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Robert Piest: The Missing Teen Who Exposed John Wayne Gacy’s Crimes

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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…

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John Wayne Gacy and Timothy McCoy: A Tragic Encounter at a Chicago Bus Terminal

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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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