Period of time went missing, they should come forward. And the investigation is still taking new and unexpected turns. I knew he was telling the truth. But my mind wouldnt accept it. Raising questions and revealing answers to dozens of unsolved mysteries. Families of longterm missing persons. They live in a cruel limbo. I always thought that some day i would get a phone call and it would be from steve. Tonight, a cnn special report. The curious case of the killer clown. The 70s was a unique time period in this country. Jason moran is a detective sergeant with the Cook County Sheriffs office. The loose culture, the drugs, the sex, and rock and roll, the im going to stick my thumb in the air and were going to go to the beach every day. Young people being gone from home days at a time before returning. I definitely think the culture of the 70s lent itself to these type of activities. In the summer of 1976, jimmy walked into the kitchen of his familys home in st. Paul, minnesota, and annou
killing spree where he handcuffed his victims, then strangled them until they stopped breathing. a technique he demonstrated on assistant state s attorney larry finder. and he reaches into his pocket and takes out his rosary. he said to larry, put your harm in here. and larry just kind of naturally flinched. and he said, relax, larry, i m not going to kill you. so larry put his arm in. and gacy demonstrated on larry s wrist how he used the rope to kill these kids. these young men, they suffered before they died. yeah, it was a it was very brutal. these were sexually motivated crimes. he would rape these boys prior to killing them. boys including his missing employees john butkovitch and gregory godzik. the owner of the class ring,