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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. [174] [194] [195] At the time, his conviction for 33 murders was the most for which any person in U.S. history had been convicted. [196] [197]
Rignall's case was never resolved in court. The battery charge was still pending in December 1978 when 15-year-old Robert Piest vanished in Des Plaines, Illinois, after encountering Gacy at the pharmacy where Piest worked. The Des Plaines police quickly settled on Gacy as a suspect and found Rignall's charge on Gacy's rap sheet.
As he investigates the missing person report of a teenager named Christopher Gant (based on Gacy's final victim, Robert Piest), Des Plaines, IL detective Lt. Joseph R. Kozenczak (Riley) becomes concerned that local businessman John Wayne Gacy (Dennehy) may be responsible for this as well as many other disappearances. However, when he and his ...
Marty Zielinski/PeacockJohn Wayne Gacy was one of America’s most prolific—and horrific—serial killers, responsible for the deaths of 33 young men, 26 of whom he buried in the crawlspace ...
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At least 33 teenage boys, starting with Timothy McCoy in January 1972 and ending with Robert Piest in December 1978, were abducted, raped and murdered by John Wayne Gacy (possibly with assistance from some of his employees). Most were buried under Gacy's home in Norwood Park Township.
The Des Plaines Police did a check of John Wayne Gacy's criminal background and found out that Gacy had a battery charge in Chicago and had also been sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1968 in Waterloo, Iowa, after being found guilty of sodomizing a then 15-year-old boy named Donald Voorhees Jr., who was the son of Donald E. Voorhees, in 1967 ...
Robert Piest, a 15-year-old employee at a pharmacy in Des Plaines, Illinois, became the last victim of serial murderer John Wayne Gacy. [66] Piest was lured to Gacy's home on the promise of part-time employment, and then sodomized and murdered.