{"id":924969,"date":"2021-10-26T14:44:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T18:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=924969"},"modified":"2021-10-26T14:44:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T18:44:46","slug":"john-wayne-gacy-victim-identified-after-43-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-wayne-gacy-victim-identified-after-43-years\/","title":{"rendered":"John Wayne Gacy victim identified after 43 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohn-wayne-gacy-victim-identified-after-43-years%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=924969&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2561525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2561525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This image displayed at a news conference by the Cook County Sheriff\u2019s Office on Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, shows three photos of Francis Wayne Alexander, a North Carolina native who has been identified as one of the victims of John Wayne Gacy. (Courtesy of the Cook County Sheriff\u2019s Office via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 11:17 AM PT \u2013 Tuesday, October 26, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>DNA technology leads Illinois authorities to the identity of another John Wayne Gacy victim.<\/p>\n<p>Over four decades after the skeletal remains of an unidentified young man were pulled from the crawlspace in John Wayne Gacy\u2019s home, Chicago Police were able to confirm \u201cVictim #5\u2033\u2018s identity. The Cook County Sheriff held a press conference on Monday to announce North Carolina native Francis Wayne Alexander was the victim.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander was one of eight Gacy victims whose remains were buried without police knowing who they were. Sheriff Tom Dart\u2019s Office exhumed the remains in 2011 in the hopes that DNA testing could help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were able to narrow the window when we believe he was killed by John Gacy because of where his body was positioned in the crawl space. He was buried underneath an individual who we know pretty precisely when he was murdered,\u201d said Dart. \u201cAnd so, that gives us an end date of March 15 of 1977. And then we have parking tickets that go from January of 1976. And so, it was in that window sometime that Wayne was targeted by John Gacy and subsequently killed.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sheriff Dart announced today that 1 of the 6 remaining unnamed John Wayne Gacy victims has been identified with the assistance of genetic genealogy. Sheriff\u2019s Police identified Victim #5 found in Gacy&#8217;s crawl space on Dec. 26, 1978 as Francis Wayne Alexander. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1vgWmlk2We\">pic.twitter.com\/1vgWmlk2We<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cook County Sheriff&#8217;s Office (@CCSOPIO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CCSOPIO\/status\/1452715779145682946?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>By sending forensic evidence to the \u201cDNA Doe Project\u201d in California, which is an organization dedicated to identifying remains using genetic genealogy, the non-profit was able to link familial DNA with members from Alexander\u2019s family tree. Chicago Police then contacted his mother and half brother for DNA samples in order to confirm his identity.<\/p>\n<p>The advancements in technology mixed with good old-fashioned investigative police work, led authorities to the conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was the typical painstaking work of finding out when Wayne was last seen. Tax records, parking tickets, that we were able to put this all together combining it with DNA,\u201d Dart stated.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander is the first victim recently identified that still has a living parent, and his family released a statement thanking Chicago authorities for their work and offered sympathies to the other victims\u2019 families.<\/p>\n<p>Gacy was arrested in December of 1978 and convicted of 33 murders in 1980. He was then executed in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office is continuing their work to put a name to the remaining unidentified victims, \u201c#10,\u201d \u201c#13,\u201d \u201c#21,\u201d \u201c#26,\u201d and \u201c#28.\u201d Those who worked on the case are adamant in finishing their work, saying victims killed 40 years ago are no less important than victims of today.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wikileaks-founder-faces-extradition-to-u-s\/\">WikiLeaks Founder Faces Extradition To U.S.<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image displayed at a news conference by the Cook County Sheriff\u2019s Office on Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, shows three photos of Francis Wayne Alexander, a North Carolina native who &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-924969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}