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Derrick: I haven't been here at
the Harris county cemetery in years,
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but I sure remember the day
in 2009 that we buried him.
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[ Owl hooting ]
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We buried him in Babyland, in
the children's part of the cemetery.
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He was in this beautiful
white casket,
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that was a child-size casket
because he was skeletal.
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We know how he died
and it wasn't an easy death.
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I've spent 14 years trying
to figure out who this boy is.
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Narrator: He's the last unidentified
boy who died at the hands
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of one of America’s worst
serial killers: Dean Allen Corll,
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otherwise known
as the candy man.
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Hollandsworth: This is a
story without any redemption.
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There is nothing but terror and
madness and grief in this story.
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The news tonight
begins with murder.
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Man on TV: So far, 17 bodies
have been found in the boathouse.
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Police expect to find more when
they resume digging later today.
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Narrator: The candy man's reign of
terror was almost immediately overtaken
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by another killer
preying on young men.
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John Wayne Gacy, otherwise
known as the killer clown.
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Together over eight years,
they killed more than 60 boys.
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Man 1: They were
like kids in a candy shop.
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They just saw opportunity
everywhere they looked.
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Woman: He came home and said,
"oh, we were digging around his house,"
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and it ended up they were
digging their own graves.
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These kids were crying
for their moms.
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James: They would tie them on
the torture board and molest them.
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Narrator: Many thought that
John Wayne Gacy
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and Dean Corll
were lone psychopaths,
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but this series investigates
evidence they were linked
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to a secret,
nation-wide network.
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Man on TV: Police in Dallas think
they've uncovered a nation-wide
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procurement ring
for homosexuals.
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Man 2: I'd call it
a pedophile cell,
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and I think it could be
compared to a terrorist cell.
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Man 1: I was sexually exploited by a
pedophile ring from age five to age 12.
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It's like psychological
and emotional quicksand.
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Narrator: It was
a massive network
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and one of its masterminds,
a shadowy figure.
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Man 3: It's a snake of snakes.
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His name is John David Norman.
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He's a pedophile,
and he ran a ring.
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Man 4: He sent boys to service
clients throughout the states.
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They came from
all walks of life.
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Doctors, lawyers,
all the way down.
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Man 3: And, yes, they were in
communication with one another.
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They knew exactly
what was going on.
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Narrator: This series
uncovers a hidden conspiracy
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of pedophiles and child-killers
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and in never-before-heard
conversations,
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a glimpse into the twisted
world of the killer clown.
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Phone operator: You have
a collect call from...
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Gacy: John Gacy.
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Hollandsworth: There's an
entire industry
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devoted to serial killers
in America.
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Even with all the technology that
we now have to catch killers like this,
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it's bewildering that no-one saw
it happening back in 1970 to 1973.
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Well, I'm a true crime writer
at Texas monthly,
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and I thought I knew
all the major crime stories.
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This old retired
radio reporter I met
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told me that the most
devastating story
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he had ever worked on
in his entire career
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was the story of what Dean
Corll did to those boys in Houston.
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And I said, "who's Dean Corll?"
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Narrator: The answer begins
with a phone call to the police
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on a hot summer morning in 1973,
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and a dark secret world
starts to unravel.
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Outside 2020 Lamar,
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the police find
three shaken teens.
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Seventeen-year-old
Elmer Wayne Henley,
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nineteen-year-old Tim Kerley,
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and fifteen-year-old
Rhonda Williams
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and a .22 caliber gun
on the ground.
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Smith: They were all
sitting on a curb,
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and immediately when Henley
made a statement
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that he'd shot Dean Corll and
that his body was inside the house.
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[ Camera shutter clicks ]
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Narrator: In the hallway
is a man's naked body.
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He's been shot six times.
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A search of the house shows
this is anything but routine.
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Smith: In one bedroom,
there were polyethylene.
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Plastic was rolled out
on the floor,
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and a board with holes in it,
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handcuffs and ropes attached
to various sexual devices.
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A lot of, ah, acrylic
spray cans, marijuana.
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Narrator: Thirty-three-year-old Dean
Corll seemed an unlikely murder victim.
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A lineman at the Houston
lighting & power company,
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he was a familiar face
in the heights.
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His mother had owned
the candy store and factory
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in the neighborhood.
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Milligan: I was
in the fifth grade,
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and we were on the playground
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and someone yelled,
"the candy man."
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And these little kids
were running like mad
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to the fence to get candy,
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and I turned to a friend
of mine and I said,
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"who's the candy man?"
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He goes, "ah, his family runs a
candy store about four blocks over."
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Hollandsworth: Dean Corll was his
big, broad-shouldered young man,
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thick black hair, big black
sideburns, and friendly.
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He was always good with the
kids who came by the candy factory.
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He would give them free candy
that his mom had made,
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pralines or Turkish delights
or pecan logs.
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He set up a pool table in the back
room, he let the kids play there.
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He would sometimes give them
rides on his motorcycle.
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He was sort of like
a good boy scout leader.
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He wasn't someone
that people were scared of.
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Narrator: Why, then, would a
17-year-old kid from the neighborhood
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claimed he had to kill
the candy man in self-defense?
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The story Henley
tells the police
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paints a very different picture
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of the friendly guy
in the neighborhood.
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Smith: They were
having a party there.
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They were, uh, what we called
in those days, bagging,
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they're sniffing the acrylic
spray out of a bag to get high.
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They got so high
they passed out,
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and when they woke up,
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uh, they were all tied up
or handcuffed,
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all three of 'em,
including Wayne Henley.
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Narrator: Henley tells the police that
the candy man had a secret obsession.
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He liked underage boys.
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Corll had no affinity
for women whatsoever.
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He was angry with Henley because
Henley had brought the girl there.
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Corll wanted Henley
to have sex with the girl
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while he had sex with the
other young boy that was there,
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and Henley had refused.
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Narrator: Henley says Corll
threatened him with a gun,
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so he agreed to do
whatever Corll wanted.
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Henley talked him into letting
him out of the hand cuffs,
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and when he did that, he immediately
grabbed the pistol and shot him.
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[ Gunshots ]
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Narrator: It seemed
an unbelievable story,
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and might have ended there:
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A drug-fueled sex orgy
that got out of hand,
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until Henley tells them
an insane story.
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Smith: That's when he told
the story about Corll telling him
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about murdering, torturing,
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sexually assaulting young boys
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and burying them in a boatshed.
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[ Typewriter keys clicking ]
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And he even had names
of some of the boys
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that he said Corll killed.
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I didn't believe him.
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It just seemed
such a bizarre story,
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and I've heard
many bizarre stories before
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that didn't turn out to be true.
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We started checking out these names
to see if they were missing persons
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or runaway juveniles,
and that's when we learned
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that some of them have been
listed as missing or runaways.
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Narrator: Missing boys,
bodies in a boatshed.
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Henley says
he can take them there.
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Henley was, I would say,
matter-of-fact.
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He was a very smart,
streetwise kid.
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He showed no emotion about it.
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Narrator: That afternoon, Henley
leads the police on the 30-minute drive
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to 4500 silver bell street.
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Smith: We found the boatshed
but it was locked.
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I got a tire tool out of the car
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and I broke the hinges
off of a galvanized door.
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And immediately,
when we open the door,
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it smelled really bad.
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At that point,
I thought Henley's right.
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I believed him.
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Smith: I knew for a fact that something
was dead inside that boatshed.
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I mean, I'd smelled that before.
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Looking around the ground,
I saw a position
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on the left side of the boatshed
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where the ground
was cracked and raised up.
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That's where I grabbed a shovel.
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I had some trustees there.
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And we started digging, and about
six or eight inches under the ground,
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we found the first body.
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Nude, wrapped in plastic.
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It had begun decomposition,
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but, uh, it hadn't
been there that long.
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James: You could smell it
when you got out of the car,
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it was black gumbo
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in a, you know,
15 by 25-foot boat stall.
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It had the most horrible smell
you could ever imagine.
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Of course, it was new to me.
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I'd only been in homicide for
about a month when that took place.
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[ Digging ]
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Smith: We just kept digging
and kept finding more.
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They were layered
on top of one another.
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Some had been buried
for a long time,
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some of them were nothing
but skeletons.
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James: You'd hit lime first,
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and when you hit
a section of lime,
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you knew that there was
a body underneath it.
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We didn't even have gloves.
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All we had, we had body bags.
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You know, there wasn't
much talking
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until you stuck a shovel in
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and pulled out some white lime.
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You said,
"well, here's another one."
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Narrator: Body after body,
hour after hour.
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The more they dug,
the more they found.
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Smith: It was chaos.
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We tried to keep
the media at bay,
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but they would, uh,
get closer all the time.
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I had to tell some
of them to get out
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because they were walking
into the boatshed.
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After an hour of moving the
shell and soft Sandy Clay around,
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the skeletal remains of body number
nine is found under a layer of lime.
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Smith: Henley, he was
standing outside the boatshed.
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He was still handcuffed
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but he asked me
if he could call his mother.
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One of the members
of the media had a car phone.
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[ Henley speaking ]
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[ Mary Henley speaking ]
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The only emotion I ever saw from
him is when he was on the phone
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with his mother that night
at the boatshed.
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Other than that,
he was just matter-of-fact.
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James: Henley thought that
since he had killed Corll, it was over.
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It was just beginning.
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Narrator: The gory details
swept through Houston.
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Local TV stations
cut into regular programming.
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Police in Houston, Texas,
tonight are unraveling
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the grisly details
of a mass murder.
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Twelve bodies have been found.
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It's feared there may be more.
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Henley said the murders took place
at a torture chamber in this house,
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and he killed Corll yesterday
afternoon in self-defense
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after a paint-sniffing
sex party.
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While hiding his face in
the backseat of a police car.
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Henley talked to KHOU
newsman Judd McIlvain.
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[ Mcllvain speaking ]
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[ Henley speaking ]
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Milligan: When the story
broke about the killings,
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and all of us knew someone,
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multiple people who were
touched by this.
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Furstenfeld: Oh, it was huge news,
especially to those of us in the heights,
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that thought of the heights
as a safety ground.
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Narrator: It was a typical
working-class neighborhood,
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like so many others
across America.
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The next morning, another teen
from the heights turns himself in,
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and things go from bad to worse.
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David Brooks went into the Houston
police department with his father.
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Narrator: The eighteen-year-old
says Henley isn't telling the whole story.
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He says Corll didn't act alone.
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Henley wasn't
an innocent bystander,
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he was a willing participant.
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Smith: That's when Henley
decided to tell the truth.
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Male reporter: Late today, police said
Henley, who's already been implicated
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in the 12 murders,
has confessed to involvement
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in a total of 25 to 30 murders.
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And tonight, police are going
to another site
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at lake Sam Rayburn,
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about 100 miles away,
to look for more bodies.
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[ Digging ]
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Narrator: That evening
at the lake,
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in the woods near a cottage
owned by Corll's parents,
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the police dig up
four more graves.
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There seemed to be
no end in sight.
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[ Helicopter hovering ]
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Hollandsworth: Henley said,
"well, there's some more bodies,"
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and they're over at high island.
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And so they did this kind of
en masse trip to high island,
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and Brooks and Henley
sat on a sand dune.
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Reporters went up to 'em and asked
them questions, took their photos,
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and they watched and pointed
to where they saw,
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they remembered
the bodies being buried.
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There were young
families out there,
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and kids with pails and
shovels digging in the sand.
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It was the weirdest surreal
scene you could imagine.
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James: I was out there
more or less,
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I guess, babysitting
Henley and Brooks,
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while other detectives and other
agencies were looking for bodies.
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David Owen Brooks
was very quiet.
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He was just like he was kind
of staring off into space.
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[ Camera shutter clicks ]
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And I tried a couple of times.
Since he didn't reply,
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I just gave up on it.
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I did speak at length
with Elmer Wayne Henley Jr.
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He was very talkative.
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He was just talking
like a magpie, you know.
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And he was telling me
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how they would go out and
find boys walking the street.
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They'd say, "hey, you want to go to
a party? We're going to have a party."
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And they would either
offer 'em money,
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uh, booze, or there'd
be girls there.
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Narrator: Henley explains
that once inside,
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the party turned
into something different.
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James: Henley told me that
he had a torture board there.
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He said they would tie them on
the torture board and molest them.
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They would let the boys go and they
would come back on more than one occasion.
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Then he said when they got
tired of 'em, they would kill 'em.
287
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And Henley said, I didn't know
how hard it was to strangle someone.
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I was just floored by that.
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He said that they would
load the bodies in the Van.
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That's how they removed them
from the house,
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and they would either Bury 'em
or put 'em in the boat stall.
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Then they started going to lake
Sam Rayburn and high island.
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Smith: They all went together,
294
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and usually Brooks drove
Dean Corll's white Van,
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that had the body box inside,
what they called the body box.
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Henley sure wasn't
upset about it.
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He never shed a tear.
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He just didn't.
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It was just another date
for him, I guess.
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Hollandsworth: Henley and Brooks
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didn't just talk teenagers
into getting into the Van.
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Once they got to the apartment,
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they helped get them strapped
to the torture board,
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they gagged their mouths,
they bound their hands.
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They put them in position so that
Dean could have sex with them.
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It was just as vicious
as what Dean was doing.
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Narrator: It was a brutal,
calculated killing machine.
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How did Corll buy their silence?
309
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And how did no-one in the
heights notice what was happening?
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[ Police siren blaring ]
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Hollandsworth: I'm still the same
staff writer I was 30 years ago.
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This is a story
without any redemption.
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There is nothing but terror and
madness and grief in this story.
314
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Before a few days ago, the public
had never heard of Dean Allan Corll.
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Now he's laid to rest as the state's
most publicized murder suspect.
316
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Narrator: Six days after
Wayne Henley killed Dean Corll,
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the police unearthed
the bodies of 27 boys,
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seventeen from the boatshed,
319
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six from the beach, and
four from lake Sam Rayburn.
320
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This orgy of murder was
the worst in American history.
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James: I've thought about it
every night for a long time.
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You still think about it,
even today,
323
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and whether or not
we got all the bodies.
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Narrator: Desperate and angry
parents of boys who had disappeared
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flooded the police
department with calls.
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When we went back to pull reports
with kids who were still missing,
327
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there was maybe 40
to 50 of those.
328
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We contacted parents,
asked for dental records.
329
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Hollandsworth: They were
identified through belts,
330
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the tennis shoes they wore.
331
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You know there's no DNA
going on back then.
332
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Narrator: At the morgue,
333
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the medical examiner's office
worked around the clock.
334
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Families just waited
for the knock on the door.
335
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Massey: I personally
had to go to the morgue daily.
336
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That was just
a horrific experience,
337
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because as soon as you
got off the elevator,
338
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the smell of decomposing
bodies was just overwhelming.
339
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I don't know how the medical
examiners worked in that environment.
