His mother Elizabeth Piest had arrived around 9 p.m. to pick him up for her 46th birthday dinner when Robert made a decision…
Gacy met McCoy at a bus terminal in Chicago while McCoy was returning home after a Christmas celebration with friends in Michigan. His body was discovered along with many other victims of Gacy in December 1978 after the police executed a search warrant for Gacy’s house as part of the investigation into the whereabouts of Robert Piest,…
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