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stemming from his first marriage. john wayne gacy had a fairly extensive record minor types of things, basically you know, battery, disorderly conduct. but one conviction was for sodomy, and it was learned that it was performed against a young boy. cahill: on the day he was convicted, his wife filed for divorce, left him, took his two kids. he never saw any of them again. that ended his wonderful life he was having in waterloo, iowa, because he wound up in a penitentiary. jackson: after serving more than a year in prison, john wayne gacy moves to chicago to start an entirely new life, and no one knows anything about his checkered past. he lives under the radar for years until rob piest goes missing. and then the des plaines police finally have a suspect.
in chicago, thousands upon thousands of young men and women go missing. woman: james byron haakenson disappeared shortly after moving to chicago. man: john butkovich, an 18-year-old north side youth, who disappeared on july 31st, 1975. [ telephone rings ] missing persons. polito. can i help you? sullivan: the police departments were understaffed when it came to the juvenile divisions. and it was very difficult to try to track runaways. sneed: typical in this case, and in many cases, families go to the police department, or they call and they say, my son s missing, and they say, well, wait 12 hours. well, you know, he may come home. just let us know. my mother kept saying, there s something wrong. there s something wrong. there s no way that my brother would have left. my brother at that time thought he was on cloud nine
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cahill: he became the director of the polish day parade. that, in chicago, is a big deal. on one of them, he met rosalynn carter, the wife of the president of the united states. so it s really no wonder with a reputation like that, that after this guy jeff rignall went to the police, that even though they did charge gacy, the charge went nowhere. hachmeister: jeff rignall reported this to the chicago police department, and jeff really didn t have that much information. so they couldn t do too much with it. he turned out to be an individual that the police didn t believe. duke: but what no one knew at the time, and would never have guessed, is that jeff rignall was really the luckiest of all of gacy s victims because gacy never showed him his scariest trick.