340
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When you go back
to the family and say,
341
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"your child has been
identified, and was a victim,"
342
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and it was really,
really heartbreaking.
343
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Man on TV: One of the first victims
identified was 13-year-old David Hilligiest,
344
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who has been missing
for more than two years.
345
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The Hilligiests' had spent
thousands of dollars
346
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for private detectives
and in advertisements
347
00:20:36,702 --> 00:20:38,603
in underground newspapers
in search of their son
348
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and a neighbor
who disappeared with him.
349
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I feared from the very beginning
350
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that something
had happened to them.
351
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But naturally,
along with our fears,
352
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we held our hopes that
some day they would come back.
353
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Narrator: David and his
16-year-old friend Malley
354
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disappeared in broad daylight.
355
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Winkle: Malley and David
were going swimming,
356
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swimming at the local pool.
357
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The pools open
in August, September.
358
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Let's have some fun,
let's get with it,
359
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let's do whatever.
360
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And then they were gone.
361
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Narrator: Both boys were
barefoot, wearing their swimsuits
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and last seen getting
into a white Van.
363
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Henley got so involved in this
364
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that he brought his own friends
365
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to meet Corll
and later be killed.
366
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David Hilligiest,
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who lived just down the block
from Henley's home.
368
00:21:37,229 --> 00:21:39,730
Mark Scott, who invited him late
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to one of his birthday parties.
370
00:21:41,333 --> 00:21:44,769
Homer Garcia, who was
in Henley's driver's ed class.
371
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All of them were murdered.
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All of them disappeared.
373
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All of them had parents
who drove the streets at night
374
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looking for them.
375
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Winkle: Wayne Henley even
put up posters
376
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that they just made
for David and Malley.
377
00:22:03,021 --> 00:22:04,632
Uh, he put them up
around the neighborhood
378
00:22:04,656 --> 00:22:07,224
and he was responsible for
abducting him in the first place.
379
00:22:09,361 --> 00:22:11,696
Malley may have worked
for Dean Corll
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at the candy shop
for a little period of time.
381
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It turns the pit of my stomach.
382
00:22:18,770 --> 00:22:21,939
It is so very scary and painful
383
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that he was that close
to that man.
384
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Narrator: Questions swirled.
385
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How could this happen
right under their noses?
386
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And of all people,
387
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the guy everyone called
the perfect gentleman,
388
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the candy man.
389
00:22:38,323 --> 00:22:40,858
Hollandsworth: Dean Corll grew
up in Indiana and Tennessee
390
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his dad was an electrician.
391
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They came to Texas in 1962.
392
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They opened a candy shop.
393
00:22:51,269 --> 00:22:52,603
Dean went to high school.
394
00:22:53,472 --> 00:22:55,306
He played trombone in the band.
395
00:22:56,541 --> 00:22:58,709
He was well-liked,
he made decent grades.
396
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He had girls that liked him.
397
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He went to the us army.
398
00:23:03,548 --> 00:23:06,350
He became an expert
in radio operations.
399
00:23:07,786 --> 00:23:10,855
He came back to Houston,
worked for his mom,
400
00:23:10,956 --> 00:23:12,757
became the neighborhood
candy man.
401
00:23:17,295 --> 00:23:20,698
His mom gets divorced,
she marries a merchant marine.
402
00:23:20,799 --> 00:23:23,000
And he says to her,
403
00:23:23,101 --> 00:23:25,302
"you know, I think there's
something wrong with Dean.
404
00:23:25,404 --> 00:23:27,772
I think he's got some
homosexual tendencies.
405
00:23:27,873 --> 00:23:30,841
He sure does like
being around other boys."
406
00:23:31,710 --> 00:23:34,011
His mother was so upset
407
00:23:34,112 --> 00:23:37,014
that she divorced
the merchant marine
408
00:23:37,115 --> 00:23:39,717
and she closed the candy
factory and moved to Colorado.
409
00:23:40,886 --> 00:23:43,454
Now she might have
assumed that Dean,
410
00:23:43,555 --> 00:23:46,690
who was so close to her,
would come with her.
411
00:23:46,792 --> 00:23:49,193
But he said,
I'm staying in Houston,
412
00:23:49,294 --> 00:23:51,829
and I'm gonna work at the
Houston power and light company
413
00:23:51,930 --> 00:23:52,997
as a lineman,
414
00:23:53,098 --> 00:23:55,833
and for the first time
he was alone,
415
00:23:55,934 --> 00:23:57,401
he had an apartment,
416
00:23:57,502 --> 00:24:00,004
and that's when something
came unleashed in him.
417
00:24:02,774 --> 00:24:05,709
Narrator: Corll felt free
to act on his dark desires
418
00:24:05,811 --> 00:24:08,379
and lured two teens
from the neighborhood
419
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:10,915
to be part
of his killing machine.
420
00:24:11,016 --> 00:24:14,151
As Brooks and Henley
got involved,
421
00:24:14,252 --> 00:24:17,655
the candy turned
to sex parties and weed.
422
00:24:19,191 --> 00:24:22,493
Brooks was a boy of about 12
423
00:24:22,627 --> 00:24:25,596
who started coming over
to the candy factory,
424
00:24:25,697 --> 00:24:30,000
and so had known the Corlls
for a long time,
425
00:24:30,101 --> 00:24:31,669
and would hang out there
426
00:24:31,770 --> 00:24:35,873
because he had no father
to watch over him,
427
00:24:35,974 --> 00:24:40,010
and his mother sort of was happy
that he had some place to go.
428
00:24:40,912 --> 00:24:44,215
Brooks' father said,
429
00:24:44,316 --> 00:24:45,816
"Dean's the first
grown man I know
430
00:24:45,917 --> 00:24:47,351
that hasn't made fun of you."
431
00:24:49,321 --> 00:24:52,823
Corll had an apartment
at the Yorktown apartments,
432
00:24:52,924 --> 00:24:55,559
which was a place where
a lot of young singles
433
00:24:55,660 --> 00:24:58,429
were starting to make their
first marks in business
434
00:24:58,530 --> 00:25:00,197
and economy, and in Houston.
435
00:25:01,433 --> 00:25:05,736
And it was there that
he brought David Brooks,
436
00:25:05,837 --> 00:25:09,974
who is this aesthetic-looking,
pimply-faced young man
437
00:25:10,075 --> 00:25:12,910
who a lot of kids made fun of
because of the way he looked.
438
00:25:13,011 --> 00:25:16,313
He had long blonde hair.
He wore thick aviator glasses.
439
00:25:18,083 --> 00:25:20,551
Dean had given him money
and he'd bought him a car.
440
00:25:20,652 --> 00:25:22,052
He had taken care of him
441
00:25:22,153 --> 00:25:25,155
in a way that
his own father had not.
442
00:25:25,257 --> 00:25:27,925
And Brooks sort of
saw Dean as a father figure.
443
00:25:29,761 --> 00:25:31,595
When Dean asked Brooks
to pull down his pants
444
00:25:31,696 --> 00:25:33,474
so he could give him what
Texas law at the time
445
00:25:33,498 --> 00:25:36,033
described as oral sodomy,
446
00:25:36,134 --> 00:25:37,334
David did it.
447
00:25:39,571 --> 00:25:41,572
It wasn't that David was gay.
448
00:25:41,673 --> 00:25:43,641
David felt like that's
what he had to do
449
00:25:43,742 --> 00:25:47,044
to continue to keep
his father figure's affection.
450
00:25:49,147 --> 00:25:51,382
A few weeks after that happened,
451
00:25:51,483 --> 00:25:53,918
David goes up to the apartment
452
00:25:54,019 --> 00:25:56,153
and just assumed
he could walk in,
453
00:25:56,254 --> 00:25:58,289
and he saw Dean having anal sex
454
00:25:58,390 --> 00:26:00,925
with two terrified
teenage boys on the bed.
455
00:26:02,093 --> 00:26:03,827
And Dean said,
"get out of here."
456
00:26:04,963 --> 00:26:06,330
Later, Dean told David
457
00:26:06,431 --> 00:26:08,232
that he shot both of those boys
458
00:26:08,333 --> 00:26:09,867
and buried them in a boat shed.
459
00:26:13,371 --> 00:26:15,205
So he initially went to David
and said,
460
00:26:15,307 --> 00:26:16,941
"this is what I'm doing.
461
00:26:17,042 --> 00:26:18,842
If you will bring me boys,
462
00:26:18,944 --> 00:26:21,211
I will pay you $ 200 per boy."
463
00:26:24,082 --> 00:26:26,383
And he began to lure boys
into the Van,
464
00:26:26,484 --> 00:26:28,619
saying, "hey, we've got
some marijuana,
465
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:29,720
we have some beer."
466
00:26:32,424 --> 00:26:34,858
And then one of the boys
he lured into the Van
467
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:36,560
was Elmer Wayne Henley,
468
00:26:36,661 --> 00:26:39,997
who came from a broken home
as did David.
469
00:26:40,098 --> 00:26:41,966
And Elmer got involved,
470
00:26:42,067 --> 00:26:46,704
and he began to help recruit
other boys
471
00:26:46,805 --> 00:26:49,306
and brought them
into the Van or the car
472
00:26:49,407 --> 00:26:51,108
and took them to one
of Dean's apartments.
473
00:26:52,310 --> 00:26:55,312
Dean was so well-liked
by these kids,
474
00:26:55,413 --> 00:26:58,649
parents who got to know him,
that they invited him over.
475
00:26:59,784 --> 00:27:02,219
Henley's mom invited
Dean over for dinner,
476
00:27:02,354 --> 00:27:05,356
and Dean took the time
to fix her car.
477
00:27:05,457 --> 00:27:10,194
So she was very aware
that her son, Wayne,
478
00:27:10,295 --> 00:27:12,196
was hanging out with Dean Corll,
479
00:27:12,297 --> 00:27:14,465
and it didn't bother
her whatsoever.
480
00:27:15,867 --> 00:27:20,838
In a way, you can understand
every 15 or 16 year old boy
481
00:27:20,939 --> 00:27:24,074
who's lonely,
who feels like an outcast,
482
00:27:24,175 --> 00:27:26,443
who's embraced by
this other kind of person.
483
00:27:27,178 --> 00:27:29,113
You can understand it,
484
00:27:29,214 --> 00:27:33,550
but you just never expect it
to go as far as it did.
485
00:27:47,732 --> 00:27:50,868
Narrator: Dean Corll has
been dead for almost 50 years.
486
00:27:50,935 --> 00:27:53,570
But what he did
to 16-year-old Malley winkle
487
00:27:53,672 --> 00:27:55,839
still haunts his brother, Ben.
488
00:27:58,376 --> 00:28:01,145
I mean, he was a good kid.
He was a good brother.
489
00:28:03,682 --> 00:28:05,249
I always wanted
to hang out with Malley.
490
00:28:05,350 --> 00:28:06,784
I always wanted to be with him.
491
00:28:10,321 --> 00:28:12,489
We'd just run around,
do things that kids did.
492
00:28:15,527 --> 00:28:17,761
We slept in the same room
together, so, and...
493
00:28:17,862 --> 00:28:20,698
He took care of me
as best he could.
494
00:28:20,799 --> 00:28:22,977
Right? He tried to make sure
I didn't get in any trouble
495
00:28:23,001 --> 00:28:24,001
and stuff like that.
496
00:28:24,469 --> 00:28:26,336
Kid: What's your name?
497
00:28:26,438 --> 00:28:29,173
- Malley winkle.
- Malley winkle?
498
00:28:29,974 --> 00:28:32,543
Uh, what's your city?
499
00:28:32,644 --> 00:28:33,944
Houston.
500
00:28:35,747 --> 00:28:38,415
Narrator: But, like many
of the other murdered boys,
501
00:28:38,516 --> 00:28:40,350
Ben's family was broken.
502
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:43,120
Winkle: When I was eight,
503
00:28:43,188 --> 00:28:46,290
my mom,
she actually lost everything.
504
00:28:47,692 --> 00:28:51,095
She was a single mom
working two of our ships.
505
00:28:51,196 --> 00:28:53,130
A lot of the time
we were there by ourselves.
506
00:28:54,032 --> 00:28:55,632
That was a big deal.
My mom would say,
507
00:28:55,734 --> 00:28:57,901
"Malley, take Ben with you
and take care of him."
508
00:29:00,105 --> 00:29:01,105
His dating.
509
00:29:01,172 --> 00:29:03,741
He was trying to date.
I always remember...
510
00:29:03,842 --> 00:29:05,309
The concept of
him trying to date,
511
00:29:05,410 --> 00:29:07,544
you know, 15, 16-year-old kid.
512
00:29:08,913 --> 00:29:10,647
I always wanted to be with him.
513
00:29:10,749 --> 00:29:12,883
And as an eight-year
older brother,
514
00:29:12,984 --> 00:29:14,351
he never wanted me
to be with him.
515
00:29:17,422 --> 00:29:19,757
My mom, when she wasn't home,
516
00:29:19,858 --> 00:29:21,358
I wasn't home either.
517
00:29:23,094 --> 00:29:25,662
And she just couldn't
control me.
518
00:29:26,664 --> 00:29:28,632
She had placed me
into a boy's home
519
00:29:28,733 --> 00:29:30,701
called boy's harbor
in la Porte, Texas.
520
00:29:33,471 --> 00:29:35,639
And she tried to get Malley
into the harbor as well.
521
00:29:35,740 --> 00:29:36,907
And he didn't get in.
522
00:29:37,008 --> 00:29:39,042
I don't know if it was
his age or what,
523
00:29:39,144 --> 00:29:40,544
uh, but he wasn't allowed in.
524
00:29:42,714 --> 00:29:44,882
He had come out on one
of the visiting Sundays,
525
00:29:44,983 --> 00:29:47,050
and that's when
that picture was taken.
526
00:29:48,553 --> 00:29:50,687
And in the following year,
he was abducted.
527
00:29:52,857 --> 00:29:54,324
He was found in the boat shed.
528
00:29:58,596 --> 00:30:02,032
Obviously, later in life,
I learned the truth
529
00:30:02,133 --> 00:30:06,804
and, uh, it has been
very painful since then.
530
00:30:11,075 --> 00:30:13,911
Narrator: Back in '73
when Henley shot Corll
531
00:30:14,012 --> 00:30:15,946
and the story
hit the newspapers,
532
00:30:16,047 --> 00:30:19,483
20-year old Bernie Milligan
could think of only one name.
533
00:30:20,718 --> 00:30:24,154
Milligan: Frank Aguirre was
one of the missing kids,
534
00:30:24,255 --> 00:30:27,491
and he and I had attended
Hamilton junior high together.
535
00:30:27,592 --> 00:30:28,859
We had a lot of mutual friends.
536
00:30:30,929 --> 00:30:34,731
I had no idea who
the perpetrators were
537
00:30:34,833 --> 00:30:38,468
until I opened that newspaper
and saw their faces.
