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Nobody knew that gacy found a niche in which he was operating. hachmeister: i was assigned to the detective unit. we got a report of a missing person robert piest. rob piest was a 15-year-old kid that was active in high school, a good kid with a loving family. he was working at a pharmacy called the nisson pharmacy in des plaines. albrecht: he worked part-time as a stock boy, and his one desire was to buy a car when he was 16 and able to drive. hachmeister: the night that rob piest went missing, his mom had come to pick him up at the end of his shift. it was his mom s birthday that particular day. they were gonna go home and celebrate her birthday. she was waiting outside in the parking lot. rob went out there and said, i ll be back in a few minutes. ....
That s why john gacy got away with it for so long nobody was looking for these kids. but like almost all criminals, he got stupid, got lazy, got to the point where he was just plain careless. albrecht: robert piest was a great kid. everybody had just great things to say about him. duke: he went missing after his shift at the nisson pharmacy, and gacy was the logical suspect because he was the last one known to have seen rob piest. sullivan: gacy drove him to his house, knowing full well the owners of the drugstore knew that gacy was the one who was with piest. that s when everything began to fall apart for john wayne gacy. ....
Duke: it was a pickup slip for a roll of film that was being developed at the nisson pharmacy. and that was the pharmacy where rob piest disappeared from. sullivan: a day or so after the first search warrant, i asked the police department if they would put a 24-hour surveillance on gacy with the hopes that, in fact, he would go back to wherever rob was now. two 12-hour shifts, two guys they watched him around the clock. hachmeister: my partner and i really, we had no exact direction where to go with this case, other than the fact that we were not to lose him. albrecht: i decided pretty much that the first night that we were out, that if gacy went into a public place, dave and i would go in and follow him. hachmeister: we didn t want to leave him alone for one minute. ....
Plus $1,500 purchase allowance on a 2023 xt5 and xt6 when you finance through cadillac financial. reporter: this morning, police searched gacy s home. they became suspicious when 15-year-old robert piest disappeared after he allegedly was last seen with gacy. they started tearing up the flooring and working that way in the crawl space. albrecht: it was probably like a lot of other crawl spaces that people have. it was just dirt and clay. hachmeister: and the very first dig with the shovel, they struck a human bone. so, it was at that time that i arrested john for murder. ....
Into such a depraved monster? and how would police ultimately discover his evil secret? godzik: i remember being in bed. my mother came into my room and said, do you know where your brother is? i said, no. and she said, he didn t come home. it just wasn t something we were used to. and immediately, she called the police, and they said to my mother, well, what do you want us to do about it? 17-year-olds are goofy. they all run away. but they ll be back. that was the mantra. he ll be back. don t worry about it. albrecht: the 70s was a different time. kids were running away all the time. ....