Now we have another DNA "match" but it's against a totally different man who has no known connection to the first.
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My gawd? why don't I even know about this? I guess I was only 10/11 when it was in the news, and I was in Russia part of the time. The rest of the time, it was probably overshadowed in the New York papers by the trial of Patty Hearst, and the Son of Sam murders, and after that, the Atlanta child murders. Still, I'm really surprised I never ran across it in any reading of unsolved murders. Wow. I've got a list of stuff to do until Shabbes, but I'll be looking this up on Saturday night. At least until I get too creeped out.
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I love this comment from one of the recent articles I found, regarding the new suspect:He's your typical grandpa," says Parma Heights Police Sergeant Wayne Mockler. "You wouldn't look twice.
Then, people from the show went and interviewed the neighbors, who all claimed they had not noticed anything unusual happening at the house.
Made me laugh.
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We had a boy here named Richard Griener, 13, who disappeared and was presumed murdered in January of 1972. I don't know if there has been any investigation into either Gacy or the Babysitter for a possible tie-in.This my opinion and to the best of my knowledge, that is, if I'm not joking.
Stan Reid
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From what I understand, Gacy went sniveling and crying to the death chamber, and Illinois, where he was executed, was really not a state that liked to execute-- the Death Penalty was outlawed in 2011. If Gacy had information to trade for a life sentence, I think he would have. Henry Lee Lucas managed to stay off Death Row by confessing to a list of crimes he didn't even really commit, and he not only stayed off Death Row, he got something of a royal treatment.
It's true that Gacy was humiliated by the exposure, and the press coverage of his crimes-- he seemed more upset about being thought of as gay, though, than being thought of as a killer. But he really didn't want to die, and as I understand it, pursued all his appeals. He even tried pretending he had multiple personalities. He pled insanity at trial, lost, then filed an appeal based on "inadequacy of counsel," because he wasn't insane, and his lawyer shouldn't have used that plea.
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