538
00:30:38,570 --> 00:30:41,338
Narrator: One of those faces
was Dean Corll.
539
00:30:43,508 --> 00:30:44,842
He and I had an encounter.
540
00:30:46,678 --> 00:30:48,045
Narrator: Three years earlier,
541
00:30:48,146 --> 00:30:50,814
Corll tried to lure Bernie
into his car.
542
00:30:52,584 --> 00:30:56,053
Milligan: As I was walking,
Corll approached me
543
00:30:56,154 --> 00:30:58,155
on the side with his lights off.
544
00:30:59,991 --> 00:31:02,226
He kept trying
to offer me a ride.
545
00:31:02,327 --> 00:31:05,896
"Hey, man, I'll drive you
wherever you want to go",
546
00:31:05,997 --> 00:31:07,998
and I'm trying to be very clear,
547
00:31:08,099 --> 00:31:11,068
I'm not gonna take a ride
in anyone's car.
548
00:31:13,571 --> 00:31:15,873
And he finally said,
"hey, be a guy."
549
00:31:15,974 --> 00:31:18,809
That was the first strange
thing I heard out of him.
550
00:31:20,044 --> 00:31:21,645
And he got
a little more insistent,
551
00:31:21,746 --> 00:31:23,213
and I took off.
552
00:31:23,314 --> 00:31:25,015
[ Running footsteps ]
553
00:31:25,116 --> 00:31:26,984
Thank goodness I was an athlete,
554
00:31:27,085 --> 00:31:29,453
because I was
making tracks, running.
555
00:31:31,422 --> 00:31:34,057
I would stop
and stand in an alley
556
00:31:34,158 --> 00:31:37,094
'cause I could hear him with
those lights on, driving around.
557
00:31:39,998 --> 00:31:42,966
And, uh, finally, I lost him.
558
00:31:46,471 --> 00:31:47,871
I told my mother about it.
559
00:31:47,972 --> 00:31:49,206
We didn't call the police
560
00:31:49,307 --> 00:31:51,508
'cause I didn't have
a description of the car.
561
00:31:51,609 --> 00:31:52,943
I focused on him.
562
00:31:56,714 --> 00:31:59,516
Narrator: Bernie has
a second encounter with Corll.
563
00:31:59,617 --> 00:32:02,786
This time,
Corll brings his friends.
564
00:32:02,887 --> 00:32:05,289
Milligan: I turned around
and there was a car.
565
00:32:05,390 --> 00:32:07,057
There sat David Brooks
566
00:32:07,158 --> 00:32:10,327
and Elmer Wayne Henley
was in the back seat.
567
00:32:10,995 --> 00:32:12,029
And there was a driver,
568
00:32:12,130 --> 00:32:14,031
but I couldn't see the driver
from where I was.
569
00:32:15,633 --> 00:32:18,201
David Brooks goes, "hey,
we're heading up to Sam Rayburn.
570
00:32:18,303 --> 00:32:19,703
Would you like to go fishing?"
571
00:32:21,205 --> 00:32:23,840
And I noticed the driver
looked through,
572
00:32:23,942 --> 00:32:25,742
turned his head to the side,
573
00:32:25,843 --> 00:32:29,012
and uh, he recognized me.
574
00:32:29,113 --> 00:32:30,714
I didn't know Dean Corll's name.
575
00:32:30,815 --> 00:32:32,683
I only recognized him as the guy
576
00:32:32,784 --> 00:32:34,952
in September of 1969.
577
00:32:36,220 --> 00:32:40,023
And all he said was,
"we have to go right now,"
578
00:32:40,124 --> 00:32:42,392
and threw the car into drive.
579
00:32:44,796 --> 00:32:47,664
Narrator: Once again,
Bernie escaped Carl's grasp.
580
00:32:48,766 --> 00:32:51,234
One month later, Corll was dead,
581
00:32:51,336 --> 00:32:53,637
shot by his buddy Wayne Henley.
582
00:32:57,275 --> 00:32:59,209
A few weeks after
the news broke,
583
00:32:59,310 --> 00:33:01,311
there were whispers
around the heights
584
00:33:01,412 --> 00:33:02,813
that both Henley and Brooks
585
00:33:02,914 --> 00:33:05,182
were trying to break free
from Corll.
586
00:33:05,283 --> 00:33:08,618
Milligan: Brooks was
terrified for his life.
587
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:11,021
He had just got married
and he had a child.
588
00:33:11,122 --> 00:33:13,991
He was going to have
to break away
589
00:33:14,092 --> 00:33:15,692
from what was going on.
590
00:33:17,195 --> 00:33:20,130
The story I received
591
00:33:20,231 --> 00:33:23,767
is David would take
a couch or chair,
592
00:33:23,868 --> 00:33:25,635
and move it in front of
the door every night
593
00:33:25,737 --> 00:33:28,638
and sit with a shotgun...
594
00:33:28,740 --> 00:33:32,509
Thinking that Henley and Dean Corll
were gonna break through the door
595
00:33:32,610 --> 00:33:34,611
and kill him
and Bridget and the baby.
596
00:33:36,547 --> 00:33:39,249
He had apparently confessed
to his father.
597
00:33:39,350 --> 00:33:42,352
His father had informed David
that the supreme court
598
00:33:42,453 --> 00:33:45,822
was working on outlawing
the death penalty.
599
00:33:45,923 --> 00:33:47,457
Keep your mouth shut.
600
00:33:48,026 --> 00:33:49,459
This is what I was told.
601
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:51,995
I did not hear it
from David Brooks
602
00:33:52,096 --> 00:33:53,330
or even Bridget myself.
603
00:33:53,431 --> 00:33:56,233
Narrator: Henley also
feared for his life.
604
00:33:56,334 --> 00:33:59,736
Dean told him he belonged to
an organization out of Dallas
605
00:33:59,837 --> 00:34:02,039
that bought and sold boys.
606
00:34:02,140 --> 00:34:03,140
Henley said,
607
00:34:03,207 --> 00:34:05,475
"Dean told me his
organization would get me
608
00:34:05,576 --> 00:34:07,844
if I ever did anything to him.
609
00:34:07,945 --> 00:34:09,880
He said he tried
to tell his mother,
610
00:34:09,981 --> 00:34:12,249
but she just wouldn't
believe me."
611
00:34:12,350 --> 00:34:14,718
Hollandsworth: The truth is
that Mrs. Henley needed money.
612
00:34:14,819 --> 00:34:15,819
She was divorced,
613
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,000
and her husband wasn't
giving her much child support.
614
00:34:19,090 --> 00:34:22,092
And so Wayne getting $200
615
00:34:22,193 --> 00:34:24,261
is a huge deal,
616
00:34:24,362 --> 00:34:28,031
even if it required him
to turn a boy in to be killed.
617
00:34:30,334 --> 00:34:36,139
If Henley had not mentioned
the boat shed to the police,
618
00:34:36,240 --> 00:34:38,542
how are the police
gonna know about it?
619
00:34:38,643 --> 00:34:41,511
It just could have been
this one sort of crazed night
620
00:34:41,612 --> 00:34:44,881
of paint huffing
in a house in Pasadena
621
00:34:44,982 --> 00:34:47,751
with Dean Corll
and three teenagers.
622
00:34:47,852 --> 00:34:49,519
And no one would have
made the connection
623
00:34:49,620 --> 00:34:51,054
to the other disappearing boys.
624
00:34:51,155 --> 00:34:53,023
No one had made
that connection yet.
625
00:34:53,124 --> 00:34:54,491
Why would they start now?
626
00:35:00,331 --> 00:35:01,832
I don't mean this
to sound crass.
627
00:35:01,933 --> 00:35:03,800
I mean, there's pedophilia,
628
00:35:03,901 --> 00:35:06,002
and then there's this stuff
that Dean Corll did.
629
00:35:07,271 --> 00:35:08,605
He would do this game with them
630
00:35:08,706 --> 00:35:10,474
where he would put handcuffs
on them and say,
631
00:35:10,575 --> 00:35:13,009
"let's see how quickly you can
get your handcuffs off."
632
00:35:14,278 --> 00:35:15,946
He would do
the handcuff game first,
633
00:35:16,047 --> 00:35:18,582
then he would give the
handcuffs to the other boy.
634
00:35:18,683 --> 00:35:21,284
That boy could not get
the handcuffs off,
635
00:35:21,385 --> 00:35:23,186
and that's when it began.
636
00:35:24,422 --> 00:35:26,022
It's so hard to talk about,
637
00:35:26,124 --> 00:35:28,425
and I've covered
a lot of crimes.
638
00:35:28,526 --> 00:35:30,861
When I realized that
this was going on
639
00:35:30,962 --> 00:35:35,532
in what is now this beautiful
yuppie neighborhood,
640
00:35:35,633 --> 00:35:37,334
that back then,
the kind of depravity
641
00:35:37,435 --> 00:35:39,603
that just
does not seem possible...
642
00:35:39,704 --> 00:35:41,838
It's still hard
for me to imagine.
643
00:35:44,075 --> 00:35:46,743
Of these 28 eight boys
who were killed
644
00:35:46,844 --> 00:35:48,945
in the most gruesome of fashion,
645
00:35:49,046 --> 00:35:51,481
at least 22 of them had grown up
646
00:35:51,582 --> 00:35:53,416
in a neighborhood
called the heights.
647
00:35:53,518 --> 00:35:58,522
11 of those boys went to
the same junior high school.
648
00:35:58,623 --> 00:36:00,490
Newsreader: The Houston
police department says
649
00:36:00,591 --> 00:36:02,526
it gets more than 5,000 reports
650
00:36:02,627 --> 00:36:04,361
of runaway children each year,
651
00:36:04,462 --> 00:36:06,763
and there is no way
to check them out thoroughly.
652
00:36:06,864 --> 00:36:08,632
They say there aren't
enough policemen.
653
00:36:10,468 --> 00:36:13,470
Narrator: Between 1971 and 1973,
654
00:36:13,571 --> 00:36:16,740
more than 400 kids were
reported missing in the heights,
655
00:36:16,841 --> 00:36:19,843
an area two miles wide
and three miles deep.
656
00:36:19,944 --> 00:36:21,278
Smith: It was a different time.
657
00:36:22,446 --> 00:36:24,714
Kids hitchhiked all over.
658
00:36:24,815 --> 00:36:26,816
Some of these victims
were hitchhikers.
659
00:36:28,152 --> 00:36:31,288
You know, it was the age of
drugs, sex and rock and roll.
660
00:36:32,590 --> 00:36:34,524
Hollandsworth: It was
a strange time in America
661
00:36:34,625 --> 00:36:38,562
because there were a lot
of boys who did disappear.
662
00:36:38,663 --> 00:36:42,699
And there were, in truth,
some boys who ran away
663
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,202
and some boys
who wanted to go see
664
00:36:45,303 --> 00:36:47,737
what the other part
of the world was like.
665
00:36:47,838 --> 00:36:50,974
Narrator: Back then, being
a runaway wasn't a crime
666
00:36:51,075 --> 00:36:54,077
nor a priority for the police.
667
00:36:54,178 --> 00:36:57,047
Runaways or missing persons
who were juveniles
668
00:36:57,148 --> 00:37:00,317
was handled by a division
called the juvenile division,
669
00:37:00,418 --> 00:37:02,052
which was separate
from homicide.
670
00:37:02,153 --> 00:37:03,653
They were on the fourth floor,
671
00:37:03,754 --> 00:37:06,122
we were on the third floor.
672
00:37:06,224 --> 00:37:08,258
Smith: Offense reports
by patrol officers
673
00:37:08,359 --> 00:37:10,627
were frequently hand-written.
674
00:37:10,728 --> 00:37:13,096
In fact, the juvenile division,
the way it was set up,
675
00:37:13,197 --> 00:37:16,233
we did all of our reporting
on manual typewriters.
676
00:37:16,334 --> 00:37:18,935
There was probably only two
or three electric typewriters
677
00:37:19,036 --> 00:37:21,004
in the whole division
for a hundred people.
678
00:37:22,707 --> 00:37:25,875
Narrator: 14-year-old Jimmy
glass, one of the first victims,
679
00:37:25,977 --> 00:37:28,778
disappeared in December of 1970.
680
00:37:28,879 --> 00:37:32,315
He was last seen
leaving a church service.
681
00:37:32,416 --> 00:37:35,318
Hollandsworth: Jimmy glass
had run away from home before
682
00:37:35,419 --> 00:37:37,087
for a very brief amount of time.
683
00:37:37,188 --> 00:37:39,923
But when the juvenile officer
for the Houston police department
684
00:37:40,024 --> 00:37:42,993
was assigned that case
and learned this,
685
00:37:43,094 --> 00:37:46,129
he shut the file, figuring
he'd just run away again.
686
00:37:46,230 --> 00:37:48,765
It happened over
and over and over.
687
00:37:49,567 --> 00:37:51,301
It was totally mishandled.
688
00:37:51,402 --> 00:37:54,904
And as that grief
began to pour out,
689
00:37:55,006 --> 00:37:57,707
there was a lot of anger
at the cops.
690
00:37:57,808 --> 00:37:59,476
We have
the statistical data on it,
691
00:37:59,577 --> 00:38:01,978
exactly how many
were reported missing,
692
00:38:02,079 --> 00:38:03,780
and we see nothing
over that period of time
693
00:38:03,881 --> 00:38:05,161
that indicated a pattern at all.
694
00:38:05,216 --> 00:38:07,717
As a matter of fact,
we had a lot heavier incidents
695
00:38:07,818 --> 00:38:10,153
in some of the other districts.
696
00:38:10,254 --> 00:38:12,055
Hollandsworth:
Herman short said,
697
00:38:12,156 --> 00:38:14,057
"the problem here
is the parents.
698
00:38:14,158 --> 00:38:17,160
The parents need to keep
more control over their boys,
699
00:38:17,261 --> 00:38:19,729
otherwise these boys
would not have any problems."
700
00:38:19,830 --> 00:38:22,632
Some of these parents
are not exactly
701
00:38:22,733 --> 00:38:24,768
uh, discharging their
own responsibility
702
00:38:24,869 --> 00:38:27,470
so far as these runaways
are concerned,
703
00:38:27,571 --> 00:38:31,041
so far is raising and
disciplining their children.
704
00:38:33,377 --> 00:38:36,546
Hollandsworth: These parents would
come to the Houston police and say,
705
00:38:36,647 --> 00:38:39,149
"my boy just doesn't
run away from home.
706
00:38:39,250 --> 00:38:43,119
He was packed and ready to go
on a family vacation the next day.
707
00:38:43,220 --> 00:38:44,721
He's disappeared.
708
00:38:44,822 --> 00:38:46,790
Something horrible
has happened to him."
709
00:38:46,891 --> 00:38:48,658
And the Houston police said,
710
00:38:48,759 --> 00:38:52,862
"ma'am, there's just a lot of
runaways in America at this time."
711
00:38:52,963 --> 00:38:54,364
This is the hippie era.
712
00:38:54,465 --> 00:38:55,532
They get disgruntled
713
00:38:55,633 --> 00:38:57,177
and they're told to run away
by their friends,
714
00:38:57,201 --> 00:38:59,035
and that's what they do.
715
00:38:59,136 --> 00:39:02,038
Narrator: Ben knows
his brother was no runaway.
716
00:39:02,139 --> 00:39:03,440
Winkle: Malley and David,
717
00:39:03,541 --> 00:39:05,608
they were just going
down there to go swimming.
718
00:39:06,544 --> 00:39:07,824
Do you run away
in your swimsuit?
719
00:39:07,878 --> 00:39:09,479
I mean, that doesn't
make any sense.
720
00:39:16,554 --> 00:39:18,054
Newsreader: Under Texas law,
721
00:39:18,155 --> 00:39:20,423
Elmer Wayne Henry
faced a maximum sentence
722
00:39:20,524 --> 00:39:23,526
of life imprisonment
for each of the six murders.
723
00:39:23,627 --> 00:39:25,295
After less than
an hour's deliberation,
724
00:39:25,396 --> 00:39:27,397
they returned
the maximum penalty:
725
00:39:27,498 --> 00:39:30,867
Six separate 99-year sentences.
726
00:39:30,968 --> 00:39:33,269
Narrator: Nine months later,
David Owen Brooks
727
00:39:33,371 --> 00:39:35,372
was convicted of one murder:
728
00:39:35,473 --> 00:39:39,042
The strangulation of
15-year-old Billy ray Lawrence,
729
00:39:39,143 --> 00:39:40,877
and received a life sentence.
730
00:39:44,548 --> 00:39:47,784
With Corll dead and his
two accomplices behind bars,
731
00:39:47,885 --> 00:39:51,521
the Houston mass murders
faded from the headlines.
732
00:39:51,622 --> 00:39:53,757
America's fascination
with serial killers
733
00:39:53,858 --> 00:39:55,959
was still years in the future,
734
00:39:56,060 --> 00:40:00,597
but for many of the families,
the grief lasts a lifetime.
735
00:40:00,698 --> 00:40:02,966
Winkle: My mom,
it destroyed her.
736
00:40:04,034 --> 00:40:07,003
His murder overshadowed
most everything else.
737
00:40:08,606 --> 00:40:10,140
She made the ultimate sacrifice.
738
00:40:11,142 --> 00:40:13,076
She gave up one son
739
00:40:13,177 --> 00:40:15,512
by putting me in the harbor,
boy's harbor,
740
00:40:15,613 --> 00:40:17,213
and then she lost her other son.
741
00:40:19,450 --> 00:40:21,785
He was very innocent.
He was just an innocent kid.
742
00:40:22,653 --> 00:40:23,853
He never really had a chance.
743
00:40:35,232 --> 00:40:38,334
Narrator: Unluckier still are
the families of Corll's victims
744
00:40:38,436 --> 00:40:40,937
whose bodies
were never identified.
745
00:40:45,176 --> 00:40:47,277
Dr. Sharon Derrick
started a new job
746
00:40:47,378 --> 00:40:50,480
at the Harris county medical
examiner's office in Houston.
747
00:40:51,882 --> 00:40:54,184
As she looked around
her new workplace,
748
00:40:54,285 --> 00:40:57,220
something old suddenly
became new again.
749
00:40:58,122 --> 00:41:00,356
Dr. Derrick:
I saw these three boxes
750
00:41:00,424 --> 00:41:04,461
and each of them said
"Houston mass murders" on them.
751
00:41:04,528 --> 00:41:08,064
And I immediately clicked back
to when I was in high school.
752
00:41:09,700 --> 00:41:11,167
And I thought, "oh, my gosh,
753
00:41:11,268 --> 00:41:13,503
they have some of
the remains from that
754
00:41:13,604 --> 00:41:14,971
and they're not identified?"
755
00:41:15,072 --> 00:41:18,641
I was kind of star struck
at the three boxes,
756
00:41:18,742 --> 00:41:19,843
to tell you the truth.
757
00:41:21,345 --> 00:41:23,480
And so I asked the deputy chief
758
00:41:23,581 --> 00:41:25,348
may I be assigned these cases,
759
00:41:25,449 --> 00:41:26,816
and he said yes.
760
00:41:26,917 --> 00:41:28,751
Narrator: It wasn't
going to be easy.
761
00:41:28,853 --> 00:41:31,988
Those boxes contain
the forgotten bones and bits
762
00:41:32,089 --> 00:41:35,225
of the last nameless victims
of the candy man.
763
00:41:36,193 --> 00:41:37,827
It became a lot more than just
764
00:41:37,928 --> 00:41:40,296
putting the bones on the table
and sorting them out.
765
00:41:40,397 --> 00:41:43,433
You had to look back
into all of the old files
766
00:41:43,534 --> 00:41:44,968
that are still present.
767
00:41:45,069 --> 00:41:46,636
There aren't very many.
768
00:41:46,737 --> 00:41:49,806
Narrator: Since 2006,
with the help of DNA,
769
00:41:49,907 --> 00:41:52,909
she's identified
five of those boys.
770
00:41:53,010 --> 00:41:54,677
One last boy remains.
771
00:41:55,913 --> 00:41:59,949
We need family who think
they might have had a victim
772
00:42:00,050 --> 00:42:04,654
of this terrible crime
submit DNA.
773
00:42:04,755 --> 00:42:07,824
Narrator: If the last nameless
boy wasn't from the heights,
774
00:42:07,925 --> 00:42:09,893
where did he come from?
775
00:42:09,994 --> 00:42:13,062
Boys were disappearing
across America,
776
00:42:13,163 --> 00:42:15,164
and a thousand miles away,
777
00:42:15,266 --> 00:42:19,302
a similar monster had just
begun operating in plain sight.
778
00:42:19,403 --> 00:42:22,071
He just hadn't been caught yet.
779
00:42:22,172 --> 00:42:24,474
When John Wayne Gacy the clown
780
00:42:24,575 --> 00:42:26,910
began his rampage in Chicago,
781
00:42:27,912 --> 00:42:29,412
and when it was
finally discovered
782
00:42:29,513 --> 00:42:32,482
that he had numerous boys
in the basement of his home,
783
00:42:33,350 --> 00:42:35,251
you had to wonder
784
00:42:35,352 --> 00:42:38,288
if Gacy was nothing more
than a copycat of Dean Corll.
785
00:42:49,700 --> 00:42:55,405
Most of the the boys that Gacy
killed were street kids,
786
00:42:55,506 --> 00:43:00,543
runaways, people who have been
involved with the law.
787
00:43:00,644 --> 00:43:06,182
Gacy's problem came when
he picked a good kid to take.
788
00:43:09,720 --> 00:43:12,221
Narrator: It's two weeks
before Christmas.
789
00:43:12,323 --> 00:43:14,791
The parents of 15-year-old
Robert Piest
790
00:43:14,892 --> 00:43:16,693
come into the
Des Plaines police station
791
00:43:16,794 --> 00:43:19,195
to report their son's
disappearance.
792
00:43:19,296 --> 00:43:23,566
It's only been a few hours,
but they're worried.
793
00:43:23,667 --> 00:43:26,970
The hippie era was ending.
794
00:43:27,071 --> 00:43:31,007
I mean, it was not uncommon
for kids to run away.
795
00:43:31,108 --> 00:43:33,076
Tovar: Maybe they're
out drinking.
796
00:43:33,177 --> 00:43:35,411
Maybe that young man got lucky
797
00:43:35,512 --> 00:43:39,315
with a young lady somewhere,
you know.
798
00:43:39,416 --> 00:43:43,586
It started off just as a simple
missing person's, you know?
799
00:43:43,687 --> 00:43:46,222
It wasn't a big deal
at the time.
800
00:43:46,323 --> 00:43:48,725
Narrator: Rob Piest worked
part-time as a stock boy
801
00:43:48,826 --> 00:43:51,361
at Nisson pharmacy
in Des Plaines.
802
00:43:51,462 --> 00:43:55,164
He worked the day shift and was
wrapping up for the evening.
803
00:43:55,265 --> 00:43:58,334
His mom had come to pick him up.
804
00:43:58,435 --> 00:44:00,803
Albrecht: Actually, that was
his mother's birthday,
805
00:44:00,904 --> 00:44:05,508
and they're gonna do
their birthday celebration.
806
00:44:05,609 --> 00:44:07,944
Sullivan: At closing time,
he just told her,
807
00:44:08,045 --> 00:44:11,314
"mom, I'm gonna talk
to this guy about a job."
808
00:44:11,415 --> 00:44:13,516
He'd be right back.
809
00:44:13,617 --> 00:44:15,451
And he never came back.
810
00:44:15,552 --> 00:44:17,787
Narrator:
The Piest family is adamant
811
00:44:17,888 --> 00:44:19,722
Rob wouldn't leave
his mom waiting,
812
00:44:19,823 --> 00:44:21,791
especially on her birthday.
813
00:44:21,892 --> 00:44:23,826
Sullivan: They knew
that there was a man
814
00:44:23,927 --> 00:44:26,896
by the name of John Gacy
who Rob had talked to,
815
00:44:26,997 --> 00:44:28,531
but they couldn't find him
816
00:44:28,632 --> 00:44:31,234
or couldn't find
anything about him.
817
00:44:31,335 --> 00:44:32,712
Albrecht: And the officer
that handled it,
818
00:44:32,736 --> 00:44:35,071
he took the report
and made a point
819
00:44:35,172 --> 00:44:38,141
of talking
to the juvenile division.
820
00:44:38,242 --> 00:44:39,552
And a lot of times
what happened, these kids
821
00:44:39,576 --> 00:44:42,111
weren't entered into the
computer as missings right away.
822
00:44:42,212 --> 00:44:46,916
But he felt there was something
different about this case.
823
00:44:47,017 --> 00:44:49,919
Narrator: Still, the Piests
are told nothing can be done
824
00:44:49,987 --> 00:44:51,387
until the morning.
825
00:44:51,488 --> 00:44:55,491
A missing-person report normally
carries a 24-hour waiting period
826
00:44:55,592 --> 00:44:58,428
before the police investigate.
827
00:44:58,529 --> 00:45:01,431
The parents were out all night
looking for anything
828
00:45:01,532 --> 00:45:02,865
that they possibly could,
829
00:45:02,966 --> 00:45:07,003
all the way from the priest
at the Greek church
830
00:45:07,104 --> 00:45:10,406
to Christmas-tree lots
831
00:45:10,507 --> 00:45:15,111
to everything to try to find
anybody who knew about it.
832
00:45:17,181 --> 00:45:18,614
Narrator: The next morning,
833
00:45:18,716 --> 00:45:21,184
Rob's parents are back
at the police station
834
00:45:21,285 --> 00:45:24,620
looking for an update...
Anything.
835
00:45:24,722 --> 00:45:27,824
Here's a young man
who all of a sudden disappears,
836
00:45:27,925 --> 00:45:31,527
and it's his mother's birthday.
837
00:45:31,628 --> 00:45:36,265
He was not a problem in school,
a good student.
838
00:45:36,366 --> 00:45:37,734
Tovar: You know, in my job,
839
00:45:37,835 --> 00:45:40,403
I've seen many, many
dysfunctional families.
840
00:45:40,504 --> 00:45:43,206
This was not one of them.
This was a good family.
841
00:45:43,307 --> 00:45:45,374
All seemed to care
about each other.
842
00:45:45,476 --> 00:45:47,677
It just didn't fit.
843
00:45:47,778 --> 00:45:49,746
I did a criminal-history check
on all the people
844
00:45:49,847 --> 00:45:52,615
that were listed in the report.
845
00:45:52,716 --> 00:45:56,419
A man called John Wayne Gacy
had been in the drugstore
846
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:58,554
that night before.
847
00:45:58,655 --> 00:46:01,157
We learned that he was
a contractor.
848
00:46:01,258 --> 00:46:07,096
He was doing some estimating
or talking to the owner.
849
00:46:07,197 --> 00:46:11,300
He was an ex-con out of Iowa,
and he had a criminal history
850
00:46:11,401 --> 00:46:13,402
which involved
sodomy of a child.
851
00:46:13,504 --> 00:46:15,104
[ Camera shutter clicks ]
852
00:46:15,205 --> 00:46:21,744
Sullivan: Gacy was convicted of
having two boys in his house.
853
00:46:21,845 --> 00:46:27,250
Handcuffed them to one of
the big legs of the pool table,
854
00:46:27,351 --> 00:46:29,719
and that's where
he sodomized them.
855
00:46:29,820 --> 00:46:31,854
Narrator: Gacy received
a 10-year sentence,
856
00:46:31,955 --> 00:46:34,457
but served only 18 months.
857
00:46:34,558 --> 00:46:37,160
There was no sex registry
in 1970,
858
00:46:37,261 --> 00:46:40,463
so the conviction didn't
follow him to Chicago.
859
00:46:40,564 --> 00:46:42,265
Kozenczak:
And when we heard that,
860
00:46:42,366 --> 00:46:44,867
the hair literally stood up
on the back of our necks.
861
00:46:44,968 --> 00:46:48,971
This must be something
a little more serious
862
00:46:49,072 --> 00:46:51,407
than what we're
thinking about here.
863
00:46:54,011 --> 00:46:58,581
And that's what prompted us
to go to Gacy's house
864
00:46:58,682 --> 00:47:02,218
and confront him one-on-one.
865
00:47:02,319 --> 00:47:05,421
So he opened the door.
He was not very clean.
866
00:47:05,522 --> 00:47:07,890
He wasn't a clean person.
He was unshaven.
867
00:47:07,991 --> 00:47:10,092
His clothes were dirty.
868
00:47:20,037 --> 00:47:23,973
He started to tell me that
his mother had just called him.
869
00:47:24,074 --> 00:47:25,374
His uncle had died,
870
00:47:25,475 --> 00:47:28,010
and he was helping his mother
with funeral arrangements.
871
00:47:33,517 --> 00:47:36,385
Once he found out we did not
have a search warrant,
872
00:47:36,486 --> 00:47:38,988
he got real belligerent.
873
00:47:39,089 --> 00:47:41,958
So when we walked outside,
we all agreed that this guy
874
00:47:42,059 --> 00:47:44,594
knew more than
what he was telling us.
875
00:47:47,464 --> 00:47:48,798
Narrator: Gacy's behavior,
876
00:47:48,899 --> 00:47:51,133
coupled with his
sodomy conviction in Iowa,
877
00:47:51,235 --> 00:47:53,035
strikes an ominous note,
878
00:47:53,136 --> 00:47:54,837
and it's enough
to convince a judge
879
00:47:54,938 --> 00:47:58,307
to agree to a search warrant
for Gacy's house.
880
00:47:58,375 --> 00:48:01,811
Sullivan: I wanted to see if the
police officers could find
881
00:48:01,912 --> 00:48:05,882
anything that would show
that there was a body there,
882
00:48:05,983 --> 00:48:08,985
to show that there was
a live body, hopefully,
883
00:48:09,086 --> 00:48:12,255
and someone who was
being held against his will.
884
00:48:12,356 --> 00:48:15,958
Tovar: From the time we went in,
we could tell that
885
00:48:16,059 --> 00:48:17,994
he was marching
to a different drummer
886
00:48:18,095 --> 00:48:21,097
because the paint job,
for example.
887
00:48:21,198 --> 00:48:23,866
The hall was painted brown
and then had, like,
888
00:48:23,967 --> 00:48:27,703
zigzag gold lines
going up and down through it.
889
00:48:27,804 --> 00:48:31,741
I mean, it was really weird.
890
00:48:31,842 --> 00:48:34,911
Clown pictures were everywhere.
He had one right over his bed.
891
00:48:35,012 --> 00:48:41,584
♪♪
892
00:48:41,685 --> 00:48:44,487
And then he had junk
stacked everywhere.
893
00:48:44,588 --> 00:48:49,158
Narrator: They searched the
house top to bottom.
894
00:48:49,259 --> 00:48:53,696
Tovar: We found sex books,
sex toys.
895
00:48:53,797 --> 00:48:55,197
We found a board.
896
00:48:55,299 --> 00:48:57,500
It's a 2x4 with holes
at the end of it,
897
00:48:57,601 --> 00:48:59,468
which could be used
like old-fashioned stocks
898
00:48:59,569 --> 00:49:01,437
where they used to butcher.
899
00:49:01,538 --> 00:49:04,006
So it was some strange stuff.
900
00:49:04,107 --> 00:49:06,342
Narrator: In a closet
off the front room,
901
00:49:06,443 --> 00:49:09,779
they found a trap door
leading to a crawl space.
902
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:11,948
The place was
a dirty, stinky place.
903
00:49:12,082 --> 00:49:15,351
The water tank was very high
in that neighborhood there,
904
00:49:15,452 --> 00:49:21,290
so the sump pump was constantly
going and the earth was muddy.
905
00:49:21,391 --> 00:49:23,392
So we were looking
for a mound of dirt, maybe,
906
00:49:23,493 --> 00:49:26,162
if he had buried
someone down there.
907
00:49:26,263 --> 00:49:28,965
Narrator: But they find nothing.
908
00:49:29,066 --> 00:49:32,435
However, other items scattered
around the house raise questions
909
00:49:32,536 --> 00:49:34,937
about the suburban contractor...
910
00:49:35,038 --> 00:49:38,240
A photo receipt
from Nisson pharmacy,
911
00:49:38,342 --> 00:49:39,742
handcuffs,
912
00:49:39,843 --> 00:49:41,677
various sets of car keys,
913
00:49:41,778 --> 00:49:45,147
and a lot of police badges.
914
00:49:45,248 --> 00:49:49,018
Kozenczak: And we found various
jewelry and ID cards
915
00:49:49,119 --> 00:49:52,521
and driver's licenses
that didn't belong to Gacy.
916
00:49:52,622 --> 00:49:55,291
Narrator: The Rob Piest case
was taking a bigger
917
00:49:55,392 --> 00:49:57,626
and disturbing turn.
918
00:49:57,728 --> 00:50:01,931
That was the start of realizing
that we were on to something,
919
00:50:02,032 --> 00:50:04,600
a heck of a lot more than
the disappearance of one kid.
920
00:50:06,503 --> 00:50:07,770
♪♪
921
00:50:07,871 --> 00:50:09,438
[ Crow caws ]
922
00:50:09,539 --> 00:50:12,908
Narrator: Jewelry,
high-school rings, ID bracelets,
923
00:50:13,010 --> 00:50:16,045
driver's licenses,
and dozens of police badges,
924
00:50:16,146 --> 00:50:18,614
all found in contractor
John Gacy's home,
925
00:50:18,715 --> 00:50:20,883
none of it belonging to him,
926
00:50:20,984 --> 00:50:24,587
and no sign of the
missing teen Rob Piest.
927
00:50:24,688 --> 00:50:28,090
Sullivan: We truly had hoped
that he was alive
928
00:50:28,191 --> 00:50:32,762
and that we might find him
bound up in Gacy's house.
929
00:50:32,863 --> 00:50:35,097
Narrator:
Detectives widen their search.
930
00:50:35,198 --> 00:50:36,432
They start by going back
931
00:50:36,533 --> 00:50:38,401
and talking to everyone
in the pharmacy
932
00:50:38,535 --> 00:50:40,669
the night Rob disappeared.
933
00:50:40,771 --> 00:50:44,473
We knew from talking to people
that he had gone out
934
00:50:44,574 --> 00:50:48,744
with John Wayne Gacy
to get an application for a job.
935
00:50:48,845 --> 00:50:51,547
John Wayne Gacy had been
in the modeling company
936
00:50:51,648 --> 00:50:56,452
called P.D.M. Painting,
decorating, and maintenance.
937
00:50:56,553 --> 00:51:00,222
Albrecht: He was offering him
a summer job for $7.50 an hour.
938
00:51:00,323 --> 00:51:01,957
So a 15-year-old kid,
939
00:51:02,059 --> 00:51:06,495
and he was all anxious about
turning 16 and buying a car.
940
00:51:06,596 --> 00:51:08,097
Tovar: This young girl Kim,
941
00:51:08,198 --> 00:51:10,566
she was working the counter
up near the front door.
942
00:51:10,667 --> 00:51:13,436
She was cold, and she borrowed
Robert's jacket.
943
00:51:13,537 --> 00:51:15,905
It was a nice, blue,
down jacket.
944
00:51:16,006 --> 00:51:19,308
Sullivan: When he was
going out to see Gacy,
945
00:51:19,409 --> 00:51:22,812
he said, "Kim,
let me get my jacket back."
946
00:51:22,913 --> 00:51:24,780
Tovar: He told her,
"I'm going with this guy
947
00:51:24,881 --> 00:51:26,649
to fill out an application."
948
00:51:28,652 --> 00:51:31,454
A lot of these people
actually didn't notice
949
00:51:31,555 --> 00:51:33,589
anything suspicious.
950
00:51:33,690 --> 00:51:35,458
Sullivan: There was
absolutely no reason
951
00:51:35,559 --> 00:51:37,893
to think that he
wouldn't have come home.
952
00:51:37,994 --> 00:51:39,895
[ Siren wailing ]
953
00:51:39,996 --> 00:51:41,997
♪♪
954
00:51:42,099 --> 00:51:44,900
Narrator: Despite Gacy's
sodomy conviction in Iowa,
955
00:51:45,001 --> 00:51:47,503
the 36-year-old
suburban contractor
956
00:51:47,604 --> 00:51:51,073
appears to be a likable,
hardworking businessman.
957
00:51:51,174 --> 00:51:55,811
The neighbors loved him.
His associates loved him.
958
00:51:58,415 --> 00:52:00,549
Albrecht:
Gacy would have parties
959
00:52:00,650 --> 00:52:04,153
around July 4th every year,
and people that attended them
960
00:52:04,254 --> 00:52:06,755
was the who's who
of Chicago politics.
961
00:52:06,857 --> 00:52:08,657
Narrator:
He was a parade organizer
962
00:52:08,725 --> 00:52:10,259
for the mayor of Chicago
963
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:12,595
and a Democratic
precinct captain.
964
00:52:12,662 --> 00:52:15,231
He seemed a model citizen.
965
00:52:25,475 --> 00:52:27,309
He was very active in business
966
00:52:27,410 --> 00:52:29,845
and very active with politics.
967
00:52:29,946 --> 00:52:31,514
Sullivan:
At one particular time,
968
00:52:31,615 --> 00:52:32,882
there's a Polish day parade.
969
00:52:32,983 --> 00:52:36,418
The first lady of the
United States, Rosalynn Carter,
970
00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:38,154
was in for the parade,
971
00:52:38,255 --> 00:52:41,690
and he actually got up
on the stage with her
972
00:52:41,791 --> 00:52:44,260
and even had his picture
taken with her.
973
00:52:44,361 --> 00:52:47,163
♪♪
974
00:52:47,264 --> 00:52:50,933
He was a certified clown
975
00:52:51,034 --> 00:52:52,935
that would volunteer his time
976
00:52:53,036 --> 00:52:56,238
to go to hospitals
and entertain children.
977
00:52:56,339 --> 00:52:58,841
Narrator: He calls himself
pogo the clown,
978
00:52:58,942 --> 00:53:01,177
and he took it seriously.
979
00:53:19,162 --> 00:53:22,865
However, a dig into Gacy's past
paints a different picture
980
00:53:22,966 --> 00:53:26,135
than the model citizen
in Chicago.
981
00:53:26,236 --> 00:53:29,004
Tovar: Well, we interviewed
people in Springfield, Iowa,
982
00:53:29,105 --> 00:53:31,674
also, where he had lived.
983
00:53:31,775 --> 00:53:33,809
He did not graduate
from high school.
984
00:53:33,910 --> 00:53:37,446
He went out to Las Vegas
to work,
985
00:53:37,547 --> 00:53:39,692
and while he was there, he
worked for an ambulance company.
986
00:53:39,716 --> 00:53:42,851
His job was picking up
deceased remains
987
00:53:42,953 --> 00:53:44,687
and delivering them to either
988
00:53:44,788 --> 00:53:47,323
funeral homes of choice
or whatever.
989
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:51,894
Well, they started finding
some disturbing things
990
00:53:51,995 --> 00:53:56,665
as that he was messing
with the bodies.
991
00:53:56,766 --> 00:53:59,935
He was necrophiliac, and he was
having sex with the bodies
992
00:54:00,036 --> 00:54:03,105
at night in the funeral home.
993
00:54:03,206 --> 00:54:05,808
They discovered that because
they found the clothing
994
00:54:05,909 --> 00:54:08,744
on the bodies messed up and they
approached him about it,
995
00:54:08,845 --> 00:54:12,381
and I guess he confessed to it,
so they fired him.
996
00:54:12,482 --> 00:54:15,551
Narrator: Gacy was married twice
and divorced twice.
997
00:54:15,685 --> 00:54:18,654
He has two kids from
the first marriage in Iowa
998
00:54:18,755 --> 00:54:20,389
and lives alone.
999
00:54:23,827 --> 00:54:25,828
Back at the
Des Plaines police station,
1000
00:54:25,929 --> 00:54:29,765
detectives sift through the
items taken from Gacy's house.
1001
00:54:29,866 --> 00:54:33,335
A high-school ring with
three initials, j.A.S.,
1002
00:54:33,436 --> 00:54:35,604
gets their attention.
1003
00:54:35,705 --> 00:54:39,174
We were working on the
Rob Piest disappearance.
1004
00:54:39,276 --> 00:54:42,411
And then all of a sudden,
as you can imagine,
1005
00:54:42,512 --> 00:54:44,780
finding something like
a class ring
1006
00:54:44,881 --> 00:54:47,082
that had initials on it.
1007
00:54:47,183 --> 00:54:49,318
Tovar: We learned that
ultimately turned out
1008
00:54:49,419 --> 00:54:51,320
to belong to John Szyc.
1009
00:54:51,421 --> 00:54:54,590
Narrator: 19-year-old John Szyc
was from Des Plaines
1010
00:54:54,691 --> 00:54:55,858
but was living in Chicago
1011
00:54:55,959 --> 00:55:00,296
when he went missing a year
earlier in January 1977.
1012
00:55:00,397 --> 00:55:02,898
Tovar: We spoke to his mother,
and she told us
1013
00:55:02,966 --> 00:55:04,366
he had been missing
1014
00:55:04,467 --> 00:55:08,103
and that his car was missing
as well as a television.
1015
00:55:08,204 --> 00:55:11,006
We had seen a television
that kind of, maybe matched
1016
00:55:11,107 --> 00:55:12,775
in the house.
1017
00:55:12,876 --> 00:55:14,843
We started digging
for information
1018
00:55:14,944 --> 00:55:17,413
on other missing kids.
1019
00:55:17,514 --> 00:55:21,317
We found a list of employees,
and we started checking on them,
1020
00:55:21,418 --> 00:55:25,487
started finding out that a lot
of those were also missing.
1021
00:55:25,588 --> 00:55:28,457
Sullivan: How many other kids
had he offered the same deal
1022
00:55:28,558 --> 00:55:30,526
as he was doing with Piest?
1023
00:55:30,627 --> 00:55:33,429
In other words, "come with me
1024
00:55:33,530 --> 00:55:36,632
and I'll double whatever
you're making right now."
1025
00:55:36,733 --> 00:55:39,401
Narrator: Gacy's name comes up
more than half a dozen times
1026
00:55:39,502 --> 00:55:41,403
in Chicago police reports,
1027
00:55:41,504 --> 00:55:44,673
ranging from kidnapping
to rape and assault.
1028
00:55:44,774 --> 00:55:46,909
Chicago police did investigate,
1029
00:55:47,010 --> 00:55:50,212
but nothing came
of any one of them.
1030
00:55:50,313 --> 00:55:52,448
Hachmeister: It was at
that point, really,
1031
00:55:52,549 --> 00:55:54,283
turned everything upside down.
1032
00:55:54,384 --> 00:55:57,252
He was no longer, in my opinion,
a person of interest.
1033
00:55:57,354 --> 00:55:59,188
He was definitely a suspect.
1034
00:56:02,258 --> 00:56:04,860
Rob Piest has been missing
for four days,
1035
00:56:04,961 --> 00:56:06,962
and all eyes are on Gacy,
1036
00:56:07,063 --> 00:56:09,732
but the police need
more evidence.
1037
00:56:09,833 --> 00:56:12,368
They put him on
round-the-clock surveillance.
1038
00:56:12,469 --> 00:56:14,870
I was hoping that if, in fact,
1039
00:56:14,971 --> 00:56:17,072
he had done something
with Rob Piest,
1040
00:56:17,173 --> 00:56:20,676
that he would lead us there.
1041
00:56:20,777 --> 00:56:23,746
This is the four of us that were
on the surveillance.
1042
00:56:23,847 --> 00:56:26,048
Bob and Ron
had the noon to midnight,
1043
00:56:26,149 --> 00:56:29,518
and Dave I had
the midnight to noon.
1044
00:56:29,619 --> 00:56:32,421
Hachmeister: Our goal as a
surveillance unit was to,
1045
00:56:32,522 --> 00:56:35,758
no matter what, keep him in view
1046
00:56:35,859 --> 00:56:40,095
so that if there's any evidence
to be out there through Gacy,
1047
00:56:40,196 --> 00:56:43,932
he would not be able to destroy
any of the evidence.
1048
00:56:44,033 --> 00:56:46,135
Surveillance work can be boring
at certain times,
1049
00:56:46,236 --> 00:56:47,913
although I kind of
had the personality for it.
1050
00:56:47,937 --> 00:56:49,648
I could sit and, you know,
I had a lot of Patience
1051
00:56:49,672 --> 00:56:52,775
for something like that
for one reason or another.
1052
00:56:52,876 --> 00:56:57,379
That first night, I sat
by myself for quite a while.
1053
00:56:57,480 --> 00:57:00,048
This was an extremely cold day.
We're in December.
1054
00:57:00,150 --> 00:57:04,219
It was so cold that I had to
keep my car running.
1055
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:07,322
When he came home, he could see
the exhaust from my car
1056
00:57:07,424 --> 00:57:10,125
billowing up from the car,
1057
00:57:10,226 --> 00:57:13,429
so as he drove by, he knew
that we had interest in him.
1058
00:57:13,530 --> 00:57:16,098
He spotted the car,
and the first thing he did
1059
00:57:16,199 --> 00:57:18,233
was wave to me as he drove by.
1060
00:57:18,334 --> 00:57:20,436
So he knew right away
that we were following him,
1061
00:57:20,537 --> 00:57:22,604
and we just had to
make the best of it.
1062
00:57:25,208 --> 00:57:27,376
You'd think this guy
is like a bad guy,
1063
00:57:27,477 --> 00:57:30,379
he's really gonna be
a tough guy to deal with,
1064
00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:31,747
but he was just the opposite.
1065
00:57:31,848 --> 00:57:35,551
I mean, he welcomed us
when we followed him into bars.
1066
00:57:35,652 --> 00:57:38,120
He would buy us beers.
1067
00:57:38,221 --> 00:57:39,988
Afterwards, we would go
to restaurants,
1068
00:57:40,089 --> 00:57:41,690
he would invite us to his table.
1069
00:57:41,791 --> 00:57:44,293
We'd have breakfast with him.
1070
00:57:44,394 --> 00:57:46,094
He seemed like a great guy.
1071
00:57:46,196 --> 00:57:48,397
He seemed to be very
concerned about Rob Piest,
1072
00:57:48,498 --> 00:57:51,500
saying he would do anything
to help us out.
1073
00:57:51,601 --> 00:57:56,872
Lie-detector tests, do anything.
He was very, very concerned.
1074
00:57:56,973 --> 00:57:58,707
And, matter of fact,
my partner and I
1075
00:57:58,808 --> 00:58:01,977
would have to occasionally
remind each other,
1076
00:58:02,078 --> 00:58:04,847
"hey, we've got to be
really on our toes here."
1077
00:58:16,593 --> 00:58:21,630
♪♪
1078
00:58:21,731 --> 00:58:23,632
There was one time
that we were following Gacy,
1079
00:58:23,733 --> 00:58:25,934
about 2:00 or 3:00
in the morning,
1080
00:58:26,035 --> 00:58:29,404
he was checking on a job site.
1081
00:58:29,506 --> 00:58:33,408
On his way home, he was going
through gay neighborhood,
1082
00:58:33,510 --> 00:58:37,513
and he happened to spot some guy
walking down the street.
1083
00:58:37,614 --> 00:58:41,183
He just about turned his head
totally around
1084
00:58:41,284 --> 00:58:42,885
looking at this young man.
1085
00:58:42,986 --> 00:58:45,954
You could tell that he was
really wanting to do something,
1086
00:58:46,055 --> 00:58:51,026
but he couldn't do anything
because we were so close to him.
1087
00:58:51,127 --> 00:58:53,028
He never talked to us
about being gay.
1088
00:58:53,129 --> 00:58:55,430
I mean, he would always actually
kind of go overboard
1089
00:58:55,532 --> 00:58:57,332
about saying,
"wow, did you see that woman?
1090
00:58:57,433 --> 00:58:58,677
What a good-looking woman,"
you know,
1091
00:58:58,701 --> 00:59:00,621
and he would kind of
go out of his way to mention
1092
00:59:00,670 --> 00:59:05,574
to us to make us think that he
was straight as an arrow.
1093
00:59:05,675 --> 00:59:07,209
Narrator: His bluster extends
1094
00:59:07,310 --> 00:59:11,246
to the perks
of working as pogo the clown.
1095
00:59:11,347 --> 00:59:14,650
Albrecht: Gacy, the cocky
bragger that he was,
1096
00:59:14,751 --> 00:59:16,391
he looked at us and said,
"you know what?"
1097
00:59:16,452 --> 00:59:18,053
You could sit on
a woman's lap, you know,
1098
00:59:18,154 --> 00:59:20,956
and you could sit there and talk
to them and feel them up
1099
00:59:21,057 --> 00:59:22,324
or whatever you want to do,
1100
00:59:22,425 --> 00:59:23,892
"and clowns do
get away with that."
1101
00:59:23,993 --> 00:59:25,404
And he said, you know...
He looked at us
1102
00:59:25,428 --> 00:59:27,296
and he said,
"you know, clowns...
1103
00:59:27,397 --> 00:59:29,398
Clowns can
get away with murder."
1104
00:59:35,805 --> 00:59:37,706
♪♪
1105
00:59:37,807 --> 00:59:40,842
Narrator: It's been five days
since Rob Piest disappeared
1106
00:59:40,944 --> 00:59:44,179
and Des Plaines detectives
lean on Gacy's employees,
1107
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:47,749
hoping they'll provide some clue
about the teen's whereabouts.
1108
00:59:47,850 --> 00:59:50,085
Hachmeister: He had two
really loyal followers
1109
00:59:50,186 --> 00:59:53,488
who worked for him,
Michael Rossi and David cram.
1110
00:59:53,590 --> 00:59:57,526
Narrator: The young men had been
working for Gacy for two years.
1111
00:59:57,627 --> 01:00:00,495
Sullivan: One was more
cooperative than the other.
1112
01:00:00,597 --> 01:00:03,932
I wouldn't say that either
of them were real cooperative.
1113
01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:08,503
Kozenczak: I think he saw Gacy
was in trouble,
1114
01:00:08,605 --> 01:00:14,376
and he didn't want to be brought
into it any more than he had to.
1115
01:00:14,477 --> 01:00:18,513
And he started giving us
information about employees
1116
01:00:18,615 --> 01:00:20,616
who come to work one day
1117
01:00:20,717 --> 01:00:22,918
and then the next day
they were just gone.
1118
01:00:24,954 --> 01:00:27,089
Narrator: Rossi mentions
one kid in particular
1119
01:00:27,190 --> 01:00:29,257
who worked for Gacy
two years earlier,
1120
01:00:29,359 --> 01:00:31,560
who never showed up
for work one day
1121
01:00:31,661 --> 01:00:34,663
and never picked up
his last paycheck.
1122
01:00:34,764 --> 01:00:36,465
Gregory Godzik was 17
1123
01:00:36,566 --> 01:00:42,437
when he took a part-time job
at P.D.M. Construction in 1976.
1124
01:00:42,538 --> 01:00:46,141
I remember the day when he
came home and he said to my mom,
1125
01:00:46,242 --> 01:00:49,745
"you know, I met this man,
and he's offering me a new job."
1126
01:00:49,846 --> 01:00:52,581
And my mother said,
"oh, my god, what kind of job?"
1127
01:00:52,682 --> 01:00:55,517
Finish school
so you can go to college.
1128
01:00:55,618 --> 01:01:00,956
And at the time, he was making
$2.25 an hour, and he said,
1129
01:01:01,057 --> 01:01:05,193
"mom, this man's offering me
$5 an hour."
1130
01:01:05,294 --> 01:01:08,530
And my mother said,
"I don't want you to do that."
1131
01:01:08,631 --> 01:01:11,233
Of course, every 17-year-old,
1132
01:01:11,334 --> 01:01:13,178
you know, they're gonna do
what they're gonna do.
1133
01:01:13,202 --> 01:01:16,471
And I remember
a couple days later he said,
1134
01:01:16,572 --> 01:01:20,442
"mom, I got this job from that
man I was telling you about."
1135
01:01:20,543 --> 01:01:24,780
Narrator: Three weeks later,
Gregory disappeared.
1136
01:01:24,881 --> 01:01:27,282
[ Dog barking ]
1137
01:01:27,383 --> 01:01:29,918
Godzik: He was going out on a
date with a new girlfriend
1138
01:01:30,019 --> 01:01:31,119
or somebody.
1139
01:01:31,220 --> 01:01:33,488
The next morning,
my mother said,
1140
01:01:33,623 --> 01:01:36,925
"did you see your brother?"
And I said, "no, why?"
1141
01:01:37,026 --> 01:01:39,461
Because every time my brother
would come home,
1142
01:01:39,562 --> 01:01:42,431
he'd always, "mom, I'm home,"
or give her a kiss.
1143
01:01:42,532 --> 01:01:44,199
And she said,
"he didn't come in."
1144
01:01:44,300 --> 01:01:47,102
And I said, "that's odd."
1145
01:01:47,203 --> 01:01:49,838
And then it was like
two days after that,
1146
01:01:49,939 --> 01:01:55,310
they found my brother's car in a
parking lot, and in the car,
1147
01:01:55,411 --> 01:01:59,081
there was his driver's license
and his wallet and...
1148
01:01:59,182 --> 01:02:01,349
And even my mother said,
you know,
1149
01:02:01,451 --> 01:02:06,288
"why would he leave his car?
It was a prized possession."
1150
01:02:06,389 --> 01:02:10,258
My mother went
to Gacy's house that week.
1151
01:02:10,359 --> 01:02:12,828
She said, "well, he should know
1152
01:02:12,929 --> 01:02:15,497
if he was
supposed to be working."
1153
01:02:15,598 --> 01:02:19,601
And he said, "oh, yeah,
I saw him a while ago,
1154
01:02:19,702 --> 01:02:22,838
but, oh, yeah, he left a message
on my machine."
1155
01:02:22,939 --> 01:02:24,883
My mother said, "oh, well,
let's hear the machine."
1156
01:02:24,907 --> 01:02:27,943
He goes, "oh, I erased that."
1157
01:02:28,044 --> 01:02:29,911
And he said, "oh, 17-year-olds",
1158
01:02:30,012 --> 01:02:32,647
"they run away, but they'll
be back," you know.
1159
01:02:32,749 --> 01:02:35,050
My mother said,
"nope, that's not my son.
1160
01:02:35,151 --> 01:02:37,552
My son would never do
anything like that."
1161
01:02:37,653 --> 01:02:40,021
But you have your hands tied.
1162
01:02:40,123 --> 01:02:41,900
What are you gonna do?
You only can do so much.
1163
01:02:41,924 --> 01:02:44,726
You hire a private investigator,
you go to the police.
1164
01:02:44,827 --> 01:02:47,229
They don't... you know,
"we have other things."
1165
01:02:47,330 --> 01:02:49,097
You know, "we're doing
the best we can."
1166
01:02:49,198 --> 01:02:53,101
And you just live with it.
1167
01:02:53,202 --> 01:02:57,038
Narrator: Three teens...
Rob Piest, Gregory Godzik,
1168
01:02:57,140 --> 01:02:59,808
and the owner of the ring
found in Gacy's house,
1169
01:02:59,909 --> 01:03:02,010
17-year-old John Szyc...
1170
01:03:02,111 --> 01:03:05,680
All missing,
all tied to John Gacy.
1171
01:03:08,851 --> 01:03:12,988
Then an item, a slip of paper
found in Gacy's trash,
1172
01:03:13,089 --> 01:03:17,492
becomes a turning point
in the search for Rob Piest.
1173
01:03:17,593 --> 01:03:20,695
Hachmeister: We recovered a
photo receipt
1174
01:03:20,797 --> 01:03:24,566
from Nisson pharmacy,
and it only had numbers on it,
1175
01:03:24,667 --> 01:03:26,334
so you didn't know
who it was issued to.
1176
01:03:26,435 --> 01:03:29,504
This receipt,
and the film finally came back,
1177
01:03:29,605 --> 01:03:32,774
and the numbers corresponded
to Kim Byers,
1178
01:03:32,875 --> 01:03:38,914
who was an employee with
Rob Piest at Nisson pharmacy.
1179
01:03:39,015 --> 01:03:43,185
Sullivan: She put that receipt
in Rob's pocket,
1180
01:03:43,286 --> 01:03:46,321
and then Rob came
and got the check.
1181
01:03:46,422 --> 01:03:48,066
Narrator: That's when Rob
left the pharmacy
1182
01:03:48,090 --> 01:03:50,659
to talk to Gacy about a job.
1183
01:03:50,760 --> 01:03:54,563
Proof Rob's jacket
was in Gacy's house.
1184
01:03:54,664 --> 01:03:56,698
So where is the teen?
1185
01:03:59,669 --> 01:04:03,972
Investigators keep the pressure
on Gacy's two closest employees.
1186
01:04:04,073 --> 01:04:06,174
Both Mike Rossi and David cram
1187
01:04:06,275 --> 01:04:09,077
had lived in Gacy's house
for a time.
1188
01:04:09,178 --> 01:04:11,346
Hachmeister: The investigators,
they were nonstop.
1189
01:04:11,447 --> 01:04:13,815
They'd follow these
individuals everywhere,
1190
01:04:13,916 --> 01:04:16,318
interview them at work, at home.
1191
01:04:18,354 --> 01:04:21,823
And they were starting to get
tired of seeing the police.
1192
01:04:21,924 --> 01:04:24,726
Narrator: One of the employees
agrees to come to the station
1193
01:04:24,827 --> 01:04:26,828
and answer more questions.
1194
01:04:26,929 --> 01:04:29,931
Gacy had had these kids
1195
01:04:30,032 --> 01:04:34,402
digging in his crawl space
in the basement.
1196
01:04:34,503 --> 01:04:39,207
They were digging where Gacy
would be able to put some lime,
1197
01:04:39,308 --> 01:04:42,344
which would absorb odors.
1198
01:04:42,445 --> 01:04:44,112
This was kind of odd to us,
you know.
1199
01:04:44,213 --> 01:04:45,881
Why would you do
something like that?
1200
01:04:45,982 --> 01:04:47,115
But they explained it away,
1201
01:04:47,216 --> 01:04:49,651
that Gacy said
that there was a sewage issue
1202
01:04:49,752 --> 01:04:53,655
and that it was drainage
for that sewage issue.
1203
01:04:53,756 --> 01:04:55,390
Kozenczak:
And then I finally said,
1204
01:04:55,491 --> 01:04:57,759
"could you just tell me, please,
1205
01:04:57,860 --> 01:05:02,063
if I was gonna look for Robert,
where should I look for him?"
1206
01:05:02,164 --> 01:05:04,666
And he put his head down
and he said,
1207
01:05:04,767 --> 01:05:06,668
"in John's crawl space."
1208
01:05:09,105 --> 01:05:13,541
So we knew at that point that
we had to get another warrant
1209
01:05:13,643 --> 01:05:16,244
and go back into Gacy's house,
1210
01:05:16,345 --> 01:05:20,916
into his crawl space
and start looking again
1211
01:05:21,017 --> 01:05:25,587
because apparently, we missed
something the first time around.
1212
01:05:25,688 --> 01:05:27,768
Narrator: The surveillance team
has been tailing Gacy
1213
01:05:27,857 --> 01:05:30,058
for more than a week.
1214
01:05:30,159 --> 01:05:33,028
Hachmeister: At this point, he
hadn't shaved for a couple days.
1215
01:05:33,129 --> 01:05:36,765
He's slouching.
His whole demeanor is different.
1216
01:05:36,866 --> 01:05:39,067
He was doing some uppers
and downers.
1217
01:05:39,168 --> 01:05:41,836
It had to be killing him
on the inside,
1218
01:05:41,938 --> 01:05:45,941
knowing that we were not gonna
let up on this investigation.
1219
01:05:46,042 --> 01:05:48,910
At this point,
we were like dogs with a bone.
1220
01:05:49,011 --> 01:05:51,112
Narrator: On the morning
of December 21st,
1221
01:05:51,213 --> 01:05:53,648
they follow Gacy
to his local gas station,
1222
01:05:53,749 --> 01:05:56,918
where they witness him handing
over drugs to the attendant.
1223
01:05:57,019 --> 01:05:58,664
Hachmeister: When he left
the gas station...
1224
01:05:58,688 --> 01:06:01,523
[ Tires squeal ]
...He took off like a wild man.
1225
01:06:01,624 --> 01:06:03,158
So when we pulled him
out of the car,
1226
01:06:03,259 --> 01:06:06,928
I kind of pushed him around
a little bit and said,
1227
01:06:07,029 --> 01:06:08,463
"John, you're under arrest
1228
01:06:08,564 --> 01:06:12,200
for possession of
and delivery of marijuana."
1229
01:06:12,301 --> 01:06:13,412
He didn't really say anything.
1230
01:06:13,436 --> 01:06:16,571
He just seemed to be
staring into space.
1231
01:06:31,620 --> 01:06:36,458
Narrator: That same day, the
second search warrant arrives.
1232
01:06:36,559 --> 01:06:38,460
Sullivan: We had to get down
to the crawl space
1233
01:06:38,561 --> 01:06:41,730
because that's where
the two kids
1234
01:06:41,831 --> 01:06:44,332
who worked for him said
they were digging trenches.
1235
01:06:44,400 --> 01:06:46,568
[ Camera shutter clicking ]
1236
01:06:46,669 --> 01:06:48,403
Tovar: I think it was
Phil Bettiker
1237
01:06:48,504 --> 01:06:51,039
who started digging.
1238
01:06:51,140 --> 01:06:54,876
And he found a left femur.
1239
01:06:54,977 --> 01:06:59,014
So he kept digging,
found a second left femur.
1240
01:06:59,115 --> 01:07:02,250
Kept digging, found a third one.
1241
01:07:02,351 --> 01:07:04,753
Sullivan: That's when I said,
"stop there."
1242
01:07:04,854 --> 01:07:06,821
And we called in
the medical examiner,
1243
01:07:06,922 --> 01:07:10,291
and he identified that
as a human bone.
1244
01:07:12,194 --> 01:07:15,563
♪♪
1245
01:07:15,664 --> 01:07:17,866
Narrator:
Four days before Christmas,
1246
01:07:17,967 --> 01:07:22,537
and John Wayne Gacy sits in
the Des Plaines police station.
1247
01:07:22,638 --> 01:07:26,508
Seven miles away, police
uncover bones in his basement,
1248
01:07:26,609 --> 01:07:29,144
bones belonging
to more than one body.
1249
01:07:29,245 --> 01:07:30,812
[ Truck beeping ]
1250
01:07:30,913 --> 01:07:34,749
These bodies were decayed
for the most part.
1251
01:07:34,850 --> 01:07:38,353
Robert Piest had only been
missing for 10 days.
1252
01:07:38,454 --> 01:07:41,356
So we knew for a fact
that this was not Robert Piest.
1253
01:07:41,457 --> 01:07:43,091
It was somebody else.
1254
01:07:43,192 --> 01:07:44,492
Hachmeister: I get a phone call.
1255
01:07:44,593 --> 01:07:47,128
They said, "we have dead bodies
in a crawl space."
1256
01:07:47,229 --> 01:07:48,630
I turned to Gacy, and I said,
1257
01:07:48,731 --> 01:07:50,732
"John, you're under arrest
for murder."
1258
01:07:50,833 --> 01:07:55,070
I was elated. I had to try
to be calm and cool.
1259
01:07:55,171 --> 01:07:58,139
But it was like
the most unbelievable thing
1260
01:07:58,240 --> 01:08:00,842
that ever happened to me...
Undescribable.
1261
01:08:00,943 --> 01:08:03,078
Tovar: He knew at this point
1262
01:08:03,179 --> 01:08:04,712
that we were gonna find
all the bodies.
1263
01:08:04,814 --> 01:08:07,348
And we told him
we'd already started digging.
1264
01:08:07,450 --> 01:08:09,217
Albrecht: Gacy looks at me,
and he says,
1265
01:08:09,318 --> 01:08:11,519
"were you guys
in a crawl space?"
1266
01:08:11,620 --> 01:08:13,154
I says, "yeah, John. Why?"
1267
01:08:13,255 --> 01:08:15,390
He says, "well, that's what
the lime was for."
1268
01:08:15,491 --> 01:08:17,636
I said, "well, what do you mean?
What do you mean the lime was?"
1269
01:08:17,660 --> 01:08:19,060
"To cover the smell."
1270
01:08:19,161 --> 01:08:20,795
And he said something
really ridiculous.
1271
01:08:20,896 --> 01:08:24,532
He said, "well, I don't want
you guys messing my carpets up,
1272
01:08:24,633 --> 01:08:29,204
so I'll draw you a map
of where everything is."
1273
01:08:29,271 --> 01:08:32,640
This drawing is a photocopy of
1274
01:08:32,741 --> 01:08:36,478
Gacy's crawl space,
that he made this drawing,
1275
01:08:36,579 --> 01:08:37,722
and you can see
in one spot here,
1276
01:08:37,746 --> 01:08:42,150
there's a rectangle
with an "x" on it.
1277
01:08:42,251 --> 01:08:46,888
That's where the first
body was buried.
1278
01:08:46,989 --> 01:08:48,309
Narrator:
Over the next few hours,
1279
01:08:48,357 --> 01:08:51,559
Gacy confesses to killing
dozens of boys and young men
1280
01:08:51,660 --> 01:08:54,329
and burying their bodies
under his house.
1281
01:08:54,430 --> 01:08:55,663
In chilling detail,
1282
01:08:55,764 --> 01:08:59,334
he tells them the murders
started in 1972.
1283
01:08:59,435 --> 01:09:02,103
The first one was self-defense.
1284
01:09:02,204 --> 01:09:04,606
This kid tried to come after him
with a knife in the morning
1285
01:09:04,707 --> 01:09:07,242
after they had spent the night
together having sex.
1286
01:09:07,343 --> 01:09:09,611
He knifed him.
1287
01:09:09,712 --> 01:09:13,414
Narrator: What Gacy describes
goes beyond self-defense.
1288
01:09:53,155 --> 01:09:55,690
Albrecht: At that time,
he was married, still.
1289
01:09:55,791 --> 01:09:57,559
His wife was still there.
1290
01:09:57,660 --> 01:10:00,628
He mentioned... it was either
mother's day or Easter
1291
01:10:00,729 --> 01:10:03,531
that he told his wife,
"this is the last day
1292
01:10:03,632 --> 01:10:06,801
that we're ever gonna have
any type of sexual contact."
1293
01:10:11,073 --> 01:10:14,542
Narrator: It was the start
of a three-year killing spree,
1294
01:10:14,643 --> 01:10:16,778
picking up most of his
victims at night,
1295
01:10:16,879 --> 01:10:21,216
cruising around Chicago's
gay area, Bughouse square.
1296
01:10:31,994 --> 01:10:35,296
He had this car
that he outfitted
1297
01:10:35,397 --> 01:10:38,366
to make it look like
it was a police car.
1298
01:10:38,467 --> 01:10:42,370
And he was able to stop kids
and tell them to get in the car.
1299
01:10:42,471 --> 01:10:46,975
Narrator: This ruse was part of
his well-honed routine.
1300
01:11:03,359 --> 01:11:05,927
♪♪
1301
01:11:06,028 --> 01:11:10,531
Once he had them in the car,
he drove to his house.
1302
01:11:10,633 --> 01:11:13,368
There, he plied the kids
with alcohol and drugs
1303
01:11:13,469 --> 01:11:16,371
and entertained them
with his handcuff trick,
1304
01:11:16,472 --> 01:11:20,108
the same trick used by
Dean Allen Corll, the Candyman,
1305
01:11:20,209 --> 01:11:24,545
on his 29 victims in Houston
just a few years earlier.
1306
01:11:49,905 --> 01:11:52,907
Unwittingly, these young men
would handcuff themselves,
1307
01:11:53,008 --> 01:11:56,044
and once they were
incapacitated like that,
1308
01:11:56,145 --> 01:11:59,080
he would do the rope trick.
1309
01:11:59,181 --> 01:12:01,082
Tovar: When he would
turn them around,
1310
01:12:01,183 --> 01:12:03,284
he'd take a piece of rope
with the loops on the end,
1311
01:12:03,385 --> 01:12:04,552
loop them together,
1312
01:12:04,653 --> 01:12:08,089
put a piece of wood
through it as a tourniquet,
1313
01:12:08,190 --> 01:12:11,926
and start tightening it
around their neck.
1314
01:12:12,027 --> 01:12:14,128
Hachmeister: He had it down
to such a science
1315
01:12:14,229 --> 01:12:17,298
that he could get it to where
he could rest the stick
1316
01:12:17,366 --> 01:12:21,269
on the individual's back
and it wouldn't unwind,
1317
01:12:21,370 --> 01:12:24,072
and then he could go around and
do different things in the house
1318
01:12:24,173 --> 01:12:27,342
and go back and torture
the young man and kill him.
1319
01:12:27,443 --> 01:12:29,277
[ Camera shutter clicks ]
1320
01:12:29,378 --> 01:12:32,480
We tried to remain as calm
as we could listening to this
1321
01:12:32,581 --> 01:12:35,016
and how he tortured
these young men.
1322
01:12:35,117 --> 01:12:37,429
It actually made the hair on
the back of your head stand up.
1323
01:12:37,453 --> 01:12:42,757
It was unbelievable.
1324
01:12:42,858 --> 01:12:45,360
Narrator: Gacy admits
to raping and killing
1325
01:12:45,461 --> 01:12:52,066
more than 30 young men
in his home from 1972 to 1978.
1326
01:12:52,167 --> 01:12:57,805
He was flippant about it.
To him, it was a game.
1327
01:13:15,224 --> 01:13:17,658
♪♪
1328
01:13:17,760 --> 01:13:20,862
By now, word spread
around Chicago...
1329
01:13:20,963 --> 01:13:24,632
Bodies in a basement
on Summerdale Avenue.
1330
01:13:24,733 --> 01:13:28,636
The police had information
where the bodies were
1331
01:13:28,737 --> 01:13:30,938
and were going to
bring them out.
1332
01:13:31,039 --> 01:13:33,374
I, like all the other
reporters in town,
1333
01:13:33,475 --> 01:13:36,444
rushed to the scene
and watched it happen.
1334
01:13:36,512 --> 01:13:39,514
Tovar: The medical examiner
said he wanted us to dig
1335
01:13:39,615 --> 01:13:42,083
in a archeological-type
situation
1336
01:13:42,184 --> 01:13:45,620
so we could verify
where everybody was taken.
1337
01:13:45,721 --> 01:13:49,690
So each one of us got
a section of the house to dig.
1338
01:13:49,792 --> 01:13:53,227
Mine was the kitchen.
1339
01:13:53,328 --> 01:13:58,099
Eventually, the whole floor
was completely taken up
1340
01:13:58,200 --> 01:14:01,903
so that the investigators
had enough room
1341
01:14:02,004 --> 01:14:06,140
in a narrow crawl space
to be able to dig.
1342
01:14:08,343 --> 01:14:10,845
Tovar: Whoever was in the hole
digging up the body
1343
01:14:10,946 --> 01:14:13,781
would put the pieces
of flesh and bones
1344
01:14:13,882 --> 01:14:16,284
into a body bag
down in the hole,
1345
01:14:16,385 --> 01:14:18,686
and then you'd give them
to someone who was above you
1346
01:14:18,787 --> 01:14:20,254
on the floor level.
1347
01:14:20,355 --> 01:14:21,622
[ Camera shutter clicks ]
1348
01:14:21,723 --> 01:14:27,895
We took extreme care to honor
and respect the remains.
1349
01:14:27,996 --> 01:14:30,198
Jacobson: The story was huge
from the minute
1350
01:14:30,299 --> 01:14:33,668
we first saw
or heard of the first body
1351
01:14:33,769 --> 01:14:36,370
and then subsequently,
everyone thereafter,
1352
01:14:36,472 --> 01:14:37,905
the story just got bigger.
1353
01:14:38,006 --> 01:14:40,475
Police digging under a house
in Des Plaines, Illinois,
1354
01:14:40,576 --> 01:14:42,176
found four more bodies today.
1355
01:14:42,277 --> 01:14:43,911
That brings the total to nine.
1356
01:14:44,012 --> 01:14:45,546
Man: They found two more
bodies today,
1357
01:14:45,647 --> 01:14:47,181
long dead and decomposed,
1358
01:14:47,282 --> 01:14:50,384
man #2: Six bodies bring the
total found to 15.
1359
01:14:50,486 --> 01:14:52,787
Narrator: Each day,
the crowds grew.
1360
01:14:52,888 --> 01:14:56,757
Hundreds stood outside,
reporters and onlookers
1361
01:14:56,859 --> 01:14:59,961
all waiting
for the nightly body count.
1362
01:15:00,062 --> 01:15:03,130
Human nature loves
bad crime stories.
1363
01:15:03,232 --> 01:15:05,266
This couldn't have
been any worse.
1364
01:15:05,367 --> 01:15:07,134
So everybody was interested.
1365
01:15:07,236 --> 01:15:09,237
[ Indistinct chatter ]
1366
01:15:10,606 --> 01:15:13,341
You have to realize, you know,
there were a few TV stations
1367
01:15:13,442 --> 01:15:14,942
and everybody
carried the same thing,
1368
01:15:15,043 --> 01:15:18,179
and when it came on,
I do remember my mother said,
1369
01:15:18,280 --> 01:15:21,482
"your brother's one of them."
1370
01:15:21,583 --> 01:15:24,719
Narrator: By December 28,
21 bodies were removed
1371
01:15:24,820 --> 01:15:27,321
from the house
on Summerdale Avenue.
1372
01:15:27,422 --> 01:15:30,258
Gacy's map was proving accurate.
1373
01:15:30,359 --> 01:15:33,361
Still, there was the question
of Rob Piest,
1374
01:15:33,462 --> 01:15:36,464
the young man whose
disappearance 10 days earlier
1375
01:15:36,565 --> 01:15:38,533
led to all of this.
1376
01:15:38,634 --> 01:15:40,468
He never seemed to be rattled
about anything.
1377
01:15:40,569 --> 01:15:42,270
The only time I saw him
get irritated
1378
01:15:42,371 --> 01:15:46,374
was when detective Adams
asked him about Robert Piest,
1379
01:15:46,475 --> 01:15:48,342
whether he had suffered.
1380
01:15:48,443 --> 01:15:51,412
Narrator: In chilling detail,
Gacy tells them what happened
1381
01:15:51,513 --> 01:15:53,814
that night
at the Nisson pharmacy.
1382
01:16:20,609 --> 01:16:23,344
Rob Piest's death
was like so many others.
1383
01:16:23,445 --> 01:16:25,646
Gacy's pattern
remained the same.
1384
01:17:05,821 --> 01:17:07,855
Tovar:
I-55 is a major interstate
1385
01:17:07,956 --> 01:17:09,223
going south from here,
1386
01:17:09,324 --> 01:17:12,193
and it crosses
the Des Plaines river.
1387
01:17:12,294 --> 01:17:15,329
And what Gacy did
to Robert Piest
1388
01:17:15,430 --> 01:17:17,231
and three other victims
1389
01:17:17,332 --> 01:17:21,636
is he'd pull up
to the side of the bridge
1390
01:17:21,737 --> 01:17:23,571
and turn on that red light
he had.
1391
01:17:23,672 --> 01:17:26,941
So people driving by assumed
there was a police officer,
1392
01:17:27,042 --> 01:17:29,877
and they just wouldn't
pay any attention.
1393
01:17:29,945 --> 01:17:31,465
And he'd open the trunk,
take the body,
1394
01:17:31,546 --> 01:17:33,781
and just throw it
over the side into the river.
1395
01:17:33,882 --> 01:17:38,185
♪♪
1396
01:17:38,286 --> 01:17:42,356
Narrator: 29 on his property,
four in the river,
1397
01:17:42,457 --> 01:17:45,893
all young men,
all raped and strangled.
1398
01:17:45,994 --> 01:17:48,496
John Wayne Gacy
was now "the killer clown"
1399
01:17:48,597 --> 01:17:52,299
and America’s
most prolific killer.
1400
01:17:52,401 --> 01:17:54,368
By new year's day,
dental records helped
1401
01:17:54,469 --> 01:17:58,973
police identify six victims,
including 19-year-old John Szyc,
1402
01:17:59,074 --> 01:18:01,542
who disappeared
two years earlier.
1403
01:18:01,643 --> 01:18:04,745
His high-school ring
was found in Gacy's house.
1404
01:18:04,846 --> 01:18:08,716
Gregory Godzik's family
also got the knock on the door.
1405
01:18:10,852 --> 01:18:14,221
I remember they come in,
they make you sit down.
1406
01:18:14,322 --> 01:18:17,925
And they said,
"Mr. Godzik and Mrs. Godzik,
1407
01:18:18,026 --> 01:18:20,261
I would like to tell you
your son
1408
01:18:20,362 --> 01:18:24,298
is one of the official victims
of John Wayne Gacy."
1409
01:18:24,366 --> 01:18:28,903
And they turn around
and they walk out.
1410
01:18:29,004 --> 01:18:30,538
And that's when I said
to my mother,
1411
01:18:30,639 --> 01:18:32,206
"I told you he'd come home.
1412
01:18:32,307 --> 01:18:34,608
I just didn't think
it would be this way."
1413
01:18:39,181 --> 01:18:41,682
Narrator: It was the early
spring before Rob Piest's body
1414
01:18:41,783 --> 01:18:45,319
was recovered from
the Des Plaines river.
1415
01:18:45,420 --> 01:18:49,090
By then, Gacy is charged
with 33 counts of murder.
1416
01:18:49,191 --> 01:18:51,292
[ Camera shutter clicks ]
1417
01:18:51,393 --> 01:18:54,261
He pleads not guilty
by reason of insanity,
1418
01:18:54,362 --> 01:18:56,664
now claiming it
was his alter ego,
1419
01:18:56,765 --> 01:19:00,367
Jack, who did the murders,
not him.
1420
01:19:00,469 --> 01:19:05,072
By making a statement
to us about a split personality,
1421
01:19:05,173 --> 01:19:08,676
he really cemented himself in
with that defense
1422
01:19:08,777 --> 01:19:10,444
by the time it came to trial.
1423
01:19:10,545 --> 01:19:13,013
It didn't work.
1424
01:19:13,115 --> 01:19:16,484
Narrator:
The trial lasts five weeks.
1425
01:19:16,585 --> 01:19:18,786
Woman: It took the jury of
seven men and five women
1426
01:19:18,887 --> 01:19:20,287
less than two hours to find
1427
01:19:20,388 --> 01:19:24,225
John Wayne Gacy guilty
of murdering 33 young men.
1428
01:19:24,326 --> 01:19:26,527
Gacy was convicted
of murdering more people
1429
01:19:26,628 --> 01:19:28,462
than anyone else
in U.S. history.
1430
01:19:28,563 --> 01:19:33,334
I feel that the jury certainly
sent a loud message to him
1431
01:19:33,435 --> 01:19:36,370
and others who might want to
do it in that manner by the fact
1432
01:19:36,471 --> 01:19:38,973
that they only deliberated
for an hour and 45 minutes.
1433
01:19:39,074 --> 01:19:41,742
Woman: It was an emotional time
for relatives of the victims,
1434
01:19:41,843 --> 01:19:44,311
and many, like Ken Piest,
whose brother was killed,
1435
01:19:44,412 --> 01:19:45,579
want revenge.
1436
01:19:45,714 --> 01:19:47,481
There's only one solution now.
1437
01:19:47,582 --> 01:19:48,649
What is that?
1438
01:19:48,750 --> 01:19:50,251
I want to see him go
to the chair.
1439
01:19:50,352 --> 01:19:52,620
I hope he does get
the electric chair.
1440
01:19:52,721 --> 01:19:54,288
Then it'll make
everybody feel better.
1441
01:19:54,389 --> 01:19:58,526
I'm sure it'll make the
other mothers feel better, too.
1442
01:19:58,627 --> 01:20:00,961
Narrator: Gacy is sentenced
to death.
1443
01:20:01,062 --> 01:20:06,400
Revenge... that he killed my son
and that we're gonna kill him.
1444
01:20:06,501 --> 01:20:08,135
And, you know,
it's a life for a life,
1445
01:20:08,236 --> 01:20:11,639
is what it boils down to.
1446
01:20:11,740 --> 01:20:14,742
Tovar: We started out
with a missing
1447
01:20:14,843 --> 01:20:18,979
15-year-old boy
in a suburban town.
1448
01:20:19,080 --> 01:20:21,015
And then it just grew
to what it grew.
1449
01:20:21,116 --> 01:20:24,885
♪♪
1450
01:20:24,986 --> 01:20:28,289
Albrecht:
They were just young kids,
1451
01:20:28,390 --> 01:20:30,191
15 to 17 years old,
1452
01:20:30,292 --> 01:20:35,763
and got taken advantage of
by a vicious, evil man.
1453
01:20:35,864 --> 01:20:40,301
♪♪
1454
01:20:40,402 --> 01:20:42,136
Sullivan: Not only did he
have his victims,
1455
01:20:42,237 --> 01:20:46,774
but he affected
so many, so many people.
1456
01:20:49,344 --> 01:20:51,478
A mom and a dad,
1457
01:20:51,580 --> 01:20:55,015
maybe a brother and a sister,
maybe more than that.
1458
01:20:55,116 --> 01:20:56,550
Friends.
1459
01:20:59,321 --> 01:21:05,426
Now take that and multiply that
by 33 that we know of.
1460
01:21:05,527 --> 01:21:11,198
♪♪
1461
01:21:11,266 --> 01:21:16,937
♪♪
1462
01:21:17,038 --> 01:21:19,840
Tovar: Had he not taken
Robert Piest,
1463
01:21:19,941 --> 01:21:22,176
who knows how long
he could have kept going on?
1464
01:21:22,277 --> 01:21:27,147
♪♪
1465
01:21:27,249 --> 01:21:29,216
Godzik: My father was
very religious.
1466
01:21:29,317 --> 01:21:31,719
He was very catholic
with the rosaries,
1467
01:21:31,820 --> 01:21:36,323
and he said, "god would never
do this to me, but he did."
1468
01:21:36,424 --> 01:21:38,225
And from that point on,
1469
01:21:38,326 --> 01:21:41,395
my father never went back
to church again after that.
1470
01:21:41,496 --> 01:21:42,630
Never.
1471
01:21:42,731 --> 01:21:47,568
♪♪
1472
01:21:47,669 --> 01:21:50,037
We were lucky enough
that in two years,
1473
01:21:50,138 --> 01:21:52,740
we found closure in our family,
1474
01:21:52,841 --> 01:21:56,944
but other people could be
wondering, "where are they?"
1475
01:21:57,045 --> 01:21:59,780
Who are they?"
That's the sad part.
1476
01:21:59,881 --> 01:22:07,554
♪♪
1477
01:22:07,656 --> 01:22:10,624
Moran: I grew up in Chicago.
1478
01:22:10,725 --> 01:22:14,261
There wasn't really a person
in the Chicago area
1479
01:22:14,362 --> 01:22:17,731
that did not know
of the Gacy killings.
1480
01:22:19,734 --> 01:22:23,070
Narrator: Lieutenant Jason Moran
was a kid in 1978
1481
01:22:23,171 --> 01:22:26,974
when Chicago's most notorious
murder spree unraveled.
1482
01:22:27,075 --> 01:22:28,676
He never dreamed,
when he became head
1483
01:22:28,777 --> 01:22:31,111
of Cook County's cold case unit,
1484
01:22:31,212 --> 01:22:35,215
that the killer clown's case
would be one of them.
1485
01:22:35,317 --> 01:22:36,884
Lieutenant Moran came to me
and said,
1486
01:22:36,985 --> 01:22:42,923
"hey, you know, the largest
cold case is the Gacy case."
1487
01:22:43,024 --> 01:22:44,925
He was convicted
of all those cases,
1488
01:22:45,026 --> 01:22:50,931
but there was eight boys who
were never identified.
1489
01:22:51,032 --> 01:22:54,368
Narrator: In 2011,
armed with DNA technology,
1490
01:22:54,469 --> 01:22:55,803
lieutenant Moran set out
1491
01:22:55,904 --> 01:22:59,640
to identify
those last eight young men.
1492
01:22:59,741 --> 01:23:03,143
Moran: As soon as we announced
the reopening of the case,
1493
01:23:03,244 --> 01:23:05,713
I mean, it was absolutely
overwhelming, you know,
1494
01:23:05,814 --> 01:23:07,481
because there could
only be eight.
1495
01:23:07,582 --> 01:23:09,483
There was only eight
unidentified victims,
1496
01:23:09,584 --> 01:23:11,024
so there could only be
eight families
1497
01:23:11,119 --> 01:23:13,754
looking for
their missing loved one.
1498
01:23:15,890 --> 01:23:19,226
Within a couple of days,
we received over 100 calls
1499
01:23:19,327 --> 01:23:23,697
from family members of missing
persons all over the country,
1500
01:23:23,798 --> 01:23:27,935
and I was becoming
a national repository
1501
01:23:28,036 --> 01:23:31,271
for missing kids from the '70s.
1502
01:23:31,373 --> 01:23:32,806
Narrator: The killer clown
1503
01:23:32,907 --> 01:23:34,975
and mass murderer
Dean Allen Corll,
1504
01:23:35,076 --> 01:23:36,443
the Candyman in Houston,
1505
01:23:36,544 --> 01:23:41,415
awakened America to a nightmare
hidden in its own backyard.
1506
01:23:41,516 --> 01:23:44,051
Moran: When you do
criminal investigations
1507
01:23:44,152 --> 01:23:45,319
for any amount of time,
1508
01:23:45,420 --> 01:23:50,457
you know that there's always
more to a case
1509
01:23:50,558 --> 01:23:54,661
than you hear in court
or that you hear in the media.
1510
01:23:54,763 --> 01:23:56,897
Narrator:
And there was a lot more.
1511
01:23:56,998 --> 01:24:01,135
Gacy and Corll were two piranhas
in a much larger pond,
1512
01:24:01,236 --> 01:24:06,440
a hidden network,
a web stretching across America.
1513
01:24:24,259 --> 01:24:27,227
This was a guy
that just could not stop.
1514
01:24:27,328 --> 01:24:29,296
Woman: The raid last night
netted police
1515
01:24:29,397 --> 01:24:32,666
box after box of pictures
of young males available
1516
01:24:32,767 --> 01:24:35,836
to older men
for homosexual activities.
1517
01:24:35,937 --> 01:24:38,772
This was a pond of perversity.
1518
01:24:38,873 --> 01:24:41,608
Narrator: Next time on
"the clown & the Candyman"...
1519
01:24:41,709 --> 01:24:44,578
And this John David Norman was
absolutely a traveling criminal.
1520
01:24:44,646 --> 01:24:48,115
Man: He sent boys to service
clients throughout the states.
1521
01:24:48,216 --> 01:24:49,950
They came from
all walks of life.
1522
01:24:50,051 --> 01:24:51,529
Man #2: They would
infiltrate organizations
1523
01:24:51,553 --> 01:24:53,220
like the boy scouts,
like big brothers,
1524
01:24:53,321 --> 01:24:54,321
police departments.
1525
01:24:54,422 --> 01:24:55,789
Man #3: This was
a national scheme.
1526
01:24:55,890 --> 01:24:58,559
They were supplying boys
all over the country.
1527
01:24:58,660 --> 01:25:01,095
It's a very good cover for these
individuals because
1528
01:25:01,196 --> 01:25:02,696
they look like
"philanthropists,"
1529
01:25:02,797 --> 01:25:04,598
that they're helping young boys.
1530
01:25:04,699 --> 01:25:07,868
Grooming is like psychological
and emotional quicksand.
1531
01:25:07,969 --> 01:25:09,536
When you realize
what's happening,
1532
01:25:09,637 --> 01:25:11,717
you're already neck deep
and you can't get out of it.
1533
01:25:11,741 --> 01:25:13,741
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